Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff
Samsung Distances Itself From Apple as Top Smartphone Manufacturer [Report]
Samsung, the company that went to court with Apple in the fight for mobile market share, has become the leading cellphone manufacturer on a global scale at the end of 2012, ending Nokia's 14-year reign and pushing Apple into third place. (more…)
Apple Now Monitoring Hours of 1 Million Supply Chain Workers
Apple is now tracking the working hours for a million employees in its supply chain, the updated supplier responsibility page shows (Via MacRumors). This number is up from 900,000, highlighted at its previous update. (more…)
Apple Patents Revolutionary 2007 iPhone Design – System-on-a-Chip
For Apple, 2007 was the year of a new, revolutionary device, the iPhone. Anybody, who watched the Steve Jobs keynote will remember the launch of the iPhone set the change for the whole mobile phone industry. And it did. (more…)
Samsung To Withdraw Patent Lawsuits Against Apple in Europe
In an unexpected move, Samsung announced today that it will withdraw its patent lawsuits seeking to block Apple's iDevices in European countries, Bloomberg reports. The decision comes, in just hours after Judge Lucy Koh rejected Apple's request to block 26 Samsung products in the US. (more…)
Free Apps Prevailing Over Paid in the App Store [Report]
The app tracking service AppsFire, was the first one to post a perspective look back at the world's biggest mobile marketplace, the App Store. 2012 was a very busy year (for Apple) with the App Store surpassing the 1 million app submission milestone, the launch of three new iPads (iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad...
Check Out this Apple iTV Concept [PICS]
In a recent interview, Tim Cook spilled gas on the fire, saying the television industry is an intense area of interest, which triggered a huge amount of speculation that Apple television set may (or may not) possibly be on its way to consumers in the near future. Here are the latest mockups compiled by Brightcove...
Optimus G Slices Apple in Half (Maybe)
Turns out Apple's competition (and suppliers) is low on creativity when it comes to marketing campaigns, as it is much easier to poke fun at Apple than to come up with something original. It started with Samsung, and now LG has joined the line with its new ad posters pushing its handsets. (more…)
Undercover French Journalists Sneak into Foxconn’s iPhone 5 Factory [VIDEO]
Although Apple did promise to fix the issue with working conditions in its supply chain, recently aired videos by Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2 (via Engadget), it didn't. (more…)
Samsung Accused of Hiring Child Workers, Forced Overtime by China Labor Watch
Just two weeks after Samsung stated that it did not find any under-age workers while auditing its suppliers, China Labor Watch discovered child labour, in its supply chain, questioning the South Korean manufacturer's claims and audit effectiveness. (more…)
Jury Says Apple and LG Do Not Infringe Alcatel-Lucent Patents
A federal court ruled Apple and LG Electronics didn't infringe Alcatel-Lucent SA patents for electronic devices, Bloomberg reports. (more…)
Tim Cook and Steve Jobs: Strategic Differences
The difference between Tim Cook and Steve Jobs is the desire for market share, according to Marc Andreessen, a famed venture capitalist who has already added his voice to the iTV. (more…)
iOS Marketshare Increased in November According to Chitika
Although, in a recent interview pointing to the mobile device sales numbers, Eric Schmidt said Android is clearly winning the mobile war against Apple, the picture looks different when it comes to the online presence of Android devices (per manufacturer in the US and Canada), as seen through Chitika's latest studies. (more…)