Showing posts with label Apple in India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple in India. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

People expectationson Apple macOS Sierra

Apple doesn't simply assemble separate items with various capacities and structures, rather it has a dream of associated processing in which every one of its gadgets and working frameworks collaborate together.

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Progression, Handoff

On the off chance that you've been focusing you'll have officially seen how valuable such Continuity and Handoff amongst Macs and iPhones can be, this is the reason you can:

Begin an email on iOS and completion it on the Mac

Accept a call (or send a SMS) on your Mac utilizing your iPhone's transporter

Effectively share documents between gadgets.

These are all really helpful (I utilize the Mac to make calls a terrible part) however the way Macs and its gadgets cooperates enhances drastically in macOS Sierra (now up to its second designer beta sneak peak). On the off chance that you've missed this present, here's the rundown:

Messages

Apple's made the ability to hand calls amongst Macs and iPhones much more steady, and now you can undoubtedly switch between gadgets. This implies you can begin visiting on your iPhone and after that move to utilizing your Mac to talk.

Auto-open

Apple drew wheezes and commendation when it reported this at WWDC a month ago: Auto-open. This implies on the off chance that you are wearing an Apple Watch that is validated to the same Apple ID as the Mac you need to utilize you will be consequently signed into that Mac when you draw near to it. You won't have to utilize your login watchword to dispatch your Mac.

Apple Pay

When you buy things utilizing a good online store you will have the capacity to tap the Apple Pay symbol on the item utilizing Safari on your Mac and afterward finish that buy utilizing TouchID on your iPhone or by double tapping the side catch on your Apple Watch. The procedure is very secure – even against "man in the center" assaults. That is on account of you no won't have to impart credit or plastic numbers to an online vendor and genuine card numbers are not put away on your gadget, nor on Apple servers.

iCloud Desktop and Documents

I've been utilizing Sierra on a Mac throughout the previous couple of weeks and I'm truly loving this element. It implies your Desktop and Documents records are consequently put away in iCloud, which implies they are then accessible in iCloud Drive on all your Apple gadgets, or on iCloud.com on Windows PCs. This lets you safely store all your travel reports in the cloud, for instance.

Widespread Clipboard

Another lead highlight, Universal Clipboard gives you a chance to duplicate and glue between your gadgets. This implies you can duplicate a photograph on your iPad and after that glue it into a record on your Mac; or make a rundown on the Mac to use on an iPhone.

One additionally thing

This savvy combination isn't simply kept to iOS gadgets and Macs, even Apple TV gets a cut of the activity. With the inevitable Remote application introduced on an iPhone, when you are required to sort content in the content passage box on an Apple TV a Notification will naturally show up on your iPhone. Tap that Notification and you will be driven specifically to the console on your Remote application, empowering you to rapidly and effectively enter content. (There's parcels more on future Apple TV enhancements here).

Sunday, 10 July 2016

Apple’s Mobile Payment Service No, We Don’t Take Apple Pay’:

There might be more than a 2 million places that now acknowledge Apple Pay in the U.S., yet the German eatery where Tim Cook went to get espresso is not one of them.

Cook was in Sun Valley, Idaho, going to the yearly Allen and Co. Meeting when he ceased at the curious foundation to get some espresso. At the point when the Apple CEO inquired as to whether Apple Pay is acknowledged as a method of installment, he was met with "No" as an answer.

Apple Pay was dispatched in 2014, hailed to be a progressive remote installment arrangement. It's still a work in advancement however numerous foundations have gotten on, embracing Apple's portable installment administration. Sadly, Cook risked upon one specifically that has not executed the administration.

A portion of the foundations that do acknowledge Apple Pay include: American Eagle Outfitters, Best Buy, Crate and Barrel, Dunkin' Donuts, Foot Locker, GameStop, Jamba Juice, Levi's, Macy's, McDonald's, Office Depot, Peet's Coffee, Sephora, Trader Joe's, Walgreens and White Castle. Anthropologie, Baskin' Robbins, Renaissance Hotels, T-Mobile and Urban Outfitters are set to take after soon.

The versatile installment administration is accessible to iPhone 6/6s, 6/6s Plus and SE clients. More seasoned era iPhones don't have close field correspondence (NFC) chips so they are not good with Apple Pay purpose of-offer frameworks. Those with more seasoned iPhones can in any case exploit Apple Pay, notwithstanding, with the assistance of an Apple Watch. The wearable gadget will must be combined with a telephone, yet Apple Pay might be utilized notwithstanding when the telephone is not present.

