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I’d love some disappointments like Apple’s iPad sales figures

Apr27
by on April 27, 2015 at 9:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, sales

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Apple only sold 12.6 million iPads in the last quarter. Tim Cook should place himself in stocks at the centre of Apple’s new spaceship HQ and allow analysts to pelt him with rotten tomatoes. Steve Jobs’ ghost should appear to him on iPadmas Eve and haunt him for his failings. Or…we could just all get a grip and drop the narrative fed to us by hyped up analysts, traders and hacks after an easy line. The iPad isn’t dying and Apple hasn’t ‘disappointed’. Our smartphones get hammered by regular usage. They suffer more wear-and-tear, they feel older and slower far more quickly than…

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Pinterest and Buffer team up to make scheduling Pins possible

Apr27
by on April 27, 2015 at 8:39 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Social marketing app Buffer has teamed up with Pinterest to allow you to schedule pins and managed your presence on the social network. To take advantage, you’ll need a paid Buffer Awesome or Buffer for Business account. You can now pin from websites or upload images through the Buffer app, create a daily Pinterest schedule for posts, and track or measure your posts performance. You will need to authorize your Buffer account with Pinterest to get the new partnership set up. You can do that by logging into both and on your dashboard in Buffer, you’ll see an option to connect…

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Apple sold a whopping 61 million iPhones in Q2 2015, disappoints with 12 million iPads

Apr27
by on April 27, 2015 at 8:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Apple’s quarterly earnings are in and it’s a huge result for iPhone. In the three months of Q2 2015, Apple sold an incredible 61 million iPhones. That’s up from 43 million iPhones during the same quarter in 2014 and is the second biggest quarter for iPhone ever. This period is always a relatively strong quarter for the company. Q1 2015 holds for most iPhones sold at 74.5 million sold in a single quarter. Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said that “we’re seeing a higher rate of people switching to iPhone than we’ve experienced in previous cycles” Apple also made more money last quarter in China than Europe…

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Facebook adds video calling to Messenger

Apr27
by on April 27, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Facebook has today introduced video calling in Messenger. This means that now you can have a face-to-face chat with your friends via Facebook. The new feature is available today on iOS and Android in the UK, US, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal and Uruguay. Facebook says it will be available in other regions in the coming months. Starting a call is simple – you just need to tap the video icon in the top right corner of your chat screen and a video call with start from within the conversation…

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Google knows you want emoji jogger pants, but not what awful thing you’ll wear next

Apr27
by on April 27, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Emoji, emojis, Google, Insider, Opinion, trends

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Google has just launched its inaugural fashion trends report and intends to make bulletins on what’s hot and what’s not in the world of apparel a regular thing. Its theory – all that search data means it knows what the world wants to wear. The problem is, while Google may know that a lot of people are searching for emoji-patterned jogger pants – a development for human society which should frighten us all – it doesn’t necessarily know what’s coming next. People turn to search when they have a catalyst to seek something out. You’ll only search for those accursed…

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