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Amazon’s latest Prime Day sale has come and gone this week, but the promotion doesn’t end there. Today, I’d like to focus on something that didn’t get a lot of exposure during Prime Day: Apple’s computers and tablets. Start with tablets because they are more affordable. The standard 2022 Apple iPad has a 10.9-inch IPS LCD (with a refresh rate of just 60Hz) and an A14 chipset. It charges via USB-C, so you can use the same cable as your current iPhone. Stylus is also supported (first generation Pencil). The new Air model is more powerful and uses…
Demand for used smartphones is surging in India due to the rising cost of new phones and the need for affordable upgrades. According to IDC’s latest report, India’s used smartphone market is expected to grow by 9.6% in 2024, with an estimated 20 million used devices being traded. This growth rate is faster than new smartphone shipments, which are expected to grow by 5.5% next year. India currently ships around 145-150 million new smartphones annually, making it the world’s second-largest market after China. However, the growth of the new smartphone market has been slow since 2021 due to rising average…
In the latest incident involving government surveillance of mainland China’s private sector, Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer of Apple’s iPhones, according to Taiwan.Police in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou have charged each of the four Taiwanese workers with crimes amounting to Taiwan’s “criminal breach of trust,” according to a Thursday statement from the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Commission.The council said Foxconn had stated that “the company did not incur any losses and the four employees did not harm the company’s profits.” A Taiwanese government statement added that the detentions may be the result of “corruption…
Last updated: October 11, 2024 08:00 UTC+02:00 Apple released the Apple Music app for Android smartphones and tablets a long time ago, but not the Apple TV+ app for those devices. Now, Apple is trying a new way to bring Apple TV+ content to Android smartphones and tablets. That’s through the Amazon Prime Video app. Apple TV+ will be available as a Prime Video add-on in the US In the US, Prime Video users can subscribe to the Apple TV+ add-on for $9.99 per month. This brings all Apple original TV shows and movies to the Prime Video app and…
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In Zhengzhou, an employee was reportedly arrested on suspicion of breach of trust.Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan’s state news agency reported that four Taiwanese employees of Apple supplier Foxconn have been detained in China since January. Workers in the city of Zhengzhou, home to Foxconn’s largest iPhone factory, were detained by the local public security bureau on charges amounting to “breach of trust,” Central News Agency (CNA) reported on Thursday, citing the Taiwanese government. According to CNA, the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Commission (MAC) cited a Foxconn statement saying that its employees had not done anything to harm the company’s interests and…
More than half of contactless payments are now made using mobile wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay, rather than credit or debit cards, according to new data.More than 1.4 billion contactless payments were made for goods and services in the first half of this year, according to the Banking Payments Federation of Ireland (BPFI) Payments Monitoring Report released on Friday. The total amount of payments was 24.8 billion euros, more than half of which were made using mobile wallets.According to the study, smartphones are the most popular way to pay for goods and services.Gillian Byrne, head of payments at…
Databricks has launched a public preview of the Databricks Apps tool, designed to help you quickly and securely build data and AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The company says the solution will allow developers to build apps natively on the platform using frameworks such as Dash, Shiny, Gradio, Streamlit, and Flask. Developers can use code instead of SQL to create data applications for non-technical users. This allows specific business units to create apps tailored to their unique needs. For example, marketing teams can use this tool to create customized dashboards that visualize campaign performance metrics. The apps…
There are many reasons why phones are such valuable devices. Everyone I know has one. While I would argue that innovation has stagnated a bit in recent years, foldable smartphones like the Galaxy Z Fold 6 continue to breathe new life into this segment. Ever since I got my first smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, the HTC Apache, I’ve envisioned the day when I could ditch my laptop completely and make my phone my only go-to device.Well, that’s the reality we’re facing now with the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and how it can deliver this experience I’ve been looking…
Mishal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android 15 QPR1 automatically stops screen sharing when the device is locked. In previous versions of Android, apps could continue to display the screen even after the device was locked. Google is changing this behavior in Android 15 QPR1 and also introducing a new status bar chip for screen sharing sessions. Improving security and privacy was one of Google’s biggest priorities in this year’s Android 15 release, and one of the features most in need of an update was Android’s screen recorder. To fix this, Google introduced partial screen sharing in Android 15. This is…