we love to make fun of apple around here but it looks like things may actually be
looking down for the company in a real way apple reduced its revenue forecast
for the first quarter of 2019 in response to lower than anticipated sales
and now ceo tim cook has weighed in on what could have caused it cook says one
of the reasons that people are buying fewer iphones is because they're
repairing old models one of the first examples of apple outright admitting
that they have a vested interest in making it harder for consumers to repair
their own devices but cook also noted that in the us and canada the company
saw a record number of iphone activations on christmas day indicating
that maybe lower sales are felt mostly in international markets most notably
china but some analysts note that what's currently affecting apple is a
phenomenon that was unavoidable the plateauing of innovation in smartphones
each year there are smaller and smaller differences between the previous serious
model and the new one leading consumers to hold on to their devices for longer
and repair them apple might be down but qualcomm apparently feels no shame and
kicking them while they're down there because they've just posted
1.34 billion euros required by the
german courts to enforce a ban on older iphones in the country due to patent
infringement which we covered before so are we still going to make fun of apple
now or bless your sweetheart brother yes yes we
are we'll just feel kind of slightly bad about it facebook google and other web
giants now have services where users can see how much data the company has on
them but microsoft is looking to take it to the next level the company is working
on project bali which will let you not
only see but control the amount of data that numerous companies have on you
through a single platform it's very early days for the project as it hasn't
even been officially announced yet it was actually just spotted by twitter
user longhorn which was the code name for Windows vista very cool project bali
would apparently even give users the ability to selectively monetize their
data choosing which information to sell to advertisers for instance like you
could sell the fact that you go to starbucks every day but not sell the
fact that you just feel horrible about it because there is much better coffee
out there for cheaper oh there is what coffee tons there's lots do you drink
coffee and just because each new year's phone releases are getting more boring
doesn't mean they'll always be that way popular and usually somewhat accurate
leaker evan blass has posted a video showing what is reportedly a xiaomi
folding phone but instead of one bend it has two bends if it is a fake it's a
pretty dang good one as the screen seems extremely responsive
samsung meanwhile has had an image leaked of its upcoming galaxy s10 that's
not the folding one but it does feature its infinity oh camera cutout in the
display this is apparently the beyond one model a beyond two model aka the s10
plus will reportedly be available also should be exciting to have phones with
new features like these for at least like a year anyway
until nothing matters anymore oh no now
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quick beats you know what's just the worst speaking
to your voice assistant in public and having everyone look at you like you're
trying to badly cosplay as a star trek character computer embarrass myself
well microsoft has a solution they've patented what they call silent voice
input where you could whisper to your smartwatch or phone instead of speaking
aloud but to avoid distortion on the mic from your mouth being so close to it the
user would inhale whisper like
okay
much less obvious my phone actually went off so maybe google did it mike google
got there first in other patent news dell has patented a
less cool but maybe more realistic version of razer's project valerie the
laptop with three displays dell's design only has two displays and would fold up
like a sandwich with two screens on either side of the keyboard and i love
sandwiches pretty cool it's just a patent so it would probably not be
present at cex next week and that's probably a good thing because
then it can't be stolen
china has landed the jade rabbit 2
rover on the far side of the moon a
world first in space exploration china's chief designer for the lunar exploration
project told cctv that the success of a mission is one small step for the rover
but one giant leap for the chinese nation not mankind got it and he also
said it's a decisive move for our exploration of space and conquering the
universe okay okay
cool more microsoft news the company is
making Windows 10 installation great again
by turning off that annoying feature that has cortana pipe up and try to help
you unfortunately only pro enterprise
and education versions of the Windows the Windows 10 that'll fangled
will have the feature disabled the rest of us will still have company while
we're installing whether we want it or not need some help
nope and also unfortunately somehow the
horrible saga of the Windows 10 october update is still
not over as reports are emerging that the update which has now begun to
officially roll out again is disabling some users administrator accounts which
is a problem to say the least that's a big deal
thankfully it should only affect a limited number of users updating
directly from the april update aka 1803
1803 1803 people who purposefully
enabled the built-in admin account but still it's enough to make a guy want to
try Linux but before that happens this episode has
to end thanks for watching guys and come back on monday for the first
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