Hundreds of people today lined up around the block of Apple’s new retail store in the tourist-heavy Union Square neighborhood…
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Apple retail stores ushered in the post-commodity era
Fifteen years ago, what the pundits didn’t get about the stores is what they still don’t get about Apple…
Apple’s Retail Store makeover: Hope or hype?
Four years ago, I took my kids to Amsterdam. After a long day of touring museums and canals…
Apple’s new San Francisco retail store showcases Jony Ive’s design vision
When the first Apple stores opened in 2001, people stood in round-the-block lines…
Angela Ahrendts brings luxury to Apple’s flagship stores
Apple has unveiled new concepts for its flagship retail stores in a transformation led by Angela Ahrendts, the former Burberry chief executive…
Apple supplier Catcher CEO: One iPhone model will adopt glass casing next year
Apple Inc. has decided that it will change iPhone casings from metal to glass to differentiate itself…
Apple’s new Union Square store highlights new retail elements, including ‘Genius Grove,’ ‘The Forum,’ and more
Apple today revealed its new store on San Francisco’s Union Square, offering many new features and services…
Jony Ive discusses the future of Apple Watch and more at Met Gala
The term ‘fashion-tech’ may be less than 10 years old, but many of the garments on display in…
Apple’s Jony Ive opens Met Gala ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology’ event in Manhattan
Last fall we learned that Apple would sponsor this year’s Met Gala with Jony Ive…
iPhone 7 may have slightly larger battery than iPhone 6s
The iPhone 7 may have a slightly larger battery than the current generation iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus…
Vogue and Apple: A love story
Taylor Swift is the face of both Apple Music and Vogue’s March 2016 issue. Nothing is an accident…
Apple’s massive R&D expenditure indicates myriad projects in the pipeline
Famously secretive Apple doesn’t tip its hand on new stuff, but its fiscal second quarter report…
Apple’s languishing Macintosh: Is a massive re-invention near?
Apple’s Mac lineup has become a cash cow with little invention, but that may be about to change…
Ford: ‘We assume Apple is working on a car’
Ford’s chief executive has revealed that it’s working on the assumption that its major rivals in the future may not be General Motors or Chrysler, but Apple…
New Apple hires from Tesla and Andretti Autosport suggest work on Apple Car parts prototypes
One of these is David Masiukiewicz, formerly a senior CNC programmer for R&D hardware prototyping at Tesla…
The auto industry is just waiting for someone like Apple
The auto industry has seen a number of disruptive events…
Oh, yes, an Apple Car will succeed
While the electric vehicle (EV) market still represents just a fraction of all light vehicles sold worldwide…
Tesla Motors VP of vehicle engineering has joined Apple, but he wasn’t ‘poached’
Speculation about Apple’s vehicle project, which is reportedly referred to as Project Titan internally, is as rampant as ever….
Apple hires former Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering to work on ‘special project’
At Aston Martin, Porritt was credited with making some of the company’s most iconic vehicles in recent years, including the One-77 supercar, V12 Zagato and Aston Martin DB9…
What the Apple Car might really be like
As has been the case with most of Apple’s product launches, if the company eventually does bring a car to market…
Jony Ive creates one-of-a-kind 12.9-inch iPad Pro, range of accessories for ‘Time For Design’ auction
Jony Ive’s contribution to the Design Museum auction includes a 12.9-inch iPad Pro anodized with a custom dye; a blue, suede-lined ‘Smart Cover,’ crafted from supple French leather; and an orange cover for the Apple Pencil, created from fine grain Italian calf leather…
GoPro hires longtime Apple designer Danny Coster to head up a new hardware design group
While Apple prides itself in maintaining a tight group of 19 industrial design team members under Jony Ive…
iPhone 7 A10 chip may work wonders for battery life on super-thin iPhone
Apple’s typically happy to trade battery size for a thinner frame when it comes to each new iPhone, but…
The massive displays in the new Ive-designed Apple Stores each cost $1.5 million
The giant screens that form part of the new Apple Store design created by Jony Ive…
Where is Jony Ive?
Last week, Apple unveiled a new (well, a smaller version) piece of hardware, the baby iPad Pro…
Jony Ive discusses relationship with Steve Jobs, design culture, and more with Charlie Rose
Jony Ive tells a story of a time he and late Apple CEO Steve Jobs were shopping in Italy…
Sacha Baron Cohen deftly parodies Apple product launches
Sacha Baron Cohen portrays plays Apple-ish executives…
Apple succumbs, opens new San Francisco office spotlighting intensifying war for tech talent
The thinking, championed by Steve Jobs, was that a centralized campus would put the CEO within walking distance of everyone…
‘Apple Freak’ Fiat Chrysler CEO: Apple ‘ill’ if they try making a car on their own
Illnesses like this come and go, you will recover from them…
Jony Ive discusses the synergy between Apple and fashion
Apple’s lexicon of pure, pared-down forms, smooth surfaces, gleaming metallic colors, and soft contours within hard carapaces…
Apple’s iPhone Reality Distortion Field
Having the iPhone become the single-most successful consumer technology product in history…
iPhone 7 leak reveals significant design changes
Apple is taking a big gamble with the iPhone 7…
Apple’s broken narrative
Tim Cook and Luca Maestri had one goal for last week’s earnings conference call: convince Wall Street to begin thinking differently about Apple…
Apple’s Project Titan hits a major speed bump
All is not necessarily well in Cupertino these days…
Apple Car: Jony Ive unhappy with ‘Project Titan’ progress, Apple implements hiring freeze, source says
Apple has placed a hiring freeze on the team responsible for the company’s nascent automotive ambitions…
Daimler CEO says met with Apple in California for ‘concrete talks’
Our impression was that these companies can do more and know more than we had previously assumed…
Apple’s ‘Project Titan’ honcho to leave the company; ‘Huge loss for Apple’ says Tony Fadell
One of Apple’s top automobile gurus plans to leave the company…
Apple veteran Steve Zadesky overseeing electric-car project leaving company
The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading the company’s efforts to build an automobile is leaving the company…
Apple Watch Hermès available for purchase online this Friday
Instead of having to visit a select boutique in a major city like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Miami for an Apple Watch Hermès, you’ll be able to easily shop for one online…
A series of questions for Apple’s 2016
The Apple Watch has become a litmus test for Apple’s ability to create compelling new product categories…
Open thread: What’d be wrong with slightly thicker iPhone with more battery life and a flush camera assembly?
Yes, we know Apple thinks thinness sets iPhone apart from all other so-called smartphones…
Apple has 800 people working on improving the iPhone’s camera
Apple has a team of 800 people working on a single iPhone feature: Its camera…