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It only took Samsung three years to produce a phone worthy of competing with the de facto smartphone at the time: the iPhone 3G. In 2010, Samsung released the Samsung Galaxy S to much fanfare, with specifications worthy of competing with Apple’s iPhone toe to toe. For a couple years, everything at Samsung’s mobile division […]

When Apple gave their keynote for the annual iPad event a couple weeks back, it only took them two minutes to introduce the new iPad mini 3, explain its features, and then transition on to their next point. Two minutes. By comparison, the iPad Air 2 (which many argued – and I agree – is the only new iPad from […]

Hot Off The Heels Of The iPhone 6 Announcements… Apple is set to unveil their latest offering of tablets, the iPad Air 2 (or iPad 6, if you will) as well as the iPad mini 3 (we haven’t heard much about the name internally), little more than a week from today in an event (Re/code reported the date to be […]

With just an hour or two to go before Apple executives take the stage to unveil their latest offerings to the world, I’ve managed to secure confirmation for the information published herein from various sources within and across Apple (they’ve all been asked to screen the report below for any inaccuracies and those that were […]

Several news outlet have begun re-reporting Trendforce LEDinside’s analyst report that Apple’s iPhone 6 display, slated for launch in late 2014, will not be made out of sapphire glass as previously reported and shown due to the disappointingly low yields during the production of the glass. While that reasoning might make sense in theory (it is, after all, quite difficult […]

Significance In many ways, Apple’s WWDC keynote yesterday was their most important one in years. They improved on just about every single feature imaginable on OS X and iOS, in addition to adding more features – some of which weren’t expecting. But true to its namesake, WWDC is a conference for developers… not the regular people. Which […]

The next Google Nexus phone will not be named the Nexus 6, The Michael Report has learned exclusively based on information given by sources within Google. For every year that Google has released a Nexus phone, it usually comes with a corresponding number, officially or unofficially (for example, the Nexus 2 and 3 devices were not known […]

It’s human. If there’s one way I can summarize why Apple’s pre-holiday “Misunderstood” ad got such a huge reaction, it’s probably that. It’s human. It connects with the audience at a level that most advertising companies can’t seem to nail, even those who have been in the industry for decades. The narrative plot for the […]

In 2011, Michael Arrington was fired — very publicly and unceremoniously — from the blog he single-handedly founded, Silicon Valley’s indispensable daily news site TechCrunch. While the reason behind the eventual ousting varied from a power struggle between Ariana Huffington to a disagreement of the acquisition agreement signed with AOL, the underlying reason of why he was dismissed alludes […]

I’ve been thinking a whole lot lately about the pricing model Jessica Lessin and her team decided to go with for their latest premium tech site, The Information. And here’s what I’ve concluded: if you mind the price, or even think that it’s remotely expensive, then they don’t want you. They don’t want you to subscribe […]