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Apple has long been one of the most dominant smartphone brands in terms of brand loyalty. New data today from analysts at Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that Apple fans continue to remain loyal to Apple, with 90% of iPhone buyers remaining with Apple. According to the data, Apple accounts for just under half of all US smartphone sales in the past three years. In the same period…

Google’s Pixel lineup made its first major movie cameo in Avengers: Endgame, when Clint Barton picked up a Pixel 3 to answer a call from his snapped-back-to-life wife. As it turns out, Hawkeye seems to like the Pixel 3 quite a lot, as he’s still using it years later in his new Disney+ series. The latest trailer for Hawkeye, coming to Disney+ next month, shows Barton answering a call on a…

In time for Android 12 and the Pixel 6’s launch, many of Google’s biggest apps have already been updated to Material You. At the 2021 Android Dev Summit, Google fully detailed Material Design 3 and showed off the updated UI components that developers can use to build their apps. For starters, “Material Design 3” is officially the more technical name of Google’s latest design system…

Back in October, Google announced that its Google One storage subscription was adding a built-in VPN option. The Google One VPN is now seeing an expansion in North America and five European countries. Update 10/28: Following the initial expansion beyond the US to 7 countries, the Google One VPN is rolling out to 10 more countries starting today and will be fully available over the “coming…