Middle class driving iPhone sales in emerging markets: Tim Cook

Tech News - Cook, under whom the California-based tech giant sold 61.2 million iPhones in January-March 2015, said emerging markets accounted for almost 40 percent of Apple's revenue for the second quarter.

  
Apple follows October-September period as fiscal year. On Monday, Apple had said that its net profit stood at USD 13.6 billion in the January-March quarter, while revenue was at USD 58 billion.
  
About 69 percent of the revenue came from international sales. Speaking at an investor call, Cook said "We also continue to see a reasonable percentage of first time buyers, particularly in some of the emerging markets.”

 "And if you look at emerging markets in general, revenue from emerging markets, just for the March quarter, was up 58 percent year on year. And a big piece of what is driving that is iPhone.
  
"Obviously, those results would have been higher without some of the FX (currency) headwinds..."
  
Apple chief further said: "And as I mentioned before, in emerging markets, we did extremely well. And so, I feel really good about where we are, and you can hopefully tell with the strong guidance that we provided, that we're very bullish on the current quarter as well."
  
Apple said 'swappers' -- who changed their last smartphone with an iPhone -- also contributed to the growth in iPhone sales.
  
To a separate query on iPhone purchases by the middle class in emerging markets, he said: "...And so as I look at that, without having market research data on the demographics that you are asking, it is clear to me that it has to come from the middle class.
  
"Because the upper income earners, there's only so many of those. And you cannot grow those kind of numbers without getting significantly into the middle class.

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Stream live video with new Twitter app

Tech News - Periscope would be competing with Meerkat - a similar app that came out a few weeks ago. Both apps are currently only available on the iPhone.

"I was watching a guy walking down the street in Paris and I was like, oh that's pretty cool. Look at the weather in Paris," CTV Ottawa quoted a female user as saying.

Many people wonder if Periscope will catch on in the long run. As what most people are streaming right now is "pretty boring".However, another user, a professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Business specialising in social media, felt the technology must be given some time.

He pointed out that other platforms, like YouTube, showed some pretty boring stuff at first. But then people started getting creative to attract more views.

"With this platform we may see something similar, creative livestreaming approaches that weren't possible before," the professor was quoted as saying.

Such new apps give people an opportunity to make more intimate connections. Family members, for example, can instantly share their vacations with people back home.

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A 'forced log out' for some Android users

The users who tried to logging into Twitter received an error message saying 'Some users are currently having trouble signing in to twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve this.  Moreover, the computer application, TweetDeck, was displaying tweets which were a year old.

TweetDeck users reported that all their tweets show as 365 days old. On social networking site Reddit, several users wrote that they could not log in and some thought that their account had been hacked. Only Apple iOS devices were working fine for logging into Twitter.

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iPhone to help you track your tweets

"You need to sign in to the Twitter analytics page with your account so that the company can start collecting the mobile analytics data," said Ian Chan, a software engineering manager at Twitter.

At the bottom of the tweet, you will see a link that says 'View Analytics Details'.

Now tap that link. In response, Twitter shows you the analytics for that specific tweet.

The total impressions displays the number of times people saw your tweet, while the total engagements reveals the number of people who actually retweeted or favorited your tweet.

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Apple likely to launch new devices in 2015: Report

As per reports, the company is planning to unveil new iPhone and iPad. The next Apple iPad, likely to be named iPad Pro or iPad Plus, features the 12.2-inch display with next generation A9 processor, according to a Japanese magazine.

Mac Fan, has published details of the rumoured 12.2-inch iPad Air Plus including its internal hardware and expected launch date.

The magazine reports that the tablet will be 305.31 x 220.8 x 7mm in size and come powered by a next-generation A9 processor. The report also says that the device sports four built in speakers for better sound quality.

Recently, Apple launched the thinnest model of iPad, Air 2 and the new iPad mini 3.

The iPad Air 2 is just 6.1 millimetre thin which is 18 percent less than the previous version and weighs only 437 grams. Customers will have the option to buy from six models of iPad Air 2, priced in the range of Rs 35,900 to Rs 59,900.

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