Archive for October, 2015

Tony Fadell, the father of iPod revealed the reasons why he and his wife left Apple in an interview reported by The Guardian

Fadell was one of the most important membership in the development team of iPod. He was hired by Apple to launch iPod then. At first , Fadell was just a contractor, then he began full-time operating the development team.

Fadell’s wife, Danielle Lambert was also Apple’s employee, working as the vice president of Human Resources. They left Apple in 2010. Fadell confessed that their career in Apple had affected to their family life.

He said : “ One day, we got home and heard our son was crying. My wife tried to comfort him and let him calm down. But he run up to baby-sitter. We realized that we missed a lot for his growth.”

It is true that the employees face much pressure to work in Apple. Fadell occupied an important position, there was no wonder he had a lot to deal with. There were reports suggesting high pressure, extra working hours and day-off on call duty among the Apple employees. The employees did not have many chances to spend quality time with their family.

Another reason why Fadell left Apple was that Fadell and Jonathan Ive did not get along well with each other. Leander Kahney confirmed this news in his new book.

He established a hardware company named Nest Labs after he left Apple, while the company was took over by Google at the cost of $3.2 billion in 2014. It was mainly launching temperature-controlled equipment and smoke alarms.

NetEase made announcement on October 19 concerned the news of its data leak. Its tech team had tested the database and found its system did not exsit data leak problems.

Those users used the same passwords in other sites as they did in NetEase. Their NetEase accounts were log-in by the lawbreakers which led to their details leak.

NetEase claimed that the NetEase mail applied advanced and most hightes level  security certificate EAL 3+. Its mail system is one of the most trustful account in mainland.

WooYun announced it found new vulnerability early on October 19. The vulnerability caused 100 million of accounts’ leak in NetEase email database. The leaks were involved in accounts, passwords and users privacy.

WooYun found users complained their iCloud accounts were being hacked lately and their phones they made to bind up with NetEase were being locked or blackmailed. They had in common that they used NetEase account as their iCloud accounts.

The rumor made a great panic among the NetEase users. NetEase made response to this rumor and confirmed that its system doesn’t encounter bugs. It reminds uses set higher security password in those sites that apply lower security level certificate. Or it will cause high risk of leaking privacy while logging their accounts.

NetEase has been running 18 years. Product safety means a lot to its development. NetEase keeps working hard to provide safer service for users while use its products. Feedback and comments are welcome from its users. It will make full use of legal approach against malicious calumniation.

Apple announced the sales volume of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus was over 13 million sets in the first week and it set a new record. Some analyst feels that the sales of new iPhone won’t be as good as its predecessor, although it made a good start.

Recently, the Pacific Crest Securities’ analyst John Vinh indicated that Apple has cut about 5% of its orders due to the sales performance of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus did not meet its expectation. It is reported that this news was confirmed by several chip manufacturers.

In addition, John Vinh predicts the sales volume of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will be only 67 million units in the fourth quarter. Its sales volume was initially predicted up from 75 million to 80 million unints by some other analysts.

There were reports indicated Apple would cut its component orders. A few weeks ago, Digitimes revealed Apple will adjust its shippments will be deducted from 80-90 million units to 65-70 million units in the fourth quarter. Before iPhone 6s series being released, some analysts hold negative attitude towards their sales growth.

There are also analysts holding positive attitude towards their saels. Katy Huberty, the analyst from Morgan Stanley once predicted the sales volume of iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will increase by 7 % in 2016 as Apple fans keep high loyalties to iPhone and Apple shortens its product’s updated period.

Facebook has great ambition for its own chatting application Messenger. Nowadays, Facebook no longer consider Messenger as an App instead of a platform. The enterprises can develop their business on this platform.

Facebook’s platform supervisor, Julien Codornious claimed in an interview: ” we feel we have just completed 1% of Messenger’s development in our group. We are confident that Messenger will help some enterprises to establish business relationship on this platform. We are now working for this goal.”

In other words, Messenger will be a customized program for purposes in view of Facebook’s ambition in the future.

