New Apple ads & redone 'Switch' site sell Android users on iPhone perks

Apple on Monday introduced an overhauled "Switch" minisite, hoping to persuade more Android users to buy an iPhone, while simultaneously releasing a related series of video ads.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 60

iOS 11, Android O: What Apple can learn from Google's IO17

"Great artists steal" in the sense of recognizing good existing ideas and building upon them. Now that Google has laid out its hand at IO17, detailing its plans for Android O and the search giant's various apps and services, what great ideas can Apple borrow for its own products? Here's a look.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 96

Watch: Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2017

Google introduced a number of new products at its I/O conference this week, including the next-generation Android O operating system, the streamlined Android GO OS for emerging markets and Google Assistant for iOS. AppleInsider breaks down the event's biggest news in this video.

AppleInsider Staff 9 years ago 7

Google IO17: Android deployment rate continues to slip backward

Google has unveiled new versions of Android at its annual I/O developer convention with features often inspired by the previous year's iOS. The main difference: Apple can launch a new version of iOS and broadly distribute it before Google can deploy its copy of last year's iOS across even a third of its installed base. This problem is getting worse each year for Google and its Android partners.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 55

Google reveals 'Android Go' operating system optimized for low-specification smartphones

Google is doubling down on increasing Android's market share in emerging markets with the creation of 'Android Go,' a version of Android O optimized for lower-specification entry-level Android devices and the bandwidth constraints of local infrastructure where those devices are sold.

Malcolm Owen 9 years ago 36

Google shows notification dots, smart text selection, optimizations in 'Android O'

Major features of Google's next iteration of Android have been revealed at the I/O developer conference, with "Android O" gaining a Picture-in-Picture mode, notification dots on app icons, and the ability to autofill data within apps, shown alongside improvements to the security and speed of the mobile operating system.

Malcolm Owen 9 years ago 19

Waymo, Lyft partner on self-driving tests as Google plans CarPlay-ready Android car interfaces

Alphabet's Waymo is joining with Lyft to test self-driving cars on public roads, according to an announcement, while another Alphabet company — Google — is previewing a complete Android interface for cars which will nevertheless support Apple's CarPlay technology.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 12

After tricking govt regulators, Uber got caught breaking Apple's iOS App Store rules

In 2014, Uber was discovered to be blocking authorities from seeing its cars in order to evade regulations or bans in a series of locations including Paris, Las Vegas, China and South Korea. The next year, Apple found out Uber was also flouting its iOS developer rules to identify users' devices by hardware ID—and nearly got kicked out of the App Store over it.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 34

Mastercard to add fingerprint sensors to cards, won't follow strict Apple Pay security policy

Mastercard is reportedly testing cards that integrate a fingerprint sensor, intended to offer a more convenient alternative to entering a PIN. Unlike Apple Pay, however, the cards would lack a series of important security features.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 45

Apple's Find my iPhone fingers a phone finagler

Over 100 attendees of the Coachella music festival in Southern California this weekend were separated from their mobile devices by a pickpocket working the crowds. Fortunately, Apple's Find My iPhone feature saved the day by helping locate the pilfered phones, allegedly nabbed by Reinaldo De Jesus Henao of New York.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 57

Apple A10 iPhone 7 speeds past Samsung Galaxy S8, Google Pixel, LG G6 & BBK 3T (with 2x RAM)

Apple's lead in mobile performance—powered by the efficiency of iOS 10 and the computational speed of its custom A10 Fusion Application Processor—beats the newest, leading premium Androids in a wide range of tests from processor and 3D benchmarks to real-world device startup and app launching and multitasking. Not even 6GB of RAM and the extra cores of Qualcomm's fastest Snapdragon 835 can prop up the laggard, inefficient Android OS.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 75

Apple's Mac, iPad dodge an ugly new NSA hacker bomb targeting majority of Windows PCs globally

A series of previously unknown Windows hacking tools used by the U.S. National Security Agency has been leaked, enabling "zero day" exploits to be used against millions of Windows PCs to deface websites, lock up systems to demand a ransom payment or to steal emails and other data.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 26

Canonical kills its Ubuntu smartphone, tablet, convergence plans

Canonical, the software support company that maintains Ubuntu Linux, has announced it is throwing in the towel on Ubuntu phones and tablets and ending work on Unity8—a concept it had hoped would create a "convergence" experience to enable its smartphones to act as a PC or smart TV.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 17

Researcher calls Samsung's Tizen OS "the worst code I've ever seen"

Samsung's Tizen operating system is a mess of zero-day exploitable security flaws, broken encryption privacy issues and amateur-level coding mistakes, according to the findings of a security researcher participating in Kaspersky Lab's Security Analyst Summit.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 87

Apple Music Android app brought up to par with iOS in major redesign

The Apple Music app for Android was updated with a significant redesign on Tuesday, finally incorporating the overhauled interface iPhone and iPad users received with iOS 10 last September.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 3

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