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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and co-founder of Facebook Inc (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty. And with a commitment to connecting the world, a Facebook smartphone in BRIC countries might be the last chance for a new player to stake a significant claim. While it might be little more Skunkworks than the Pixel and far less mainstream than the iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg has one of the few companies that could make a genuine difference to the mainstream view of smartphones. Like Apple and Google, it has the financial muscle to commit to a smartphone. I think Cnet’s assumption that Facebook is working on a mobile project is just as interesting as the Pixel. If that's the case, Apple's future competition will not come from the high-volume low-margin manufacturers, but the companies with excess revenue to spend on smartphones. By controlling the financial resources available, Apple can spend far more on R&D, take years to work on technology, and deliver a more advanced solution.

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Google's Android platform may command a much larger share of the market in terms of units, but Apple's domination of the revenue and profits in the ecosystem offers it an effective weapon to slow down the opposition and create a better mobile platform. Where Is Apple's Competition Coming From? Then again the iPhone SE retains one potentially major advantage over its more expensive stablemate: it retains the 3.5mm headphone jack which the iPhone 7 controversially removed. It’s not as powerful as dual front firing speakers, but it’s the easily the best external audio an iPhone has ever had. This is a clever addition with Apple amplifying the earpiece to make it work as a second speaker. But it does come with a hidden bonus: dual stereo external speakers. the iPhone 7, while still relatively small by today’s phone standards, is more hazardous due to its curved edges and slippery finish. The smaller handset offered similar specs to the 6S in the footprint of the 5S.

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It is stronger than the iPhone 6 (which is prone to bending) thanks to its use of Series 7000 aluminium, it is water resistant and able to survive for 30 minutes fully submersed, and the home button is now fixed (disguised through clever use of haptic feedback) which removes a notorious point of failure.

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The good news is iPhone 7 design improvements are more than skin deep. First up is the iPhone 6, what does the iPhone 7 offer over the 6?: What are the differences, and which should you consider? Gordon Kelly is back to compare the latest iPhone to the historical competition.

On one hand you have the brand new iPhone 7, on the other the newly refurbished and fully warrantied iPhones in the Store. They could be stripped for parts or to recycle the materials (and Apple has a robot to do just that), but there’s a bigger return by selling these units back to customers with a discount on the list price by around eighty to a hundred dollars, there’s another chance to create a special relationship with a customer, and there’s another chance to bring more users into Apple’s ecosystem. I would presume that the first wave of users have now traded in for the iPhone 7, leaving Apple with a rather large number of older handsets that can be reconditioned and put back on sale as returned and refurbished stock. After one year they are presented with the option to extend the payments for a further twelve months and trade in their handset for the latest device. This program started last year and allowed consumers to buy a new iPhone with twenty-four monthly payments.

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If you want a discounted handset from Apple, here's your chance. But where has Apple found all of these units? It's all part of strategy that the public saw just over a year ago - the iPhone Upgrade Program: One quiet addition to the online Apple Store caught the attention of many this week, and that was the appearance of the iPhone in the 'refurbished' section of the online store. The only laptop coming close? The twelve-inch MacBook was marginally ahead but it has nineteen months of sales to try to hold back the five-day run on the new Pro. The numbers are backed up by Apple’s reports of record online sales and supply chain reports of increased component orders The data comes from Slice Intelligence, who can survey a panel of 4.4 million online shoppers on their purchasing habits and digital receipts. The MacBook Pro has sold almost four times as many units as Microsoft’s Surface Book, nine times as many units as the Asus Chromebook Flip, and ten times the Lenovo Yoga 900.