Facebook wishes the retailers make use of Messenger to communicate with their clients instead of using their own retailed website to do business. It will update some services on its platform, hoping the users to book air tickets, search near-by restaurants and share amazing events with friends on Messenger. There are also other service sections waiting for your exploitation besides communicating with friends on Messenger.

Those services were discussed openly. Chief of Messenger application, David Marcus claims that Facebook just made the first step among those series of plans.

Benedict Evans said Facebook is hoping to have Messenge developed into a common and notified platform.

Facebook has 1.4 billion users and 700 million people use Messenger. If its ambition comes true, it will make a great impact on Apple iOS and Google Android mobile platforms. The publishers and users have more options to use the mobile platforms. You might be able to use any mobile devices to call, chat or apply video chat via Messenger with family and friends.

You might be able to shop or search on Messenger to find your preferred topics, following the example of Google and Amazon business modes. It will tight connect its E business with Messenger by integrating more founctions.

US Forbes reported even though Apple Pay began in a slow growth, there is still great potential to replace most of the functions of traditional wallet.

If you think Apple Pay failed from the current reports, you might be wrong. It is too early to judge its growth at present. It is true that not many retail stores support Apple Pay. There will be great change for this situtaion in a year. Tim Cook consider 2015 is the year of Apple Pay. There are 6 reasons indicate this service will make unexpected achievement in the following years.

1. Apple firm confirms its leading position. Mobile Wallet might be still a new industry. According to the figures from Crone Consulting company, Apple Pay accounts for three quarters of its payment share.

2. More and more merchants joined Apple Pay service. The major banks in US announced to support Apple Pay transactions. From October 1st, retailers will be repsonsible for credit card fraud for not accepting new pattern chip card. Those terminals accept for chip card payment will also support Apple Pay. There are still 73% of US retailers did not change their payment terminals. It is time for them to consider on this subject.

3. Chip card takes much time. The new chip card and signature card transactions take much time than Magnetic card which provides Apple Pay and other Payment terms more space to grow.

4. The habit of payment patterns have changed. Thanks to the popularity of Starbucks’ and Uber’s application of mobile wallet, more and more people realize to pay with mobile devices. Apple’s initial goal is to popularize Apple Pay in fast food restaurants and retail stores to develop the customers’ payment habit with mobile wallet.

5. Small enterprises gradually catch up this new service. Most of the large-scaled enterprises accept Apple Pay, while some small enterprises failed to install this device due to the expensive cost. Apple will pay more attention to such enterprises, adding 80,000 medium-size and small entperirses each month into the Apple Pay list.

6. Loyalty Card is the key to succeed. Apple offers convenience to retailers since June so that they could install Loyalty Card into Apple Pay. It also has other measures to encourage consumers to use Apple Pay. Apple also imports Startbucks Loyalty Card this week.

It may take a few years to pupularize Apple Pay. We are confident that it won’t take much long time for mobile payment to replace mostly traditional payment.

Because of fewer demands for Kindle e-readers, Waterstones stops selling them.

James Daunt, the firm’s managing director claims that the sales of the Kindle e-readers at his stores are poor.

He said the sales get worse and they are thinking to pull them from the shelves in more and more shops to make space for other products.

In answer to this matter, Amazon claims that its sales of Kindle devices are going well at retail level. It implies might be just Waterstones outlets encountered the sales decline.

According to the Amazon statement, the sales and growing distribution of Kindle perform well. Kindle devices are available in over 2,500 retail locations around UK, Argos, Tesco, Dixons, John Lewis, Sainbury’s Boots and Shop Direct included. Amazon’s book sales in UK and US are growing in 2015

Even Amazon shows its positive growth of e-book sales, there is evidence to indicate that the digital market is declining. And the demand for print is increasing.

According to the statistics from the Association of American Publishers, many literary fans are becoming hybrid readers for whom like reading both.

Amazon keeps offering e-readers for customers. It launched a new Paperwhite earlier this year, but it is set to use mainly on its Fire range of devices.

In September, Amazon produced a £50 version of its Fire Tablet in order to target the budget demographic.