Now that my Apple World Today compadre, Steve Sande, is transforming his daily news update podcast into Tangible Tech, Yours Truly will offer an end-of-the-day text-and-graphics only update of various Apple news items. Because, hey, Steve and I can’t cover everything!
Apple Pay recently launched in Poland, but early adoption numbers show that the mobile payments platform already has between 175,000 and 200,000 users according to the Polish news site TabletOwo.
Apple is purportedly considering buying modem chips from MediaTek for its next-generation iPhones in order to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm, with whom it’s involved in a major legal battle.
Just ahead of the iOS App Store’s 10th anniversary this month, application market research firm App Annie has released a look at the all-time top apps and games, plus the developers behind them. The lists suggest that while big U.S. companies with global footprints led the App Store in downloads for its first decade, Chinese companies have been climbing the charts, in some cases achieving high rankings — and revenues — solely through downloads in China.
Citigroup has released a report that expects AAPL to crest the $200 mark in 2019. Highlighting the company’s 2018 product lineup as well as healthy services revenue, Citigroup analyst Jim Suva told clients that news of sluggish demand should subside throughout the summer months.
Apple has released the fifth developer betas of iOS 11.4.1 and macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. Registered developers can download them via Apple’s developer portal. Or they can be downloaded over-the-air once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Developer Center.
Apple will report its quarterly earnings for the third quarter of 2018 at the end of trading on Tuesday, July 31.
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