App Store customers spent a record $1.42 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, a 16 percent increase over last year, and $386 million on New Year’s Day 2020 alone, a 20 percent increase over last year and a new single-day record…
Tag: iCloud
Apple officially launches public bug bounty program with rewards up to $1.5 million
Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program today to all security researchers…
How to sync your iPhone and iPad to your Mac running macOS Catalina without iTunes
With macOS Catalina, syncing with the Finder is similar to syncing with iTunes….
Apple sued by customer demanding over $250,000 for not being refunded for devices that were ‘hacked’
A lawsuit has been filed against Apple by private citizen Dana D. Jackson of Minneapolis, Minnesota…
Apple publishes new beta version of iCloud web portal, now with Reminders
Apple on Thursday updated the beta version of its iCloud web portal, bringing a new background and revamped Reminders app to the site…
Apple hit with lawsuit for storing iCloud data on third-party servers
Apple faces a class-action lawsuit filed in California which accuses the company of false advertising….
Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in Data Transfer Project
Apple will be joining the Data Transfer Project, developing interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud…
NSO Group says it can scrape data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft cloud services
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data…
Apple’s iOS 13 Public Beta flaw threatens data loss (warning)
Warning that the current iOS 13 Public Beta is damaging some people’s iCloud data…
Apple tests biometric Face/Touch ID sign-in at iCloud.com
When you visit iCloud in Safari on a device running the latest Apple public betas, you’ll be asked if you wish to sign-in using Touch or Face ID…
Apple’s latest Transparency Report is available now
Apple’s newly-published Transparency Report reveals 29,183 demands from global governments to access 213,737 devices.
Why you should use iCloud email rules and not Mail rules on your Mac
Mail rules in the Mail app on your Mac are robust and powerful but they no longer work well in a world where…
Apple’s iCloud has finally delivered on Steve Jobs’ original promise from 2011
Back when Steve Jobs unveiled iCloud in 2011, we were pitched a vision of data being available everywhere…
What Apple knows about you
Apple is the most privacy-minded of the big tech companies and it goes to great lengths to collect less data than its rivals…
13 ways to free space on your Mac
If you need to clear off space from your Mac’s hard drive, there are some…
Once it’s set up, sharing files is easy using Apple’s iCloud Drive
This should be easier than it is…
Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon Web Services every month
As Apple and Amazon compete for a greater share of consumer dollars and attention…
When 2FA isn’t 2FA: How Apple’s iCloud authentication system fails to protect your account
With an iCloud account and an Apple device, two-factor authentication is quite different…
How services could sour Apple
I have had a range of conversations with colleagues in the tech industry…
ACLU files complaint with U.S. DHS over unwarranted interrogation of Apple employee and attempted device search
Today the ACLU Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-NC) filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on behalf of Apple employee…
Jennifer Lawrence ‘Fappening’ hacker sentenced to 34 months in prison
A Richmond man was sentenced today to almost three years in prison for charges…
Mueller prosecutors’ evidence in Roger Stone case includes Apple iCloud data
Information the Justice Department collected from Roger Stone’s iCloud accounts…
How Apple could double its services revenues by 2022
Apple’s Services business has grown at a rate of over 20% over the last three years,…
Jefferies: Apple stock will rally thanks to surge in services revenue
Jefferies believes Apple stock is undervalued after its recent drop…
Macquarie cuts Apple price target on expectations for services slowdown
Macquarie analyst Benjamin Schachter lowered his price target on Apple Inc. shares…
iCloud makes the Apple retail store experience a total mess
My wife was complaining that her iPhone 7 Plus was getting clunky and slow….
Alleged hacker threatened to sell details of 319 million Apple iCloud users, demanded more than £133,000 in Bitcoin
An alleged hacker threatened to sell the personal details of 319 million Apple iCloud users…
How iCloud helped convict Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort, the longtime political adviser who for a time in 2016 was the chairman…
Apple could be building a media business bigger than Netflix and Spotify combined
Apple Music now has more U.S. subscribers than Spotify…
Spyware maker mSpy leaks millions of sensitive records in massive data breach, including Apple iCloud info
mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on spouses…
Apple to launch a dedicated web portal for law enforcement requests
Apple ensures that it has never created a backdoor or master key to any of its products or services, and never will…
Hacker sentenced to prison for role in Jennifer Lawrence nude photo theft via Apple iCloud hack
A hacker was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for a scheme that exposed intimate photos of the actor Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities…
Apple and four major U.S. carriers partner on 200GB iCloud promo ahead of new iPhones
Apple and the four major U.S. carriers are offering iCloud’s 200-gigabyte tier…
Inside Apple’s massive 1.3 million-square-foot data center in Mesa, Arizona
The hallways are sparse, painted white. Some are seemingly endless stretches of gray, concrete floor…
MobileMe’s legacy
This week marks the 10th anniversary of MobileMe, Apple’s third attempt at a cloud service designed for consumers…
How to keep your personal intimate photos off Apple’s iCloud
You don’t have to be a celebrity to be concerned about your privacy…
Apple: Where the modern corporation is going
As Apple approaches a market cap of $1 trillion with a return on shareholder’s equity of 36.1 percent in 2017…
Apple now offering one free month of upgraded iCloud storage plans
In a move designed to drive iCloud storage subscription upgrades…
Apple now lets users download all the data associated with their accounts
Apple has launched a new Data & Privacy website that includes an option for Apple users to download all the data…
Apple as a service: Services offer growth, visibility, and profitability
Apple Services is the 2nd of 4 pillars to our Apple as a Service thesis…
AAPL’s paradigm shift
About every 10 years, there is a new paradigm that drives Apple….
Apple’s Q218 earnings most important (and impressive) metric
On May 1st, Apple announced its financial results for the last quarter…
