Worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 8.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2014…
Tag: OS X
Apple blew past Microsoft in personal computer shipments in 2015
Last July, sales of iOS devices caught up with sales of Windows devices…
OS X’s Hidden Bluetooth Debug menu lets you reset devices and more
If you’re having serious issues with a connected peripheral device like a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse…
Apple Music subscribers could hit 100 million users in 6 years
100 million paying Apple Music members would far outstrip what any streaming music service has accomplished so far…
How Apple’s iMac broke my 18-month PC upgrade cycle
Usually, by month 18, I’m swearing up a blue moon, and decide once again to cause damage to my wallet and upgrade once again.
Apple Music nabs 10 million subscribers in 6 months, which took Spotify 6 years
Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months…
Hey Siri, why aren’t you on my Mac?
Siri is great for things like setting alarms and timers and such…
Apple’s inevitable operating system convergence will be about input, not interface
Using new input devices and features like the Apple Pencil and the iOS 9 trackpad enabled by 3D Touch is a sublime and eye-opening experience…
Mossberg’s everyday tech wish list for 2016
The dominant digital hardware company needs to use 2016 to get a better handle on its software…
Fun with Swift
Swift is certainly not a pure functional language but it’s whole lot better than Objective-C…
Hedge fund manager blasts Marissa Mayer for equipping employees with 22,000 iPhones
Marissa Mayer spends money like Marie Antoinette…
Yahoo investors running out of patience with CEO Marissa Mayer
In December, Yahoo abandoned its original plan to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, worth more than $30 billion…
How to run ‘headless’ virtual machines in OS X
If you run multiple operating systems on your Mac in virtual machines, then you likely use either Virtual Box, VMWare Fusion, or Parallels Desktop…
What’s next for Apple in 2016: New product rumor roundup
The iMac, MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro should all see upgrades to Intel’s latest processors, and in other areas, such as…
2015: Apple’s year in beta
What we got in 2015 was an Apple that released more products than ever, all of which felt incomplete…
Apple patent hints at major interface changes for OS X, iOS, tvOS
Apple has applied for a patent (number 20150370425) with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office…
How to turn a Mac mini into a media server with Plex
It’s advantageous that Plex’s server be always on, so you can start watching your movies and TV shows…
Judge dismisses lawsuit against Apple over undelivered texts to Android devices
All of the active lawsuits against the Cupertino-based company regarding this particular issue are now closed…
In Depth: A month with Apple’s iPad Pro
Fast, responsive, lasts all day on battery… I expect it to further encroach on the territory of traditional laptops in the office…
Got a Mac that’s not behaving itself? Try these troubleshooting tips
These two tricks have been successful in solving some 90 percent of the Mac problems I’ve encountered…
Apple revamps Mac in Business webpage with focus on success stories
Apple launched a redesigned Mac in Business webpage to better target…
How IBM helped Apple’s Mac sales last quarter
Mac is Apple’s second most valuable business and accounted for 13% of its revenues…
MacKeeper scamware leaks 13 million Mac owners’ data, leaves passwords open to easy cracking
Do not install MacKeeper…
Apple has hugely ambitious plans for open-sourced Swift, and hints on what’s coming to iOS
Craig Federighi revealed many interesting tidbits…
Apple Inc., the enterprise IT company
Apple has grown so quickly that it can be hard to grasp just enormous it is…
Security researcher claims to have downloaded sensitive data from 13 million accounts of MacKeeper scamware app
I have recently downloaded over 13 million sensitive account details related to MacKeeper: names, email addresses, usernames, password hashes, computer name, ip address…
Security experts predict rise in cyber threats against Apple iOS and OS X operating systems
Security firm Symantec expects cyber attacks against Apple products…
Why are Apple MacBooks so much more reliable?
The Mac’s growing sales in a declining PC market shows that customers are finally getting it…
OS X ‘El Capitan’ now ready for production Macs with 10.11.2 version
It’s taken ten weeks and two major updates, but Apple’s OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” is now ready for prime time….
The best Mac games for 2015
If you look back at this year, one thing will surprise you: The quantity of great Mac games released…
Apple Macs replacing Windows PCs throughout enterprise at ‘unprecedented rate’ – survey of IT pros
Apple devices are rapidly becoming an integral part of today’s enterprise environment…
Apple releases OS X El Capitan 10.11.2
Apple today released OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 which improves the stability, compatibility, and security…
Windows Phone and Android are failures
Windows Phone? Android? They’re both dead. Apple CEO Tim Cook holds all the cards…
Has Apple left the Mac App Store for dead?
Where the iOS App Store is the center of the app universe for iOS users, the Mac App Store was an afterthought and a bolt-on…
Three huge challenges facing Apple in 2016
Here are three big challenges facing Apple in 2016…
Slowing smartphone growth is great news for Apple’s iPhone
2015 will be the first year that the rate at which the worldwide smartphone market expands will sink into single digits…
OS X: How to disentangle your Mac from the ‘Xfinitywifi’ network
This can cause all sorts of frustrating issues that aren’t always easy for people to figure out…
After Apple open sources it, IBM puts Swift programming in the cloud
That didn’t take long: As soon as Apple released its Swift programming language to the open source community…
Apple’s iPad Pro: An entrepreneur’s verdict
Now there is no getting around it, in the words of Donald Trump, ‘It’s huuuuuuuuge!’
Apple officially releases Swift programming language as open source
Introduced in 2014, Swift is the fastest growing programming language in history and combines the performance and efficiency…
OS X El Capitan upgrade tempo slows significantly
Adoption of Apple’s OS X El Capitan slowed significantly in November…
Should Apple buy Yahoo?
It looks like Yahoo is considering selling its core business…
