The Apple Card, Apple’s new digital and physical credit card, is a bold, brilliant move that reimagines credit card payments on the iPhone. What makes the move so gutsy has nothing to do with the service itself and everything to do with drawing you deeper into Apple’s ecosystem. The Apple Card’s benefits sound immediately appealing: Apple …
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While Apple gives you a perfectly good built-in Calendar app on the iPhone, there are other apps that offer more features to keep you on track. These calendar apps can keep you organized by reminding you of all of your upcoming tasks, meetings and events. Apple’s iOS App Store has a multitude of options such as shared calendars, calendars with …
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Google Inbox is dead. Long live Google Inbox! As of today, Google’s beloved email app Inbox is no more. Fans loved it because it took a different approach to managing email by breaking out messages into different categories instead of one long list, as Gmail does. It’s a downright shame that it’s gone. But before you gnash your teeth in …
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Jon Von Tetzchner doesn’t need to crush Google Chrome. If he can get a few million people to use his Vivaldi browser, that should suffice. The chief executive of browser maker Vivaldi Technologies — and previously leader and co-founder of Opera, too — leads an effort to build a browser with an ultimately configurable interface so people can set it …
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Apple has officially canceled its AirPower wireless charging mat project. The company on Friday said AirPower didn’t meet its standards and noted it won’t be releasing the much anticipated product. Since being announced in September 2017, AirPower was one of Apple’s most-awaited products. The company promised that the oval wireless charging pad would arrive sometime in 2018 but later pushed out that …
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When you’re choosing a phone, one of the biggest decisions you’ll make is whether you’re going to go with iOS or Android. To help you out, we compared two of the “cheapest” options from top phone-makers: the Apple iPhone XR and the Google Pixel 3. (Though a starting price over $700 is hardly affordable, they are the least inexpensive offerings …
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If you visit the website for Apple’s digital magazine app, Texture, on Friday, you’ll see a goodbye message. The tech giant is retiring Texture on May 28 and advertising its newest service, Apple News Plus. Apple announced News Plus during the Apple Event on Monday, along with other news. “Texture is ending. Continue reading your favorite magazines, and so much …
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Cable TV network Epix said Thursday that it’s expanding the reach of its subscription streaming-TV service Epix Now with support for Roku devices and Amazon Fire TV. The MGM-owned TV network launched the video-on-demand service in February, but the offering was available only on iOS and Android devices and Apple TV. The $6 per month service gives access to the …
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Apple just can’t shake that iPhone addiction. At a flashy event on Monday, the company time and time again stressed how great its services will work on its mobile devices. For its premium Apple News Plus subscription package, magazines have been designed to take advantage of the iPhone or iPad, adding animated covers and automatically downloading content for convenience. “I …
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As someone who uses an Android phone and an iPhone, having different capabilities on the same app can be mildly infuriating. Case in point: With Gmail on my Android phone, I can archive, delete, trash, mark as unread, move or snooze individual emails by swiping left or right from my inbox. It’s an incredibly convenient way to file away my …
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