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iPhone 5 News
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
It’s amazing seeing the amount of broken iPhones coming into our facility day in and day out, in particular the iPhone 4S. It shouldn’t be considering how ubiquitous the iPhone has become. As I discussed in a previous blog, the iPhone is simply dominating market share. Apple is one of those types of companies that when it releases a new device people line up for hours, and sometimes days to get their hands on one. Apple does that to people. Not many companies in the world have this kind of die-hard following. And with more and more people becoming familiar with Apple products for the first time, mostly through the “gateway drug” called the iPhone, Apple is gaining new devotees each day.
This all brings me to the point of this article: we have been hearing rumors of the next iteration of the iPhone (ostensibly called “iPhone 5″) as early as last year. Just think about this, it is May, 2012 and sources as reliable as the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting with confidence that the new iPhone will have at least a 4-inch screen. When rumors of Apple products that are not even announced yet make front page headlines, that is something to truly behold.
How long will Apple’s steam last? As a Beatle once said, all things must pass. Microsoft has dominated the home computer market for a long time and just recently we’re seeing a valid competitor in Apple to maybe de-throne Microsoft.
When industries as big the medical industry start using iPads to manage medical records, that turns eyes. That industry, while still a PC dominated one, is beginning to use iPads and iOS. That is the first step of many that may lead to big things to come.
A lot of this is speculation, of course, but that’s what I’m here for. Would you like to see a bigger screen on the next iPhone? Or are you satisfied with the status quo? Let me know!
Photo courtesy of Macrumors
iPad 3 Repairs Get a Price Cut
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Photo courtesy of MacRumors
There are a lot of people out there that love the iPad and really want to own one, including myself, but the biggest barrier to entry is the price. Starting at $499, it’s easy to understand why iPads aren’t as ubiquitous as the iPhone. I would love to own one, and as a musician that likes to record, I fully understated how easy and awesome it would be to use Garageband on an iPad to record some music. But alas! I don’t have $500 + to spend on a new gadget. A huge “what if” comes to mind, though. What if Apple decides to release a smaller, cheaper iPad? According to a recent MacRumors post, Apple may do just that. How attractive would an iPad priced between $200-$250 be to a person like me? I would buy one.
It’s nice to dream, but the chances of this happening are 50/50. If Apple decides to rollout a cheaper, smaller iPad, GREAT! I’d get one. Do I expect it? No. I don’t want to get my hopes up.
In reality, we have expensive tablets called iPads. Whether you treat your new iPad with the same care that you would a new born baby or treat it like an old gym bag, there is one universal truth: if you drop your iPad it will more than likely break. Cracked iPad screens are the most common type of damage. iResQ has been working on getting repair prices lower for the most common types of repairs. Repair prices for iPad 3 Screens have been lowered to $179 to match the price we currently have for the iPad 2.
In addition to the iPad repair prices, we have lowered our screen repair prices on the new MacBook Airs to $319 for the 13″ and $269 for the 11″ model.
Finally, we have lowered logic board repair prices across the board for iPod Touch’s, the iPhone 3G, and the iPhone 3GS.
The iPhone Dominates The Market
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
It is no surprise that Apple’s iPhone dominates the smartphone market this day and age. Take a look at the wonderful info-graphic below courtesy of Macrumors.com. It shows that Apple is ranked number two amongst all other vendors that are in the smart phone market. Although Samsung is number one on the list, they have a wide range of Android driven phones which prevents any one phone from dominating the market as opposed to Apple, which offers one iPhone (albeit with several yearly revisions of the device). This means that the iPhone can be considered the most popular smartphone on the market.
Kudos to Samsung, though, for providing such a wide variety of excellent smart phones. The Android OS has proven to be a worthy competitor to Apple’s iOS in such a hard market to dominate. Still, the presences of Apple near the top of this list is compelling. How long before you see Apple at number one? Will the iPhone 5 be the final push that takes Apple over the edge? If I had to place a bet, I would put all of my money on the iPhone 5 doing so.
With such a huge installed iPhone user base, iResQ is seeing more and more iPhones come in for repair. Believe it or not, the iPhone 3G S is still as popular as ever and we see tons of them come in for broken glass (or digitizer repairs). But when it comes down to the king of the castle, the iPhone 4S reigns supreme. This shows in our spike in iPhone 4S repairs lately.
Have any questions about iPhone repairs? Give us a call!
Great Deals on MacBook Pro Glass are Fading Fast!
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Morning, folks. For the last 30 days iResQ has offered the lowest price on MacBook Pro display glass repair anywhere in the nation. If you need your glass repaired act quickly because the April glass special is about to expire! Today is your last day to get a completely new glass panel for only $90 installed. Starting tomorrow you’ll get the same great service at the regular low price. We’ll have more great deals coming soon, so stay tuned!
For the love of gadgets
Friday, April 27th, 2012
As you may know, I am a pretty big Apple fan. I am also a huge gadget fan in general. I can easily say that my iPhone 4 is my favorite and most important gadget that I have ever owned. The thought of being without it for a few hours makes me cringe. On my way to work today, I noticed that my iPhone wasn’t where it usually was in my car. I panicked. I had already driven out 10 minutes and was contemplating turning back around towards my house to pick it up. Was an extra 20 minutes of driving going to be worth a few hours without my beloved iPhone 4? Before I turned around, I thought that I would just pull over and check the car to verify that I didn’t somehow drop it in my car before I left. Luckily for me, I found it on the floor in the back of the car. Whew!
This got me to thinking about how attached I am to this little device. Not being in touch with the world via my personal serial number (my phone number) would not be fun. It also got me to thinking about all the things I use it for: accessing work email and client contacts, games, Netflix while I’m at the gym, podcasts when I’m on the road, and I am even beginning to dable into recording music in GarageBand with iRig.
As much as we rely on these devices, we all know that if you were to ever break your iPhone 4 or crack its screen, you would need to get it fixed as quickly as possible. Well, that’s where we come in. You send in your broken iPhone 4 for repair through us, we’ll fix it and ship it right back out to you the SAME DAY we receive it. I challenge you to find quicker turnaround time on these repairs anywhere. Even if you decide to drop off your cracked iPhone to a local store, chances are it would take them about a week to get it repaired for you, in which time you would have already received your repaired iPhone if you were to have us repair it for you.
Just food for thought. Talk to you next week!
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