Speaking at the Web Summit conference today in Portugal Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi spoke about his and Apple’s views on privacy and sideloading on the iPhone. This follows the recent provision from the EU with the Digital Markets Act that would force Apple to allow sideloading on the iPhone. Federighi said that sideloading is a criminals best friend and that it would open the floodgates to malware on […]
Beats this week has culled a handful of products from its line up, including the Powerbeats, Beats Solo Pro and the Beats EP. The Beats Solo Pro are on ear headphones and were introduced in 2019, with ANC, a Lightning port and the folding mechanism for a way to turn on and off the headphones. Powerbeats were introduced last year and replaced the older Powerbeats 3, with a design similar […]
Apple has this week marked the iPad 4th generation from 2012 as officially obsolete. The fourth generation was introduced just a few months after the third generation, which itself was the first iPad to feature the now standard Retina display, which at the time the only other devices to feature it was the iPod touch 4th and 5th generation and the iPhone 4 and 4s. As of 1st November the […]
Apple has announced this week that its extended return policy is now in place, as we approach the Christmas holidays and the whole shopping season. The new policy applies to nearly everything the company makes, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods and HomePod mini. This following policy applies to the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands. Apple has said that any items […]
Apple has now, as of this week stopped selling the old Intel 21.5 iMac on its online store. The base model has been left on sale since Apple introduced the brand new iMac 24-inch back in April, with the Apple M1 SoC and new colours. This change affects the Apple online store and its retail locations, third party stores will still stock it, so long as stock lasts. The model […]
Apple yesterday, announced its earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2021. For this period, Apple saw $20.6B in profit and $83.4B in revenue. Both its services and Mac sales hit new all time records as well as hitting new records for the full fiscal year. For Q4, iPhone made up 46.6% of sales, Mac 11.0%, Services 21.9%, iPad 9.9% and the wearables and home category was 10.5%. For the full […]
Apple has today released a lot of software, included in that spurge of updates is a minor one for the Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K. tvOS 15.1 includes support for SharePlay, to go along with the added support on iOS 15, macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15. tvOS usually updates automatically, but if you want to manually upgrade, it can be done so by going to Settings > System > […]
Apple has revealed today that the Apple TV 4K box and the Apple TV+ streaming service will be launching in South Korea next month, on 4th November. To celebrate the launch, Apple is launching its first Korean original series on the same day, with “Dr. Brain.” “Dr. Brain is an emotional journey that follows a brain scientist who is obsessive about figuring out new technologies to access the consciousness and […]
Apple has today released iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1, the first major “point” release of the operating system since its initial release last month. Coincidentally, today’s release comes exactly one month since the release of iOS 15. Both updates can be downloaded now for free and the same devices that are supported on iOS 15 will also be eligible for this update. You can download it either via iTunes on Windows […]
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the original iPod, when it was announced by a financially recovering Apple back in 2001. Steve Jobs announced it at the Town Hall in Apple’s old headquarters, Infinite Loop. Back in 2001, Apple had really only offered its Mac lineup and iTunes, obviously the company had dabbled with the Newton before Jobs returned to the company and helped put it back on track, revamping […]
