Extreme Minimalism or Call of Desperation?

The leader in the subject of smartphones being clever devices is Apple, or is it still? The recently issued report of market research firm Strategy Analytics has placed Samsung, Apple’s great rival, as the most profitable handset vendor in the second quarter of the year 2013. Samsung has finally knocked Apple from its place and took the throne for itself. Have the majority turned their full attention to Android and left the iOS? Let us not put a conclusion to the story yet as Apple still holds two tricks under its sleeves – the iPhone Lite and 5S.

Apple’s iPhone 5 was just released in September of 2012, and it wowed the world just as it always has. Unfortunately, so did the enduring Android devices that made their way to the spotlight and has considered Apple an arduous match. Even without stating it, the common enemy has been and quite possibly will always be Apple. Let’s admit it; iPhone 5 did not do much for Apple. And this is clear with the gradual change in the company’s operating profit going down. I see a pattern here. Remember that time when RIMM was the rockstar? Where is RIMM now? Can Apple be next in line to RIMM? Hm...just an observation.

News of Apple’s next installment might just come to reality this coming September of this year. iPhone 5S will soon appear on stage with the iOS 7 as its bread and butter. Along with it is the iPhone Lite. Many of you are vying for the 5S while I am all in for the iPhone Lite, a durable and cheaper version of the iPhone. Might this be Apple’s greatest attempt to manifest its minimalism or a move of desperation?

Expect that the iPhone 5S will come with a high-end specifications, mindblowing features, and more than that, a stupefying holding price. Only the rich and richer can get a hold of this as soon as its release. Sometimes I wonder how Apple can sell a bunch of its gadget for that amount. Okay, sorry about that. That was my mind wandering around. Okay back to the topic – iPhone 5S. Expensive. Rich. Unaffordable. It gets even more expensive when you have to buy a brand new one instead of simply getting replacement parts.

An ordinary person will desire for an Apple device but will go for an Android instead because it is affordable and pretty much do the basic functions that the former can do. Apple might have finally realized this which is why they thought of the iPhone Lite. The iPhone Lite will appear with a plastic case which is a lot uncommon for Apple as its pride is usually coated with an aluminum case. You can now buy affordable and fitting cell phone cases. In addition to that, Lite will be fixed with a significant reduction of price. Now, what catches every single individual is that the Lite will be handled by the same operating system that iPhone 5S is built with, the iOS 7. Once the iPhone Lite is launched, Apple can get back the profit it has lost to Samsung, and it will.

What do you think? Minimalism? Or desperation?





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You got scammed: Your personal defense against go-getters

Beep, beep, beep, beep! Your smartphone just beeped and guess what the message was all about? It said that you just won a brand new luxury car and an all-expense-paid trip to Paris for two! You got so excited, so you immediately sent a reply to the message without thinking about anything else. All you have in mind is the brand new car that you will soon park in your garage and drive around the city just for the purpose of flaunting, and finally thinking and deciding whoever it is you’ll take with you to enjoy Paris. After five excruciating minutes, you receive another message saying that you can claim your prize after surrendering your credit cards and giving a deposit of 1,000 dollars and other specific instructions. Ignorant as you are with the ways of the world, you blindly obey and give them what they are asking for. After everything, unfortunately, you never heard from them again. Alas, it dawned on you; you’ve been scammed.

                 

The good news is, there are ways you could do to be more cautious to prevent this from happening, read on to find out about them.

If it’s too good to be true, it might as well is

                Miracles happen once in a while, but not in the kind of way where some random text or email came to your attention saying that you won a great fortune and some other stuff even though you can’t remember if you ever joined in a raffle or something. I’m not saying that you can never win in promos or raffles; I’m just saying that your chance to win so big of a price is next to impossible. However, if we are talking about winning smaller things like USB chargers, shoes, bag, clothes, umbrellas, or the like, it might not hurt if you perceive that they are real.

Don’t give money, to get money

                If the message you received says that you won money but then again asks for money in return to claim it, I’m sure as hell that it is actually a scam. Asking money when you are actually giving away money doesn’t make any sense, does it? Indeed, this is an outright textbook scam, but you’ll be surprised on how much from us fall prey on this trap. They end up draining their bank accounts in the hopes of getting more in return.

Don’t give them personal information

                The moment you provide them your personal information, you start to give them a powerful weapon against you. Precious and personal information given to the wrong hands will probably jeopardize you for the time being. For example, you told them that you live alone in your apartment and worse, you gave them your address, you’ll never know when people will come over to your house and rob you down.

                 

Remember when you purchased a cell phone case for your device making sure that you provide the proper protection for it? Doing the things aforementioned is just like the same thing; you put on some sort of a protective cover over yourself and your belongings to safeguard you from further scamming.