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Apple iPhone 5 (what to possibly expect)

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While little is truly known about the iPhone 5, most fans expect Apple’s next-generation smartphone to be revolutionary. Even game-changing/ all-powerful. But, since Apple keeps stays strictly confidential about the unveiling, the best I can do is follow the rumor mill and try to separate fact from fiction. In this article, I will round up everything I know about the iPhone 5– from the release date, to the phone’s form factor and design, to it’s software features– and try to give you a picture of what to expect from the iPhone 5 later on this year.

Release Date: Early this month, Reuters reported that Apple has plans to unveil the new iPhone “around the second quarter” of 2012. This latest report contradicted an earlier report from Japanese blog Macotakara, which believed, citing inside sources from the company’s supply chain, Apple would release the iPhone 5 in September or October, effectively abandoning mid-year iPhone launches for a 11-month upgrade cycle starting in the fall. Apple’s last iPhone, the iPhone 4s, was the first Apple smartphone released outside the summer months; the original iPhone, as well as the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4, were all released in either June or July. While there is no clear reason why the 4s was the only iPhone released in the fall, analysts believe the Cupertino-based company attempted to implement LTE into the phone, and failed. Now, it would seem the company will wait a full year until its next iPhone.
Design and Form Factor: On March 21, Apple had reportedly ordered 4.6 inch screens, to be featured in the company’s next iPhone. The report came from a South Korean Publication. Two days later, a new report from iMore’s editor-in-chief Rene Ritchie stated the iPhone 5 retains the current 3.5 inch screen– the same size as all previous generation iPhones– but Apple added a few new features, which are unknown.
Features 4G LTE: Long-Term Evolution is a foregone conclusion for the iPhone 5, given that Apple introduced the high-speed network on it’s new iPad, released on March 16. LTE features significantly higher download and upload speeds compared to 3G technologies, but previous implementations of LTE in smartphones tended to ravage battery life, which was a major complaint from users. If Apple wanted LTE in the iPhone 4s at the time, it would have been forced to increase the phone’s thickness to accommodate a larger circuit board and a bigger battery.
New Patents: Apple’s next iPhone may also include a number of the company’s recently granted patents. Apple won a major patent on March 6 for a piece of technology called “iWallet” which is a digital system that gives users complete control over their subsidiary financial accounts on their iPhones, and also leverages Near-field Communication (NFC) technology to complete credit card transactions directly on the phone as well. The iPhone might also be the first phone to feature a new piece of software for multi-player gaming.

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Dillon

Apple is going nowhere but up!

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It seems that Apple has been going nowhere but up in the last couple years, 51 percent of Americans have Apple products: Half of all U.S house holders own at least one Apple product. That means that more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPod, or Mac computer. Plus, one in ten homes that aren’t currently in that group plan to join the next year. But Apple doesn’t have to worry about brand saturation anytime soon. Homes that at least own one product, own an average of three. Overall, the average household has 1.6 Apple devises, with almost one-quarter planning to buy at least one more in the next year.
Apple’s legacy has gone up not only due to the percentage of products being used. It is as well going up because of their spurs of touch-screen technology growth. The fervor over iPhones, iPads, and other tablets and smartphones has stoked the market for all that makes people want to get their hands on them. With shipments of touch-screen displays booming, the market for touch controller integrated circuits has nearly tripled during the past five years and is projected to continue growing, according to IHS iSuppi. If demand continues to grow at this rate, shipments are projected to reach 2.4 billion units in 2015, up from 865 million two years ago, IHS reports. And at this point, touch screens are expected to continue to drive the market for these integrated circuits. They made up more than half of the market for touch technology in 2011 and will remain the dominant use ahead of other touch sensor tech such as infrared and optical.

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Dillon

Possible Decline in PC’s Due To Tablets

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Hello once again my fellow Apple fans. I have news that is “insanely great”, (as Steve Jobs would say). Chief executive of Apple, Timothy Cook, predicted that there could be a possible decline of PC’s, due to the sudden “flood” of tablets such as the iPad 3. The iPad, when introduced in 2010, has become a major success for the company. Twenty percent of Apple’s total revenue is made off the iPad. In the fall, Amazon introduced the iPad’s first credible competitor, the $199 Kindle Fire. Analysts estimated that 4 million of these tablets were sold, not even comparing to Apple’s 15 million iPads sold during the holidays.”Tablets are on fire; there’s no question about that,” said Brad Silverberg, a former Microsoft executive, mainly speaking for the iPad. Even though they are “on fire” tablets unfortunately aren’t there yet. In 2011, PC’s outsold tablets 6 to 1. But still a significant change from 2010, the iPad’s first year on the market, when PC’s outsold tablets 20 to 1, according to Canalys, a technology research company.
“From the first day it shipped, we thought-not just me, many of us thought at Apple-that the tablet market would become larger than the PC market, and it was just a matter of time that it took for that to occur,” Cook of Apple said recently. In other blog posts, Horace Dedui, an analyst with Asymco in Finland, made an argument that tablet sales would pass traditional PC sales in the fall of 2013. His projections rest heavily on an assumption that Apple will face a more serious competition in the tablet market. Setting aside assumptions, Tim Butcher, an entrepreneur who held a senior position at Apple, Microsoft and Dell, said that tablet sales would “absolutely” pass those of PC’s.At a technology conference in 2010, Steve Jobs, then Apple’s chief executive, said that PC’s are “still gonna be around and still have a lot of value. But they are going to be used 1 to X-amount of People.”

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Dillon

My first post- Dillon

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Hello, my fellow Apple fans. I am a new writer to this website and today I will be starting my so called writing “job”. I would like to start off this job by writing about the fact that Apple has claimed credit for over 514,000 U.S jobs. It is so great to hear that this amazing company has given our economically hurt country so many jobs.

Many people (in and out of work) are concerned about the labor that supports the creation of Apple products overseas, for instance at the enormous Foxconn facility. “But look over here” Apple said yesterday. Apple is estimated to support 514,000 jobs in the United States. This U.S jobs figure includes Apple’s own employees, the app economy, construction jobs for Apple’s building projects, and jobs at Apple’s U.S suppliers and transportation partners. To make it even more simple, there is 304,000 current jobs ranging from engineering, manufacturing, and transportation. All 50 states have full time workers. And 210,000 iOS app economy jobs. Amazing, absolutely amazing indeed. Apple has now became the number one most valuable company in the world, and is also giving this deserving country jobs that are desperately needed.

Apple, thrive to beyond the greatest of heights. Reach beyond what Microsoft could of ever thought they could end up. Be the company that everyone must depend on, and drive Microsoft into the ungodly place they deserve to be. That’s all I have to say today, but I’ll be sure to update you guys on pro-Apple and anti-Microsoft news.

Thanks for reading,

Dillon