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Now playing: Watch this: Up close with Apple’s wireless AirPods 1:17 When Apple launched the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, a lot people were expecting it to announce new wireless headphones from Beats, which it acquired last year, and a wireless version of its EarPods that rumor had it would be called AirPods. The new …

Consumers in Japan will soon be able to use their iPhones to pay for things just like Apple fans in the United States and other parts of the world. Apple announced Wednesday at its iPhone event in San Francisco that it will include new technology in the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2 to expand availability of its …

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 are battling for supremacy in …

Ever since the last iPhone 6S came out, the internet — or at least the tech blogosphere — has been obsessing over what the next iPhone will look like because that’s well, what the tech blogosphere does. Missing headphone jack, dual-lens camera and extra speaker not withstanding, I’m here to argue that the actual design of the phone has become …

All you Apple fans eagerly awaiting Wednesday’s likely iPhone 7 announcement may have good reason to jump for joy. Benchmark tests for a mysterious device called “iPhone9,3” surfaced online, MacRumors reported. The results, run using popular diagnostic tool Geekbench, are believed to belong to Apple’s unannounced-but-highly-rumored iPhone 7. This is based off the fact that the iPhone 6s and 6s …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple Music gets a boost before iPhone 7 launch 2:09 Apple is offering a $99 gift card for a 12-month subscription to its streaming music service, Apple Music. At $10-a month for an individual Apple Music subscription, the gift card brings that cost down to $8.25 per month, essentially giving you two free months of streaming …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple set to focus on iPhone at September 7 event 2:21 If you’re looking to be wowed by a new iPhone design, you might have to wait until 2017. This is supposed to be a year of big changes for the iPhone, but all rumors so far point to minor tweaks in Apple’s iPhone 7, which …

Tomorrow, Apple will take the wraps off the iPhone 7, and it’s a pretty poorly held secret that this model could be the company’s first major product without a headphone jack. For now let’s table the discussion over whether this is no big deal (Lightning-powered headphones do deliver a true digital audio experience — in your face, analog jack) or …

The Apple Watch has been around for a good long while now. It was unveiled almost exactly two years ago, and has been on sale since April 2015. Since then it’s been finding its way onto a lot of wrists and frustrating a lot of people at the same time. Those frustrations — and declining shipments — haven’t fallen on …

Apple’s App Store has hundreds of thousands of apps, but the company says it’s time to get rid of some duds. Two categories will be scrubbed from the store, the company told developers, according to a message seen by TechCrunch. First to go will be old apps that aren’t compatible with modern iPhones and iPads, or that don’t abide by …