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Apple Agrees 7-Year Deal with Ericsson

by Tom Allen

Apple and Ericsson have been in legal battles over Apple’s use of Ericsson’s technologies in its iPhone and iPad devices for around three years now – and have finally reached an agreement. A seven-year …

Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer

by Isaac Oburu

Apple® today announced that Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer and Johny Srouji is joining Apple’s executive team as senior vice president for Hardware Technologies. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide …

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Apple Fills Vacant COO Spot

by Tom Allen

Jeff WilliamsApple has filled the position of chief operating officer – a post that has been vacant since Tim Cook became CEO in 2011. Jeff Williams, a former SVP, is the company’s new COO. …

Apple Spurs Touch Enhancements

by Tom Allen

Spurred on by Apple’s use of Force Touch in the Apple Watch, and 3D Touch in the iPhone 6S line, IHS is seeing growth in force-sensing and other touch enhancements to mobile devices. Other …

Tags:Apple| IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Analyst Says Apple Will Skip Force Touch

by Tom Allen

KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo has said that Apple’s third-gen iPad Air will not feature 3D Touch when it is launched in the first half of 2016. Supply chain issues will mean that …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Apple Buys Chip Facility

by Tom Allen

Apple has paid $18.2 million to purchase a new building in north San Jose, only a few minutes from 86 acres of land that was also recently acquired by the company. The 6,500m² building …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Bloomberg: Apple Building Screens at ‘Secret’ Lab

by Tom Allen

Apple has opened its own display division to develop new screens – at least, according to Bloomberg. People with knowledge of the facility, which is based on Longtan, Taiwan, say that ‘at least’ 50 …

Car Displays as the New “Wearable” Device

by Steve Sechrist

Admittedly, this may be a bit of a stretch but perhaps the next revolution in wearable devices is as close as your garage. That car (or pickup truck) we climb into every day could …

Tags:Apple| Automotive| Mobile Apps| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wearables

Apple Successfully Transitioned to Smartphone Warranties

by Tom Allen

Warranty Week has examined Apple’s warranty business. As well as being one of the world’s largest product warranty providers, the company also runs one of the world’s largest extended warranty plans – largely due …

Tim Cook Criticises Chromebooks as “Cheap”

by Tom Allen

In an interview with Buzzfeed, Apple CEO Tim Cook lambasted Chromebooks as “cheap test machines”. He said that Chromebooks and similar products are only popular because they are the cheapest option. Analyst Comment If …

Tags:Apple| Chromebooks| Education| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Apple Hits More TV Service Delays

by Tom Allen

Apple has long been rumoured to be developing an IPTV service, with the last update – a delay to 2016 – coming in August (Apple TV Service Hits Delay). Now both Bloomberg and CBS‘s …

Tags:Apple| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 49

Is the Time of Displays Driving Smartphone Sale Coming to an End?

by Norbert Hildebrand

A recent article published by Business Insider (‘A Google director explains how your smartphone will look in 5 years’) included an interview with Aparna Chennapragada, a Google director, at the Web Summit tech conference …