Apple during last week Thursday removed over 46,000 apps on its China store, including 39,000 game apps, marking the biggest removal ever in a single day. The apps were removed as December 31 was the deadline for all game publishers to obtain a licence. Only 74 of the top 1,500 paid games on Apple store were not removed, according to …
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Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020
Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The initiative, code-named Kalamata, is still in early developmental stages but is part of a bigger strategy to make Apple’s family of devices work more similarly and seamlessly together, …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Tim Cook
The Facebook (FB) CEO defended his company’s business model in an interview published by Vox on Monday, arguing that recent criticism from his counterpart at Apple was unfounded. Cook recently called for increased regulation of social media, and questioned the practice of monetizing user data on free platforms by selling ads that allow advertisers to target specific groups. “You know, …
Read More »Apple unveils new 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil support + A10 Fusion chip at education event
Apple has unveiled a new 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil support at its education event. Prior to today, Apple Pencil support has been limited to Pro models of the iPad. Apple previously offered a 9.7-inch version of the original iPad Pro which worked with Apple Pencil, but it was replaced a year and a half later with the 10.5-inch model. …
Read More »Steve Jobs: Apple founder’s 1973 job application going on sale
A 1973 job application filled out by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is expected to sell for $50,000 (£36,000). The questionnaire, filled out by Jobs three years before starting the company that would make him billions, is riddled with spelling errors. The one-page document shows Jobs’ aspirations in technology before breaking into the industry. He listed his special abilities …
Read More »Apple Watch SOS saved a mom and her baby after a drunk driver hit their car
Kacie Anderson relied on the SOS feature from her Apple Watch to call 911 emergency services for her and her baby when her iPhone was flung out of reach during a car accident. The 24-year-old mom says she wore Apple Watch for a couple of years as part of lacrosse and basketball coaching, but never needed the SOS feature before. …
Read More »#TECHVIBES: Growing number of iPhone X users unable to accept calls, Apple investigating
The Financial Times today highlights an issue purportedly plaguing a growing number of iPhone X users. The report explains that some users are unable to answer phone calls with their iPhone X because the display does not wake up while the phone is ringing, thus meaning they can’t access the accept and decline buttons… The report cites a growing number …
Read More »#TECHVIBES: ‘Disappointing’ sales see Apple cutting iPhone X production in half this quarter
Apple is said to have notified suppliers that it has cut its production target for the first quarter of this year to 20M, after previously telling them to expect to produce 40M units … The U.S. tech giant notified suppliers that it had decided to cut the target for the period to around 20 million units, in light of slower-than-expected …
Read More »#TECHVIBES: Apple CEO Tim Cook says he wouldn’t let a child use social media
Cook, who became Apple’s chief executive in the middle of its ill-fated Ping experiment, in 2011, has apparently turned against technology. “I don’t have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on,” Cook told students at a college in Essex, England, late last week, according to the Guardian. “There are some things that I won’t …
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