Sunday, August 11, 2013

Next Apple iPhone gets tipped for September 10 announcement

The launch date of Apple's next iPhone has been revealed, albeit unofficially. The hotly anticipated smartphone has been tipped for a September 10 launch by All Things D.

There has been no mention on the products which are expected to be launched. The numerous leaks point at Apple launching its top shelf smartphone alongside a budget-friendly sibling with a polycarbonate casing (you can see a roundup of all the rumors over here). Of course, iOS 7 release date is also more than likely to be announced.

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Report: Apple board 'concerned' over speed of innovation under Tim Cook

Report: Apple board 'concerned' over speed of innovation under Tim Cook
Ready, steady, Cook

Not since the arrival of the first iPad in 2010 has Apple introduced one of the game-changing products, synonymous with the company, and according to reports, the Apple board is starting to worry.

In a new report, Fox Business Network correspondent Charlie Gasparino claimed the pressure on CEO Tim Cook is growing with Apple directors seeking the next breakthrough product, and quickly.

Gasparino claimed the board is "concerned" the speed of innovation seen during the second Steve Jobs era, which resulted in the iPod, iPhone and iPad change the tech world, has not continued under Cook.

He said: "What have they had lately? They have had the iPad, they've had a few other things, but they don't have anything innovating from what came from Steve Jobs.

"And that concern is basically manifesting into pressure on Tim Cook to innovate — do something fast," added Gasparino who said the concern hasn't reached the point that Cook's job is under threat.

Cook on the clock?

Cook has offered numerous hints Apple will be launching an iWatch smart watch and a flatscreen Apple iTV television set, but it does not appear that the launch of either is within sight this year.

Cook himself has claimed new products are coming later this year, most likely at an iPhone launch event on September 10, although those launches are likely to be tweaked versions of existing products.

There is a genuine feeling that Apple long-standing lead in innovation has been eroded since the late Steve Jobs was forced to relinquish the top job due to ailing health.

Others, like Samsung, Microsoft and Google, have certainly made strong efforts to catch up, while Apple's own innovative spirit seems somewhat stunted in the last couple of years.

Apple itself is conscious of the mutterings. During the launch of the new cylindric Mac Pro at WWDC this year, the company's bombastic marketing chief Phil Schiller blasted: "Can't innovate anymore, my ass!"

Does Apple still have the ability to wow us with yet another epochal product launch any time soon or is the rumoured pressure on Tim Cook to be more like Steve only going to grow?


Source : http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/report-apple-board-concerned-over-speed-of-innovation-under-tim-cook-1172360

Apple's board might be pressuring on CEO for lack of innovation

The latest report on Apple says the company's board is putting pressure on CEO Tim Cook because the lack of innovation in Apple's latest (and probably upcoming) products.

The Fox Business reporter Charlie Gasparino says Apple's board wants the company to come forward with some changes without further delays. He also says despite the board is pressuring Tim Cook, his job in the company is safe.

The countless rumors we saw throughout the past weeks confirm Apple is already breaking the product pattern and will be releasing a low-cost model of iPhone called 5C. We saw various live pictures of its all-plastic body and we suspect this is probably the first of those changes that the board wants. The iPhone 5C is rumored to pack the same hardware as the current iPhone 5 flagship but to drop the premium aluminum shell in favor of an all-plastic panel.

The next iPhone 5S on the other hand is rumored to bring improved camera and flash as well as a fingerprint sensor. We considered the latter an already dead piece of technology in the mobile phones, but Apple may reinvent this in some new way.

Anyway, it was about time those kind of reports start popping up. Let's face it, Apple has definitely lost some of its magic after the iPhone 4S and the innovation was pushed back in favor of slowly milking existing hardware and waging patent crusades against its rivals. Maybe the board is right to ask for changes.

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Motorola to make the Nexus 5, coming in Q4 this year

According to Taylor Wimberly, former editor for Android and Me and so far a great insider, Motorola will manufacture the next Nexus smartphone a.k.a. Nexus 5.

Here is his Google+ tip:

Motorola will release a Nexus smartphone in Q4 (that is not the Moto X).

He didn't elaborate further than that, so we can't give you any more details.

If this information is indeed true, then we expect Motorola and Google to announce the next Nexus smartphone in late fall.

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