Apple eyes Rs 1,000 crore from iPhone 5S sales in India in Q3

In India to make the IPhone 5s the most booming Smartphone announced in the country, Apple has targeted to cross the sales of 1000 crore. The company chief aim is to double the sales of the iPhone 5 in the year and to reckon Apple by gaining the second largest Smartphone vendor in India by value after Samsung.

 The currently the handset cost of Smartphone in India is about 16 GB is for Rs. 53500, 32 GB is for Rs. 62,500 and 64 GB is for the Rs 71,500, Apple wishes the 6 lakh users to come up with the new model.

Apple With merchants like Redington, Ingram Micro , partner reliance communication BSE and Bharti Airtel BSE , Apple has announced it’s the largest advertising campaign ever in India , at an estimated cost around 25 crore for the iPhone 5s and 5c.

In India, according to three senior executive at Apple trade, till the November 1 after the launch the apple has decided to meet the target by selling the 2 lakh new phones and has sought the fresh supplies of the 5s. One of the cited said, Apple knows that the iPhone 5s has become the instant hit.

The cost of iPhone 5c, with the plastic body price for 16GB model is 41,900 and Rs 53,500 for the 32GB one. The California based company wants to grow the market share in India, by targeting to achieve the world biggest market for mobile phones after china, which is neglecting about a year ago when they started trying to push the phone with installments and other programmed.

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Free iWork upgrade angers Mac users

The free upgrade of Apple iWork has frustrated the longtime Mac power users, who had caused the complaints about the lost features of the company support forum.

One user called apple “Serial software killers” whereas others get together to list the features apple fell down in pages, the word processing application and the most widespread of the trio that makes up the iWork suite.

According to the last week upgrade: endnotes, the outline sketch view, selection of text, facing pages , able to save files in RTF format, important limits to automate the work move using an apple script and more than 100 templates ready to use.

Two relevant loop threads on the Apple support forum – here and here – together for nearly 900 comments and it was reviewed by the almost 50,000 times , and it’s been the illustration that how the update has been affected . Many of the users commented on the thread and said that is there anything cool to say about the apple’s move.

Previous Week, apple had launched the latest version of iWork for OSX and declared that three of the applications would be given free of cost to the purchasers of new Macs.

The users who had purchased previously pages, numbers or keynote will receive the free upgrades.

In 2009 apple has done the last major upgrade for OSX’s iWork.

On Sept.10 the move followed the similar declaration, when apples said they are giving the iOS iWork apps to users who purchase a latest iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Bloggers and Pundits also considered in on the move, speculating Apple’s prime aim is to make the iOS and OS X edition file- and feature- user friendly, a decision is taken to scale back the features of desktop applications’ feature sets.

Nigel Warren said, an experience designer “iWork on the mac has lost the functionality is not because apple is blind to power users. It’s because they’re expecting to do the short term sacrifice in functionality so that they can create a foundation that is equal across the Mac, iOS, and Web versions,”. But that clarification didn't sit well with users.

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iOS Fastest Growing Mobile Operating System in 2013

According to web index In the 2013 Apple is one of the fastest developing mobile operating system with iPhone consumer grows from 14 percent of worldwide market share in 2013 Q1 to 19 percent in Q3.

According to research it’s predicted that 89 percent of the Global Internet population, consumers are using the iPhone and which is expected to grow to 233 million this year, along with iPad users estimated at 165.72 million. IOS is the fastest growing mobile operative system, but android is still overwhelming the market with the 57 percent of shares. 

Global Web index predicts that android users are around 708 million this year. By the 2015 research institute also recommends that Android may be the World’s number one mobile operating system.

By this year it is estimated that there are 68 million users were for window phone is exceeding BlackBerry at 62.56 million. 

Turning to PCs, the research team observes the estimated user of the window7 operating system is around 734.12 million users, but the window8 operating system users are only 168.11 million. 

The research team states that the reckon figure of the Apple MAC user in this year is will be around 47.78 million.

