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Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Apple and the World Wildlife Fund this week announced that the recent “Apps for Earth” promotion has raised more than $8 million in proceeds to support the WWF’s conservation work. The Apps for Earth promotion, timed to take place to celebrate Earth Day, ran from April 14 to April 24 and saw dozens of apps…
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Apple is getting serious about HomeKit. Two years after introducing the automated home platform on iOS 8, the company this week announced new support for a host of connected appliances, as well as a forthcoming iOS 10 setting that turns iPad into a smart home hub. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple today unveiled new versions of iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS, all of which are jam-packed with new features. iOS in particular was referred to as Apple’s biggest iOS update ever, with major improvements to Messages, Apple Music, Siri, and tons of other minor features. It took Apple two hours to go over all of…
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Investment firm Piper Jaffray views Apple’s Didi funding as a new direction for the company, providing long-term strategic positioning benefits in China’s expanding automotive industry. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple announced yesterday that it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-sharing service Didi Chuxing, but CEO Tim Cook refused to elaborate on the reasoning behind the move, beyond saying that it will help the company better understand the Chinese market and “deliver a strong return” on its invested capital over the long term. Nevertheless,…
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Apple reported its first negative-growth quarter since 2003 last month as iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales all declined compared to the year-ago period, and new data shows that notebook sales unsurprisingly fared no better when broken out. MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro sales totaled an estimated 2.53 million in the first quarter of the…
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Despite a number of leaks suggesting Apple’s next-generation "iPhone 7" might feature a Smart Connector on the back side of its chassis, a new report claims that the company ultimately opted not to include the feature in its final design. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple was able to squeeze out an extra hour of battery life and modest performance gains from its second-generation 12-inch MacBook, but is that enough to warrant an upgrade from the 2015 model? Find out in AppleInsider’s head-to-head video. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Intel is ending production of its mobile Atom processors as the reality sets in of a mobile world where virtually all the profits are inhaled by devices sold by Apple and powered by the iPhone-maker’s own custom Ax series Application Processors. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Sportscar maker Porsche has announced support for Apple’s CarPlay in the 718 Cayman and 718 Cayman S, which are now on sale, but only shipping to dealers in late November. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple’s original thin-and-light laptop wasn’t left out of Tuesday’s update fray, as all configurations of Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Air now ship with 8 gigabytes of RAM. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
An auction in London is featuring a custom 12.9-inch iPad Pro and accompanying Smart Cover, Apple Pencil and holder as one of its lots, as donated by Apple SDO Jony Ive and his design team. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple’s 40th birthday week came alongside some troubles for iOS 9.3, as our top stories this week surrounded a number of bugs, fixes and responses from Apple related to iOS 9.3 problems and the fix with the release of iOS 9.3.1. But those issues were balanced out by our excitement over our first impressions with…
Apple has signed a multi-year deal with Major League Baseball to supply coaches with 12.9-inch iPad Pro units running custom software for displaying player statistics, stat breakdowns, interactive data, game footage and more. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad is languishing. Once the flagship of the iPad fleet, the original full-size form factor has been at best in line with — sometimes behind — the smaller iPad mini and was most recently relegated to second fiddle behind the powerful, more versatile 12.9-inch iPad Pro. That could change on Monday. AppleInsider –…
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