Lukáš Gondek Samsung is attacking the iPad Air 2, the Apple Watch has captured three-quarters of the market, Honda will indeed introduce a new Accord with CarPlay support, and Apple has reportedly had unsuccessful talks with BMW about an electric car…
Samsung attacks the iPad Air 2 with the ultra-thin Galaxy Tab S2 (July 20)
The long-awaited Samsung tablet by many Galaxy Tab S2 came last week with interesting news that clearly attacks the iPad Air. The most striking specification is its thickness of 5,6 mm, which is half a millimeter thinner than the iPad Air 2. Samsung's possible inspiration was also the aspect ratio of the iPads, which changed to 2:4 in the Galaxy Tab S3, which according to the South Korean company has serve as an ideal environment for reading newspapers, books and surfing the Internet. The Galaxy Tab S2 will be available in 8- and 9,7-inch versions, and both will weigh less than the iPad Air 2 – 254 grams for the smaller version and 386 grams for the larger.
Source: cult of android
Stands for Apple Watch will be able to have integrated chargers (July 22)
Although the Apple Watch stands started to sell very well, they all had one imperfection, and that was the need to charge the watch via the original Apple cable. However, this should change, as Apple plans to allow developers to integrate the charger directly into their products. But only companies that are in the program get this option Made for Apple Watch, and only a limited number of manufacturers can test the integration of the charger into their stands. In addition, Apple does not yet accept proposals for products with an integrated charger at all, so users will probably have to wait even longer for them. Well, at least for the officially certified ones.
Source: MacRumors
Apple Watch should have taken up to 75% of the market in the first quarter (July 22)
Company analysis Strategy Analytics, which examines sales of smartwatches for the second quarter of this year, shows that Apple has caused a revolution in this market. While Samsung sold 700 watches in the same period last year and thus took 74% of the market, in 2015 Apple became dominant – with 4 million watches sold, it captured three quarters of the market.
Samsung's share fell to just 400 percent with 7,5 units sold. Although many other analysts adjusted their estimates for Apple Watch sales after the release of Q3 financial results (most of them lowered them to 3 million), Apple can celebrate a huge success. The entire market grew by 457 percent year-on-year due to the sale of the Californian company's watches. Together, 5,3 million units of all wearables were sold between April and June.
Source: MacRumors
iOS 8 adoption is 7x higher than Android Lollipop (22/7)
iOS 8 and Android Lollipop have both been available for download since the fall of 2014, but Apple's system is far ahead in adoption. While Apple's latest mobile operating system is now used by 85 percent of users, only 12,4 percent use Android. It can be expected that with the new iOS 9 just around the corner, the numbers of adoption of the eight will not rise sharply, but even so, Apple is ahead of Google. On the other hand, it's much harder for Google to achieve such high adoption, because it depends both on the phone manufacturers themselves to adapt the system to their phones, and on the type of phone - many devices cannot run the new Lollipop at all.
Source: Cult of Mac
Honda confirmed support for CarPlay, Accord will get it next year (23/7)
While 34 car manufacturers are listed on Apple's website that should support CarPlay, not all of them have already released a model that would actually integrate CarPlay. Among them was Honda, which, however, has now announced that it will start selling cars with Apple system support during 2016. The first such should be the Honda Accord, which will also support the Android Auto system. Honda has indicated that mobile system support will come to other models as well, but did not specify an exact time.
Source: 9to5Mac
Apple reportedly in talks with BMW over its i3 electric model (24/7)
German magazine Store Manager brought the information that Apple had been negotiating with the German car manufacturer BMW since the fall of 2014 in order to get its own secret "Project Titan" use its i3 platform for an electric car. The i3 is a small hatchback that has a carbon fiber body, which ensures low weight. However, the Californian technology giant is said to have ultimately failed to agree on cooperation with BMW, although CEO Tim Cook himself and other high-ranking Apple managers were to personally visit the BMW production line in Leipzig.
Source: MacRumors
A week in a nutshell
Last week we they met with again the record financial results of Apple, which we are later introduced in a broader perspective. But Apple was active in many other areas: iPhones promoted new advertising aimed at a huge selection of applications, hired another personality of the automotive industry and released how enterprising application in cooperation with IBM, so the other public and the fourth developer iOS 9 beta and OS X El Capitan.
In addition, Apple continues its fight for equality and supported a law that should bring it to all American states. There has also been renewed talk of court cases in which Apple plays a role - tech giants such as Google and Facebook set in the patent fight on the side of Samsung and half a billion that Apple was supposed to pay to the Texas patent holder, will count again.
