Apple is now has the third biggest chunk of market share in the US PC market,MacRumors reports. Research firms Gartner and IDC released personal computer data for the quarter today that puts Apple up from fifth place last quarter to third this quarter with a 10.7% share. The company is only beaten by HP with 26.9% and Dell with 22.6%. It was only years ago when tech pundits doubted the company would ever be relevant again (as the less informed continue to do today)....

Apple is screwing you by making third-party repairs hard and expensive Impact on users With the iPhone 12 — the latest iPhone offering — Apple hasmade it even harderfor third-party repairers to fix the device, thereby increasing users’ reliance on its own services. Apple has hiked itsrepair chargesfor iPhone 12 by more than 40%, compared with the iPhone 11. It ischargingmore than A$359 to fix an iPhone 12 screen outside of warranty and A$109 to replace the battery....

Apple is still selling its Intel MacBook Pro and Mac Mini — here’s why In short: the M1 chip isn’t good enough yet Why hasn’t Apple discontinued the Intel MacBook Pro and Mac Mini? It’s all down to the current limitations of the M1 chip. If you go on Apple’s site and try to configure a new MacBook Pro or Mac Mini, you’ll notice this: Yep, you’re reading that correctly. The maximum amount of RAM available on the new M1 MacBook Pro is 16GB....

Despite Apple’s impact on the mobile industry over the past four years, it had yet to clinch the number one spot as the top smartphone vendor, that honour resting with Nokia despite its troubles. Now, as research and consulting firm Strategy Analyticsnotes, that’s all changed. Wepreviously reportedApple’s sales dominance over Nokia for Q2 of this year, and now taking Samsung’s results for the quarter into consideration, Nokia has dropped from the top to third place for units sold and market share....

When the App Store was released back in 2008, it completely revolutionized the ecosystem for app discovery and distribution. There have been a lot of effort both from the company and third-party developers to develop a mutual collaboration. In a seemingly step backwards, Apple is further tightening its control of the App Store. Recently, an e-book app, Sony Reader wasrejectedby the iOS App Store which is surprising because there are other ebook reader apps such as Amazon’s Kindle that are still available....