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New iPad Pros Are Potentially Launching in April
Amid a pandemic that has created a fresh need for many people to perform their essential work and school functions from home, sources in the know said Wednesday that Apple plans to expand its iPad Pro line in April. According to Bloomberg, the design of the updated iPad Pro is expected to resemble the 11-inch … Continued
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The ‘I’m a Mac’ Guy Is Now Mocking Macs for Intel
Intel has doubled down on its marketing blitz to persuade buyers that PCs are better than Macs, but this time there’s a twist. As MacRumors spotted, the chipmaker has recruited Justin Long, the cool “I’m a Mac” guy from Apple’s Mac vs. PC commercials, in a series of new ads it released today called “Justin … Continued
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Apple Patent Hopes We’ll All Show Feet in AR
One thing that most Big Tech companies working on smart glasses haven’t figure out yet is how to effectively interact with an augmented reality environment. Apple is heavily rumored to be working on its own pair of AR glasses and apparently considered vibrating haptic socks to tackle this problem. A new patent spotted by AppleInsider … Continued
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Don’t Expect AirPods 3 to Launch This Month
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the next-generation AirPods. Mostly, several leaks suggesting they’re going to look like the AirPods Pro and that the buds will launch at a rumored March event that Apple is purportedly organizing. But don’t get your hopes up. Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is throwing cold water on … Continued
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Apple: RIP HomePod. Long Live the HomePod Mini
Apple is reportedly discontinuing its original HomePod smart speaker as the company pivots focus to the HomePod mini, its smaller and more affordable baby brother. TechCrunch reported confirmation from Apple on Friday that it’s shelving the HomePod just a few short years after its initial launch. Reviews weren’t kind when Apple’s voice-controlled smart speaker first … Continued
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We’ve Reached Peak AirPods 3 Rumors
The next generation of AirPods is expected to look a lot different than its predecessors. Photos from 52Audio claiming to show the AirPods 3 indicate significant changes compared to the current AirPods, most noticeably with a shorter stem that looks a lot more similar to the design of the AirPods Pro. According to the report, … Continued
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Apple’s Suing an Ex-Employee Who Allegedly Leaked Secrets to Media
Everybody loves a good Apple leak—except for Apple. The notoriously secretive company is now suing an ex-employee for stealing and then selling trade secrets to a currently unnamed journalist in exchange for dubious favors. The ex-employee, according to court documents, is Simon Lancaster, who worked as an Advanced Materials Lead and Product Design Architect for … Continued
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Apple Rumored to Finally Embrace Bigger Batteries on the iPhone 13
For years, Apple has been able to equip its iPhones with smaller batteries than its Android counterparts thanks to the strong energy efficiency of the company’s A-series chips, but it seems that for the iPhone 13, Apple might finally increase the size of the iPhone’s power packs. The latest info comes from noted Apple analyst … Continued
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Fighting With Apple Over Your iPhone’s Privacy Settings Is Now an International Trend
For years now, Apple’s earned a reputation for being possibly the only major tech company with a semi-decent set of privacy practices. But a new complaint lobbed against the company alleges that some of Apple’s more recent moves are less about privacy and more about gaining a leg up on its competitors—a claim Apple quickly … Continued
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Apple Study Affirms That Women Do in Fact Have Cramps During Their Periods
Apple added period-tracking to the iOS Health app and launched a clinical study into women’s health back in 2019. Now, the Apple Women’s Health Study team has some preliminary data that affirms that, yes, there is an incredible variety of period symptoms suffered by menstruating people worldwide. The findings were from the first 10,000 participants … Continued
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New Report States Apple Will Release Mixed Reality Headset in 2022 and AR Glasses by 2025
While the rumblings over Apple’s planned venture into augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality have been getting louder recently, we now have a series of dates for these devices by prognosticator Ming Chi-Kuo, a good source with a reliable track record on all things Apple. In a research note with TF International Securities obtained … Continued
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Bye Bye iMac Pro. It’s Been Good Knowing Ya
Apple is discontinuing the iMac Pro and will sell the ones it has left “while supplies last,” according to a new message added to the desktop’s product page Friday. MacRumors first spotted the new notice on the iMac Pro’s product page and then confirmed with Apple that the device is being discontinued. Apple told the … Continued
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Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn’t a Feature After All
What appeared to be one of the most exciting features of iOS 14.5 turns out to work a little differently than it originally seemed. Last month, Redditors discovered that the iOS 14.5 beta presented a new menu when a user asked Siri to play music. That menu offered app alternatives for music playback, including Spotify, … Continued
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Apple’s App Store Faces New Antitrust Investigation in UK
Regulators in the UK have launched a new antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store, according to an announcement from Britain’s Competition and Market’s Authority on Thursday. And if the details sound similar to the European Union’s antitrust probes, that’s no accident. The UK will investigate the terms developers must agree to when they build software … Continued
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Arizona’s Anti-Monopoly Bill Could Help Put Fortnite Back in the iOS App Store
Arizona legislators just passed an anti-monopoly bill in a 31-29 vote, which could have big implications for Apple, Google, and, weirdly enough, Fortnite. Arizona House Bill HB2005 “restricts the ability of certain digital application distribution platforms to require use of a specific in-application payment system.” (You can read the text of the bill here.) This … Continued
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Apple’s New Service Helps You Transfer Your Pics and Videos From iCloud to Google Photos
For anyone who feels like they’ve been held hostage by iCloud’s 5GB of free storage or just wants to try out a different photo storage app, this week Apple launched a new service designed to make it way easier to transfer photos and videos stored in iCloud over to Google Photos. As reported by MacRumors … Continued
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It Looks Like Apple’s Find My App Will Soon Let You Track More Than Just Apple Devices
Apple’s Find My app has long been a handy way of keeping track of your iPhone, MacBook, and other Apple devices, but in the most recent iOS 1.5 beta, Apple looks to be expanding item-tracking to a wider range of non-Apple products. First spotted by MacRumors, in the third beta for iOS 14.5, Apple has … Continued
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Apple Hearing Study Finds 1 in 5 Participants Experienced Hearing Loss
Apple introduced the ability to track your noise level exposure on the Apple Watch back in 2019. The company also launched three clinical research studies alongside that feature, including one to examine hearing health. Now, a little over a year later, Apple’s sharing some preliminary results in time for World Hearing Day. For the Apple … Continued
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Apple May Finally Shrink the Notch for iPhone 13
It appears the smallest design from Apple’s 2020’s phones may stick around for the iPhone 13, after all. That’s just one of several predictions about the next generation of iPhones from noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to an investor note obtained and reported by 9to5Mac on Monday, Kuo stated that we may see “four … Continued
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Rumor Has It an iPhone 13 With 1 TB Storage Is Coming
If you’re the type of person that still needs more storage, Apple might have answered your prayers. According to 9to5Mac, there are indications that this year’s iPhone lineup—yes, we’re talking about the next one already—will have 1 TB storage. The outlet cited analysts at the investment firm Wedbush, which pointed to supply chain checks as … Continued
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