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Bloomberg: Apple Makes Almost All of the Profits in Smartphones

What Ryan White used to do the whole Apple and Samsung together make more than 100% of the money made in smart phones thing? The numbers were always a little funny.  The analyst will look at how much profit Apple and Samsung had made and combine it with how much other smartphone makers had lost, move those losses into the gains column for Apple and Samsung and boom Apple and Samsung had made over 100% of the profits and smart phones.

Impressive as over 100% sounds the need for such weekly numbers may have passed.

Bloomberg has run a piece highlighted by The Telegraph of the UK that says Apple accounts for about 90% of the profits made in the mobile industry worldwide. Most of the rest of the roughly 10% goes to Samsung with everyone else either eking out a tiny profit breaking even or losing money.

Most of the Bloomberg piece reads like a postmortem except the patients aren’t quite dead yet, here’s how Sony messed, up here’s how Microsoft, messed up some companies offer to many products, some companies one for volume rather than premium pricing, Both the telegraph piece and the Bloomberg piece on which is based are sort of interesting reads really though it starts and ends the same way Apple makes roughly 90% of the profits made in smart phones today

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WatchOS 2 Officially Released

WatchOS 2 was originally scheduled to be released last Wednesday, September 16 alongside the release of iOS 9, but a “critical bug” prevented Apple from pushing out the update.

As the first major update to the Apple Watch, watchOS 2 introduces a lot of new features including the ability to run native apps, third-party complications, as well as give developers access to several hardware features and sensors including the heart rate monitor, microphone, accelerometers and Taptic Engine.

WatchOS 2 also includes new Watch faces including Photo Album and Time-lapse, a tweak that lets you keep the display on for 70 seconds, and a new activation lock. There’s also Time Travel, which allows users to view past and upcoming events on their Watch face complications by turning the Digital Crown.

Of course, there’s a whole lot more and we plan to go over everything in extreme detail as we learn more and experience this features in real-world use. Stay tuned as we discuss and cover new Complications, apps, and bands as we head into the Holiday season.

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BluePlanetTales. Interactive History Lessons on your iOS Device. Now With Value Subscriptions

Learning about history when I was at school was a long and torterous process. This was back before iPads, smartphones and the like. It was 2 hours of hell copying from one book into another. Needless to say I was dissintereted in History and failed that course. Things would of been a LOT different if BluePlanetTales had been around Im sure of it.

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Spotify Collects Your Location, Sensors, Voice And Photos Details

Fresh from Forbes it seems that Spotify is going to be a whole lot of data collection on subscribers from now on. Basically if youre running spotify it’ll know where you are, if youre walking or moving, GPS co-ordinates and a whole load more.

The full article is over on Forbes but here’s the most significant changes in the terms and conditions that we’ve all no doubt blindly just accepted.

3.3 Information Stored on Your Mobile Device
With your permission, we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files. Local law may require that you seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to Spotify, which may use that information for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.

 

3.4 Location and sensor information
Depending on the type of device that you use to interact with the Service and your settings, we may also collect information about your location based on, for example, your phone’s GPS location or other forms of locating mobile devices (e.g., Bluetooth). We may also collect sensor data (e.g., data about the speed of your movements, such as whether you are running, walking, or in transit).
3.8 Spotify service providers and partners
We may also receive information about you from our service providers and partners, which we use to personalise your Spotify experience, to measure ad quality and responses to ads, and to display ads that are more likely to be relevant to you.

and heres the rub. You know how Spotify don’t make much from streaming all of your songs to you. Well it looks like your going to get googled in terms of being marketed to.

5.2.1 Marketing and advertising
We may share information with advertising partners in order to send you promotional communications about Spotify or to show you more tailored content, including relevant advertising for products and services that may be of interest to you, and to understand how users interact with advertisements. The information we share is in a de-identified format (for example, through the use of hashing) that does not personally identify you.

Anyone upset by these changes can send complaints to privacy@spotify.com or send a letter to the company’s privacy representative by sending a letter to Spotify, Attn: Privacy Officer, Legal Department, 45 West 18th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011, United States.