Philip Houska Windows 95 on Apple Watch? No problem. Major shareholder Carl Icahn no longer owns Apple shares, Drake, on the other hand, is deepening cooperation with the Californian company, we saw another apple advertisement and Apple Pay continues to grow...
Apple is sponsoring the tour of Drake, who has a new album released on Apple Music (April 25)
Canadian rapper Drake has released his new album 'Views', which is exclusive to Apple Music for one week. This cements the partnership between Drake and Apple, which will last even during the artist's tour. Here Apple will support.
Drake on his Instagram published a photo in the form of a poster for the upcoming "Summer Sixteen Tour", which also features the Apple Music logo. However, more detailed information is not known, so it is not clear how Apple, i.e. the service, participates in the event. However, this approach could give fans, for example, access to exclusive footage from his performances.
Source: MacRumors
Apple Pay is growing significantly (April 26)
Apple CEO Tim Cook in the frame financial results of the company announced that Apple Pay is growing at a "tremendous pace" and is five times more used than last year, as evidenced by the addition of another million users every week. Apparently
the service will soon be supplemented with other functions in the form of internet payment or payments between individual users.
Currently, Apple Pay is available at more than ten million different locations across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, China and Singapore. There are about two and a half million of them in the United States alone. Cook also announced the expansion of this service to other countries (France, Spain, Brazil, Hong Kong and Japan) as soon as possible.
Source: MacRumors
Millionaire Carl Icahn sold all Apple shares (April 28)
Billionaire and investor Carl Icahn, who bought a large number of Apple shares over three years, told the server CBNC, that he gave up his entire stake, given the situation in the Chinese market, where Apple's sales fell by 2016 percent in the second fiscal quarter of 26. Before this situation, Icahn had a 0,8 percent stake in the California company, which earned him roughly two billion dollars.
"We no longer hold a position in Apple," Icahn revealed, adding that if the situation in the Chinese market remained unchanged, he would invest back. Even so, he considers Apple to be a "great company" including the "great job" that CEO Tim Cook is doing. In the past, however, he tried several times to advise Apple about its operation, using his position as a large shareholder.
Source: MacRumors
Fiat Chrysler is said not to oppose cooperation with Apple or Alphabet (April 28)
According to information from the blog Self-extremist and magazine The Wall Street Journal Fiat Chrysler is discussing a partnership with Alphabet, the parent of Google, on self-driving car technology. Executive director Sergio Machionne also added that they are open to working with Apple, which wants to bring perhaps its first ever electric car to the market with its "Titan" project.
Agency Reuters among other things, she reported that another important car company, Volkswagen, which also has a certain affinity for similar things, is discussing similar things, but not with Apple or Alphabet.
Source: MacRumors
Apple Watch developer launched Windows 95 (29/4)
Developer Nick Lee tried an interesting experiment when he uploaded the Windows 95 operating system to his Apple Watch. Since the Apple Watch has a 520 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory, he believed that this was possible because older Windows 95 computers from the nineties were significantly weaker in performance.
Lee pro MacRumors revealed the process by which he turned the Windows 86 operating system into an application using an x95 emulator. All this was preceded by the use of specific code through WatchKit. The total "booting" took about an hour and the touch responses on the display were noticeably slow.
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Source: MacRumors
Apple released an ad for Mother's Day (May 1)
Apple released a new 30-second ad spot as part of its "Shot on iPhone" marketing campaign for Mother's Day. The ad is not based on a video as such, but on a variety of photos and footage of ordinary users, taken with iPhones, depicting relationships between mothers and their children. This campaign dates back to 2015 and aims to promote the camera quality of these smartphones as one of the main reasons to buy an iPhone.
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Source: AppleInsider
A week in a nutshell
Apple again in the past week released new ads. After the successful Keksík, she has now become the main star of Onion. However, the most important point of the week came on Tuesday, when Apple announced its financial results. In the second fiscal quarter of 2016 recorded a year-on-year decline in revenues after thirteen long years. This fall in revenue but it was inevitable and does not necessarily mean the worst.
Positive news related to financial results came at least regarding Apple Music. Music streaming service grew again and if it continues like this, it will have 20 million subscribers by the end of the year.
There was only speculation about new products with a bitten apple this time - a new Apple Watch would, however they could bring their own mobile connection and thus less dependence on the iPhone. Who would perhaps like to have fun with Tim Cook on this topic as well, she can go to lunch with him. However, if he wins the charity auction.
Outside the world of Apple, two interesting events happened in the past week: Nokia bought Withings, a company that makes popular wristbands and meters, and in the end maybe not only Apple will want to kill the 3,5mm jack, Intel is also planning something similar.
