Apple's iPhone beats all Android smartphone web use in North America by wide margin

Chitika Insights web traffic report for April assigned Apple's iPhone a 53.1 percent majority of all smartphone web traffic, while all Android devices combined amounted to just 44.5 percent.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 94

Apple's iPhone destroys Samsung in South Korean customer satisfaction rankings

A customer satisfaction survey ranking smartphones features and desirability in South Korea awarded Apple's iPhone 5s a widening lead over domestic rivals including LG, Samsung and Pantech.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 39

Oracle wins key reversal in Java copyright case against Google's Android

After seeing the majority of its Java infringement claims against Android essentially set aside in 2012, Oracle has now won an important reversal on appeal that will allow it to pursue its $1 billion case against Google and potentially an injunction against Android as infringing its Java intellectual property.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 176

Apple's iOS takes 93% share in enterprise apps; iPad takes 92% of business tablets

Enterprise mobile services vendor Good Technology reported that companies continue to prefer Apple's mobile platform, with iPhone and iPad share of business devices holding steady in dominating device share despite significant growth in the segment, and in particular, custom app development standardizing on iOS.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 32

New Samsung Galaxy S5 ad forced to cherry pick lines from lackluster reviews

Samsung's latest Galaxy S5 ad creatively carved quotes from a series of independent product reviews on what appears to be an autopsy in search of healthy tissue.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 86

Before Apple's iPhone was too small, it was too "monstrously" big

Apple is widely expected to introduce new, larger iPhone 6 models this year, after ignoring the "phablet" market for years. Somewhat ironically, it was Apple that initiated and perpetuated the trend toward larger smartphones phones while its competitors, including Samsung, worked to popularize small devices in order to "exploit" consumer preferences for phones that weren't as "monstrously large" as the iPhone, as revealed in confidential documents from the patent infringement trial.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 151

After partial win, Apple comments on second Samsung trial as award grows

Following the jury's verdict in the second Apple vs Samsung trial, which found infringement in three of the five patents Apple argued, the company issued a statement thanking the jury and suggesting a continued fight to defend the company's innovative products.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 104

Jury's verdict in Apple vs Samsung case threatens far reaching consequences

The jurors deciding the outcome of the second Apple vs Samsung trial haven't yet returned a verdict, but their options are limited to a few possible outcomes, ranging from a fiery thermonuclear blast to a wintery new Dark Ages.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 88

IDC forecasts 'challenging' year for tablets as Apple's iPad continues to lead

Though its total shipments fell year over year last quarter, Apple and its iPad still accounts for about a third of all tablets pushed to market last quarter, though research firm IDC has predicted overall tablet growth will be slow throughout 2014.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 105

Apple's iPhone 5c ate up Android while Google's Moto X flopped: why everyone was wrong

Last fall, Google's Motorola group unveiled its Moto X and Apple released its middle-tier iPhone 5c. Across the board, pundits and reporters portrayed the 5c as a grave mistake that got everything wrong while lavishing Google's Moto X with praise. Why were they so incredibly wrong?

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 218

Appeals court rules Apple can sue Motorola, creates claim chaos for Data Detectors

A U.S. appeals court ruled that Apple and Google's Motorola can sue each other over smartphone patents, overturning Judge Richard Posner's opinion from the summer of 2012. The court also sided with a claim construction that does not favor Apple, and may impact its case with Samsung.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 43

After putting Google on the hook for infringement of iPhone patents, Samsung lied about it

Even more startling than the news from today's trial that Google offered to indemnify Samsung for Android's infringement of Apple's iPhones patents is the fact that Samsung falsely stated in court filings that that it had not been "seeking indemnification from any third party."

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 70

Apple and Google bring fight for exclusive games to mobile

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Apple and Google are actively pursuing game developers with special incentives to make sure big name titles come to their respective platforms first.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 43

Samsung email targeted Steve Jobs' death as "our best opportunity to attack iPhone"

Samsung executives discussed Steve Jobs' passing as "unfortunately" having an "unintended benefit for Apple," and at the same time, "our best opportunity to attack iPhone," in internal memos marked "highly confidential," presented in the Apple v. Samsung trial.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 146

Samsung braced for "iPhone 5 Tsunami," targeted an "attack" on Apple's customer base

New confidential internal memos presented in the Apple v. Samsung trial detail a "counter tsunami plan" Samsung hoped to set up in response to Apple's iPhone 5 launch, in order to distract from its own Galaxy product vulnerabilities it described as "plastic feeling" with "lack of key feature."

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 107

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