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Apple, Enough With the Slow-Ass Chargers
You may not know it, but your iPhone—if an iPhone 8 or later—is capable of much faster charging. The only problem is, Apple doesn’t give you the stuff necessary for it. But a new rumor claims that could be changing, and it should. Apple’s phones are currently shipped with a standard 5W charging cube. If … Continued
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Report: Apple Poached Intel’s Smartphone 5G Modem Lead Before Resolving Battle With Qualcomm
Apple poached Intel’s lead developer for 5G phone modems, Umashankar Thyagarajan, in February—just weeks before it buried the hatchet with rival chip supplier Qualcomm this April, according to a report in the Telegraph on Sunday. The hire apparently wasn’t a closely held secret (Thyagarajan now lists an “Architecture” job at Apple on his LinkedIn page). … Continued
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Report: Screen-Time App Developers Say Apple Is Systematically Kicking Them Off App Store
Apple has removed or imposed restrictions on at least 11 out of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental control apps on the App Store, the New York Times reported on Saturday, as it implemented its own screen-time tracker in iOS—a move that has threatened the viability of some of the companies involved and may … Continued
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Why Is Apple’s Famous Design Team Reportedly Bleeding Talent?
Something is happening in Cupertino. According to the Wall Street Journal, the members of Apple’s core industrial design team are leaving the company at a steady rate. These are the folks that designed the iPhone. Now, sources say, they’re done. Who knows what this means. Anonymous sources told the Journal that Rico Zorkendorfer and Daniele … Continued
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The iPhone XR Is Apple’s Real Star
When it comes to Apple’s current phone lineup, the iPhone XS and XS Max get most of the attention thanks to features like dual cameras, more luxurious designs, and vivid OLED screens. But the iPhone XR is Apple’s true winner. That’s because, for the second quarter in a row, the iPhone XR remains the best-selling … Continued
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This Is The Strongest Sign Yet That Apple TV+ Is Gonna Suck
The more we learn about Apple’s forthcoming streaming service, the more underwhelming this product ultimately sounds—and a new whisper of one its offerings isn’t doing Apple any favors. Citing four people familiar with the matter, Reuters reported Wednesday that Airbnb is looking to get into the original content game with series designed to get viewers … Continued
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Strong Rumors Suggest One of iOS’s Most Glaring Omissions Could Be Fixed
Strong rumors suggest iOS could finally be getting mouse input support and that it could be coming to the iPad Pro. The rumor comes courtesy of Federico Viticci of MacStories, who mentioned it on the Connected podcast. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith then confirmed the rumor on Twitter. Troughton-Smith then elaborated, noting that mouse support would likely … Continued
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Teen Sues Apple for $1 Billion, Claiming Facial Recognition Led to False Arrest
A New York teen’s life was made miserable because of mistaken identity cases caused by Apple’s facial recognition software, according to a $1 billion lawsuit filed against Apple on Monday. Ousmane Bah’s lawsuit claims that someone stole his driver’s permit—which did not have a face photo—and then used that permit to wrongly identify themselves as … Continued
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Apple’s Secretive Project Titan Is Reportedly on a Quest for a Better Self-Driving Car Sensor
A fresh report has renewed rumors about Apple’s super-secretive autonomous car unit known as Project Titan. Citing three sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reported Wednesday that the company’s self-driving car unit is exploring options for a “revolutionary design” in lidar sensors. The company has spoken with at least four unnamed companies, the news service … Continued
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When Will Apple Release a 5G iPhone?
After two years, Apple’s legal spats with Qualcomm have come to an anticlimactic end. There’s a lot to parse from the settlement itself, but one main takeaway is that Apple now has a faster path toward building a 5G-compatible iPhone. Neither company officially specified exactly why two years of sniping came to an end, but … Continued
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This Better Not Be the Plan for the New iPhone SE
A supply chain report from Taiwan suggests that Apple is planning to release a new version of the iPhone 8 with upgraded guts in March 2020. These guts could include an updated A13 processor which would surely give the old phone some new kick. If true, this could be the new iPhone SE model that’s … Continued
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Apple and Qualcomm End Global Court Battle and Are Best Buds Again
The tech giants Apple and Qualcomm avoided extending an already grueling three-continent legal battle by settling their years-long disputes on Tuesday. The agreement includes an undisclosed payment from Apple to Qualcomm, a six-year licensing deal, and a chip supply agreement. In other words, these multibillion-dollar technology giants have finally buried the hatchet and agree to … Continued
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Mozilla Calls Out Apple’s iOS Tracking Tech
Apple’s ads over the last year have been centered around one idea: privacy. The message is that the rest of the tech industry is fucking up while Apple is not. Frankly, they have a point. With its encrypted phones and messages to anti-tracking in browsers, Apple is jumping over an admittedly low bar on privacy … Continued
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No Software Updates Will Fix Apple’s Worst Bug
New York’s Apple store on 5th Avenue is infested with bed bugs, according to a new report from the New York Post. And employees at the store are being told to wrap all their belongings in plastic bags to protect against the bed bug scourge. Anonymous private messages published on Twitter appear to confirm the … Continued
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Here’s the Weirdest Apple Bug I’ve Ever Heard Of
Creative individuals with access to an automobile beware. There’s a weird thing happening with Apple Pencils, iPad Pros, and car key fobs, and I swear it’s the weirdest Apple bug I’ve ever heard of. Basically, if they’re all in the same place at once, stuff might stop working. Apple recently updated its support page for … Continued
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Why You Should Care About the Latest Chapter in the Showdown Between Apple and Qualcomm
The legal showdown between Apple and Qualcomm is nothing new. The two tech giants have been sniping at each other in courts spanning three continents for years now. But Monday marked the start of the main trial in what’s essentially the world’s biggest patent/antitrust case—and depending on who wins, the implications are huge for tech. … Continued
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Report: Apple May Spend Over Half a Billion on Its Subscription Game Service
Sources say Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars, and may exceed half a billion dollars in total funding, for its upcoming Arcade game subscription service, the Financial Times reported this weekend. While the company’s plans to move into streaming television and films (as well as news partnerships) have drawn the lion’s share of … Continued
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Apple News+ Is a Total Mess
It’s been three weeks since Apple announced News+, an ambitious service that offers hundreds of magazines and a handful of newspaper subscriptions for $10 a month. This is the first of two major new paid services Apple plans to launch this year, as part of a major effort to revitalize its business in the face … Continued
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Apple Cops Another Anti-Trust Investigation (Congrats!)
Apple is renowned for its ability to amass thousands of talented engineers, millions of users, and billions in cash-on-hand. While nowhere near prolific in this particular growth sector, it’s also gotten pretty good at attracting anti-trust complaints. As Bloomberg reports, Dutch officials opened an investigation into the computing giant’s alleged preferential treatment of its own … Continued
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Apple Music Censors Songs in China Referencing 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and Democracy, Watchdog Says
Apple needs China. But it comes at a cost. More than just the place where much of the company’s hardware is built, China is the biggest market in the world, and it’s the third-largest market for Apple. While other big American tech firms have limited their operations in China at least in part to avoid … Continued