Gold-plated Apple Watch gets design patent

Tech News - The solid gold Watch Edition is the 18-Carat yellow or rose gold Apple Watch, which will cost at USD 13,000 in Canada. It also costs over some brand new cars.

Getting a design patent is an important step in protecting an invention. Apple's newly delivered patent means other companies cannot copy the design of its wearable. The Apple Watch's design is now officially protected by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The design patent filing provides precious little information but includes several sketches showing the device from all angles, including from the top, side and underneath the face where the sensor and charging apparatus sit.

It doesn't, however, prevent other companies from delivering products that are similar but not identical in design. Competitors include a range of new or updated smartwatches from companies like Sony, Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, LG and Pebble. The Apple Watch's health-tracking capabilities also mean that consumers will be weighing it against fitness bands from the likes of Fitbit and Microsoft.

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Apple watch defect: Users claim tattoos interfere in functioning of device

Tech News - Irked Apple fans have dubbed the issue "TattooGate" on Twitter, complaining they must choose between their body art and their stylish gadget. Apple, for its part, acknowledged the issue on its support website.

"Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance," the site reads. "The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings."

Several watch owners complained about the problem on social media this week, even posting videos that show the watch working well on an undecorated wrist, but repeatedly locking or pausing when worn on an arm with a tattoo. Some said it appeared the watch's screen-lock feature was triggering because the sensors thought the watch was not sitting on their wrist.

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Middle class driving iPhone sales in emerging markets: Tim Cook

Tech News - Cook, under whom the California-based tech giant sold 61.2 million iPhones in January-March 2015, said emerging markets accounted for almost 40 percent of Apple's revenue for the second quarter.

  
Apple follows October-September period as fiscal year. On Monday, Apple had said that its net profit stood at USD 13.6 billion in the January-March quarter, while revenue was at USD 58 billion.
  
About 69 percent of the revenue came from international sales. Speaking at an investor call, Cook said "We also continue to see a reasonable percentage of first time buyers, particularly in some of the emerging markets.”

 "And if you look at emerging markets in general, revenue from emerging markets, just for the March quarter, was up 58 percent year on year. And a big piece of what is driving that is iPhone.
  
"Obviously, those results would have been higher without some of the FX (currency) headwinds..."
  
Apple chief further said: "And as I mentioned before, in emerging markets, we did extremely well. And so, I feel really good about where we are, and you can hopefully tell with the strong guidance that we provided, that we're very bullish on the current quarter as well."
  
Apple said 'swappers' -- who changed their last smartphone with an iPhone -- also contributed to the growth in iPhone sales.
  
To a separate query on iPhone purchases by the middle class in emerging markets, he said: "...And so as I look at that, without having market research data on the demographics that you are asking, it is clear to me that it has to come from the middle class.
  
"Because the upper income earners, there's only so many of those. And you cannot grow those kind of numbers without getting significantly into the middle class.

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Apple set to release iMac 8K this year, says display partner LG

Tech News -  The LG's press release said, “Apple will get a much higher-resolution display in 2015.”

The release makes the picture clear that the Apple will launch its iMac 8K in 2015 and also that it would have “a much higher-resolution display.”

According to a media, the LG's release said, “As 8K is the highest resolution the human eye is capable of seeing, it will possibly overtake the market in the future.”

Apple iMac 8K, reportedly, will have a resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 pixels, which is twice the resolution of a 4K screen and also four times the number of pixels. Also, LG has dubbed as 8K as 'quad ultra-high resolution'.

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Apple might replace Google with Yahoo or Bing as default search engine

From past five years Google has been the default search provider for Apple’s Safari browser and the partnership is set to discontinue in 2015. Also, reports say that Apple has been trying to distance itself from Google in recent days.

Google's You Tube service no longer comes as a part of iOS and also Google maps has been replaced by Apple's own patented service.

Marking this as an advantage, both Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to get Apple's attention to replace Google from its iOS devices.

Both the tech giants have spoken to Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue for replacing Google.

A week ago, Mozilla too dumped Google by Yahoo as its default search provider.

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