Filip Brož Billboard ads for the new Apple TV, Apple's growth in China, new displays for the next iPhones, and Thanksgiving shopping mostly from iPhones and iPads…
Apple TV advertising campaign extended to billboards (23 November)
Apple has launched the next stage of its advertising campaigns for the new Apple TV. This time, he focused on billboard surfaces throughout the United States, where he installed colored stripes that you can also see in advertising videos. At the same time, billboards have very simple graphics without unnecessary inscriptions.
The billboard advertisement was spotted in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Beverly Hills or Hollywood. The advertising campaign thus suggests that the Californian company takes the new Apple TV as a full-fledged product that rightfully belongs to its ecosystem.
Source: MacRumors, Cult of Mac
Apple Pay could arrive in China in February (November 23)
The Wall Street Journal discovered that Apple plans to launch its Apple Pay service in China in February next year. Apple is even said to be in agreement with four banks. It is clear that the Californian company sees great business potential in China, as it is a much larger market than the European one and at the same time it will probably overtake America soon in terms of revenues.
According to reports from the WSJ, Apple Pay is expected to launch on February 8, during the Chinese New Year celebrations. Alibaba's service currently dominates mobile payments in the country. China will thus be the next country after the US, Great Britain, Canada and Australia where Apple Pay will be supported.
Source: 9to5mac
In 2018, iPhones could get OLED displays (November 25)
All iPhones from the first generation to the current one use IPS displays. They are of high quality, but the black color on them will never be as black as it is in the case of OLED displays. Apple used such displays for the first time with the Watch, and now there are speculations that it is also planning OLED displays for iPhones in the future.
The change hasn't come yet this year, the iPhone 6S still has IPS displays, but according to the latest reports, this is mainly due to the fact that suppliers have not been able to cover the production of OLED displays that Apple would need for its phones. However, LG Display is already increasing its production capacity, and Samsung will certainly be interested in supplying OLED displays, as it currently has the largest factories for this product.
According to a Japanese website Nikkei however, OLED displays in iPhones are not expected to appear in 2018 at the earliest, i.e. in two generations.
Source: MacRumors, The Verge
In the United States, iOS was the most purchased on Thanksgiving Day (27/11)
According to several marketing companies, the most purchases in the US on Thanksgiving Day were made via iPhone or iPad. Users of iOS devices made more than 78 percent of all orders, while the Android platform contributed only 21,5 percent.
The data comes from a marketing company E-Commerce Pulse, which records more than 200 online stores and 500 million anonymous shoppers. The firm also noted in its report that Thanksgiving revenue was up 12,5 percent over last year. Total operations and shopping then rose by 10,8 percent.
Source: AppleInsider
Apple opened the fifth Apple Store in Beijing, there are already 27 in China (November 28)
On Saturday, November 28, the fifth Apple Store opened in Beijing, the twenty-seventh in China overall. The store is located in the new Chaoyang Joy Shopping Center in Beijing's Chaoyang District. The Apple Store will offer all traditional services including a Genius Bar, workshops, seminars and other events.
In China, Apple has already opened seven new stores this year, and it is certain that more will be added. CEO Tim Cook plans for Apple to have a total of 2016 stores in operation in China by the end of 40.
Source: Cult of Mac, MacRumors
A week in a nutshell
The new iPad Pro has only been on sale for a while, but Apple already had to deal with an annoying problem this week. Users are they began to complain en massethat after charging their large tablet stops responding and they have to perform a hard restart. Apple also admitted that it does not yet have another solution.
Even though the movie Steve Jobs is not doing very well in cinemas, there is still a lot of buzz around it. A number of people gradually commented on the film, and the last very interesting reaction was from Jobs' friend Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation. According to him the filmmakers are not telling the real story of Steve Jobs.
Apple too made an interesting acquisition in the field of virtual reality. He took under his wing the Swiss startup Faceshift, which develops technologies for creating animated avatars and other characters that mimic human facial expressions in real time.
iFixit server came up with an interesting revelation regarding the new special Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro and Apple released a new Christmas ad. A record week singer Adele experienced, whose new album is still not on streaming services.
I would like to ask for one more piece of advice - where can I set up an email account xxxxx@icloud.com ? Everywhere it just refers me to creating an Apple ID and there it wants me to enter an existing email - but I would like to use the above for a new ID.
Thanks for the link :)
put your email there and after creating an apple ID, "tvujmail@icloud.com" will be assigned to you
Oh, and where can I find it? I created the ID and when I wanted to assign an iCloud mail, it said that it is already assigned and in use - but I don't have a mailbox on my phone, I can't see anything... :(
Settings>icloud>mail and it will take you there...
Yes, I've been there before, but it sounds like the email is being used - I just don't know if it's by me or someone else, like someone else already has it - I thought it was assigned as an alias or something - I'm a llama :(
settings>mail, contacts, calendars
and in “accounts” it should be “icloud”… is it there?
Yes, it is there, but when I click on the details, it is at the address xxxx@outlook.com what na xxxx@icloud.com
So open mail normally on your iPhone... put mailboxes and go to icloud in accounts.... there should be…
Already :) the mistake was in the name, I had to use a different one here and there, now I have it there.
So now I could theoretically change the original registration address from to ID xxxx@outlook.com na xxxx@icloud.com if I understood it correctly, it can be done that way - I would like to use only one and delete the original one - because I want to pay for the cloud with Apple and not with MS, and having both would only bring confusion.