In recent years, there have been loads of unconfirmed reports about alleged production issues with new Apple gear, particularly the iPhone. This is not unexpected, since Apple is famous for devising sophisticated manufacturing processes, requiring cutting-edge components, and thus supplies are frequently constrained when the product is launched. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same issues impact the […]

After Apple allegedly missed estimates that ten million copies of the iPhone 5 would be sold over the first weekend it went on sale in 2012 — they only managed five million, which was a record for the industry — Apple’s stock price began to take a battering. Every perceived miss from inflated expectations brought […]

It may be surprising if you haven’t kept up to date with the history of smartphones, but the original iPhone, with the 3.5-inch display, was considered quite large. Maybe too large to some, but other smartphones of 2007 usually came with physical keyboards to take up the rest of the space. Although not the first, […]

To be sure, despite the ongoing problems with Touch ID, Samsung must be extremely jealous of Apple because the fingerprint sensor system on the Samsung Galaxy S5 mostly doesn’t work at all. Indeed, this is  a high-profile feature that represents one of the most significant improvements on Samsung’s flagship smartphone. How’d they let it ship? Now […]