Apple has brought augmented reality to its Swift Playgrounds app designed to teach kids the basics of programming and maybe even groom them into the next generation of iPhone developers. The move means kids can incorporate Swift Playgrounds’ cartoon characters — protagonists who follow students’ programming instructions — into their Swift Playgrounds projects. The technology …
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It’s back to school for Apple with a brand-new iPad. Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its iOS-powered tablet at its education event in Chicago, which it hosted at the Lane Tech College Prep High School. The school is the largest public high school in Chicago. “Macs and iPads are used throughout schools by students for everything from …
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Just how difficult is it going to be for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to clean up the world’s largest social network and make sure apps aren’t there waiting to potentially exploit your data? Maybe even harder than he thinks, given what we found after just a quick check of some of the apps linked to our own profiles. Those include …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Wait for it. He’s about to dance. Apple; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I’m worried about Apple. No, not about whether it can put ever more gadgets into ever more hands. This is more about the feet. Apple’s dancing feet. The company just released an …
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Five years ago, Apple appeared to own the education market. Its iPad was selling like crazy, and Apple partnered with major publishers to digitize their textbooks. Many schools bought the tablet — most notably, Apple won a $1.3 billion deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide nearly 700,000 iPads bundled with Pearson curriculum for every student and …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Apple wants you to know it’s better. Because it says so. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET They like to play aloof in Cupertino. No, no, insisted Apple CEO Tim Cook last week, his company doesn’t follow its rivals. You’d think Apple doesn’t even bother to …
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Consumers have been slower than expected to embrace using their phones to pay for goods and services at the cash register. Yet Apple CEO Tim Cook is still hoping for the demise of physical currency. That’s one of the key takeaways from Cook, who spoke at the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday. The comment was a response to a question …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Editors’ note: We recently published our look at the iPhone X, six months after release. Check it out. Not the smartphone of everyone’s future? Justin Sullivan / Getty Images What are people supposed to think? On Apple’s recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook reported slightly …
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Apple’s smart devices are often criticized for exclusively running within the company’s own ecosystem — but the market doesn’t seem to mind. The electronics giant shipped 8 million Apple Watches in the fourth quarter of 2017, Canalys research shows, which the firm said is a record for wearables sold by a company during a quarter. Fitbit was the previous record …
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Apple has its nose in front of Samsung once more. Apple’s phone sales fell second to the Korean electronics giant for the first three quarters of 2017, but with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X going on sale in the fourth quarter, it’s back in front, according to IDC’s quarterly report on smartphone market share. Apple sold 77.3 million …
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