Apple has chosen to close all of its five Apple retails stores in the Washington area in the US at least until near the end of this month in order to keep employees safe as well as the physical store. This is following on from the issues last week, where protesters stormed the US Capitol building. Ahead of the Inauguration Day on the 20th January, the US Capitol building is […]
According to a report from Canalys Apple managed to ship 16% more Macs in 2020 than it did in 2019, but as the report point out it is still behind its main PC rivals, such as Dell, HP and Lenovo. The fact they are behind isn’t surprising, there isn’t a lot of companies willing to shell out over £900 per machine for an employee when it can tick the same box […]
Tim Cook spoke to CBS on This Morning earlier today and he spoke about the events which happened at the US Capitol last week. The interview will be airing in full tomorow and we can expect a “big announcement” from Apple CEO, Tim Cook so says Gayle King, host of This Morning. The announcement won’t be a new product, but in light of all the privacy issues lately, it is expected to be […]
Yesterday, Apple released iOS 12.5.1 for older devices that cant be updated to iOS 13 and iOS 14. Those devices include the original iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 3 as well as the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, among others. This new update only addresses a bug that was introduced with the previous update to iOS 12, with iOS 12.5 last month. That updated added Exposure Notifications […]
According to a report from CNBC the Apple App Store saw massive growth numbers last year, compared to 2019. In 2020 the App Store took in over $64 billion in sales, compared to 2019 when it had $50 billion, a growth of 20%. Apple issued a press release earlier this month detailing that, to date since January 2008 the company has paid $200 billion to developers. On the very first day of […]
The third lockdown has come into effect today here in England and Scotland, Apple has taken the decision to now close all its stores in the UK affecting stores in Wales and Northern Ireland too. Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon both annoicuned new lockdowns affecting England and Scotland which means that all non essential travel is prohibited as well as that non essential shops must close, and Apple falls into […]
Here in the UK, the tiers were adjusted on Sunday and as a result all of London is in a new tier 4, essentially meaning travel is very restricted over Christmas. Following on from this, Apple has closed a number of stores in the UK, as well as in Tennessee, Brazil and Mexico. Also in California, all of the company’s 53 stores have now been shut too. In a statement […]
Starting today with the launch of iOS 14.3 and watchOS 7.2, Apple has made its new fitness based service, Apple Fitness+ available. It was announced back in September along side Apple One, the new bundle service, iPad 8th gen, new Apple Watches and iPad Air. Apple Fitness+ is included in the Premium plan of Apple One which is £29.95 per month / $29.95 or on its own for £9.99/$9.99 per month. […]
Apple announced earlier in the week that Apple Fitness+ will be launching next week on Monday 14th December. The new service was announced back in September along side Apple One, the new bundle service, iPad 8th gen, new Apple Watches and iPad Air. Apple Fitness+ is included in the Premium plan of Apple One which is £29.95 per month / $29.95 or on its own for £9.99/$9.99 per month. Apple […]
The new AirPods Max headphones from Apple were announced yesterday and to a very mixed audience, mainly due to the price. But since the launch we’ve discovered a few things about them, and notable is the time they took to develop. Dinesh Dave on Twitter revealed that the AirPods Pro took around four years to develop, the tweets have since been deleted but Ryan Jones managed to screenshot them before […]
