In the last 10 years, Apple has gone from a large computer company with a profitable side business in MP3 players to a $1 trillion+ megacorp with operations around the globe and 137,000 full-time employees…
Tag: iOS
The ‘Apple Tax’ died years ago
From the Mac to the iPod to iPhone and iPad to AirPods: Apple products are better designed, with symbiotic, custom, complimentary hardware and software…
German law set to force Apple to grant banks, payment rival access to iPhone’s secure NFC chip
Banks and payment service rivals complain that Apple restricts access to iPhone’s secure NFC chip…
U.S. Senators threaten Apple and Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors
U.S. senators grilled Apple Inc and Facebook Inc executives over their encryption practices on Tuesday and threatened to regulate the technology unless…
64GB in an iPhone is more than enough storage for most people
I’ve never bought an iPhone with more than 64GB of storage. I’ve always tended to buy the one with the lowest storage available, too…
BMW decides not to charge subscription fees for Apple CarPlay in the UK
BMW is set to announce today that it has reversed its controversial decision to charge Apple CarPlay users £85 per year…
How Apple is already part of Industry 4.0
Apple calling the iPhone “revolutionary” was an epic understatement….
Gartner: Apple iPhone’s worldwide market share fell YOY in Q319
Global sales of smartphones to end users continued to decline in the third quarter of 2019, contracting by 0.4% compared with the third quarter of 2018…
Tim Cook will join Salesforce’s Marc Benioff for fireside chat this week
Tim Cook will join Salesforce founder Marc Benioff for a fireside chat at the Dreamforce 2019 conference in San Francisco…
Apple’s partnership with Salesforce begins to come to life
Last year at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s enormous annual customer conference, Apple and Salesforce announced the beginnings of a partnership…
JP Morgan: Apple could raise annual advertising revenue to $11 billion by 2025
Apple could increase its income from advertising by more than five fold to $11 billion annually within the next six years…
IBM now has over 290,000 Apple Macs and other devices deployed
With over 90,000 Macs deployed by 2016, IBM saves anywhere from $273-$543 per Mac compared vs. Windows PC over a four-year span…
Apple publishes new technical details on privacy features
Apple today published four new papers outlining technical details of how some of the privacy features in its most recent operating systems, apps, and services work…
Apple seeds first betas for iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, tvOS 13.3, and watchOS 6.1.1
Apple today seeded the first betas of the upcoming iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS 13.3 to developers,,,
iOS 13.2 killing background apps so aggressively, it effectively doesn’t multitask any more
There are multiple complaints of iOS 13.2 killing background apps “so aggressively that iOS effectively doesn’t offer multitasking anymore.”
iOS emulation company Corellium sued by Apple claims using iOS code in their product is legal
On Monday, Corellium, the startup that was sued by Apple for alleged copyright infringement in August, filed its response to the lawsuit…
Apple plans additional resources and support to help developers create new Mac apps via Mac Catalyst
Apple’s efforts to bring iPad apps to the Mac are beginning to pay off, but there’s still a long way to go…
More than 50 percent of all iPhones are already running iOS 13
If you count only iPhones purchased in the last four years, the figure jumps up to 55 percent…
Fortnite Chapter 2 delivers a number of new features
The battle bus will drop you onto a new island with 13 unique locations to explore while mowing down enemies…
Kids circumvent Apple’s ‘Screen Time’ parental controls with ease
Kids are outsmarting an army of engineers from Cupertino, Apple’s headquarters in Silicon Valley…
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 WebKit bugs on iOS and macOS allowed 1 billion rogue popup ads on websites
More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks…
Users can’t replace Apple’s default apps with third-party options; U.S. House antitrust panel wants to know why
When consumers fire up the latest iPhones for the first time in the coming weeks, they’ll find the device brimming with Apple Inc.’s home-grown apps…
Apple Arcade could have massive ramifications for the iOS app ecosystem
Apple Arcade will be available on the App Store on Thursday, September 19 with iOS 13, offering an all-new way to enjoy games without limits…
Apple Arcade launches for some iOS beta testers
Earlier today, a series of reviews of Apple Arcade were published across the web and on YouTube…
It’s almost time to play! Apple Arcade launches on the App Store on Friday, September 19th
When Apple Arcade launches on the App Store on September 19, players around the world will start to get their hands on games that have been years in the making…
Groundbreaking Apple Arcade could change the way you play on your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac
Apple’s groundbreaking new gaming service, Apple Arcade, will be available on the App Store on Thursday, September 19 with iOS 13, offering an all-new way to enjoy games without limits…
Apple as a service: One day you’ll rent it all
It is becoming clear Apple is slowly but inexorably moving to a business model in which its products and services…
Phishing attacks on Mac users doubling, don’t get fooled
Phishing attacks reaching macOS users look set to more than double this year, with emails specifically claiming…
How long before we get a $100 ‘Everything Apple’ subscription including an iPhone?
If you suspect Apple is heading toward offering us a single all-in subscription package, the company’s moves this week regarding Apple TV+ and, more quietly, AppleCare+, make a lot of sense…
As expected, Apple replaces 3D Touch with Haptic Touch in iPhone 11 and 11 Pro
Apple’s iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and flagship iPhone 11 Pro Max will feature Haptic Touch instead of 3D Touch…
IDC: 2019 will be challenging for iPhone, shipments expected to drop to 177.9 million, down 14.8% year over year
A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020…
2019 iPhones to include new ‘R1’ sensor coprocessor, may power Apple Tags
Apple is planning to add a new coprocessor, codenamed both “Rose” and “R1,” to the A13 series chips in its upcoming iPhones…
Apple to stream September 10th special event via YouTube for the first time
Cupertino calling. Join us for an Apple special event live from the Steve Jobs Theater on September 10 at 10 a.m. PDT…
Apple’s tracking tags will reportedly use ultra-wideband for precision
Apple is working on a Tile-like tracking device, according to solid sources within the rumor mill…
New iPhones, Apple Watch refresh on tap for Apple’s special event Tuesday: Here’s what to expect
There will be three new models: “Pro” upgrades to the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max and a replacement for the iPhone XR…
Apple says Uighurs targeted in iPhone attack but disputes scope of Google’s claim
Apple Inc on Friday confirmed that China’s Uighurs, a mostly Muslim minority group considered a security threat by Beijing…
Apple makes statement regarding iOS security, blasts Google for ‘creating false impression’
Google’s post, issued six months after iOS patches were released, creates the false impression of “mass exploitation” to “monitor the private activities of entire populations in real time,” stoking fear among all iPhone users that their devices had been compromised. This was never the case…
This is the start of a whole new era for Apple augmented reality
Thanks to a trio of new augmented reality tools for iOS 13, and the very real possibility of an Apple AR headset on the horizon…
Why Apple’s ‘Find My’ tracking tags are big news
Apple is expected to introduce its own Tile-like tracking device and service, via their new Find My app, perhaps as soon as fall…
How Apple uses its App Store to copy the best ideas
The imbalance of power between Apple and the apps on its platform could turn into a rare chink in the company’s armor as regulators and lawmakers put the dominance of big technology companies under an antitrust microscope…
Apple’s Project Catalyst polarizes developers ahead of iOS 13, macOS Catalina launches
iOS and macOS developers have thoughts on what’s good and what’s still surprisingly bad about Apple’s plan to get iOS apps on the Mac…
