Walgreens is giving customers an incentive to use their Apple Cards. Customers using Apple Card with Apple Pay to buy prescriptions, medicines and beauty, personal care, household and seasonal products, will get back 3% Daily Cash, Walgreens said Thursday. Daily Cash is Apple Card’s rewards program that promises a percentage of cash back on purchases. Read: Apple …
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Slack is joining the dark mode craze. The chat platform on Thursday launched the feature for desktop, allowing users to turn their screens black to make messages and content easier on the eyes. Dark mode is rolling out across all desktop apps, Mac, Windows and Linux. The feature is already available on mobile. “Dark mode is an important feature for …
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One of the biggest surprises at Apple’s iPhone 11 event concerned the price of its new Apple TV Plus service. No, we’re not talking about the normal price: $5 per month, with the first shows starting streaming on Nov. 1. We’re talking about the throw-in price: free. Apple TV Plus will be free for the first year — ostensibly a …
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Welcome to Apple’s latest round of “What the iPhone has in store for us for 2019 and 2020!” We got updates on Apple Arcade, a new entry-level iPad for 2019, a new Watch Series 5, and of course, an iPhone 11. But the biggest deal was the iPhone 11 Pro and its big brother the Pro Max, new flagship models sporting three …
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Whenever Apple holds a product launch, the world is reminded that these are premium products — with prices to match. So imagine our collective surprise yesterday when the iPhone 11 debuted at $699, a full $50 less than the “entry-level” iPhone XR last year. There’s already debate around the CNET offices as to whether this is Apple’s best iPhone value …
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Apple refreshed its line of iPhones for 2019 at an event on Tuesday, announcing the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. The phones start at $699, $999 and $1,099, respectively — perhaps a surprising price in a world where we’re used to paying $1,000 for an iPhone. These new iPhones pick up a fresh palette of …
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In bringing dark mode to the iPhone, Apple has seen the light. The new theme touches down on your iPhone on Sept. 19, along with the rest of iOS 13. It’ll come baked into the new iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, which Apple announced on Tuesday. Dark mode is, quite literally, a skin you can apply to your entire …
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When Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the current HD version of the Apple TV streaming box in 2015, he famously said, “The future of TV is apps.” Now an Apple app on a bunch of other devices could make that box obsolete. Four years later, at the iPhone 11 event on Sept. 10, Cook and company once again took the …
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Apple has hidden a little message for its fans in a short video it posted Tuesday following the unveiling of its iPhone 11 Pro and bigger sibling the 11 Pro Max. The Easter egg was first spotted by a Reddit user, as TechCrunch reported. The video hiding the Easter egg, posted to YouTube by Apple on Tuesday afternoon, condenses the almost two-hour …
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Apple’s hardware side had a very busy Tuesday with the company announcing three new iPhone 11 models, an updated Apple Watch and a new 10.2-inch iPad at its September event, but it also quietly updated its protection plans for its hardware. While this wasn’t given much attention, the electronics giant seems to have introduced a new AppleCare subscription offering. Apple has …
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