Apple just lost a talking point for their next press conference. Customer satisfaction gurus J.D. Power just released the results of its look at the tablet market for 2017, and found that Microsoft is now leading the way with its Surface hybrids. Microsoft shouldn’t get too comfortable — out of a possible 1,000 points, Microsoft scored […]
While Apple outsources the manufacturing of all of its hardware, they still design everything (from sensors to processors) for their mobile devices. Well, almost everything — the GPU cores on their A-series chips are still designed by PowerVR, which is part of UK firm Imagination Technologies. However, reports today indicate that Imagination Technologies might have to […]
Is the future of the MacBook the iPhone? That’s what a recently published patent awarded to Apple suggests. The paperwork includes a design for a laptop shell that would possibly be powered by an iPhone, also raising the question of whether or not Apple plans to merge its desktop and mobile operating systems sometime in the […]
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Usually, Apple is at the forefront of the tech world, but no one’s perfect. The company is finally rectifying one of those imperfections this week by finally allowing its users to watch movie rentals across all their devices. After years of so many companies championing the power of the cloud and letting us access everything […]
Maybe they were inspired by Beauty and the Beast — today, Apple announced a gorgeous new red color for the iPhone 7. As usual, the bright red colorway comes courtesy of (PRODUCT) RED, an organization that raises money for the Global Fund for AIDS research. The red iPhone has captured our attention, but Apple had some iPad […]
Beats has been killing it lately. Their Powerbeats3 and Solo3 wireless headphones both earned Chip Chick Picks for being top notch wireless headphones in their respective categories. After a delay, their lightweight BeatsX in-ear headphones are finally here, and we consider them to be a superior alternative to Apple’s AirPods. First of all, kudos to […]
Original television is what all the cool tech kids are doing these days, and far be it from Apple to sit out a good trend. Last year they announced Planet of the Apps, a show where plucky developers pitch their world-beating app ideas to the likes of will.i.am, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Jessica Alba. If […]
iPhone rumors are never out of season! The latest one suggests that we could see wireless charging on at least one of this year’s iPhones. 9to5Mac has noticed that Apple has quietly joined the Wireless Power Consortium, a group that promotes the Qi wireless charging standard. It’s bare bones as rumors go, but one figures Apple […]
After three straight quarters of declining year-on-year revenue, Apple finally righted the ship with the help of the iPhone 7. Apple’s financial report for the previous quarter, which includes the holiday season, revealed that the company sold 78.3 million combined iPhone 7 units, leading to $78.4 billion in revenue. Sounds good for Apple, but there […]
All of a sudden, things have turned ugly for the foremost producer of chipsets for Android smartphones. While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets are their most visible products, the company makes chips and modems enabling network connectivity, too, and it’s that part of their business under attack. Who’s leading the charge? Apple. Qualcomm has supplied modems to Apple […]
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It’s been like this for a while, but the Wild West has been tamed. The world of apps has been whittled down to a few giants, and it’s those giants that dominate the top 10 apps of 2016. Nielsen has been getting into mobile analytics lately, and they’ve put together the list based on average […]
Leaks originating from a Chinese blog said to be a frequent source of iPhone supply chain revelations are suggesting that Apple has three models of iPhone in the works for next year. The leaks indicate that in addition to the iPhone 7S and 7S Plus, which would be incremental upgrades over this year’s phone, there […]
A huge part of Apple’s justification for removing the 3.5 mm audio port on the iPhone 7 was the reveal of their AirPods — true wireless earbuds that use the company’s new W1 chip to pair automatically across all of a user’s Apple devices and provide a more stable wireless connection. But, things didn’t quite go […]
In 2014, Beats and designer Alexander Wang joined forces for a whole line of special edition black and gold products, including the Studio headphones, urBeats, and a snakeskin Pill case. That announcement came around the time Apple announced their acquisition of Beats, but fortunately, it looks like Apple doesn’t have a problem with name brand […]
When Apple made their big iPhone 7 announcement in September, they managed to carve out the smallest sliver of time to introduce three new Beats products — the first set to directly benefit from the Apple’s acquisition of Beats. The Solo3 Wireless on-ears, Powerbeats3 in-ears, and the lighter BeatsX in-ears all have Apple’s new W1 chip, which enables […]
The original story about a man finding a working iPhone 4 at the bottom of a drained, often frozen lake was posted on BuzzFeed last week, so chances are you’ve already been made aware of it by at least two or three other sites. So, instead of just retelling the story, we’re just going to hop […]
In April, rumors started circulating that Apple was looking to add an OLED screen to next year’s iPhone for their big 10-year anniversary redesign. Trouble was, there’s only one company that can mass produce smartphone-sized OLED screens, and that company doesn’t have the friendliest of relationships with Apple. Reports from the Korean Herald and the Chinese Wall Street […]
Toms, the company best-known for its policy of donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold, is now bringing their charity model to the Apple Watch. This week, the company introduced seven Apple Watch bands on their website and pledged to donate a solar-powered light for each band sold. Of the seven bands, three fit […]
I guess every day is April 1. I guess that’s just life now. The world has embraced swirling madness, and everyone’s along for the ride. We’ve already seen BP lose it, and now none other than Apple is hopping on the crazy train with something that we want to believe is self-parody, except they’re actually […]
We’ve seen our fair share of toys making the jump to apps over the years, enough to make the idea the norm instead of the exception. But today, we’re talking Play-Doh, and the new app and playset they’ve made is so interesting that Apple has decided to sell it in their retail stores. I’m pretty […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when the Thunderbolt port was the hot thing to have for any laptop. Since then, Thunderbolt technology has moved away from that boxy proprietary connector and into the ubiquitous USB Type-C connector. Well, we didn’t know that was going to happen at the time, and now we’ve […]
