Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts
Apple announced the Watch with much fun fare and as an apple user you may be quite excited to get your hands-on and try this device. You may be a die hard fan of Apple products and may be you are planning to buy the apple watch. But the Watch launched as a premium product rather than a consumer product. And likewise you know just like the "cheapest" iPhone 5c the Watch is also costly. So in this post I decided to tell you guys whether you should buy the Apple Watch or just be satisfied with the "Quartz" watch you have.
Apple always stays ahead of the other companies by offering premium crafted devices which both perform great and look great. Apple has also done this with Watch by crafting its screen in sapphire and offering different versions like Sport, Edition for different sets of people. Watch is customisable with different colour bands making it even more beautiful for different occasions. But the main problem lies in the pricing of the Watch which starts from at a lower price and goes all the way up to $10000.
As shown in the above picture, the expected price of watch in India is around Rs.25000 which is mentioned in the website of www.mysmartprice.com. So anyone living in India can opt for other options like the Moto 360 or the other android smartwatches if they find the Apple Watch expensive. The Android smartwatches are way more cheap and offers great functionality combined with the sweet ui of lollipop. And to add to that you could just hack into your Android Wear to work it with the iPhone.
I am pretty sure you wont hack into an Apple Watch as it is more secure and anyways who wants to hack a $10000 watch? So this is the conclusion part - If you own an android phone and want a compatible watch buy watches powered with Android and if you own a iPhone and a die hard fan of Apple products and if you can shell out thousand dollars for a premium watch opt for the Apple Watch.
If you ask me what I would do I will neither buy the Android smartwatches nor the Apple Watch. The evolution of smartwatches have just begun and I will wait for a year for the smartwatches to become more "smart".
So did you like the post? Want to share with us your thoughts? Tell us in the comments below.
Apple Inc AAPL.O has begun keeping the personal data of some Chinese users on servers in mainland China, marking the first time the tech giant is storing user data on Chinese soil.
The storage of user data in China represents a departure from the policies of some technology companies, notably Google Inc GOOGL.O, which has long refused to build data centres in China due to censorship and privacy concerns.
Apple said the move was part of an effort to improve the speed and reliability of its iCloud service, which lets users store pictures, e-mail and other data. Positioning data centres as close to customers as possible means faster service.
The data will be kept on servers provided by China Telecom Corp Ltd 0728.HK, the country's third-largest wireless carrier, Apple said in a statement on Friday.
"Apple takes user security and privacy very seriously," it said. "We have added China Telecom to our list of data centre providers to increase bandwidth and improve performance for our customers in mainland china. All data stored with our providers is encrypted. China Telecom does not have access to the content."
A source with knowledge of the situation said the encryption keys for Apple's data on China Telecom servers would be stored offshore and not made available to China Telecom.
Apple has said it has devised encryption systems for services such as iMessage that even Apple itself cannot unlock. But some experts expressed scepticism that Apple would be able to withhold user data in the event of a government request.
"If they're making out that the data is protected and secure that's a little disingenuous because if they want to operate a business here, that'd have to comply with demands from the authorities," said Jeremy Goldkorn, director of Danwei.com, a research firm focused on Chinese media, internet and consumers.
"On the other hand if they don't store Chinese user data on a Chinese server they're basically risking a crackdown from the authorities."
Goldkorn added that data stored in the United States is subject to similar U.S. regulations where the government can use court orders to demand private data.
A spokesman for China Telecom declined to comment.
GOOGLE, MICROSOFT
With its rising middle class, China has become an increasingly important market for Apple. Sales of the iPhone rose almost 50 percent in China in the three months ended June and salvaged an otherwise lackluster quarter for the Cupertino company.
Other companies have opted not to situate servers in China, where they would have to comply with local laws.
Google publicly abandoned China in 2010 and moved its services, including its search engine, to Hong Kong-based servers after refusing to comply with Chinese government censorship. Microsoft Corp MSFT.O also does not have servers for its email service in China.
Yahoo Inc YHOO.O came under criticism in 2005 after it handed to Chinese authorities emails that led to the imprisonment of Shi Tao, a journalist who obtained and leaked an internal censorship order the government had sent Chinese media.
"China doesn't want any digital service offered to Chinese people to be hosted offshore," said Goldkorn. "I suppose it was inevitable that Apple had to comply if they were using foreign servers for Chinese user data."
In July, Apple's iPhone was branded a danger to China's national security by state media, because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations. Apple denied tracking user locations.
Apple has frequently come under fire from Chinese state media, which accused the company of providing user data to U.S. intelligence agencies and have called for 'severe punishment'.
The U.S. company has strongly denied working with any government agencies to create back doors into its products or servers. "We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will," Apple has previously stated.
News of the China Telecom deal emerged Thursday after a local government website in the southeastern province of Fujian announced that iCloud had migrated to China Telecom's servers after 15 months of rigorous testing and review. The website article is no longer available on the site.
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