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Oracle buys sales order automation specialist BigMachines

Oracle is suspecting to differentiate its CRM (Customer relationship management) software from the competition with the attainment of big machines whose cloud based system help to maintain the sales and price records orders together.

 On Wednesday terms of the deal has not disclosed. It is expected to close by this year.

According to news big machines software will get united with the Oracle products for marketing purpose, sales, customer service and e-commerce.

According to Oracle statement, the around 275 companies including Coca-Cola, ADP and Siemens is using the Big Machine software. 

They have products for both small and large industries.

On the document it is released that the lower end product, big machine express, is built on the salesforce.com, but the flagship is built on the Oracle and Java.

Big machines have combined the products with SAP, Microsoft applications and salesforce.com.

According to the FAQ document on the acquisition Oracle sustain to continue to invest with the third party sales force automation systems for development and to support the existing integration.

As per the FAQ, Oracle is purchasing the big machine to increase the sales cloud functionality more quickly, as cloud based CPQ (configure, price, quote) software was already there. Selectica and cameleon software is the bigmachine competitors.

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Apple cuts prices on Macs, takes a jab at PCs

On Tuesday Apple had released the Latest Version of the MacBook Pro Laptops, but after taking the jab at PC makers.

The 13 inch screen on MacBook pro with Retina display starts at $1299 which cheaper than the previous model at $ 200. The 15 inch model price starts from the $1999 but the previous laptop was $ 2199.

The company has also launched the new model Mac Pro desktop which starts at $ 2999. The high end workstation is with the storage, memory and the features of graphics with unique cylinder design.

Tim cook said at the event in San Francisco that we have worked hard for on the Mac and Apple growth is being achieved through the tablets and Smartphones.

Cook said for Jab at PC makers are confused between laptops and tablets. They changed the tablets into PCs and PCs into tablets.

The MacBook pro has the retina display, starting at 3.46 pounds with just the thickness of 0.75 inches. The latest MacBook has the few latest technologies including the wireless 802.11ac and thunderbolt 2, which support to 4k displays.

The laptop has also the feature to include the Intel chips based on “Haswell” micro architecture, as well as the faster flash storing. The chips have the graphic processor names Iris, which makes the graphics 90 percent faster on previous laptops said Phil Schiller, senior vice president of international marketing.

The 13 inches MacBook Pro has the Retina display with nine hours of battery life.

 The $1,299 price includes the configuration of dual core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128 GB of data storage. The laptop cost is at $1499 with 265GB SSD storage and 8GB of RAM.

The 15 inch MacBook Pro has the eight hour battery life. This includes the quad core i5 processor and 2.0HZ, 8GB Ram and SSD of 256 GB. The price can increase to $2599 with quad core i7 chip with 16GB memory separate Nvidia graphics processor and SD of 512 GB. Users can increase it to 1TB.

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iOS 7's HTML5 is full of bugs

Apple iOS 7 is afflicted with HTML5 faults are related to the web SQL database, home screen widgets movements and animations. An HTML5 developer Maximiliano Firtman and the popular author of programming books has discussed about these bugs in his blogs. The founder of web development Michael Mullany, and vendor Sencha has affirmed Firtman that there is problem in apple HTML5 execution.

There are a number of bugs and broken features found in the SVG and JavaScript which is clearly shown that this release as a beta. 

Normally, we are very excited about the latest release of iOS but the first time ever we are highly disappointed by the implementation of iOS software.

After this bugs and broken features it clearly mark the statement as a beta while nowhere as bad as the Android 3 –All the time of broken web releases – we endorses that organization standardized on HTML5 development hold off the upgradation until an IOS fix with these disputes.

Firtman says: that this bug is reported from the developers end and it might take the three month to resolve it.

Firtman has discussed this Web SQL permissions is not working correctly while he trying to expand the database size more than 5 MB. Once we compared to the previous version, the limit was 500MB. 

Another issue with that the Firtman discussed is to save the home screen icons of web pages so that use can use it easily as if it’s the app. The portion after the domain name is unnoticed in the web address URI, the web app cannot invoke any function Once the URI opened.

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