Cook said Apple's portable installment administration is developing at a huge rate so it won't not be too much sooner than the German eatery he was in will begin tolerating Apple Pay. In any case, Apple may need to keep an eye out for Walmart Pay, the chain store's own particular portable installment framework, which is presently running in Washington, DC and 33 different states, including California and New York.

Walmart sees 140 million clients every week and at present doesn't acknowledge Apple Pay and portable installment administrations from different suppliers. As indicated by information from 2015, 22 million of these week after week clients as of now utilize Walmart Pay. This may sound overwhelming however Apple can really unwind in light of the fact that Walmart did not build up the administration to tackle Apple Pay. Or maybe, Walmart Pay was principally intended to enhance checkout by and large, and not simply installment.

Friday, 8 July 2016

Apple Loop: Glass iPhone 8 Details Leak, iPhone 7 Changes ...

Investigating at one more week of news from Cupertino, the current week's Apple Loop incorporates the new hues and capacity alternatives for the iPhone 7, why everything is new in Apple's 2016 cell phone, the confusions of bended glass on the iPhone 8, the fate of the iPhone SE, contemplations on the earphone jack expulsion, a MacGyvered set of lightning earpods, the arrival of Pokemon Go, and enlisting as an organ benefactor on your cell phone.

Apple Loop is here to help you to remember a couple of the a lot of dialogs that have happened around Apple in the course of the most recent seven days (and you can read the week after week summary of Android news here on Forbes).

More Colors And More Storage For The iPhone 7

The energy behind the iPhone 7 is working, with more established points of interest validated on a consistent schedule, and new subtle elements leaving the inventory network to assume their position. Forbes' Gordon Kelly highlights the exceptionally critical 'fresh out of the box new shading' being added to the extent fit as a fiddle of 'Space Black' nearby 'Space Gray' before taking a gander at something much more inquisitive… the dropping of 64GB as a capacity alternative.

At first glance this could be seen as a terrible thing, yet it is really to permit Apple to redesign stockpiling for both telephones with another (and enormously welcome) 32GB section level model took after by a 128GB midrange and 256GB top end.

This move would be broadly commended as Apple has been properly reprimanded by numerous (counting myself) for adhering to the 16GB level for so long on such a premium extent. In the interim the bounce to 128GB holds Apple's adoration for upsell with the $100 more costly center level long being the sweet spot for generally purchasers.

Nothing Has Changed? Everything Has Changed, Here's Why

In spite of prominent conclusion, the iPhone 7 has something new to add to the blend – it is plainly going to enhance in some little path against the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Whether you think those progressions are sufficient to make it emerge or is it the absolute minimum that Apple needs to do to attempt to offer more telephones in 2016 will shading how you read Daniel Dilger's forceful publication this week, titled "Really, there is something new about Apple's up and coming iPhone 7"

Monday, 23 May 2016

From arrogance to servility: Apple’s U-turn in India

In September 2014, Apple launched the much-awaited iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. The new phones were launched in 10 countries, including Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia, on the same day. But as has been the case for over a decade, Apple neither launched the two devices in India nor announced a date by which the smartphones would be made available in the country.


The company’s fans in the country purchased the phones in the grey market for anywhere between Rs100,000 to Rs200,000—around five times the official price in the US.

India was definitely not high on Apple’s radar till a few years ago. “I love India but I believe that Apple has higher potential…in some other countries. That doesn’t mean we’re not interested in India—we are. We’re going to continue putting some energies there, but in the intermediate term there will be larger opportunities elsewhere,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in July 2012.

But over the recent months, India has become a promising market for the American tech giant. While announcing the company’s quarterly earnings on April 26, Cook called India a “really great opportunity.” “We’ve been working (in India) with great energy over the last 18 months or so, and I am encouraged by the results that we’re beginning to see there,” Cook said during the company’s earnings call.

And, less than a month later, Cook made his first official trip to the world’s second largest smartphone market.

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Until recently, Apple was just playing in the premium smartphone segment in India, which is around 4% of the overall market as per some estimates. Now, the company desperately wants to sell more affordable, refurbished phones, which would drastically improve its sales in a price-sensitive India. So far, it has failed to get an approval for the same from the government.

