Sentences with phrase «just apples to apples»

Not exact matches

Though the 3 million jump in subscribers over a period of just a few months is notable, Apple Music hasn't gained enough traction to threaten streaming music leader Spotify — at least not yet.

Apple's new system, which requires users to plug in their iPhones with a Lightning cable to use, enables drivers to make calls, get directions, listen to music, send and receive text and email messages and a heck of a lot more «with just a word or a touch,» all in a way that allows you to stay focused on the road, Apple says.

Responding to Messages and Mail Apple Watch isn't just a one - way communication tool.

«I'm going to make the bet that Monday's action alone [in Apple] was very bullish in the context of a bad tape is a tell that Apple might just be defensive,» Worth said.

And to be sure, Apple CFO Luca Maestri later was asked about the goal and cited faster - growing sales in just one portion of the business: the App Store.

It's true, Apple wasn't first to launch a smart watch, but it has done something other companies have failed to do: make us realize just how useful a smart watch can be.

Apple will need game - changing hardware or software for its next iPad or it risks losing a large chunk of the tablet market to cheap — and just as capable — competition.

But Apple has often faced low expectations and managed to surpass them — in fact, it has a pattern of doing just that, and this quarter was no exception.

The New York AG says he's just trying to catch the bad actors on the site; Airbnb says there's no reason to subpoena data on 15,000 Airbnb users as a result of a few bad apples.

But with the new higher priced model, Apple can add a feature such as the bright 5.8 - inch OLED display just to that phone without needing 200 million display parts.

Not a musician, not a band (unless you consider him the front man for the band called Apple), just the guy who realized that even in a world of «free,» millions of people would pay for music if the service and player were easy to use, convenient, and extremely user - friendly.

Roku sees a healthy future for streaming boxes, even if the market is likely to shake out into just a few players — itself and Apple, Klarke says.

Maybe the answer to Apple's success and subsequent media coverage is, oh, I don't know, that the company has just managed to make good stuff that people want to buy?

For many critics, this ad just doesn't address the problems that HTC faces — how are they going to take on Apple and Samsung in a highly competitive smartphone market?

The picture quality is just as good as cable and browsing the channel guide on my TV is as easy as pressing the menu button on the Apple TV's remote and swiping my finger to run through the listings.

The New York Times even referred to it as «the next borough,» a nod to its proximity to the Big Apple and the Amtrak train that gets you from city to city in just over an hour — less than it takes some Brooklynites to make their way to Manhattan.

Just like Netflix or Hulu, you watch via an app on a Roku, Amazon Fire, or Apple TV, which I'm using, connected to your TV set.

But just a few years ago, the Olympic medalist was struggling to make ends meet, and resorted to swiping apples from his gym to save money.

Drilling into the full report, we see that Apple did manage to score an «excellent» in ease of use — although just barely.

The point is, it doesn't matter if it's Apple or Google — it's wrong to disparage a company just because it thought of a better way to do something that somebody else did before.

Just as important, Walmart's move will give customers access to a payment method that they are increasingly calling for, despite not being able to use Apple (AAPL) Pay, Google Wallet, or Samsung Pay at the retailer's stores.

If I get lucky enough that if and when he leaves Apple, you just want to give him money.

Apple Watch shipments hovered at just 1.1 million units in the third quarter, compared to 3.9 million in the same period last year.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook also sent a letter to employees Monday morning, making clear the company's hardline stance refusing to make software to unlock the phone addresses broader issues, not just a single device linked to a grisly attack.

... While Google and Facebook have yet to drive significant revenue outside their core businesses, and Apple is only just beginning to, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has managed to create business after business that is profitable, or at least not a drag on the bottom line.»

We're just asking Apple to do three things, and just for this phone:

Apple appears to realize just how much is on the line.

It's always easy to find companies getting rid of workers and just as easy to find those announcing major hiring plans, as Apple (aapl) and JPMorgan Chase (jpm) did in January.

Ahead of the stock's 20 - percent drop that started in December, 41 analysts recommended buying Apple shares while just one recommended selling, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Executives at the event also touted Spotify's early entrance to the smart speaker market on Amazon's Echo devices (Apple's version was just recently released).

In 1997, Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple, the company he had been ousted from over a decade before.

For both Apple and Google, the fight for dashboards is more than just part of their broader turf war to bring consumers into their respective ecosystems.

And yet, despite Apple's massive hype, demand just wasn't there, and the company had to walk away.

Finland's Nokia launched a new brand - licensed tablet computer on Tuesday which is designed to rival Apple's iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft for over $ 7 billion.

«It takes just 30 cents a day to keep someone alive,» says Dugan, who also joined the conversation at Apple's headquarters.

I'm in the process of testing some smart TVs — the kind that connect to the internet and run various apps, such as YouTube and Netflix — which is funny because I just finished reviewing a bunch of media streaming devices, including the Roku XS and Apple TV.

You can't see the download counts in real time, because Apple doesn't expose that, but you can see the people that are signing on to the network, and it was just unbelievable.

It's uncommon for the notoriously secretive Apple to reveal product details ahead of a launch, but that might have just happened.

If you want to see an early warning sign of the trend, consider that Apple's just reported iPhone 7 sales declined and, while Tim Cook blames it on the advent of the iPhone 8, that seems to me to be only a modest part of the explanation.

Shipping estimates for new orders placed on Apple's online store have now improved to just one to two weeks.

It was really funny because when I talked to these guys at Apple, I told them we just can't get people on fast enough, and they're like well join the club: we can't make iPads fast enough.

That's just a really tough hurdle to overcome,» he said, citing less demand for Apple's iPhone, which would theoretically threaten semi stocks» performance.

Though Apple had just released its fifth - generation iPod, the Zune offered some unique features: a built - in FM radio receiver, and a Wi - Fi connection that meant Zune users could swap tunes with one other (unofficially dubbed «squirting» to the delight of reviewers).

Though Mac sales don't mean as much to the company as they once did — in Apple's most recent fiscal quarter, the product line represented just 8 % of overall revenue — a switch to home - brewed chips sends several clear messages.

Just like Netflix (nflx) or Hulu, you watch via an app on a Roku, Amazon Fire, or Apple TV, which I'm using, connected to your TV set.

«Over multiple discussions, Steve later convinced us that he understood our vision, that he wouldn't just make Siri a tiny feature but something core to Apple's strategy across multiple devices, and that we could impact the world more as part of Apple than as an independent company,» says Cheyer.

The Apple Watch, released for sale in April, has just contributed its first quarter's worth of sales to Apple's bottom line.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

Steve Jobs is famously quoted for having said that he was just as proud of the things Apple didn't do, and «innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.»

This led to «good» sites having to resort to black hat measures in order to compete in the rankings, or had them taking a bite from the apple just to get an edge up on their natural competition.