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Apple fourth quarter revenue up 8 percent

October 27, 2022October 31, 2022 GaryPageau Apple

Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended Sept. 24, 2022. The company posted a September quarter revenue of $90.1 billion, up 8 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.29, up 4 percent year over year. Annual revenue was $394.3 billion, up 8 percent year over year, and annual earnings per diluted... Read More

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IDC: Smartphone market suffers fifth consecutive decline in global shipments in Q3

October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 GaryPageau Apple, IDC, smartphone

Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 9.7% year over year to 301.9 million units in the third quarter of 2022 (3Q22), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. The drop marks the largest-ever third-quarter decline and the fifth consecutive quarter of decline for the smartphone market as shipments continue to struggle amidst weakened global demand... Read More

New Products News Updates

Apple announces iOS 16, major photos updates

June 7, 2022June 9, 2022 GaryPageau Apple, Apple Photos, iOS, iOS 16

At its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple previewed iOS 16, which introduces iCloud Shared Photo Library to seamlessly share a collection of photos with family, updates to Messages and Mail that help users stay in touch with ease, and powerful enhancements to Live Text and Visual Look Up. “iOS 16 is a big release with updates that will change... Read More

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Apple debuts iPhone 13 models, iPads

September 15, 2021September 24, 2021 GaryPageau Apple, iOS 15, iPad, iPad mini, iPhone 13

Apple Inc. had its customary September product launch, featuring new iPhones with more pro-quality photography features. Here’s an overview of some of the highlights: iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max Apple introduced iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, featuring an all-new Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion featuring an adaptive refresh rate up to 120Hz. The... Read More

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Photo features for iOS 15

September 15, 2021September 25, 2021 GaryPageau Apple, iOS 15

Apple Inc. releases iOS 15, which added new photo-related features for smartphones, including ways to create automatic movies from pictures, adding text recognition within photos, and adding long-overdue EXIF data to photos. For iPhone 12 and 13 users, Apple claims it has improved the panorama features, removing distortions, and reducing noise and banding. Apple is more tightly integrating photos with... Read More

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Apple adds driver’s licenses to Apple Wallet

September 8, 2021September 14, 2021 GaryPageau Apple, Apple Wallet

Not long after it announced school photo IDs were coming to Apple Wallet, the company announced it is working with several states across the country to add the ability for their residents to seamlessly and securely add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on their iPhone and Apple Watch. Arizona and Georgia will be the first states to... Read More

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Apple rolling out mobile student IDs in Canada and United States

August 3, 2021August 20, 2021 GaryPageau Apple

Apple Inc. has started rolling out mobile student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch. For the first time, mobile student IDs can be added to the Wallet app in Canada, starting with the University of New Brunswick and Sheridan College this year. In the United States, new schools to adopt mobile student IDs include Auburn University, Northern Arizona University, University... Read More

News Updates

Apple adds minor Photos update to iOS 15

June 7, 2021June 11, 2021 GaryPageau Apple, Apple Photos, iOS

At the Worldwide Developer Conference this week, Apple Inc. debuted iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, and watchOS 8. The event primarily focused on enhanced privacy features for those platforms but there were a few imaging-related enhancements: Portrait mode is now available for FaceTime and designed specifically for video calls, so users can blur their background and put themselves in... Read More

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Apple earnings show growth in all categories

April 28, 2021May 3, 2021 GaryPageau Apple

Apple announced its fiscal 2021 second quarter ended March 27, 2021. The company posted a March quarter record revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.40. International sales accounted for 67 percent of the quarter’s revenue. “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet... Read More

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Adobe updates Photoshop for M1 Macs, adds Super Resolution to Camera RAW

March 10, 2021March 15, 2021 GaryPageau Adobe, Apple, Camera RAW, M1, Photoshop1 Comment

Apple’s new M1 mobile chip got a big endorsement from the graphics community with the release by Adobe Inc. of Photoshop for M1. The application now runs natively on the M1 chip and provides faster performance, the company said. “Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation... Read More

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IDC says fourth-quarter smartphone shipments show growth

January 28, 2021February 5, 2021 GaryPageau Apple, Hauwei, IDC, Samsung, Smartphones

The worldwide smartphone market continued to improve in the holiday quarter of 2020 (4Q20) returning to familiar ground with 4.3% year-over-year growth, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 385.9 million devices during the quarter. While the full year 2020 declined 5.9% compared to 2019, the progress... Read More

Events News Opinion

Koelnmesse cancels photokina “for the time being”

November 27, 2020 GaryPageau Agfa, Apple, Eastman Kodak, Fujifilm, HP, Koelnmesse, Microsoft, Photokina, PMA, PMA Show, Polaroid

Koelnmesse, the organizer of the leading worldwide photo/imaging exhibition, photokina, has canceled the Cologne event “for the time being” after 70 years. The 2020 edition had already been canceled but dates for May 2022 were announced. It’s an ignoble end to the largest and, arguably, the most influential photo/imaging trade event. For most of its existence, photokina was held every... Read More

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Apple introduces iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max

October 13, 2020October 20, 2020 GaryPageau Apple, iPhne 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro

Apple announced iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max with advanced camera and sensor technology. The new smartphones also add a new Apple ProRaw format coming later this year, which combines Apple’s multiframe image processing and computational photography with the versatility of a RAW format. Users can experience full creative control over color, detail, and dynamic range natively on... Read More

Updates

Imaging app update roundup: iOS 14, Pixelmator and more.

September 26, 2020September 27, 2020 GaryPageau Apple, camera, iOS, Nikon, Pixelmator, VSCO

Popular imaging applications and OSs were updated this week, just in time for the fall. Here’s a short round-up: Apple iOS 14 Apple released iOS 14, including performance improvements to the Camera and Photos apps. Camera Performance – Photos can be shot up to 90% faster,at up to 4 frames per second. Faster shooting – There’s a new “Prioritize faster... Read More

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Global smartphone shipments expected to drop nearly 10% in 2020, says IDC

August 27, 2020August 28, 2020 GaryPageau Apple, IDC, IDC Trackers, Samsung, smartphone

The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 9.5% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. While the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20) resulted in slightly better than expected numbers, the market was still down 17% year over year with visible signs of economic concerns.... Read More