Apple Begins Offering iPhone 5 Screen Replacements

Have a cracked iPhone screen? Read this before you sell your grandmother's jewelry trying to get it fixed.

Apple has started offering best iphone accessories screen repairs in stores for $149, MacRumors first reported with other sites backing the claim. Until now, people with broken iPhone screens had to go to specialty repair shops, which can charge anything from $180 to$225 to fix a busted screen.

This new repair system could be great for customers, even if the rumored program is a few years too late. In independent "drop tests," the iPhone 5 appears to be more durable to cracks than its predecessors.

Unfortunately, Cult Of Mac, another Apple blog, reports that its sources are saying that most iPhone 5 screen breaks are bad enough that a simple screen repair isn't enough and the whole phone needs to be replaced.

Perhaps because it's so difficult and expensive to replace a broken cool ipod cases screen,having a cracked screen has become sort of a status symbol for some young people, as was pointed out in a recent piece in The Washington Post. It seems to be a trend born of necessity. Maybe now that it's possible to replace your screen without mortgaging your house, the cool factor will wear off.Ssdsf23FDF

The iPhone is the schoolyard bully and Windows Phone the 99-pound weakling, right? Wrong. By 2017 Windows Phone will nearly overtake the iPhone, says a new report. And after that, it's anyone's guess. A new Canalys report says that by 2017, the iPhone will have a 14.1 percent market share, with Windows Phone nipping at its heels, with a 12.7% share. In 2012, the report says, the iPhone had a 19.5% market share, and Windows Phone a 2.4 percent market share. Android dominates now and will dominate in the future, with a 67.7 percent market share in 2012, and a 67.1 percent market share in 2017.

Windows Phone will make big gains and the iPhone will lose market share because the apple accessories will continue to sell at premium prices, while Windows Phone will attack the budget phone market, Canalys says. About the iPhone, Jessica Kwee, Canalys Analyst, says.

If by 2017, Windows Phone is within a point or so of the iPhone, you could reasonably expect the unthinkable to happen not too far after that: Windows Phone will outsell iPhones Of course, a low-cost iPhone mini could change the equation. But Apple has shown no inclination to play at the low end of any market. It remains a premium brand for which one pays premium prices. So don't be surprised if Windows Phone does eventually overtake the once-mighty iPhone.

The independent federal agency slapped a ban on the import or sale of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G distributed by AT&T, the biggest seller of best iphone 4s accessories devices in the United States when Samsung filed its complaint in 2011. The products are assembled in Asia.