The smartwatch race should be over. Apple should have won, but that hasn’t exactly been the case. While the Cupertino company remains the leading smartwatch maker, shipments of the Apple Watch have fallen and its market share is slowly diminishing due to increased competition from Samsung, Garmin and traditional watchmakers such as Fossil. Apple’s market …
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Two of Apple‘s apps for musicians and music producers, Logic Pro X for Macs and the iOS version of GarageBand, are getting free updates that add new features. Both updates will be released in time for the 2017 National Association of Music Merchants trade show happening this week in Anaheim, California. Logic Pro X is a professional music recording and …
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As if receiving a text from an ex isn’t bad enough, now there’s a far worse kind of unwanted message to worry about. This one can crash your iPhone. YouTube channel EverythingApplePro highlights a sequence of characters that appear to temporarily freeze an iPhone, which you can send to someone to put their kibosh on their phone. Here’s how it …
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Now playing: Watch this: MacBooks may grow more powerful this year 1:30 Apple’s newly refreshed laptop line may be a hit in stores, but many are still concerned that the MacBook Pros aren’t quite “pro” enough. The electronics giant may assuage some of those concerns later this year, predicts KGI Securities analyst and Apple Nostradamus Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo, who last …
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Apple will reportedly increase App Store prices in the UK in response to the pound’s depreciation post-Brexit. The company laid out the plans for its App Store in an email to developers on Tuesday, according to The Register and other news reports. The cheapest apps will increase from 79 pence (about $1) to 99 pence in a week, and the …
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Consumer Reports is doing an about face on Apple’s MacBook Pro. The endorsement reverses an earlier call by Consumer Reports telling consumers to avoid the new MacBooks, for the first time ever, because of big fluctuations in battery life. The publication on Thursday said a software update issued by Apple has fixed the battery problems it found in earlier tests. …
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Last month, venerable product testing publication Consumer Reports said it couldn’t recommend Apple’s latest MacBook Pro models because of inconsistent battery life results. On the 13-inch model, CR got battery runs that ranged from 16 hours down to less than four hours. After working with Consumer Reports to figure out why its tests we not giving the expected results, Apple …
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“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” With those words Apple CEO Steve Jobs began his keynote address at Macworld San Francisco on January 9, 2007. In typical Jobs fashion, he went on to say that Apple was introducing “three revolutionary products” that day. The first was a widescreen iPod with touch controls, the …
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Apple is focusing its rumored interest in the augmented reality space on creating a new pair of AR glasses with Carl Zeiss, according to a new report. The tech titan is working with the German optics manufacturer on a pair of lightweight AR/mixed reality glasses, according to tech evangelist Robert Scoble. The project, which could be announced as early as …
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If you can’t get enough of celebrities singing while carpooling, put on your seat belt and listen up. New details have emerged about the upcoming “Carpool Karaoke” spinoff series, based on the hit videos from CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” The spinoff show will make its debut on Apple Music later this year, CBS confirmed Monday, but …
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