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#Apple spending up to $45m to build Beijing research centre. Buying friends for doing business in China isn’t cheap. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160929PD204.html
A true #Skype phone is finally here. Just need #iOS10. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/28/skype-for-ios-siri-and-callkit-support/
#iOS10 on 34% of devices is not bad after just a week. https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_10/from_date:-7,report_unit:week,to_date:0
Get ready for millions of #Swift programmers within a few years. Coding is fun with #SwiftPlaygrounds on #iPads. http://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
#Apple is good at winning quietly. You think it is just a stickers store like #Line, it is a full e-commerce platform with social network.
#Apple makes it seem so easy to just start #iMessage store and have hundreds of apps in there already. They have a 13m developers ecosystem.
#Line, #Whatsapp and #Messenger might still think that #iMessage is not a threat as it is #iOS “only”. It has 1 billion rich active users.
Is it the year of #AI chatbots like what #Facebook and #Google are pushing for? Or iMessage store in #iOS10? http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12900672/app-imessage-app-store-stickers-apps-features
#iPhone users don’t care much about exact capacity of batteries or RAM. They just know it lasts longer and faster. http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12886058/iphone-7-specs-competition
#Wired said wireless is the future. 🙂 http://www.wired.com/2016/06/cares-apples-ditches-headphone-jack-wireless-future/
#Apple dropped price of #iPadPro, I already have 12.9 inch iPad Pro, so I will wait until next one with #3DTouch. http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/09/08/apple-slashes-the-price-of-the-ipad-pro/
#Apple to add collaborative features into #iWork, still got a lot of work to do to catch up with #Office365. Enterprise focused #iCloud?