Lukáš Gondek At Ford, thousands of BlackBerry phones will be replaced by iPhones, Apple is apparently preparing new Mac minis and iMacs, and we will probably not see a new Apple TV from him until next year at the earliest.
Ford will replace BlackBerry with three thousand iPhones (July 29)
Ford is planning to replace employees' BlackBerrys with iPhones. 3 employees will receive new phones by the end of the year, while the company plans to purchase iPhones for another 300 employees within two years. According to a newly hired mobile technology analyst, Apple phones meet the needs of employees, both for work and for personal use. According to her, the fact that all employees will have the same phone will improve security and speed up the transfer of information. Even though iPhones are used by 6% of the highest-grossing companies in the United States, Apple plans to continue to expand them, so Ford is likely just one of many companies to switch to iPhones in the near future.
Source: MacRumors
Unreleased Mac mini and iMac models appear in Apple documents (29/7)
On Wednesday, Apple's support site leaked a reference to a Mac mini model with a "mid-2014" suffix, meaning summer 2014 as the time of official release. This model appeared among other models in the table indicating compatibility with Windows systems. Such a mention could just be a simple mistake, but the Mac mini really needs an update. The last one met him in the fall of 2012 and remains the last Mac without a Haswell processor.
A day later, a similar mistake happened to Apple, when the support pages again leaked information about the compatibility of a not yet released model, this time about the 27-inch iMac with the release designation also "mid-2014". This version of the iMac has not seen any updates this year. The last update to the iMac in general was the release of the cheaper 21-inch iMac in June.
Source: MacRumors, Apple Insider
Apple's share of the smartphone market is falling, smaller companies are gaining (July 29)
Apple's growth in the global smartphone market is slowing due to the growth of Chinese vendors. And so even though overall smartphone sales have grown by 23% since last year, the share of not only Apple but also Samsung has shrunk. Apple sold 35 million iPhones in the second quarter of this year, which is 4 million more than last year. However, its market share decreased from 13% (in 2013) to 11,9%. Samsung's share took an even bigger dip: 74,3 million phones sold compared to 77,3 million last year, and the 7,1% drop in share is even more visible. Smaller companies such as Huawei or Lenovo, on the other hand, saw growth: the first-named company's sales increased by 95% (20,3 million smartphones sold), while Lenovo's sales increased by 38,7% (15,8 million smartphones sold). However, it is necessary to realize that the second quarter has always been the weakest for Apple, due to the planning of the release of new models. It can be expected that after the release of the iPhone 6, which should have a larger display desired by so many customers, the market share of the Californian company will increase again.
Source: MacRumors
The new Apple TV is said to arrive next year (July 30)
Apple's work on a new set-top box, which according to many should cause a revolution in the way we watch television, has been delayed, and the new Apple TV will most likely not be released until 2015. The brake on this year's introduction is said to be cable television providers, because they they fear that Apple could take over the entire market in the future, so they are delaying negotiations. Another snag is said to be Comcast's purchase of Time Warner Cable. Many believe that Apple took too big a bite. According to various sources, Apple wants to provide its customers with access to all series, old or brand new. But according to recent reports, the California-based company has had to cut back on its plans a bit, due to rights issues and the aforementioned issues with cable company contracts.
Source: MacRumors, The Verge
At the San Francisco airport, iBeacon is being tested to help the blind (July 31)
San Francisco Airport on Thursday presented the first version of its system, which should use iBeacon technology to help blind people find locations in the newly built terminal. As soon as the user approaches a shop or cafe, the application on his smartphone alerts him. The application has an Apple Voiceover function for reading information aloud. The application can also guide you to a given location, but so far only visually. The application will be accessible to users with iOS phones, Android support is also planned. The airport purchased 300 of these devices for $20 each. The beacons last approximately four years, after which their batteries will need to be replaced. A similar use was also found at London's Heathrow Airport, in which the airline placed beacons in one of the terminals that send notifications to the company's customers regarding entertainment options at the airport or information about their flight.
Source: The Verge
A week in a nutshell
Apple last week got approval acquisition of Beats from the European Commission and announced its successful completion at the end of the week. Tim Cook the whole team from Beats Electronics and Beats Music welcomed in family. So the California company continues to buy companies that could improve its own streaming app. It was added to the list of other acquisitions last week streaming app Swell, Apple paid $30 million for it. But the consequences of Apple's acquisition are not only positive, for many Beats employees it is means job loss, and so even though Apple is trying to integrate as many employees as possible into Cupertino, a large number of employees will have to find new jobs by January 2015.
Apple too updated line of MacBook Pros, which are now faster, have more memory, but are also more expensive. They may become a potential problem for Apple declining iPad sales, because this year he sold 6% less than a year ago.
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