Despite regulatory restrictions, India is among the top priorities for Apple going forward, Cook said in an interview to television channel NDTV. The company is now approaching India “very humbly” and hoping to stay in the market for a “thousand years,” he said.

On the first day of Cook’s trip, Apple announced the setting up of a mobile apps accelerator in Bengaluru by early 2017. On the next day, Cook inaugurated Apple’s new office in Hyderabad. The company will hire up to 4,000 new employees at this office, Apple said.

Even tough the company did not announce the exact amount of investments in the two new facilities, Cook told NDTV that Apple would spend “several hundred million dollars” on the Hyderabad office and the Bengaluru centre would also be a “major investment.”

Cook also met several Indian business leaders, including senior executives of Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel and Tata Group. He engaged with the country’s booming technology startup industry and visited the office of online restaurant discovery startup Zomato. The Apple boss even found the time to visit an Indian temple, attend a Bollywood party and watch a cricket match.

However, the lack of investment numbers disappointed some commentators. “I will call it a great exploration effort, and do not see any immediate results,” Vishal Tripathi, research director at Gartnertold IANS. “I won’t call his visit a wow factor at this moment.”

Slowing China

Cook’s trip to Asia came at a time when Apple’s growth is slowing in its second-largest market China, and rising sharply in India. In the company’s second quarter, revenue from China fell for the first time ever, while it rose by 56% in India.

India is now touted as the next China for Apple. However, Cook said there was no connection between the two developments.

“It (plan for India) has nothing to do with China,” Cook told NDTV. “India is different than China. India is a different place and we are going into India very humbly. We’ve been selling here for a while as you know, but we are taking a step back in viewing India strategically and I do believe that the reforms that are going in India, means that India has an enormously bright future and we would like to be a part of that.”

During the second quarter of 2016, Apple’s revenue in China stood at$12.5 billion (pdf). In comparison, India is a minuscule fraction of the company’s business. The company does not even break down its revenue for India and according to some estimates, the country makes for less than 1% of Apple’s overall sales. And while Apple made no big bang announcements in India, Cook made a massive $1-billion investment in a local ride-hailing service, Didi Chuxing.

But the secretive company seems to be waiting for the right time to start making big bets on Asia’s third largest economy.

“You know I came here to learn about the people and the culture and how business is done and what people are interested in and their hopes and aspirations,” Cook told NDTV. “I’m leaving with more knowledge.”

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Ahead Of Tim Cook's Announcement, The Scoop On Apple's Hyderabad Plans

 Hyderabad, IT central, is going to get a big new endorsement - and business - tomorrow.

Apple's CEO Tim Cook will be in the city tomorrow where, sources confirmed, he will announce a new digital maps centre for the Telangana capital.

There are reports of 2,500 new jobs and the launching, within a year, of a mega campus for Apple. Government sources denied the latter, stating that Apple will work out of an existing software hub that's part of a Special Economic Zone.

Details will be revealed by Mr Cook and KTR, the IT minister of Telangana at a scheduled appearance tomorrow.  KTR's father, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao or KCR, is likely to be present, said top government sources.

The set-up in Hyderabad will be the mega-brand's first technology centre outside the US.  

According to Telangana's IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan, the facility's servers will be based in the US with technical and support services provided in Hyderabad.

Mr Cook is in Mumbai today where he began his day by visiting the famous Siddhivinayak Temple. Before he leaves the country, he will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who he encountered in Silicon Valley last year.

India recently rejected Apple's proposal to import and sell refurbished phones in the country - a move seen as key to appealing to price-sensitive consumers.

Mr Cook's India visit, following a trip to China, comes at a crucial time as Apple looks for new growth markets after posting its first ever decline in iPhone sales.

India is keen to know if Apple has plans to set up production facilities, which would be a boost for Mr Modi's "Make in India" manufacturing push.

"If they can make in China to cater to the Chinese market then they can make for Indian markets here," said a government source to news agency Reuters.

Maharashtra is already in talks with Apple product maker Foxconn Technology over it setting up an iPhone plant there.

In India, Apple is looking to set up its first retail outlet, as it only has about a 2 percent market share. But its sales there surged 56 percent in the first three months of this year, driven mainly by cheaper older-generation devices such as the iPhone 5S.

More than 100 million smartphones were sold in India last year and the market is expected to grow by 25 percent this year, making India one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world.