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This Week In Apple History: The Move That Led To Touch ID
July 29, 2016

If you are looking at your iPhone and feeling the full pull of the nostalgia this week, perhaps your soul is quietly celebrating the fourth anniversary of Apple’s acquisition of the firm behind Touch ID (AKA the feature that makes Apple Pay use possible). For...

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Apple’s Q3 Earnings
July 27, 2016

Perhaps because analyst predictions for Q3 were conservative based on Apple’s recent performance, the company managed to beat the street in Q3. Share prices rose even as the company reported a continued decline in iPhone sales. There was good news for the beleaguered Apple Pay,...

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Apple Beats The Street, Share Price Soars
July 27, 2016

The wait is over — Apple’s Q3 earnings are in, and as the markets open everywhere today, investors and journalists are happy with Cupertino yet again. “Apple Crushes Earnings” is the headline editorial out of Business Insider this a.m., and while that was probably the...

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iPhone Sales Nearing The 1 Billion Mark
July 25, 2016

After a run of rough headlines, Apple is nearing a pretty big piece of good news. The world’s most successful smartphone maker is on the cusp of selling its billionth iPhone. The billionth iPhone mark is anticipated to come sometime around when Apple reports its...

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Apple App Store Developers Make More Money Than Google Play Ones
July 21, 2016

Apple may be facing a slowdown in smartphone sales and struggling with adoption rates for Apple Pay, but when it comes to mobile apps, its developers still make more money than developers for Google’s App store. That’s according to App Annie, the mobile analytics firm....

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Not A Lot Of Excitement For iPhone 7, New Survey Shows
July 21, 2016

Are people tired of the iPhone and Apple’s seemingly ubiquitous efforts to get us to buy a new one every year or so by adding a few bells and whistles to the overall concept and giving it a new number? Well, that’s exactly what a...

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Apple Rolls Out Third Beta for iOS 10
July 19, 2016

They say behind every successful man is a woman — just like they say behind every successful product launch is a long line of software beta releases that got the kinks out of the way before public release. Apple stands by the latter claim at...

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Daily Data Dive: Apple’s Shrinking Marketshare
July 18, 2016

Though Apple probably didn’t need much in the way of more bad news, more ill tidings have come to call — nonetheless in the form of Kantar Worldpanel’s latest figures that indicate that Apple’s iPhone 6s/6s Plus did worse than Samsung’s equivalent Galaxy S7/S7 Edge in...

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Stats Prove Older iPhones Reign Supreme
July 12, 2016

Here’s some good news for Apple: Lots of its customers are poised for an upgrade just as the iPhone 7 is expected to hit store shelves this fall. Piper Jaffray Analyst Gene Munster polled 400 U.S.-based iPhone users and found 67.3 percent own an iPhone...