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iPhone leak Indicates ‘Hole & Pill’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An apparent leak from China shows how Apple’s iPhone 14 displays may line up with the Pro models using ‘hole and pill’ configurations for the camera and sensors rather than a …

Tags:Apple| iPhone

Strategy Analytics: Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft Lead on Tablet Market Growth in Q1 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Among the rush of quarterly market data on Q1, Strategy Analytics (SA) released its data on the tablet market, globally. A surprise was that Apple actually grew from Q4 2021 to …

Samsung Unhappy About Apple Order Drops?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting the Korean IT Home as source, Patently Apple reported that Samsung Display’s CEO, Joo-Sun Choi has met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and asked him not to reduce the firm’s …

Tags:Apple| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Supply Chain

Global PC Shipments Down 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022; Component Shortages Likely to Ease in H2

by Artem Alekseenko

Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022 to reach 78.7 million units, according to Counterpoint Research Global PC tracker. Entering 2022, the PC supply chain experienced easing component shortages and logistics issues …

Tags:Apple| Dell| HP Inc| Lenovo| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Global Smartphone Market Declined by 7% YoY in Q1 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There was a rush of releases with Q1 market data from firms including IDC and Counterpoint. Counterpoint said that he global smartphone market declined by 7% YoY and 12% QoQ to …

Tags:Apple| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

Strategy Analytics: Samsung Hits Highest Global Smartphone Market Share in Five Years in Q1 2022

by Artem Alekseenko

According to new research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments fell -11% YoY to 314 million units in Q1 2022. Samsung topped the global smartphone market with a healthy 24% share in Q1 2022, …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

Apple has officially launched its Self Service Repair program

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple put out a press release saying that its Self Service Repair system is now available in the US and will expand into Europe and then beyond later this year. There’s …

Tags:Apple| Repair| Right to Repair| Smartphones| USA

Chinese Whispers:BOE to Supply iPhone OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Cinno Research in China reported that BOE has done a deal to supply OLEDs for the iPhone 14 and supply could reach 59 million units (around 25% or so of the …

Apple Watch Series 6 screens may go permanently blank, Apple warns

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Macworld reported that a “very small percentage” of Apple Watch Series 6 devices could be affected by a problem known as the “Black Screen of Death” that causes the display to …

Tags:Apple| Smartwatches| warranty

Links Mid-Week Commencing 18th April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the middle of this week (there seems to be a lot with …

Apple, Google and Samsung May Have Big Smartwatch Plans for 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say C|Net had a round-up of speculation about changes in smartwatches in 2022. The blog said that there could be an Apple Watch for extreme sports and the first smartwatch from Google …

Tags:Apple| Fitbit| Google| Samsung| Smartwatches

Apple Studio Display Firmware Glitch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacWorld reports that Apple ran into a glitch recently with its Studio Display, which runs a version of iOS 15.4. The article said that the 15.4.1 update did not support the …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Software