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Michael Gartenberg: '2018 is going to be a huge inflection point for the mobile world'

Michael Gartenberg: ‘2018 is going to be a huge inflection point for the mobile world’

“I believe that 2018 is going to be a huge inflection point for the mobile world,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “Everyone’s still looking at the app space and it’s still an important space. Watch, however, as competitors ratchet up the pressure on Apple and shift the conversation from devices to services. The biggest push will come from service vendors looking to co-opt the iOS platform.…

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Michael Gartenberg: iPhone X is the best smartphone you can buy today, and likely tomorrow; Apple is now a full generation ahead of their competitors

Michael Gartenberg: iPhone X is the best smartphone you can buy today, and likely tomorrow; Apple is now a full generation ahead of their competitors

“The iPhone X is simply the best iPhone ever made,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “The iPhone X is the best smartphone you can buy today, and likely tomorrow. Apple is now a full generation ahead of their competitors when it comes to every metric. The amount of technology the X puts in your pocket would be unheard of in 2007. Frankly, it would have been unheard of in 2016.”

“The…

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Michael Gartenberg: Oh no! My current iPhone might be 'good enough'

Michael Gartenberg: Oh no! My current iPhone might be ‘good enough’

“Widely believed to be coming in September, as it has in previous years, the next iPhone has been the subject of much speculation. It’s said to lack a headphone jack, have a capacitive Home button, and a new dual camera system on the Plus version,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “Dubious screenshots aside, I also expect there’ll be a new processor that’s wicked fast.”

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What it's like to be headhunted by Apple

What it’s like to be headhunted by Apple

“One tech industry analyst who was headhunted by the firm has revealed what it’s like to be wooed by the tech giant,” Sky News reports. “Michael Gartenberg was asked whether he was willing to relocate to Cupertino, California – without even being told what his role would be.”

“The process started when he was on a regular conference call with Apple to talk about sales and trends. At the…

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Michael Gartenberg: Where does Apple go from here?

Michael Gartenberg: Where does Apple go from here?

“Today Apple is valued as one of, if not the, most valuable companies in the world,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “And with good reason. I recently took Amtrak’s Acela Express train from New York to Boston and pretty much every person I saw was consulting some electronic oracle or another, all with fruit company logos on the back.”

“It is said that after conquering all the…

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Apple lives in a real world, not a virtual one

Apple lives in a real world, not a virtual one

“There are a few technologies that are always five years out. Things such as 100% perfect handwriting recognition… or a really good Star Trek game,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “They’re always coming but never quite here.”

“VR has been part of that club for the last thirty years,” Gartenberg writes. “When, and if Apple does bring a VR product to market it will look very…

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Tech industry analyst Michael Gartenberg leaves Gartner to join Apple

“Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple, has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple,” Connie Guglielmo reports for Forbes.

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For the last time. It's post PC not sans PC.

Michael Gartenberg in a sage tweet ridiculing the silly argument that the iPad is not a post-PC device because it must sync with iTunes on a PC