
Microsoft cements its dominance over Apple
Apple loses while Vole gains
Microsoft stock market value surpassed Apple pulling ahead by as much as $3 billion as the Windows software maker benefited from optimism about demand for cloud computing services.

Apple Qualcomm license spat is about $13 per iPhone
Apple wants to pay less
Next time you buy an iPhone that nowadays easily exceeds $1000, € or £, Apple doesn’t want to pay $13 out of the selling price of its phone to Qualcomm. That is what the whole fuss is all about. Qualcomm offers multi model standard essential patents that include 3G/4G and 5G in that price.

Apple under pressure as Brian May loses faith
USB-C is a little silhouette of a sham
Fruity cargo cult Apple has always had the enthusiastic support of the music industry, but that is starting to change.

Microsoft more valuable than Apple
Vole grows as Apple tanks
Software King of the World Microsoft overtook Apple as the world's most valuable listed company highlighting the change of fortunes for both companies.

Supremes listen to Apple anti-trust case
Is a 30 percent cut too high for apps?
Apple’s 30 percent cut on software distribution at its iPhones store is being looked at by the US Supreme Court today.

5nm mobile chips to arrive in late 2020
Industry contacts shared
The mobile industry is definitely outpacing the manufacturing progress of both GPUs and CPUs and this is not going to change anytime soon. Apple lead the industry with millions of 7nm A12 SoCs, Huawei and Qualcomm are joining in, while the PC industry will get them slightly later with much smaller volumes and with the help of small AMD.

AMD Vega 20 GPU gives MacBook Pro a decent performance boost
First benchmarks appear online
With Apple adding more configuration options to its MacBook Pro 15 notebooks, including the Radeon Pro Vega 16 and Radeon Pro Vega 20 GPUs, it was just a matter of time before we see some of the first benchmarks with these new GPUs, and it appears these provide a decent performance boost in graphics.

Foxconn reveals huge cost of Apple dependence
Has to make $2.9 billion to avoid an annus horribilis
Foxconn is planning to cut $2.9 billion from expenses in 2019 as it faces "a very difficult and competitive year".

Microsoft update kills the iCloud
… and so we were saved
Software king of the world Microsoft has penned an update which is so good it looks down on less useful software from Apple.

Apple slashes production on three iPhone models
A month after launch few are buying
Fruity cargo cult Apple has slashed production on three of its iPhone cash cows as users finally start to reject its “charge you more money for a mid-range phone” policy.