Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Consumer Reports thinks so, apparently. Do you agree that Apple is slipping behind its rivals in the smartphone market?
A recent issue of Consumer Reports that ranked the top smartphones in the U.S. placed the iPhone 5 behind its rivals among many carriers and it didn't even crack the top three for Verizon. Business Insider picked up on the magazine's story and speculated that while the iPhone has been a "mind-boggling" success for the past five years, other smartphone makers are starting to catch up, pointing to the success of the Samsung Galaxy S3 among others. The worry is that Apple will soon be eclipsed as the already hyper-competitive and ridiculously lucrative smartphone market continues to heat up. Of course, slipping from complete dominance to near-dominance isn't entirely bad, plus rumors are already swirling that the software giant is prepping …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Target in Wentzville is not participating in the trade-in offer that gives customers a store credit for their used electronics. Nearby stores, however, are.
If you have an iPad, iPhone or iPad that you are ready to get rid of, take it to Target and the store will give you a gift card in return for the device. The Wentzville Target store is not participating in the trade-in offer. Targets in O'Fallon, St. Peters, St. Charles and Chesterfield, though, are. Customers can trade-in online or in-stores. However, customers must work with a member of the Target Mobile staff if making the trade-in at the store, so check your local store for their hours. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Target is offering the deal at more than 1,450 retail locations through a partnership with NextWorth. The offer runs through Feb. 11. The Post-Dispatch reports the following trade-in amounts: Customers can also…
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Upon hearing of Steve Jobs's death, Patch Regional Editor Holly Edgell recalls how her first Apple product changed her from a PC to a Mac.
I confess to feeling a bit like a member of an exclusive club when I enter the Apple Store at the St. Louis Galleria. But I was a late Apple adopter. I never really got the Mac "thing." In college (circa 1990), one of my journalism classes met in lab where we used Macintosh Classics. Thinking of a Mac-loving friend, I asked myself, "What's so great about this computer?" I remained strictly PC as technology advanced and streamlined through the 1990s and early 2000s, both at home and in the newsrooms where I worked. First came the iPod The watershed moment came when I was teaching at Florida A&M University in 2005: Apple gave the faculty members iPod Classics. The cool factor was immediately apparent: the design struck me as light years …
Upon hearing of Steve Jobs's death, Patch Regional Editor Holly Edgell recalls how her first Apple product changed her from a PC to a Mac.
I confess to feeling a bit like a member of an exclusive club when I enter the Apple Store at the St. Louis Galleria. But I was a late Apple adopter. I never really got the Mac "thing." In college (circa 1990), one of my journalism classes met in lab where we used Macintosh Classics. Thinking of a Mac-loving friend, I asked myself, "What's so great about this computer?" I remained strictly PC as technology advanced and streamlined through the 1990s and early 2000s, both at home and in the newsrooms where I worked. First came the iPod The watershed moment came when I was teaching at Florida A&M University in 2005: Apple gave the faculty members iPod Classics. The cool factor was immediately apparent: the design struck me as light years …
Darknet Droid
5:37 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
High end Android hand sets have been better than iPhones for Apple's last two iterations. The fact that iPhone 5 is Apple's first 4G device pretty much tells the entire story. The iPhone continues to be the fashion phone of choice. But the Googleverse is just superior at almost everything on the services side and the unabated arms race on the hardware side of Android made Google based phones the … more ›