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Why doesn't Apple want to change their lighting port to USB type-C? Apple likes to control their entire product ecosystem. Part of this is financial: Apple gets about 30% of the profit on any item that goes onto an iPhone. That’s apps and media sold through the iTunes store, and its licensed hardware products. That 30% Royalty :- The Lightning Port is the means by which Apple enforces this for hardware products. There are patents that cover Lightning, and in order to legally sell a Lightning product, you have to pay Apple. There’s also a digital “tag” chip in a Lightning connector that tells iOS information about the device, so it knows what to do with that device. When you connect a device to a Lightning port, there’s a bit of power and a few signals used to identify the device. But aside from that, it does nothing. The ID chip describes the attached device, and enables the connections necessary (power, USB, etc) in order to support the attached device. So even something as simple

  1)WWDC 2020 is under way, moved on to iOS 14 updates. WWDC 2020 is under way, with Apple CEO Tim Cook touching upon the company's commitment to racial equality. A) we have now moved on to iOS 14. The first update in the list is App Library, which will automatically group together all your apps into folders, and put them together at the end of your primary home screen. You also get direct Spotlight search, which intuitively lets you search for which of the million apps you want to summon. B) The second update is Widgets, which get a redesign, and can also fit into the home screen. This comes in from Android, but Apple does one better by fitting the widgets intuitively into home screens. More details en route. The third update is picture in picture video, which now offers a floating video tab that lets you multi-task better. C)  you notification-like popups for weather results and search queries. It also intuitively opens up apps on top of other windows to make multitasking easier.

Talking exclusively about design, Samsung is light years ahead of Apple. Isn't this fact enough that the Galaxy Note 8 makes the iPhone 7 Plus look old and unattractive? Today,  Samsung is leading the world in not only one, but FOUR technology sectors ; those sectors are: TVs, batteries, chip design and smartphones. Also, for a company that: In 2014, its total revenue was $305 billion and it spent $14 billion alone in advertising and marketing of its products. As of 2014, it has 489,000 employees worldwide — more than the number of people Apple, Microsoft and Google hired, combined. 17% of South Korea’s GDP is from Samsung. Samsung holds a 22.4% share of the global smartphone market in 2015. They sold over 325 million smartphones in that same year, while Apple moved 231 million units. They spent $14.1 billion on research and development compared to Apple’s $6 billion. The system-on-a-chip of iPhone 4 series, iPhone 5 series and of some major iPad series was manufactured by Samsung.

Governments around the world continue to progress a crackdown on secure messaging, there has never been a better time to be a user of one of these platforms. Even as legislation progresses through U.S. Congress that threatens to undermine the security now in place, the messaging technologies themselves are becoming more useable and secure. And now millions of iPhone users sending secure messages over the leading third-party platforms—WhatsApp and Signal—are in for some great news. Two of the most glaring holes with the platforms are being plugged. The fine balance between usability and security has been the issue in both cases—but finally we have fixes being put into place. For WhatsApp, this addresses a worrying security vulnerability. But Signal’s update goes further, it could be a genuine game-changer, removing a serious inhibitor that has stopped millions from making it their go-to messenger. Last month, the news emerged that the latest WhatsApp beta would finally extend end-to-end