One of more prevalent narratives currently surrounding Apple is that the company has lost its innovative edge…
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Apple’s Mac division has ‘lost clout’ with Jony Ive and Apple design team
Apple’s Mac team has ‘lost clout’ with the company’s industrial design group and software team…
Marco Arment: Apple’s Mac Pro is ‘very likely dead’
Apple chief executive Tim Cook [yesterday] addressed concerns about the state of Mac desktop hardware inside the company…
How Tim Cook’s Apple alienated Mac loyalists
To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.’s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days…
Apple’s not very good, really quite poor 2016
As they drift off for their one- or two-day vacations shortly, will Apple’s senior executives be patting themselves on the back?
Apple releases iOS 9.3.2 for 9.7-inch iPad Pro
Apple has released a new version of iOS 9.3.2 specifically for the 9.7-inch iPad Pro…
iTunes 12.4 applies song ratings to albums and destroys Smart Playlists
In iTunes, you can rate songs and albums separately…
Apple seeds first beta of iOS 9.3.3 to developers
Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming iOS 9.3.3 update to developers…
iPad killer: Apple yanks iOS 9.3.2 for 9.7-inch iPad Pro
After updating, users seeing the bug would be prompted to Connect to iTunes on the iPad display…
Apple preps fix for 9.7-inch iPad Pros bricked by iOS 9.3.2
Apple is investigating yet another iOS update bug, one that has impacted 9.7-inch iPad Pro devices…
The key to Apple’s success
Has Apple lost the focus that brought it to the success of today?
Is it time to end big, annual OS X updates?
Do we really need major, highly touted updates to software like OS X or is it time for…
Phil Schiller responds to developer complaints about App Store algorithms broken since at least 2013
Complaints that Apple’s App Store algorithms are broken, often returning nonsensical results for highlighted categories…
Here’s what Tim Cook can learn from Starbucks and Whole Foods
Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, is up against his company’s own phenomenal history of success…
Apple execs defend software quality, but what’s their offensive game plan?
Apple has a problem with its software and apps…
Apple takes its eye off the ball: Why users are complaining about Apple’s software
The last few weeks have seen an explosion of discontent with the quality of the core apps of Apple’s iPhones, iPads and Mac computers…
Breaking down Apple’s software quality issues
In the last couple of years, however, I’ve noticed a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple’s core apps…
Walt Mossberg: Apple’s software needs work
In the last couple of years, however, I’ve noticed a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple’s core iSO and OS X apps…
Apple and the curse of the ‘edifice complex’
It’s called the edifice complex, and it carries a curse: A high-flying company builds a beautiful new headquarters, then heartbreakingly loses altitude…
Alphabet Inc. may soon dethrone Apple as the world’s most valuable company
As the digital advertising market booms and demand for smartphones wanes, Alphabet Inc…
iOS 9.3 beta does things right: New features with code quality improvements
Apple appears to have significantly improved the quality of its code over the past six months
Mossberg’s everyday tech wish list for 2016
The dominant digital hardware company needs to use 2016 to get a better handle on its software…
2015: Apple’s year in beta
What we got in 2015 was an Apple that released more products than ever, all of which felt incomplete…
Three huge challenges facing Apple in 2016
Here are three big challenges facing Apple in 2016…
One week with the new Apple TV and Siri
Overall, functionality is much the same as Apple TV 3. But with TV 4 apps and Siri integration…
Apple releases tvOS 9.0.1 update for Apple TV
Apple today released iOS 9.0.1 (Build 13T402) for Apple TV 4 (AppleTV5,3)…
Houston Chronicle’s Silverman reviews new Apple TV: This cake needed more baking
Apple’s release of Apple TV in its current state reeks of laziness, mismanagement, and/or taking your customers for granted…
Apple TV’s Siri’s initial eight-country limit due to pronunciation training
Despite Siri’s availability on iOS in over fifteen different languages and over thirty countries…
Tony Fadell: Steve Jobs considered an ‘Apple Car’ in 2008
Count Steve Jobs among those curious about what an Apple car would look like…
Bill Ford on Apple’s vehicle push: ‘It’s awesome’
Apple and Google’s entrance into the auto sector is ‘awesome,’ and Ford will likely strike partnerships…
The new Apple TV has more rough edges than a sack of saw blades
There’s no new iOS Remote app that adds easy text input and emulates the hardware remote…
5 days with the new Apple TV
It has been my fifth day with the all-new Apple TV, and while the interface is certainly fast, (by the way 1080p is a welcome upgrade from my previous 720p Apple TV) there are a few areas that are in need of help…
Apple TV flaws that Apple should fix fast
In some spots, it’s almost as if nobody at Apple actually tried to really use the new Apple TV. It’s really inexplicable – unless the product was rushed out the door by higher ups, before it was truly ready for prime time…
Will Apple’s culture allow the company to produce highly-reliable software for Apple Car?
When discussing the heavily-rumored Apple car, software expertise is one of the company’s oft-cited advantages…
Coming at WWDC 2015: Apple’s quality-focused OS X 10.11 and iOS 9
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference looms…
Apple to focus on ‘quality’ in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11
Apple is changing up its annual iOS and OS X upgrade cycle by limiting new feature additions…
iCloud is a major weakness: Will Apple ever fix it?
Those who are interested in the state of Apple as a company will know that online services…
Apple’s next OS X and iOS versions should concentrate on quality and stability
On stage at Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference in June…
Apple’s frequent update experiment has failed; it’s time for another Snow Leopard
Apple’s OS X Yosemite has its fair share of problems…
The software and services that Apple needs to fix
Many of us have been grumbling quite publicly since iOS 7 and Mavericks shipped…
Apple to widen pre-release iOS testing utilizing retail employees
This new program will mark Apple’s first expansion of pre-release iOS version testing….
iOS 8: 5 big changes for Apple in 2015
There is no sugar coating it, iOS 8 has had a rough start…
