Ad blockers top Apple Charts as iOS 9 Debuts

Ad-Blocking – Top of Apple’s Store Charts

Following the recent launch of iOS 9, ad-blocking apps have gone to the top of Apple’s Store charts. According to App Annie, mobile analytics firm, a $2.99 app, Peach that tends to block` most ads as well as privacy invading trackers on web pages seem to be the top paid app in the App Store.

 Purify Blocker; a $3.99 app is at No 4 on the paid apps chart, while a 99 cent Blockr app is No. 17 on the charts. The sudden interest in ad blockers is due to Apple’s new iOS 9, software which tend to power iPads and iPhones adds features that enable the Safari Web browser to tap into content blocking from third party apps.

Users could just install this type of an app and set Safari to use it in order to block advertisements as well as similar content while surfing the web. Ads can be offending spot for people surfing the Internet and blocking ads helps users in quickening the Web performance as well as keeping ads from coming up on the screen. Advertisers tend to use ads in order to generate income and several websites which are free depend on ads to get some revenue.

Ads on Web- Intrusive/Annoying/Trespassing on Privacy

Arnent, Peace developer is known for his creation of Instapaper, an app which enables readers to save articles for offline reading and often strips ads in the process. He had partnered with ad blocking company, Ghostery, for Peace, that gives the app the benefit of a well-established database. Besides ad blocking, Peace also disables slow loading fonts, blocks social widgets as well as hides common sections towards the bottom of the sites and includes a straightforward feature for whitelisting sites.

The counter debate from the user point of view is that several ads on the Web seem to be intrusive and annoying, trespassing on privacy. Advertisements tend to use video, animation and other techniques to draw the attention of the audience.

 However, the privacy issue seems to be one of the most important with people very much concerned over the data collected by advertisers. Marco Arment, developer of Peace has mentioned in a blog post recently that `web advertising and behavioural tracking is getting out of control.

Flare-up of Ads blocking – Bitter debate

They are unacceptably creepy, bloated, annoying and insecure and seem to be getting worse at alarming pace’. He states that people who use ad blockers should not feel guilt-ridden that they could be offending advertisers and websites which depend on ad revenue.

 He add that if publishers prefer to offer free content funded by advertising, the burden is on them to choose ad content as well as methods in which readers would tolerate and respond. By integrating ad blocking, Apple the California based company is clearly supporting the users. We need to now wait and watch on the reaction of the advertisers.

 Publishers are envisaging a growing percentage of their web traffic from smartphones, however, mobile ads seems to be making much less revenue than those on desktop and till now, only desktop browsers have good or reliable potentials to block ads.

This flare-up in popularity of blocking ads has given rise to bitter ethics debate between those who view them as an existential threat to the free Internet and those who are fed up of barrages of horrible and at times harmful ads and arrays of trackers who tend to trace their online movements to target ads better.

Burberry Becomes First Major Fashion Brand with an Apple Music Channel

Burberry – First Major Worldwide Brand with Apple Music Channel

`Curators’, Apple Music’s playlist till now have been directly significant brands like DJ Mag or Shazam and hence Apple has been in collaboration with Burberry wherein the luxury fashion house will be the first major worldwide brand in launching a curated channel on Apple Music making it the first luxury fashion house to do so. However, it is not unusual choice due to its Burberry Acoustic campaign that supports new British music talents and also features acoustic tracks recorded exclusively for Burberry.

Burberry hires a full time music team which works on Burberry Acoustic and matches up artists having record labels. The Burberry Apple Music channel has been listed under `Curator Playlists’ comprising of contents from brands as well as media sites like GQ, Wired, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.The maker of £1000 trench coats would be using the channel to showcase its partnerships with the British artists like James Bay and George Ezra together with playlist that will reflect the fashion label’s taste.

 The contents that have been provided by Burberry comprise of selections from Burberry chief executive, Christopher Bailey with music played on the Burberry runway along with a selection of emerging British talent, in an effort to entangle the world of fashion and music.

Lead Other Companies to Use Apple Music

This move is not at all surprising, since various big; non-music brands have made their presence on competing services like Spotify. It is also not shocking that Burberry seems to be the first in line for an Apple Music partnership. Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts as its senior retail VP, back in 2013, had been hired by Apple and the two firms had been collaborating prior to the change in career being official.

