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Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are some links for the week that might be interesting, but do not need much of a comment Global semiconductor sales grow in October, says SIA Smartphone OLED prices to drop from oversupply: …

Warranty Week on High Tech

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week did its annual round-up of warranty provision and finance in the US high-tech industries. The blog highlights the differences between 2020 and the pattern in 2008/9 and comes to …

Tags:Apple| warranty

Future MacBook Pros could add Force Touch to the Touch Bar

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TechRadar reported, based on information from Patently Apple, that Apple has a new patent that covers adding Force Touch to the Touch Bar used on the Mac Book Pro. The force-sensing …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks| Touch Interfaces

M1 MacBook Teardowns: Something Old, Something New

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit tore down the new MacBooks based on the in-house M1 processor and found the design is very similar to previous models (especially the Pro), with the main change being in …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks

Apple, Xiaomi, and OPPO Outperformed the Smartphone Market in Western Europe in Q3 2020, Say IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The smartphone market in Western Europe continued to be impacted by lockdowns in the third quarter of 2020, as shipments declined 6.5% year over year to 28.8 million units, according to data from International …

Apple May be Genuinely Disruptive. Again

by Bob Raikes

When I did a search of the Display Daily website for the term ‘Disruptive’, there were 166 articles identified. However, looking through them, I had to go back to a Display Daily I wrote …

Tags:Apple| PCs| Semiconductors

Apple aims to adopt tandem OLEDs in its next iPad Pro tablets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Apple would like to adopt OLED for its iPad Pro tablets next year, but has asked LG Display and Samsung Display to develop tandem OLEDs, with a …

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

iPhone 12 Pro Max OLED Display Technology Shoot-Out

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ray Soneira has published his in-depth review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max display and found it to be at the leading edge of OLED (and other) smartphones. As usual, he …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Measurement| OLEDs| Smartphones

Strategy Analytics: HP Narrowly Wins #1 Notebook Share Amid Strong Back-to-School Demand

by Artem Alekseenko

HP edged out Lenovo for the first time in years by a slim margin to regain leadership in the notebook PC market. Overall, the industry picked up pace last quarter as the world moves …

macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has hit snags with an OS upgrade to macOS Big Sur, which is reported to have been bricking some late 2013 and 2014 MacBook Pros. (see this MacRumors forum thread). …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks| Operating Systems

Apple Unleashes M1

by Artem Alekseenko

Apple® announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac®. M1 is optimized for Mac systems in which small size and power efficiency are …

Tags:Apple| SOCs