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It was bound to happen eventually, despite Apple’s historically dominant streak. This week, the tech giant registered its first ever decrease in iPhone sales, with the total volume of iPhone shipments falling 16 percent to 51.2 million units. That figure is clearly not as good as the 61.1 million units of iPhone devices that Apple shipped during the first quarter of last year, but right around the 51 million units projected by most industry watchers for the months spanning January to March of this year.
The first three months of 2016 was not so good to Microsoft’s mobile business. Well, nobody actually expected the company to do well, but even then, the first quarter of the year has been dismal to software giant’s mobile hopes. Based on the latest quarterly report released by Microsoft, it registered a drop in mobile revenues of 46 percent.
Based on information collected from a sample of 53,000 American users, it appears that more and more people in the United States are ditching their regular wired web access (via home Internet) for mobile data, preferring to browse the information superhighway using their smartphones and tablet devices instead of desktop computers, as reported by the Washington Post.
Earlier this month, popular chat messaging mobile App WhatsApp has announced that it was encrypting every message sent by its more than a billion users. Well now, another major messaging platform is following in WhatsApp’s footsteps in going for total encryption.
Now that other potential bidders are taking themselves out of contention, it appears that Verizon Wireless has become the most likely to purchase Yahoo’s mobile business. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the biggest wireless carrier in the United States was one of several business entities looking to submit a preliminary bid this Monday.
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