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Meta to Retail Headsets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times reported that Meta has discussed possibly opening retail stores (probably to be called Meta Store) globally to promote its VR and, later, AR hardware. Work on the …

Tags:Apple| | The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

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Apple’s Extended Warranty Programme Gets Even Bigger

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week estimated that “the world’s largest extended warranty program(me)” run by Apple has reached a level of around $8.5 billion upo 20% in 2021. Despite the growth in its warranty …

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iPhone Fold could be one step closer to reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Phone Arena spotted a patent (“Electronic devices with fiber composite friction hinges”). Most of the rest of the article is speculation and quotes from the the patent application. What We Think …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Patents

Links Week Ending 5th November 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. ‘First-of-a-kind 3D curved Sony Crystal LED system’ …

Tags:Apple| Awards| Desktop Monitors| LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| MiniLED| NEC| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Smartphones| sony| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

Apple in talks with Samsung Display to apply OLED to MacBook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Apple has started to talk to LG & Samsung about the possible supply of OLEDs for MacBooks, a plan that had been originally planned for 2025, the …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Notebooks| OLEDs| Samsung Display| tablets

Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Apple is moving restricted chip supplies to the iPhone 13 rather than its iPad production. It put the rate of cut back as at 50% of the original …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Supply Chain| tablets

Power On Says Mixed Reality Headset ‘As Early as Next Year’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In his ‘Power On’ subscription newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple’s first headset will be out next year and will support ‘mixed reality’ that is to say a VR experience …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Oculus VR

Links Week Commencing 1st November 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Strategy Analytics: Samsung Leads North American Smartphone …

Tags:Amazon| Ambient Sensors| Apple| Awards| Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Dolby Vision| Game Playing| HP Inc| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLEDs| Outside Broadcast| Smart TV| Smartphones| USA

Samsung, Apple & LG Report Q3 Financials

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung, LG & Apple all released their financials. Samsung’s revenue was 10% up on last year to $62.8 billion, while profit was up 26% on Q2, to the second best ever …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung

Links Week Ending 29th October 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Sixteen-nine’s Dave Haynes has a look a …

Tags:Apple| Cable| Infocomm 2021| iPhone| Pay TV| Samsung| sharp| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Best Buy stores will soon offer Samsung foldable repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Best Buy in the US is now offering repairs for Samsung’s foldable smartphones as well as the Galaxy S and Note ranges. Some stores have done this …

Tags:Apple| Batteries| Best Buy| Foldable Devices| Repair| Right to Repair| Samsung| warranty