Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun join host Kelly Guimont to discuss CES 2020 and what TDO will look like next week as part of that coverage.
Over 90% of Postpaid Phones Sold are Apple and Samsung
Over 90% of the postpaid phones sold at the Big Four carrier stores in the U.S. are either iPhones or Samsung phones.
Apple and Samsung together sold 94 percent of phones at Verizon stores, 95 percent at AT&T stores, 94 percent at Sprint stores, and 91 percent at T-Mobile stores, according to the report. The most popular phone at all four carriers in December was the iPhone 11, the firm says. The top-selling Samsung Phone was the Galaxy S10.
I’d say it’s probably because the price of most iPhones and Samsungs are high enough to where the stores can make money off them.
Apple Now Lets You Engrave AirPods With Emojis
Apple has long given customers the ability to engrave their products with text. Now for the first time you can engrave AirPods with emojis.
How to Change How The Function Keys Work in macOS Catalina
Ever pressed a function key and it hasn’t done quite what you expected? No problem. It is easy to alter how they work in Catalina.
App Store Spending Reached $193 Million on Christmas
On Christmas Day Apple customers spent a total of US$193 million in the App Store, and Tinder was the top app.
BBEdit Just Keeps Getting Better
Dr. Mac is impressed with the latest release of Bare Bones Software’s venerable Mac text editor, BBEdit, saying it just keeps getting better and better, with the latest release (BBEdit 13), adding several extremely useful features.
10-Foot MFi-Certified Braided Lightning Cables 3-Pack: $15
We have a deal on a 3-pack of 10-foot MFi-Certified braided Lightning cables. The sheathing is braided nylon, and they’re available in Black, White, Silver, Pink, and Gold. You’ll find an option for a 6-pack of cables in the deal listing, too. The 3-pack is $15 through our deal.
New iPhone Displays Could be Thinner And More Power Efficient
Reports coming from Korea, picked up MacRumors, indicate that the 2020 iPhone will likely have thinner displays. They could also be more power-efficient too.
This mirrors a recent report from Korean website ETNews, which claimed that so-called iPhone 12 Pro models will adopt a technology that allows touchscreen circuitry to be directly patterned on the OLED panel without the need for a separate layer, resulting in a thinner display and lower production costs. ETNews said a lower-cost 6.1-inch model, presumably the iPhone 12, will stick with a traditional film-based display. It is unclear if thinner displays would translate to thinner iPhones as a whole this year.
AAPL Shares Hit Record High on First Trading Day of 2020
Apple stock hit a record high on the first trading day of 2020, closing at $300.35 per share and valued the firm at over $1.3 trillion.
Former Top Google Exec Gives Devastating Explanation of Why he Quit
Google has faced internal staff protests and criticism in recent times over its approach to human rights both at home and abroad. The firm’s former head of international relations, Ross LaJeunesse, revealed on Thursday his concerns in this area prompted him to quit.
Each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came up with an excuse to say no. At first, they said human rights issues were better handled within the product teams, rather than starting a separate program. But the product teams weren’t trained to address human rights as part of their work. When I went back to senior executives to again argue for a program, they then claimed to be worried about increasing the company’s legal liability. We provided the opinion of outside experts who re-confirmed that these fears were unfounded. At this point, a colleague was suddenly re-assigned to lead the policy team discussions for Dragonfly. As someone who had consistently advocated for a human rights-based approach, I was being sidelined from the on-going conversations on whether to launch Dragonfly. I then realized that the company had never intended to incorporate human rights principles into its business and product decisions. Just when Google needed to double down on a commitment to human rights, it decided to instead chase bigger profits and an even higher stock price.