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Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
With less than a week to go before Apple opens the doors on its first retail location in Brooklyn, passersby have been notified of the grand opening with new signage advertising the long-awaited opening in New York City’s most populous borough. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Ultra popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go set a new App Store record during its first week of availability, seeing more first week downloads than any other app in App Store history. Apple unveiled the statistic to iMore‘s Rene Ritchie this morning. According to Apple, #PokemonGo has set an @AppStore record with more downloads in…
Without giving away official download numbers or stats (or ever featuring the app), Apple has officially shared that Pokémon Go has broken the record for the highest number of downloads during launch week on the App Store. The popular iOS app has ranked #1 on both the Free and Top Grossing Top Charts in the App…
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The upcoming iPhone 7 Plus is rumored to feature a dual-lens rear camera. While we’ve gotten some hints of what Apple might look to do with the technology given its acquisition of LinX Imaging last year, we’re still not entirely clear on Apple’s plans and so we can look to other vendors to get a…
Read More “Huawei’s Dual-Camera P9 Hints at What Apple Might Have in Store for iPhone 7 Plus” »
Nintendo, The Pokemon Company and Niantic’s augmented reality game Pokemon GO is rolling out in the App Store now. The game is available in New Zealand, Australia and is propagating through the App Store around the world and in the U.S. The game uses augmented reality and real-world maps to allow users to venture into…
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A day after Apple’s WWDC keynote address, Apple SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller and SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi joined Daring Fireball’s John Gruber on a special edition of his podcast, The Talk Show. The duo addressed many topics, including the emphasis on iMessage in iOS 10, opening up Siri and other parts of iOS…
Newsmakers mostly held their collective breath ahead of next week’s WWDC in San Francisco, but Apple surprised developers by announcing some major changes to the App Store, some of which will take effect as soon as Monday. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
Apple CEO Tim Cook and the president of taxi/ridesharing service Didi Chuxing, Jean Liu, visited an Apple Store in Beijing on Monday morning, just days after Apple’s confirmation of a $ 1 billion investment into Didi. AppleInsider – Frontpage News
A significant number of users on Reddit and Twitter, corroborated by multiple tips we have received, are affected by an ongoing App Store issue preventing a number of popular iOS apps from showing up in search results unless already installed, including Google, Periscope, Spotify, Tidal, Tumblr, Uber, Vine, Waze, and many others. The search issues…
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Kohl’s has announced that customers can now pay for their purchases with Kohl’s Charge store-branded credit cards and simultaneously earn Yes2You Rewards loyalty points with a single tap using Apple Pay. The combined functionality is currently available in approximately 250 Kohl’s stores in the United States, and the department store chain expects one-tap checkout to…
Apple has assembled a secret team dedicated to exploring potential changes that could be made to the App Store, reports Bloomberg. Among the features being considered is an option that would allow developers to pay a fee to have their apps “more prominently displayed,” perhaps at the top of a list of search results. Changes…
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Apple’s online storefront has been taken offline this morning, less than six hours prior to the company’s upcoming “Let Us Loop You In” media event at its Cupertino campus, where Tim Cook’s executive team is expected to announce the new 4-inch iPhone SE, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and Apple Watch updates. Apple’s special event starts at…
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Ahead of Apple’s media press event on Monday, Apple has added a new Apple Events app for the fourth-generation Apple TV. The Apple Events channel lets Apple TV users watch the livestream of Apple’s announcements from their television. Unlike previous generations of Apple TV, the Apple Events app does not appear automatically on the Home Screen. Instead,…
Apple has updated its System Status page to reflect that many users may be unable to access, purchase, or update apps on the App Store on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Multiple other iCloud services are or were also experiencing downtime, including the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, iCloud Drive, and iWork for iCloud. The issues began…
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Apple is closing in on its goal of opening 40 new Apple Stores in Greater China by mid-2016, on Sunday announcing a 33rd location that will commence operations later this month in Qingdao. AppleInsider – Frontpage News