5G looking like a fiasco over the pond
Numbers and marketing going to make everything look rubbish
It is starting to look like 5G is not providing the expected improvements and the first launches of the technology are mostly on paper - at least over the pond.
Analyst: Apple is not a tech company
Think of it as a consumer staple
Apple analyst Gene Munster claims that people should stop thinking of Apple as a tech company but as a consumer staple like Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Philip Morris.
Apple and Foxconn to start building iPhones in India
Where no one can afford them
Fruity cargo cult Apple will begin assembling its top end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019.
Apple's loss to Qualcomm in Germany means iPhone destruction
Deeper dive: Germany can even arrest executives
Last week’s ruling in a district court in Munich, Germany is about a hardware patent named tracking envelope and it affects the iPhone 7, 8 and 8 Plus. This is a tough defeat for Apple as while it can issue an OS update and remove the features in software and fix the China ruling, it cannot stop using Qualcomm hardware patents in German phones.
Huawei sold 200 million phones
Went from 103M in three years
Huawei managed to sell 200 million smartphones in 2018 - a massive increase from 103 million in 2015 or just three million in 2010. As of the first half of this year, Huawei is the world’s second biggest smartphone manufacturer overtaking Apple and leaving Samsung in the prime position.