Apple Pay one year in: Slow to grow, but 'off to a great start,' Apple says
Apple's attempt to reinvent mobile payments isn't a smash success, but the company still believes.
Apple's attempt to reinvent mobile payments isn't a smash success, but the company still believes.
Apple ordered 70 million to 80 million iPhones to be produced for the initial run of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus last year. It was a record number, and Apple managed to sell more phones than anyone expected. The company is confident that it will sell even more phones this year: Apple just ordered 85 million to 90 million iPhones for this year's initial run.
Apple yesterday said it sold a record 74.5 million iPhones in the December quarter, a record that bested the old by a whopping 24 million - close to the entire quarter's sales in April-June 2012.
Almost unnoticed during Apple's earnings call, the company said it sold 5.5 million Macs, a record for the December quarter.
<a href="http://store.apple.com/us/buy-iphone/iphone6/4.7-inch-display-16gb-silver-t-mobile">Apple on Tuesday began offering at its stores and online</a> unlocked and SIM-free editions of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones, giving an alternative to those who want to avoid being tethered to long carrier contracts.
The new Apple iPhone 6 Plus phablet was nowhere to be found among all the blockbuster Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals last month, but <a href="http://www.walmart.com/cp/iPhone-6/1228448?wmlspartner=TnL5HPStwNw&sourceid=30182817552573327969&oid=183959.1&u1=skim14610X714040X4231bc0f46c307c3f85af48283353e23&affillinktype=10&veh=aff">Walmart</a> has surprised this week by announcing a deep discount on the smartphones through February.
United Airlines this week announced that its flight attendants will soon be equipped with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2605020/smartphones/163647-First-Look-iPhone-6-and-iPhone-6-Plus.html">Apple's iPhone 6 Plus phablets</a> to take care of your safety, food and entertainment needs.
Westpac customers will soon be able use fingerprint technology on Apple and Samsung devices to sign into their accounts.
Apple's larger iPhone 6 Plus grabbed 41% of all U.S. sales of smartphones with screens 5.5-in. and larger during a recent three-month stretch, even though it was available -- and only in short supply -- for just six weeks.
St George Bank has activated Touch ID login for its iOS mobile application following the successful implementation and trials of the biometric technology by subsidiary, Bank of Melbourne.
Updated pricing: Samsung has delayed the launch of its Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge phablets in Australia. The Note 4 was originally scheduled for release on 29 October, with the Note Edge due to follow on 5 November.
The outspoken CEO of Foxconn Technology Group, the maker of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus, is scoffing at the idea that the iPhone Plus has a problem with bending if left in a user's pocket too long, and said rivals were behind the controversy.
Apple yesterday released iOS 8.0.2, a replacement for the botched update that shipped the day before but crippled iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices by knocking them off their mobile carriers.
Apple, responding to Bendgate, Bendghazi, or whatever you wish to call the issue of seemingly-bendable iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models, claims the problem isn't nearly as widespread as the Internet hullabaloo would suggest. Apple told the Wall Street Journal a mere nine people have come in with bending complaints since the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus's launch last Friday.
iPhone owners are angry. Really really angry.