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Apple Music hits 17 million subscribers

Apple Music has recruited another 2 million subscribers, hitting 17 million people, the gadget giant said Wednesday. Spotify said last month it has 39 million subscribers, and it had more than 100 million total listeners as of June. Competition between streaming music services has grown bitter this year. Services like Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal …

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Survey says: iPhone 7 and 7 Plus impress, but not enough to order today

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 packed with new features 1:48 The day is finally here and the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have been unveiled. The key question of the day is whether the new water- and dust-resistant design, dual camera on the 7 Plus and AirPod earbuds are enough to delight, or does the overall package disappoint? …

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iPhone Upgrade Program expands to UK and China

Apple is expanding the reach of its iPhone Upgrade Program by offering it to customers in China and the United Kingdom, the company said Wednesday. The program launched last September. Essentially, customers lease iPhones instead of buying them, and pay in installments. That way, they can upgrade every year and just trade in their phone for a new one without …

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Apple Store shuts its virtual doors ahead of today’s iPhone unveiling

You’ll just have to wait like the rest of us. As it does before every major product announcement, Apple has taken its Store offline. At Wednesday’s event, which is about to begin, Apple is widely expected to announce new iPhones and a new Apple Watch, among other things. But, in case you didn’t already know this and were all like, …

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The iPhone 7 Plus camera is ‘Apple’s best’ but what does that mean?

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 Plus gets dual cameras 1:53 Apple has introduced the first truly major update to its iPhone camera that promises an improvement in photo quality beyond the incremental annual changes (beyond ancillary updates, such as flash or image stabilization) since the original model. The iPhone 7 Plus brings new capabilities — some more accurately described …

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Beware: The 32GB iPhone 7 soon won’t feel so roomy

The good news is that iPhones with foolishly small 16GB amounts of storage are mostly vanishing from the market. The bad news is that it won’t be long before 32GB is the new 16GB. When Apple began selling the first iPhone in 2007, it came with what now seems a laughably inadequate 4GB supply of flash memory. That’s where you …

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Apple iPhone 7 specs vs. Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. OnePlus 3 vs. Sony Xperia XZ

Now playing: Watch this: Apple debuts iPhone 7 2:42 The wait is over; the Apple iPhone 7 has finally landed. That means no more speculative gossip about cameras and battery life — just real-deal specs. More from Apple’s event Apple’s iPhone 7 is a familiar phone for unfamiliar challenges Apple’s AirPods may look weird, but they’ll change the headphone market …

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Apple Watch Series 2 is here for $369

The wait is over for Apple’s next-generation smartwatch. Apple announced Wednesday at its iPhone event in San Francisco that the Apple Watch Series 2 will be available for preorders on September 9. Pricing for the new device will be $369. Apple also introduced a watch made specifically for runners called the Apple Watch Nike+, which is also priced at $369. …

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Speck Presidio Series cases for iPhone 7: Slimmer design, more protective

Now playing: Watch this: Speck’s new Presidio Series iPhone 7 cases get slimmer,… 1:33 Speck makes some of the most popular cases for the iPhone and for the launch of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus it’s not only changed the name of its core case line, but it’s upgraded the design, making the cases thinner and more protective. …

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Super Mario is coming to iPhone at last

Now playing: Watch this: Mario jumps onto Apple’s iPhone 1:24 Mario. On an iPhone. It’s happening. Enlarge Image GIF by Morgan Little/CNET Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto just showed off Super Mario Run, a official Nintendo game coming to iPhone and iPad this December, at Apple’s San Francisco event. Miyamoto declares: “Now, Mario is running toward his next goal: iPhone.” The …

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