Apple is sourcing an important system component, the Apple A9 system-on-a-chip, from both Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor…
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Morgan Stanley ups iPhone estimates, Apple price target
Morgan Stanley’s Apple analyst, Katy Huberty, increased her fiscal 2016 iPhone unit growth rate…
Apple is having its worst year since the financial crisis
Apple has done better than the broader market this year, rising 1.5 percent while the S&P 500…
How to swap an iPhone 6/Plus for 6s/Plus: Doing the math on an early upgrade
I wasn’t planning to get an iPhone 6s…
Jean-Louis Gassée: Memories of Steve Jobs and his legacy
His demise triggered an outpouring of grief that’s rarely seen for political and religious leaders…
Apple’s new TV ads for Apple Watch a welcome midcourse correction
At long last, nearly six months after Apple Watch started shipping, Apple has launched a Watch campaign…
With Apple court order, activist federal judge seeks to fuel debate about data encryption
A federal judge in New York is seeking to expand to the courts the hot debate over whether tech companies like Apple…
‘Steve Jobs’ per-theater average box-office ranks as the best of the year
‘Steve Jobs,’ the biopic of the late Apple CEO directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, opened in four theaters…
The true magic of Apple’s 16GB iPhone 6s/Plus
When Apple unveiled its next-generation iPhones, there was quite a lot of grumbling that Apple hadn’t upgraded the base model…
Apple’s iPhone 6s/Plus experiencing slower uptake than iPhone 6/Plus
Apple’s iPhone 6s is experiencing a slower uptake than last year’s iPhone 6 models…
IDC’s Mac unit sales estimates look too low
Over the past four years the Mac unit increase from the June to September quarter has been…
Apple deactivates News app in China
Apple has disabled its news app in China, the most recent sign of how difficult it can be for foreign companies to manage the strict rules…
Judge declines to order Apple to disable security on device seized by U.S. government
A federal magistrate in Brooklyn is temporarily refusing to order Apple to disable security on a device seized by the U.S. government…
Eric Schmidt-backed startup stealthily working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House
An under-the-radar startup funded by billionaire Eric Schmidt has become a major technology vendor for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign…
Apple’s Mac increases market share as Windows PC sales continue swoon
Apple’s Mac line of personal computers continues to buck the overall decline in PC sales, increasing market share in the process…
Apple Pay is coming to Starbucks, but will users earn points?
Apple Pay is finally coming to Starbucks’ U.S. stores by year-end, more than a year after Apple launched its mobile wallet…
Apple adds Bluetooth 4.2 to iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air 2
Changes to Apple’s published tech specs for various products are rare, but when they happen, they’re…
How to find out if your iPhone 6s or 6s Plus has the good TSMC or crappy Samsung chip
Reports and videos floating around the Internet seem to indicate that there might be a significant battery life difference…
Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa was crucial to new biopic
Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene, may have done everything in her power to keep ‘Steve Jobs’ from getting mad..
Universal releases new 2:20-minute scene from ‘Steve Jobs’
On the eve of its opening in New York and Los Angeles, Universal Pictures has released…
Apple pulls ‘Been Choice’ ad-blocker, other apps from App Store citing security concerns
After expressing concern that the security of some users’ personal data could be compromised in certain circumstances…
Mac sales slowest in two years, but still well ahead of the rest of the PC industry
Ahead of new retina 4K iMac and likley accessories launch next week, Apple sold…
Analyzing Apple’s statement on TSMC- and Samsung-stamped A9 chips
Since we first learned that the A9 SoC in Apple’s iPhone 6s lineup is dual sourced…
Apple may have made a huge mistake in having Samsung stamp inferior A9 chips
Apple’s A9 is manufactured in TSMC’s 16-nanometer FinFET Plus manufacturing process while the other is built in a Samsung 14-nanometer process…
Beleaguered BlackBerry CEO won’t commit to future BB10 devices, hints at exiting handset market
Beleaguered BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen has floated the idea of leaving the smartphone hardware business entirely…
Elon Musk lashes out over Apple’s car ambitions; mocks Apple Watch, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, has lashed out at Apple‘s ambitions to make a car,,,
iPhone 6s/Plus now available SIM-free via Apple Online Store
The SIM-free iPhone comes without a wireless contract commitment or carrier financing…
Starbucks, KFC, and Chili’s to accept Apple Pay this year
Apple’s service, launched a year ago at about 220,000 U.S. locations including McDonald’s and Macy’s…
Gartner: Apple Mac keeps gaining share as Windows PC sales continue decline
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 73.7 million units in the third quarter of 2015, a 7.7 percent decline…
Apple claims iPhone 6s/Plus’ A9 battery performance only varies 2-3% between TSMC and Samsung variants in ‘real-world usage’
Apple has addressed the spate of chatter about differences in performance between A9 chips…
Chipgate: Did you get the good A9 or the crap A9 in your iPhone 6s/Plus?
With the release of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, it has come to light that Apple is splitting the manufacture of its A9 processor…
How the annual iPhone Upgrade Program impacts Apple’s financials
From an investor’s perspective, Apple‘s new iPhone Upgrade Program could be the most interesting announcement…
Apple to release Q415 earnings, webcast live conference call on October 27th
Apple’s conference call to discuss fourth fiscal quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday…
Why Apple wants to kill free music
Artists have long hated ad-supported free services…
Apple invents tamper prevention for Apple SIM
Today that USPTO published a patent application from Apple’s senior iOS engineers that focuses on…
Apple’s Magic Trackpad 2, Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Keyboard revealed in OS X 10.11.1 beta
Configuration files in Apple’s latest beta of OS X 10.11.1 reveal a trio of new hardware updates likely to arrive…
Zane Lowe: ‘I’m not sure that Apple Music needs Beats 1’
DJ Zane Lowe has admitted he’s unsure if Apple Music needs the digital radio station Beats 1…
Adobe makes Adobe Photoshop Lightroom app for iOS free for everyone
Adobe’s Lightroom Mobile app for iPad and iPhone has generally been known as a companion app…
Apple patent application reveals iPhone inductive charging sans extra hardware
According to a patent application published on Thursday, Apple is actively investigating the integration of inductive charging tech…
Jimmy Iovine: Apple Music ‘going really well,’ no ad-suported free tier ‘shell game’
Apple doesn’t want to be a source of free tunes, according to Jimmy Iovine…
Apple iPhone owns over 90% of smartphone profits, so why do others even bother fighting over Apple’s scraps?
Apple vacuums up more than 90 percent of the profits in the business…
Jony Ive joins chorus of insiders’ complaints about new ‘Steve Jobs’ movie
Apple Inc. design chief Jony Ive joined critics of a new movie about his friend and colleague…
