Apple's Reign is OVER!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,210 words · ~6 min read
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we love to make fun of apple around here but it looks like things may actually be
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looking down for the company in a real way apple reduced its revenue forecast
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for the first quarter of 2019 in response to lower than anticipated sales
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and now ceo tim cook has weighed in on what could have caused it cook says one
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of the reasons that people are buying fewer iphones is because they're
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repairing old models one of the first examples of apple outright admitting
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that they have a vested interest in making it harder for consumers to repair
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their own devices but cook also noted that in the us and canada the company
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saw a record number of iphone activations on christmas day indicating
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that maybe lower sales are felt mostly in international markets most notably
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china but some analysts note that what's currently affecting apple is a
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phenomenon that was unavoidable the plateauing of innovation in smartphones
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each year there are smaller and smaller differences between the previous serious
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model and the new one leading consumers to hold on to their devices for longer
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and repair them apple might be down but qualcomm apparently feels no shame and
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kicking them while they're down there because they've just posted
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1.34 billion euros required by the
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german courts to enforce a ban on older iphones in the country due to patent
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infringement which we covered before so are we still going to make fun of apple
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now or bless your sweetheart brother yes yes we
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are we'll just feel kind of slightly bad about it facebook google and other web
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giants now have services where users can see how much data the company has on
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them but microsoft is looking to take it to the next level the company is working
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on project bali which will let you not
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only see but control the amount of data that numerous companies have on you
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through a single platform it's very early days for the project as it hasn't
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even been officially announced yet it was actually just spotted by twitter
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user longhorn which was the code name for Windows vista very cool project bali
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would apparently even give users the ability to selectively monetize their
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data choosing which information to sell to advertisers for instance like you
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could sell the fact that you go to starbucks every day but not sell the
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fact that you just feel horrible about it because there is much better coffee
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out there for cheaper oh there is what coffee tons there's lots do you drink
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coffee and just because each new year's phone releases are getting more boring
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doesn't mean they'll always be that way popular and usually somewhat accurate
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leaker evan blass has posted a video showing what is reportedly a xiaomi
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folding phone but instead of one bend it has two bends if it is a fake it's a
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pretty dang good one as the screen seems extremely responsive
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samsung meanwhile has had an image leaked of its upcoming galaxy s10 that's
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not the folding one but it does feature its infinity oh camera cutout in the
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display this is apparently the beyond one model a beyond two model aka the s10
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plus will reportedly be available also should be exciting to have phones with
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new features like these for at least like a year anyway
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until nothing matters anymore oh no now
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quick beats you know what's just the worst speaking
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to your voice assistant in public and having everyone look at you like you're
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trying to badly cosplay as a star trek character computer embarrass myself
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well microsoft has a solution they've patented what they call silent voice
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input where you could whisper to your smartwatch or phone instead of speaking
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aloud but to avoid distortion on the mic from your mouth being so close to it the
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user would inhale whisper like
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okay
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much less obvious my phone actually went off so maybe google did it mike google
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got there first in other patent news dell has patented a
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less cool but maybe more realistic version of razer's project valerie the
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laptop with three displays dell's design only has two displays and would fold up
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like a sandwich with two screens on either side of the keyboard and i love
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sandwiches pretty cool it's just a patent so it would probably not be
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present at cex next week and that's probably a good thing because
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then it can't be stolen
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china has landed the jade rabbit 2
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rover on the far side of the moon a
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world first in space exploration china's chief designer for the lunar exploration
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project told cctv that the success of a mission is one small step for the rover
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but one giant leap for the chinese nation not mankind got it and he also
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said it's a decisive move for our exploration of space and conquering the
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universe okay okay
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cool more microsoft news the company is
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making Windows 10 installation great again
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by turning off that annoying feature that has cortana pipe up and try to help
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you unfortunately only pro enterprise
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and education versions of the Windows the Windows 10 that'll fangled
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will have the feature disabled the rest of us will still have company while
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we're installing whether we want it or not need some help
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nope and also unfortunately somehow the
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horrible saga of the Windows 10 october update is still
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not over as reports are emerging that the update which has now begun to
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officially roll out again is disabling some users administrator accounts which
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is a problem to say the least that's a big deal
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thankfully it should only affect a limited number of users updating
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directly from the april update aka 1803
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1803 1803 people who purposefully
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enabled the built-in admin account but still it's enough to make a guy want to
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try Linux but before that happens this episode has
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to end thanks for watching guys and come back on monday for the first
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week-long coverage of ces the consumer electronics show in vegas the biggest
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tax show ever at the tacoma dome
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that's right techlink is going on location to sas tech companies right to
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their little smiling faces they smile but their eyes are dying yeah
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what this doesn't even have HDMI 2.1
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very exciting so subscribe see you there