A reputable research company Kantar recently revealed that Android users in Europe now favors iOS. A huge number of those android users are now siding with iOS and the iPhone.
The interesting thing is this movement from Google’s operating system is actually happening during the summer, a season of year where Apple’s sales usually drop because consumers are awaiting a new iPhone to launch in September
In the biggest economies in Europe (Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom) saw a combined 27% of all people who purchased a smartphone during the last quarter came from Android to iOS. Even in the United States the number was 9% showing Apple’s strategies are paying off.
This is especially the case in Europe though where Apple and the iPhone are enjoy even more success. Even Samsung is running scared on the Old Continent as the company decided not to launch the Galaxy Note 5 in Europe, allowing the iPhone 6 Plus to thrive.
Europe (Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom) shifts from Android to iOS
US Verizon offers iPhone Upgrade Plans Yearly
US Verizon has a new program offer for upgrading the iPhone every year. Verizon decided to stop its subsidized contracts, which prompted Apple to create its iPhone Upgrade Program. Verizon is now joining the party with its Device Payment option
Just like Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program, Big Red’s model lets you trade in yearly for the latest iPhone on the market. That means you could buy the iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus this year and automatically be eligible for an upgrade to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in a year’s time. Magic.
However, every time you upgrade you will have to start your 24 month payment installments again, effectively like starting a new contract. Of course, you could just opt to hold onto your iPhone for two years and upgrade it again for another 24 month deal, but you may as well just pick up the yearly new handset instead.
Verizon’s pricing plan offers a myriad of options, including the base model 16GB Apple iPhone 6s for $0 down (qualified subscribers only) and $27.08 a month. The 16GB Apple iPhone 6s Plus is also $0 down, and $31.24 a month. The 16GB iPhone 6 is $0 down and $22.91 a month, while the 16GB iPhone 6 Plus is $0 down and $27.08 a month. Finally, the Apple iPhone 5s is $0 down and $18.74 a month. All those deal are over the aforementioned 24 months.
From the popular iPod, iPhone, iPad, now Tech Giant Apple Is Working On VR
Amazing! This new gadget will undoubtedly be loved by Apple fans. The tech giant Apple has always been seen as an
innovative company. Recently, this past few months, Apple has been gearing up to make defining products from
within an existing market. That’s awesome since its line of iPod,
iPhone, and iPad have superiorly impacted their respective markets.
Apple is now focusing on VR or virtual reality.
Cupertino
will certainly not be the first when it finally dips its toes in the VR
market, but one way to show it still has the mojo that many think has
gone is to define this growing tech niche. Oculus has already laid a
major claim to having the defining VR product of the first generation,
but Apple will look to be the defining company in taking VR to the
masses.
We will see, but at the moment Apple is even
playing catchup to mobile rivals Sony, Samsung, HTC, and Google, who all
have excellent VR headsets of varying price tags (ahem, Google
Cardboard). Cupertino is ok with this latecomer stance and has actually
been working on its own VR project for some time, likely to be a VR
headset.
Cupertino has been snapping up its fair share
of companies in the virtual and augmented reality field, including the
recent $6 million acquisition of emotion tracking software startup
Emotient. Apple also apparently has a secret team numbering in hundreds
that is working on the VR headset, while recently the company employed
Doug Bowman, someone who is a noted expert in the virtual and augmented
reality industry.
To add some more fuel to the fire,
Apple CEO Tim Cook seems extra enthused (Cook is rarely someone who gets
publically enthused about a niche), stating during the company’s Q4
earnings call this week:
"In terms of VR, I don't think
it's a niche. It's really cool and has some interesting applications,”
Cook said when asked about virtual reality technology.