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China Leads the Pack in Preference For iPhone 5s Over 5c
iFixIt Apple A7 Processor Teardown
iOS 7 Trounces Samsung's Version Of Android In User Experience Rating
What The Latest iPhones Tell Us About The Next iPads
Apple Experimenting With Multitouch Swipe Gestures For Keyboard In iOS
Free Vinny 2.0 App Launches and Reveals Actual Dealer Value for Top Used Cars as Car-Buying Season Gets into Full Swing
China Leads the Pack in Preference For iPhone 5s Over 5c
Web Analytics and marketing platform Localytics' Bernd Leger reports that after some pretty extensive analysis of the iPhone 5s versus 5c within the first 48 hours after launch that Localytics reported Monday, they wanted to drill a bit further into the global distribution of the new iPhones looking at new data after 72 hours post launch.
Perhaps surprising was that of the eight countries where the most iPhone 5s or 5cs were sold, the highest ratio of preference for the 5s wasn't in the United States or Japan; leading the pack is actually China.
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http://bit.ly/1bD919Q
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iFixIt Apple A7 Processor Teardown
iFixIt's Miro notes that last week, while they were disassembling the iPhone 5s into pieces, Chipworks was able to confirm that the manufacturer of Apple's A7 processor was indeed Samsung. Not being content with their discovery, they delved into the A7 some more this time by bringing out the big guns, in the form of an electron microscope.
Some tidbits regarding the A7's cross-section:
Every little hump (through which you see that yellow line) is a transistor. By measuring the total distance between ten of these transistors, we can estimate a chip's manufacturing process essentially how tightly the manufacturer can pack in all that processing power.
Turns out that the A7's "gate pitch" the distance between each transistor is 114 nm, compared to the A6's 123 nm. Big whoop, you say?
Those 9 nm are a big deal. It turns out that the A7 is made with the same 28 nm process as the eight-core Samsung Exynos 5410, the current flagship CPU for Samsung's own Galaxy line.
"So what does that translate to?" Miro asks. Applying some mathematrickery, this seemingly small change equates to having the same computing power, but in 77% of the original area. And given that the A7 processor is even larger in area than the A6, that means even more processing power to lead a healthy, smartphone-laden lifestyle."
You can check it out at:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+A7+Teardown/17682/1
iOS 7 Trounces Samsung's Version Of Android In User Experience Rating
The Register's Rik Myslewski reports that on the heels of the release of Apple's iOS 7, the researchers at Pfeiffer Consulting, a firm whose tagline is "Quantifying the Intangible," sought to answer one simple question: "How good is it really?"
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/1bEoSF6
You can download a PDF of the Pfeiffer Consulting report here:
http://goo.gl/rZtb3s
What The Latest iPhones Tell Us About The Next iPads
CNET's Scott Stein notes that we know there will be new iPads released very soon, and that while drawing a connection between two different product lines doesn't always work, this latest batch of iPhones does seem to suggest a few possible iPad trends.
For example, Stein expects A6 silicon for the iPad mini, A7X for the 'iPad 5' with 64-bit computing and a Touch ID fingerprint sensor surface on the 5 serving as product differentiators.
Another possibility could be a free iWork suite of apps for iPad as were announced during the September iPhone event.
As for a gold iPad, Stein figures that considering what a big deal the gold iPhone became and and how new colors made the iPhone 5c feel new, it seems like at least a new iPad shade or two could appear this year.
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http://cnet.co/19x9XaY
Apple Experimenting With Multitouch Swipe Gestures For Keyboard In iOS
Appleinsider's Mikey Campbell says:
Since iOS debuted in 2007 with the iPhone, Apple has been reluctant to incorporate specialized gestures for the platform's virtual keyboard, but a newly awarded patent reveals such functionality may be incorporated in a future version of the operating system.
