With its recent price drop to $6, basic Hulu is one of the best deals in streaming. It offers gobs of current and past TV shows and movies for the price of a salted caramel mocha. Sadly, upgrading your subscription to Hulu with Live TV renders it a poor bargain. At $45 per month, or $55 if …
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Witches and wizards donned their robes and started casting spells Thursday when the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite mobile game launched in the US and UK. And a Friday report by SensorTower says Wizards Unite raced to the No. 1 free app download spot in Apple’s US App Store in about 15 hours — not quite as fast as Harry’s Firebolt broom, …
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To avoid being caught in the US-China trade war, Apple reportedly began asking suppliers about the possibility of moving production out of China. A founder of one of Apple’s biggest suppliers of phone parts is cheering this move, especially if the work goes to Taiwan. Foxconn founder Terry Gou says it’s possible Apple could move plants working on its products …
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If the Office of the United States Trade Representative moves forward with more tariffs against China, it’d hurt Apple‘s competitiveness and the amount of money it contributes to the US economy, the company argued this week. It urged the US not to move forward with new fees that would affect the iPhone and its other devices. In a letter to US Trade …
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Apple is recalling some older-generation 15-inch MacBook Pros over batteries that could catch fire, the company announced Thursday. The voluntary recall, which is for 15-inch Pros sold between September 2015 and February 2017, appears to be limited to the older generation of the MacBook Pro, not the recent models that have USB-C or a Touch Bar. Apple says that other …
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Apple has asked its suppliers to look into the possibility of shifting final assembly of some products out of China, according to report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The iPhone maker is looking into moving “up to around a third of the production for some devices” to other countries, including locations in Southeast Asia, the Journal reported. This …
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The Mac App Store has received significant criticism, but Apple’s efforts to improve it apparently have paid off, as Adobe started using the store to sell its Lightroom software for the first time on Thursday. The photo-editing and cataloging software, geared for photo enthusiasts and pros who want something richer than Google Photos or Apple Photos, costs the same as …
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The Apple Card‘s arrival is inching closer. Apple’s been fairly quiet about the credit card since it was announced in March, but a new report says the company is expanding its beta testing ahead of the planned summer release. According to Bloomberg, Apple has expanded beta testing of the Card to now include its own retail employees. The company has …
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US presidential alerts sent out as nationwide emergency text messages could be vulnerable to hacks, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. The university has already alerted US government officials to the security problem. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are geographically targeted messages that alert mobile users in the US about missing children (via Amber Alerts), severe weather and presidential …
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Apple is counting on apps built for the iPad and the iPhone being converted to the Mac as a way to infuse new energy — and a lot of new software — into the granddaddy of its devices. The party started last year at WWDC 2018 when Apple announced a “sneak peek” at four of its own apps that it …
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