This would lead other companies to use Apple Music channels for promotion and Apple will not mind extra subscribers coming along the way. Bailey who had taken over as Burberry boss after Ahrendts had left to become head of retail and online at Apple in 2014, has commented that there are several unusual British artists and that it is a pleasure to have the occasion of working with them and showcase their incredible talent and that music has always been inherent to what we tend to do and is excited with the partnership with Apple on this amazing platform’.

Launched with Exclusive Videos/Performance – Burberry Show Sept 21

Burberry would be launched with exclusive videos from developing artists like Lila Vargen and Georgie together with a performance from Alison Moyet which would be filmed at the upcoming Burberry Womanswear show in London on September 21.

The subscribers to Apple Music would be able to locate and follow Burberry in the `Curators’ section. The Apple Music streaming service had been launched in the summer with the expectations of competing with companies like Spotify. Apple and Burberry have been in long partnership first in 2013 to show off the photographic potentials of the iPhone 5s.

Angela Ahrendts, the current head of retail for Apple was also the CEO of Burberry till the springs of 2014 when she joined Apple. The new Apple Music channel of Burberry is the first collaboration between Apple and Burberry since her departure.

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If you haven't set up a website, get it done. This is the age of technology and everyone is connected. All they need is a personal computer, a laptop, or a mobile device. You want to be accessible to anyone on the go and break out of your geographic area. This is not the ideal, do-it-yourself project. Hire a web design team that can take the essence of your company and capture it on a site that is attractive. You'll also want it to be easy to navigate so that you'll draw customers in and keep them.

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Samsung Galaxy A8

Samsung has been actively promoting its latest smartphone in the Galaxy series named A8. This model itself feels like a flagship premium device with its bit different design and refreshing looks. Samsung Galaxy A8 has been pitched as a mid level premium device which aims at offering high end features which is just little bit short of the Samsung’s own premium S series. Samsung Galaxy A8 offers top of the line features and specifications at fair price which might give a serious competition to the Chinese rivals not on the price front but on the brand front.

Samsung Galaxy A8 Features

Samsung had long been using the similar designer and look which makes it tough to distinguish one phone from the other. But this time Samsung has opted for refreshing design which makes it standout from the dozens of Samsung handsets. Samsung Galaxy A8 uses a thin bezel design with signature Samsung looks attributes coupled with premium metallic finishes and an impressive 73 percent body to screen ratio. It features the latest Android 5.1 Lollipop on the top of Samsung’s TouchWiz UI along with a hybrid card slot.

Specifications of Samsung Galaxy A8

Samsung has provided a relatively larger display to A8 model with 5.7 inch full HD Super Amoled Display. This smartphone is powered by Samsung Exynos 5430 processor coupled with a 2 GB RAM along with a robust internal storage of 32 GB. Users can easily bump up the storage on this phone up to 128 GB through the use of micros sd card. Camera is worth mentioning as it features one of the fastest and beautiful snapper with 16 MP auto focus rear camera with wider lenses, optical image stabilization and a flash. And for selfie Samsung had provided a real sharp and awesome 5 MP front shooter.

On the connectivity front, this phone offers options like Bluetooth 4.1, WiFi, Glonass, GPS and LTE support. Samsung had packed this device with a large battery of 3050 mAh which easily offers more than a day usage to the users.

Few minor issues in Samsung Galaxy A8
 
Samsung had brought some high end premium features in its A8 smartphone but it still has a few numbers of issues of its own. The finger print scanner is highly touted to be the one of the premium feature but it is extremely frustrating to set this feature up in the first place.

 It possess a hybrid sim card slot which simply translates either the user has to sacrifice on the advantage of dual sims or to rely on a micro sd card for extra storage. Certainly one cannot have both which means dual sim and extra storage at the same which is a letdown.

More color options for Samsung Galaxy A8
 
Glaxy A8 happens to be the slimmest smartphone ever made by the Samsung with a thickness of just 5.99 mm. Galaxy A8 will be made available in different options of eocnic Wite, Black and premium Gold colors.

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