All you actually have to do to use Apple Pay is hold your iPhone near the register with your finger on the Touch ID ‘home’ button…
Month: November 2015
Apple releases OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 beta 5
Apple has released the fifth beta version of OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 to Mac users…
AT&T to hike price of unlimited data plan to $35 per month
If you have a grandfathered unlimited smartphone data plan from AT&T Mobility…
Apple rumored to replace 3.5mm headphone jack on iPhone 7 with all-in-one Lightning connector
Apple is planning to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack on the next-generation iPhone…
Reports of iPad’s death have been greatly exaggerated
Target sold an average of an iPad a second throughout Thanksgiving Day…
Why Apple’s new 2016 MacBook will use an Intel Core M Processor
The 12-inch MacBook is now Apple’s best-selling Mac, with the 13-inch MacBook Pro coming in second…
Why Apple is best positioned in smartphones
Back in my systems engineering days, I spent a lot of time evaluating competing vendors for subcontracts on systems or components…
Get ready to kiss the MacBook Air goodbye, and say hello to more MacBooks
Trying to predict the future of technology is a risky endeavor at best…
Apple Watch and dissatisfaction
One of the things that interests me most with regards to the Apple Watch owner research I’m involved with…
Analyst: Black Friday 2015 sales likely Apple’s strongest ever
Apple Watch was probably the Number 1 selling item at mail order companies like B&H…
JC Penney testing Apple Pay support for its credit cards, nationwide rollout coming in spring 2016
JCPenney has started testing its store credit cards with Apple’s Apple Pay payments service…
Apple Music will be available on Sonos starting December 15th
The teams at Apple and Sonos have been working very hard to bring Apple Music to Sonos…
Apple said experimenting with at least 5 different ‘iPhone 7’ configurations
Reportedly, some of the technologies that can be found in these prototypes include a USB Type-C connector…
11 privacy and security tips for OS X Mac users
Safe, safest, safer…
Apple Watch sales predicted to double this holiday shopping season, hit 12 million units for 2015
Based on checks with Apple retail stores last Friday, analyst Daniel Ives of FBR & Co…
Jean-Louis Gassée on Apple Car: Money, design UI, vehicle distribution
Many scoffed at Apple’s entry into the MP3 player market, but…
UK iPhone owner demands compensation claiming Apple ‘wiped away his life’
A London man will meet Apple in court to argue the company ‘wiped away his life’…
Microsoft makes Windows 10 automatic spying even worse
It turns out Microsoft had just been very sneaky…
Apple Watch regains sales momentum in holiday shopping season
Apple Inc.’s watch is gaining sales momentum with the official start of the holiday shopping season…
Apple wins Black Friday with big iPad sales and 75% of mobile purchases made from iOS devices
With the Black Friday weekend now behind us, analysts and market researchers are crunching numbers…
Apple gets much more bang for its R&D buck than Google and other tech companies
Steve Jobs said in 1998 that “innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have.”
LG Display to spend about $9 billion on factory for Apple iPhone OLEDs
Apple Inc. supplier LG Display Co. will spend more than 10 trillion won…
Apple iPhone to take share as smartphone growth slows
Chinese users shifting to better smartphones and more US users planning to upgrade this year than last year…
How Apple could fix their flawed Mac App Store
The current implementation of Apple’s Mac App Store is flawed and leads to bad experiences for both developers and customers…
Hands on: One month with Apple’s 4K 21.5-inch iMac, ‘an amazing bargain’
Like many Apple products, the 21.5-in. iMac was refreshed just ahead of the holiday season…
Inside Apple’s powerful A9X chip
Apple’s A9X is easily the most advanced mobile system-on-a-chip available today….
Aussie consumers lose as banks effectively boycott Apple Pay
he Reserve Bank has been urged to examine potential anti-competitive behavior…
Dell reminds the world why Black Friday is a great time to switch to Mac
Earlier this week it was discovered that Dell had installed an insecure root certificate…
Apple Watch’s killer apps: Time, Messages, Notifications
The Mobile Life Research Centre at the University of Stockholm, took an in-depth look at 12 subjects’ usage of an Apple Watch over 34 days…
Apple’s vaunted Mac Pro a misfire?
Once upon a time, anyone who wanted a powerful Mac would choose the top of the line…
Apple TV’s ugly problem solved by great new accessory
While most would agree that the latest Apple TV box is a big leap forward from any of its predecessors, it’s not exactly…
24 essential OS X El Capitan utilities you need
Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers, and welcome to this collection of essential…
What happens when you try to use Mac OS 9 for a few days?
Here I am on a battered PowerBook that will barely hold a charge…
Apple could make $15 billion from winning the rights to NFL Thursday Night Football
Here’s a use of cash that Apple should be following up on right now…
Apple Watch tops hottest holiday gift list
The Apple Watch is still the hottest gift as Thanksgiving weekend gets underway…
Apple Music’s Android assault
Earlier this month, Apple brought its Apple Music product into Alphabet’s smartphone ecosystem…
Apple to use OLED for iPhone displays starting in 2018
Apple plans to introduce organic light-emitting diode displays for iPhones starting in 2018…
Apple Watch wearers check their smartwatch 60 to 80 times a day
Checking the Apple Watch face either to check the time or to glance at a complication is by far the most frequent interaction…
Apple’s open-sourced Swift programming language could change everything
Apple has told us it intends making Swift 2.0 open source later this year…
Apple reaches agreement to bring Apple Pay to China, sources say
China UnionPay Co. and Apple Inc. have reached a preliminary agreement to introduce Apple Pay in China…
Macworld reviews Apple’s iPad Pro: Why the best iPad yet won’t work for everyone
Well, I tried. I tried the whole ‘use the iPad Pro instead of my computer for a week’ thing and barely lasted a day…
Apple shares ‘Someday At Christmas’ featuring Stevie Wonder and Andra Day
Someday at Christmas men won’t be boys, playing with bombs like kids play with toys…