iPhone sales stay strong amid worldwide smartphone market slowdown

Apple's iPhone continues to gain marketshare despite a slowing global smartphone market during the second quarter, doing particularly well in China — where the overall market actually shrunk by 4 percent year-over-year.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 43

Google's initial Android Stagefright patch inadequate, forced to issue second fix

The first software patch designed to mitigate the high-profile Stagefright vulnerability in Google's Android mobile operating system was insufficient, one security researcher discovered, leading to the issuance of yet another update.

AppleInsider Staff 10 years ago 37

Study: Apple's lead in enterprise mobility threatened as iPad's tablet share plummets

Apple's dominance in the enterprise mobility marketplace waned during the second quarter on a precipitous drop in tablet marketshare, the balance of which went to devices running Android and Windows, according to mobility solutions firm Good Technology.

Mikey Campbell 10 years ago 36

Latest Android security exploit could leave more than half of current devices 'dead' & unusable

Yet another serious Android security issue was publicized this week, with the latest exploit rendering devices "lifeless," and said to affect more than half of units currently on the market.

Neil Hughes 10 years ago 28

'Stagefright' vulnerability compromises Android phones with 1 text message, may affect 950M devices

A newly discovered security issue in the Android mobile operating system dubbed "Stagefright" has been called one of the worst vulnerabilities to date, and could present a critical issue for some 95 percent of devices in users' hands.

Neil Hughes 10 years ago 157

iPhone 6 continues to dominate best seller list, blocks Samsung Galaxy S6 from top spot

Apple's iPhone 6 has remained the top selling smartphone for ten months in a row, with sales actually increasing in May, blocking Samsung's flagship phone from taking the top spot for the quarter.

Daniel Eran Dilger 10 years ago 38

GameBench shows iPhone 6 beats Galaxy S6 in game performance & better looking graphics

Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus from last fall beat this year's top Android flagship phones in a series of raw performance benchmarks. However, despite often having a pixel resolution advantage, Android phones also typically deliver worse looking graphics on top of being slower, as revealed by GameBench.

Daniel Eran Dilger 10 years ago 85

Samsung Galaxy S6 'fastest smartphone,' if using phony benchmarks and ignoring iPhone 6 real world performance

Last Friday, Tom's Guide published an article calling Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6 the "world's fastest smartphone," writing that it came in "first in 6 out of 9 real-world tests and synthetic benchmarks." Unfortunately, that claim relied on cherry picked figures and ignored the real world entirely.

Daniel Eran Dilger 10 years ago 94

Apple's 'Move to iOS' app transports user data from Android to iPhone

With an eye on easing the transition from Android to the iOS ecosystem, Apple plans to offer switchers a special Android app that wirelessly transfers personal data, downloaded apps and other information over to a new iPhone.

Mikey Campbell 11 years ago 32

WWDC 2015 guaranteed to highlight growing gap between Apple and Google

While tech pundits have long insisted that Apple and Google are growing more alike as rivals in smartphone and tablet computing, this week's WWDC should provide clear evidence that Apple is on a completely different track compared to the Android train operated by its formerly close iPhone services partner.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 84

Apple's iPhone gobbles up marketshare in U.S. as competitors stumble

A fresh report published by comScore on Friday says Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market grew nearly two percent during a three-month period ending in April, pushing iPhone's share of subscribers above 43 percent.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 80

Apple TV leaps into first place as iOS dominates online video market, Adobe reports

Adobe's Digital Index team on Thursday issued a report on video viewing and browsing ahead of Apple's WWDC, noting that Apple TV has doubled its share in premium video viewing to overtake Roku as iOS devices in general widen their lead over Android and other competitors.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 30

Google I/O 2015 sets a low bar for Apple's WWDC to leap

From all the breathless coverage detailing Google's I/O 2015 conference announcements, you might not have noticed that virtually all of what Google had to show this year were things Apple had already introduced over the past year (or long ago). Once hailed as being "more innovative" and faster at introducing new features, Android has become a slow follower.

Daniel Eran Dilger 11 years ago 295

Google's Nest team helps create Brillo & Weave, to simplify the connected Internet of Things

Seeking to connect everything around us, from household appliances to public parking meters, Google on Thursday announced Brillo, a low-level operating system that can run on a range of devices, as well as Weave, a communications layer that will allow devices to talk to one another.

Neil Hughes 11 years ago 26

Study: Device users more responsive to Android app notifications than iOS

Mobile development services firm Urban Airship on Thursday released a study that found Android users are on average more than two times more responsive to push notifications than iOS device users.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 42

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