This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you were looking to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for big game-changing leaps or new hardware, you might have walked away a little disappointed. Monday’s keynote, it turns out, was about the little things. That’s not to say …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image I tried to say hello to the future. But the future didn’t reply. Apple No, I wasn’t going to sit up past midnight. I’d like to hold the iPhone X in my hand, slip it in my pocket and generally give it a …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz not upgrading? What has the world come to? James Martin/CNET Can it be that the world will be deprived of one of the great Apple traditions? It seems that on every launch day, the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak is at an Apple store to …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An iPhone? Don’t be silly. Yana Paskova / Getty Images They were rivals. They were friends. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did much to define what the tech industry is today. Does that mean, though, that the Microsoft co-founder has softened a touch and started …
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Talk about making a strong first impression. I’m walking uphill along a curvy concrete path to get to the Steve Jobs Theater at the still-unopened Apple Park campus when a smiling employee, wearing a T-shirt with a fluorescent green version of the company’s iconic logo, asks me, “How are you doing today?” He wouldn’t be the last. The entrance to …
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Tuesday wasn’t just the launch of three new iPhones, an Apple Watch and an Apple TV. It was also the first time Apple welcomed journalists to its gigantic, 175-acre Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Apple Park is home to several buildings, most prominently a 2.8-million square-foot ring unofficially known as the Spaceship, which boasts four-story curved glass panels, custom aluminum …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz believes iPhones are worth it. Sean Gallup / Getty Images In the end, it comes down to love. That’s seems to be Steve Wozniak’s view about buying high-priced Apple products. Speaking to journalists in Dongguan, China, earlier this week, the Apple co-founder explained why …
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The eight-year bromance between Barack Obama — who appointed the first chief technology officer for the US — and Silicon Valley is over. Now what? That’s the question the tech industry has been asking since a real estate mogul turned reality TV star, with a spotty reputation on technology, was voted in as 45th president of the United States. President …
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After months of speculation Apple has confirmed at an event in San Francisco that its latest iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smartphones will not include a headphone socket onboard. Instead the brand-new phones ship with both a set of new EarPods, which have a Lightning adapter and a digital-to-analog converter built into the cable, and a Lightning-to-3.5mm dongle for connecting …
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