Tomas Chlebek The first Apple Store in Eastern Europe opened in Turkey, Microsoft introduced competition for Siri, the European Union voted to abolish roaming and Apple donated more than 70 million dollars to charity...
African mobile company creates 'black' emoji (30/3)
Last Sunday in Apple Week, we mentioned that Apple is looking to increase (or introduce – the non-white emoji is just a turbaned smiley and a face with vaguely Asian features) ethnic diversity. A petition has since been created asking Apple to put more emphasis on the issue. However, one African mobile device maker, Mi-Fone, was faster. Oju Africa (the name of the Mi-Fone department, where "oju" means faces) introduced a set of black smiley faces.
So far they are only available for Android, a port for iOS is being worked on.
Source: Ars Technica
Apple to announce Q2 2014 financial results on April 23 (31/3)
The first quarter of 2014 was another one for Apple record. Whether the company's growth continues will be revealed on the April 23rd conference call, which will discuss all of the company's sales and earnings for the second quarter of 2014.
Further mentions of the second half of 2014 are expected, which should be more significant in terms of the presented news. In the first one, Apple only introduced the iPhone 5C in the 8GB version, introduced the new version of iOS 7 and replaced the outdated iPad 2 with the much younger iPad 4 in the tablet menu.
Source: 9to5Mac
The first and wonderful Apple Store opened in Turkey (April 2)
The first Turkish and Eastern European Apple Store was opened yesterday. It is located in Istanbul, in the center of the new shopping center Zorlu Center. It is somewhat reminiscent of the "main" Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Its main, two-story part is below ground level. Above the surface rises only a glass prism surrounded by a black stone fountain and covered by a white roof with a large Apple logo, visible from the upper floors of the surrounding building. Initially, it was speculated whether Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, would also arrive at the opening ceremony, but in the end, the Turkish Apple Store he mentioned only on his Twitter.
Source: iClarified
Microsoft's Siri competitor is called Cortana (2/4)
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new version of its mobile OS, Windows Phone 8.1, with one of the main innovations being a voice assistant named Cortana, after the character from the game Halo. It should be able to do basically the same as Siri, but it should be even more intelligent, because it will work with the content of the given phone and the instructions of its user and then adapt its actions to them. She is voiced by actress Jen Taylor, who also voiced the "character" in Halo.
WP 8.1 will be released to the public between the end of April and the beginning of May, Cortana will only be available to US users for now.
Source: MacRumors
Roaming will probably be abolished in the European Union (April 3)
The European Union has taken another step towards becoming a single telecommunications market. On Thursday, a law was voted to abolish fees for international calls, sending SMS and data. Roaming charges will be abolished by the end of 2015.
The approved package also includes protection against "discrimination" of a certain type of data, e.g. preventing the use of Skype.
Source: iMore
Apple has already contributed 70 million dollars to (PRODUCT) RED (4/3)
Since its foundation in 2006, it has been donating money from sales of its "red" products to the fight against AIDS in Africa. While the amount donated was around $2013 million in June 65, (PRODUCT) RED's Twitter account on Friday announced a figure $5 million higher.
Great news to end the week! Apple's total for @NET reaches $70 MILLION. 100% goes to fight #AIDS. Thank you all for buying (APPLE) RED.
- (RED) (@RED) April 4, 2014
Source: MacRumors
A week in a nutshell
Large patent and judicial battle between Apple and Samsung number 2 he has begun. On Monday, both sides kicked things off with opening statements. Apple is demanding over $2 billion from Samsung for a huge amount of copying, Samsung, on the other hand, chooses a different tactic. Plus on Friday submitted the documents, in which he points to Apple's fear of competition.
Also Apple this week announced the holding of its traditional developer conference WWDC, this year will start on June 2 and it is expected that Apple will finally introduce new products. One of them could be the upgraded Apple TV, whose Amazon introduced a competitor this week.
In connection with Apple, its founding anniversary was also inflected, on April 1 it was 38 years since the three men founded the Apple Computer company. One of the co-founders, Ronald Wayne, then to this day he regrets some of his unfortunate steps.
