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Make in India Apple, production ready or sample?

In recent years India has exhibited enormous progress in consumer electronics sales including Smartphones. Apple has always recognized true potential of Asian markets. China is the number one market for Apple’s recent iPhones. Last year, while other smartphone manufacturers in India did very well, Apple did not get the expected boost in the sales. While Apple in India did well in the premium phones category ranged above $500 beating Samsung in sales in the second quarter of 2019 as per data made available by TRAI in a report. None of the Apple iPhones including the budget iPhone XR was ever…

The 16-inch Macbook Pro: Must have!

Apple India in a press release on November 13, 2019 announced 16-inch Macbook Pro in India. It is not a routine upgrade of CPU with a bigger screen this time. Apple has finally heard its pro users and fixed all the issues that its pro users have been facing for a couple of years in Macbook Pro line up. Apple’s drastic move from more trusted scissor switch keyboard to butterfly keyboard in Macbooks was noting but a debacle and Apple has paid a huge price with its long term keyboard repair / replacement program. Apple has completely replaced the keyboard…

Maxed-out new Mac Pro or XDR display with Pro Stand: Not getting fleeced

It is funny how a maxed-out new Mac Pro is compared to a premium sports car or multiple iMac Pros in western countries or a decent two bedroom apartment in cities of India or other countries of the world. It is not legit by any means to compare apples and oranges. That being so, you have to shell out a whooping 60,946.00 USD to own a maxed-out new Mac Pro Tower with wheels and XDR Pro display with Nano-texture glass including the Pro stand for it. Although it is difficult to imagine who the intended buyer here is. Professionals like…

Huawei mobile services and its tremendous potential

Android is an opensource mobile operating system but without proprietary Google Apps and services it is meaningless to most developers and consumers worldwide. Google imposes firm monopolistic control on a manufacturer or software distributor when they bundle their prominent proprietary Google apps and services into their Android firmware for a given device. Google’s stubborn and self-style practices have attracted a lot of bans and fines in Europe itself. At times, economic warfare or trade war between two nations could lead to unprecedented frictions like US government’s ban on Huawei voiding any western firm from offering any IT services or technology…

Fold it to hold it

A majority of the displays we use today are based on LCD technology. LCD screens are built with two layers of glass one being base and other being on top of the the actual display. So the display techology is actually sandwiched between two layers. It needs backlight to operate which makes it thicker in comparison with the new OLED technology. Are OLED display only good for folding? This display technology is already superior is many ways. For example, you get better color, higher contract, quicker response time and refresh rates, power efficiency since you get to turn off the…