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Text size Apple has consistently been Skyworks’ largest customer by a wide margin. Dreamstime Shares of Skyworks Solutions were soaring in late trading Thursday after the supplier of radio chips for mobile phone manufacturers reported financial results that were well ahead of guidance for both sales and profits.  For the quarter, Skyworks (ticker: SWKS) posted […]

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The update will require apps to get permission before tracking their data. January 28, 2021, 6:56 PM • 5 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Apple said that a major privacy update — one that has already courted controversy ahead of its release — will now be rolled out in the “early […]

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Facebook’s line of attack against Apple echoes that made by other companies. Apple wields near absolute power over its App Store, deciding which apps make the cut and which don’t, and taking a 30 percent cut of their sales. In 2019, Spotify, the streaming music company, filed a complaint with European regulators, accusing Apple of […]

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The year 2020 was good to Apple. In the last three months alone, covering Apple’s fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 26, the company recorded more than $100 billion in sales, with iPhone sales up 17% year over year. CNBC declared it â€�the best quarter in the history of the smartphone.â€� Apple CEO Tim Cook did not […]

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It’s standard practice for developers to pause app updates over the December holidays and resume in early January. That was the case for Google this year, but the lack of new iOS releases oddly continued for almost the entire month until app updates resumed yesterday and today.  The lack of updates comes in the context […]

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