Canadian photographers featured on new Shot on iPhone 7 campaign

For the latest “Shot on iPhone” campaign, Apple enlisted a group of photographers to capture life from dawn until dusk using the low light camera on iPhone 7. The people, sights and scenes the photographers encountered over the course of the night created a spectacular display of nighttime photography, which, beginning today, will be displayed in 25 countries.

Featuring a number of photographers, the new campaign features the work of two Canadians, Toronto's Jennifer Bin and Montreal's Benjamin Plouffe

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It's been 10 years since the iPhone was launched

It's been ten years since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at Macworld 2007. The device, which was famously pitched as, "an iPod, a Phone and an Internet communicator, is credited for defining the smartphone segment as well as its various ecosystems including appl stores, music streaming services as well as the increase in mobile photography on phones. iPhone is now responsible for over 64% of Apple’s revenues and it its most successful product.

The Apple Beat: Apple's year in Review

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Looking back at Apple’s 2016, it was hard to expect the company to match the frenetic pace of product releases from 2015. After all, the previous year saw the introduction of the Apple Watch, iPad Pro, the remixed Apple TV, new and improved iPhone 6s as well as major moves in the areas of car infotainment (Car Play), home automation (Home Kit), Health (Health Kit) and the inception of Apple Music. So, let's look back at what 2016 was all about.

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Analyst: Apple's iPhone captures 103.6 % of smartphone profits in wake of Samsung Note fiasco

Analysts at BMO Capital Markets estimate that Apple captured 103.6 % of total smartphone industry profits in the wake of Samsung's monumental product recall for its faulty and now discontinued Galaxy Note 7 flagship. Samsung's profits are at 0.9%. BMO says that Apple also took more than 100 % of profits because a majority of vendores (i.e. LG, HTC) recorded losses on theri smartphone divisions this third quarter.

Samsung tried to steal the thunder from Apple's iPhone 7, they rushed their product to market and even bumped up the name to Note 7 (foregoing the Note 6). This backfired completely when Note 7 devices started exploding and causing fires. This propelled Samsung's brand into notoriety to the extent that no Note 7's were allowed on any airlines and the company recalled the product to the tune of $2 billion loss.

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