Apple patents "socially distant selfies"
Enables Apple users to pretend they have friends
Working out a way to cash in on COVID-19, the fruity cargo cult Apple has received a patent for software to which allows group selfies while people in the photo are socially distancing.
Global smartphone shipments will fall further
IDC sees lower consumer spending due to coronavirius
IDC beancounters say that global smartphone shipments will fall nearly 12 percent to 1.2 billion units in 2020 due to lower consumer spending due to the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis.
Apple sees way to make more money for less
No port in a storm
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn in which Apple gets rid of all ports on its iPhone cash cow and goes completely wireless.
Chinese smartphone makers looking away from US
US dependence is too risky
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo is increasing its its efforts to develop its own smartphone CPUs believing that US gear is too risky to have in your supply chain.
Cortex X speeds up phone by 30 percent
High-performance PC SoCs too
Qualcomm introduced Prime core clocked rest from the cluster with Snapdragon 865, and Huawei had two higher clock performance cores in Kirin 990. With that in mind, ARM has introduced the Cortex-X custom program. The result is up to 30 percent peak performance compared to previous generation Cortex A77 cores.