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/18mJBZ7
Free Vinny 2.0 App Launches and Reveals Actual Dealer Value for Top Used Cars as Car-Buying Season Gets into Full Swing
Vinny helps consumers negotiate a better deal when buying or selling used cars by analyzing big data to calculate fair market value based on wholesale auction pricing.
Vinny, which claims to be the fastest way to find out any used car's fair market price, has announced the launch of its new Vinny 2.0 mobile app, now available for free download on the App Store and Google Play. Vinny 2.0 is a new consumer ally to help negotiate car purchases as the market heats up with a recent U.S. car sales surge not seen since before the financial crisis and a busier fall car-buying season.
Vinny puts the power of big data in the hands of consumers for the first time to help level the playing field for buying or selling used cars. With one quick scan of a cars VIN barcode, Vinny calculates a precise wholesale auction value of that used car in seconds by cross-comparing data on recent comparable sales to help consumers negotiate a better deal. The Vinny price reveals the gap between retail asking price and the average wholesale price for the same used car at dealer auctions.
Based on Vinny's big data analysis, the average gap between car dealers asking price and wholesale auction pricing for the top 10 most popular used cars scanned by Vinny in the U.S. from Memorial Day through Labor Day is $3,386. The Vinny-calculated negotiation pricing gap for the top 10 cars scanned are included in the data table, below. According to the National Automobile Dealers Associations latest annual report released on July 1, U.S. dealers average pre-tax profit rose six percent in 2012.
Vinny is powered by a sophisticated analytics platform invented by its founders, who formerly designed electronic platforms for financial trading. The free Vinny app immediately calculates a wholesale auction price based on a used cars make, model, age and other factors. It calculates these values in seconds analyzing high volumes of timely sales transaction data across the country from both public and private sources, saving consumers hours of manual research. Consumers spend an average of 18-19 hours researching new and used car vehicle purchases, according to a survey by Polk and Autotrader.com.
"Using Vinny is like having a close, personal friend in the used car business who happens to be a big data genius to give you free, trusted car advice anytime you need it," says Marvin Chase, CTO at Vinny. "We designed Vinny as an independent source thats not incented to sell cars. We use private and public car auction data and apply complex mathematical algorithms based on millions of actual transactions. The Vinny Price is more timely and accurate than any other resource available to consumers today."
Mind the Used Car Pricing Gap with Vinny 2.0
Based on more than 87,000 Vinny scans across the country between Labor Day and Memorial Day 2013, here are the top ten most popular used cars with the corresponding negotiation pricing gaps between the average wholesale dealer auction price and the Kelley Blue Book price for comparable vehicles1:
"More than half of consumers hate negotiating for used cars, and they're at a real disadvantage when they don't know a vehicles actual fair market value based on the average wholesale auction price. Its also a lengthy process with the average car buyer spending more than 18 hours researching choices to make a purchase decision," says Alex Kiss, CEO of Vinny. "With Vinny 2.0, consumers can rely on us as a trusted source to negotiate more efficiently and with confidence."
The Vinny 2.0 app includes a number of features to improve how consumers buy and sell used cars:
• In-app calculator to estimate car payments using Vinny price, down payment and financing
• Automatically map a used car scan onto Google or Apple Maps and leave notes for later reference
• Option to purchase full vehicle history report for $4.99 (compared to reports costing up to $40)
• My vehicle designation: a new feature in the Vinny Garage to tag owned versus desired cars
• Cached data so vehicle specifications and notes are accessible even if mobile device is offline
• Ability to create a myvinny.com account directly from Android and iOS apps
• Auto linking of mobile searches to website account to access scans from home or office PCs
To download the free Vinny 2.0 app, please visit Google Play or the iTunes app store.
For more information on Vinny, visit:
http://www.myvinny.com
Note:
1 Prices shown are averaged across multiple styles of the same vehicle manufacturer, model and model year to provide aggregated totals. For vehicles with large price variance between styles, this may result in some price degradation. Average recorded mileage and condition values of actual scans are assumed for these calculations.
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