News & Reviews:   Apple

During the weekend, The Washington Post took an opportunity to have an interview with Apple CEO, Tim Cook about his fifth year in that position, as well as the future of the company's work on augmented reality products. Here are some thoughts from Tim Cook, from a series of question by The Washington Post:

The Apple Pencil is currently an iPad Pro-only device, so the desktop Apple products can’t take advantage of the flexibility and creative options that is available with the Pencil. Now however we may just see something for the desktop in the near future, as Apple as just patented a Pencil-like device, but for the desktop.

While the Android marketshare continues to rise – Apple with their iOS ecosystem (iPhone and iPad) devices has been there all along as a great counterbalance to the market. They have just recently reached a milestone – they have sold over one billion iPhone devices as of today.

A few hours ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook has told investors that Apple is interested in investing augmented reality (AR) and they have already been in developing and is "high on AR in the long run". This happened after he was asked about his thoughts on Pokémon Go that has stormed the world as the most downloaded app in history.

The smartphone business is always a tough war to compete with each brand offers their best of the best flagship and budget devices. Yesterday, a Market research firm TrendForce has released market numbers for Q2 2016. Surprisingly, Huawei took a the lead in China with nearly 21% share. Do note that, China is the world's largest smartphone market.

Taking a short break from smartphone news, we now bring you some news from the laptop world. It has come to our attention that according to a source from a Chinese media, a new Lenovo 4G laptop is planned to be released in the next two months or so featuring an integrated cellular network antenna, this means that it will allow internet connection to be available everywhere.

July 27 seems to be a date to look out for, especially for Mi fans. One of the devices that will be launched is apparently the Mi Laptop, and we have leaked specs of the upcoming machine from Xiaomi.

Whether you like it or not, it seems inevitable that Apple is going to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack even though it's just a rumour and a popular one. If this really happens, Apple's decision will change the headphone market. In fact, some companies have already designed their own Lightning-connected headphones in anticipation, it could cost a lot too since Lightning adapters aren't common.

With iOS 10 coming soon, Macrumors.com has released a video about the new upgrade and features in the Photos app. As you may know, Siri intelligence is part of the update and it has learned some techniques on advanced facial and object recognition algorithms.

During the WWDC 2016, Apple has unveiled the next successor to its current Mac operating system the OS X 10.11 El Capitan - the macOS Sierra. Sierra promises new window tab support across multiple apps, copy and paste between devices, Siri integration, and more. It's also noted that macOS is a new naming structure so that it's consistent with the rest of the software platforms like iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Anyway, here's what we found out about Sierra.