Apple reported this week that it sold 8.92 million iPads in the most recent quarter which is down from 10.2 million iPads sold in the same quarter a year ago. New data from TrendForce shows that Apple is still number one among the top five tablet brands, however, as global tablet sales dropped 9.3% year-over-year. The report also believes Apple could have a positive quarter now with the newly released $329 9....
As pointed out by MacStories, Apple recently removed trials for the iWork suite and Aperture 3 from Apple.com. The webpage formerly home to the iWork trial now includes a message informing users that iWork apps, such as Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, are available through the Mac App Store. Apple removed the trial for a short while last year before returning it; however, the company also informed users last month that the iWork....
Just as it looked like the iPod-related class action suit against Apple was getting interesting, Eddy Cue arguing that competing music stores had effectively hacked the iPod, it now seems the case is in danger of collapsing. Apple’s lawyers have written to the judge to say there is no evidence that either of the two plaintiffs owned iPods during the time affected by Apple’s action to remove non-iTunes songs from iPods … The NYT reports that Apple had checked the serial numbers of the iPods owned by the plaintiffs and determined that both were purchased after the period affected by the class action....
Apple is reportedly ramping up its efforts to design its own radio chip, which would free it from the need to buy these from either Qualcomm or Intel. The latest report builds on two earlier ones, and suggests that the project now has a much higher profile within the company … It was first suggested in November that Apple was working in an in-house design for radio chips after the company was found to be hiring chip designers in Qualcomm’s home base of San Diego....
Developers, get downloading! Apple has just begun seeding iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 to developers, which features iTunes Match. This is the first time developers will be able to get their hands on the new cloud platform, announced by Apple at WWDC in June. The beta is available in the United States, and still has the $24.99 subscription cost with it. Apple sent the following email to developers seen after the break....
Apple reportedly owes Samsung ‘hundreds of billions of won’ for selling too few iPhones … ZDNet explains: 100 billion won is around $86M, so hundreds plural would be at least $170M, possibly more. The penalty goes back to Apple’s insistence that Samsung Display build a facility to exclusively manufacture OLED displays for the iPhone. Apple had told Samsung Display it would need 100 million OLED iPhone displays a year. But a slump in iPhone sales had a knock-on effect for Samsung Display, which saw its operating profits halve in a year, falling from 5....
KGI Research analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a timeline indicating that Apple is planning a massive rollout for multiple new products in Q3 2014. According to the Kuo, the only thing we can expect to see in the first half of the year is a small iMac update. Starting at the end of the third quarter and continuing into the beginning of the fourth, however, Apple will update most of its product lineup: iPad Air and mini, the Apple TV, and the MacBook family....
In 2020, consumers pulled out their digital wallets, like Apple Pay, more often than they did physical wallets when they paid in-store, according to a new FIS study. For the first time, payments using mobile digital wallets overtook cash payments on in-store purchases on a global basis last year. Head of Merchant Solutions at FIS, Jim Johnson, said that “the global pandemic has brought a cashless future closer on the horizon....
Apple’s TV app is available on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad, and the new @AppleTV account seems focused on that app versus the set top box hardware specifically. While the software is simply called TV, Apple does refer to it as the Apple TV app as well. Live sports integration works with live games broadcasted from ESPN with live scores and game time remaining displayed across multiple live games on a single interface....
Apple has released the fifth macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 beta for testing. The release comes one week after the fourth macOS 10.13.3 beta; Apple released the fifth beta versions of iOS and tvOS betas late last week. Changes coming in macOS 10.13.3 are unclear for now. Apple shares this information on its developer portal: About macOS 10.13.3 beta 5 The macOS 10.13.2 SDK provides support for developing macOS apps for systems running macOS 10....
According to a new report out of Variety, Apple is looking to enter the TV and movie production industry in a way similar to how Netflix has recently done. The report claims that Apple has been looking to hire both actors and directors to create production divisions that would produce exclusive long-form content in-house. Specific details regarding the idea are unclear at this point as it appears to still be in the early stages of development....
Apple today continued its rollout of Apple Pay with support for over thirty more banks and credit unions in the United States. Head below for the full list. The addition of new banks supporting the service arrives as Apple today released macOS Sierra to the public, its latest major operating system release for Mac that introduces Apple Pay on the web among other features. The new feature allows Mac users to make purchases in Safari on their Mac using their iPhone or Apple Watch to authenticate....
[UPDATE 1/19: New China banks added.] Apple Pay is now available from over a dozen more banks and credit unions around the United States, France, and Australia as part of the latest expansion wave. Apple’s mobile payment service launched just over two years ago with hundreds of additional regional banks and credit unions added every few weeks. You can find the latest banks added below. In the United States: Bank of Central Florida Bankers’ Bank of Kansas BankCherokee Cal Poly Federal Credit Union Citizens Federal Credit Union Citizens National Bank of Greater St....
Apple Pay has been available in Japan since 2016. Now, Visa has announced its branded cards now work with Apple Pay in the country as well. Customers with Visa’s credit and debit cards issued by Aplus, Credit Saison, JACCS, Mitsui Sumitomo Bank Card, NTT DoCoMo, Rakuten, and SMBC Finance Service are now able to add their card to their Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch. Visa will also easily let its customers charge their Apple Pay Suica or PASMO cards anytime and anywhere to use trains, buses, taxis, and more....
[Update 8/16: Two new Brazilian banks join the growing Apple Pay bank list.] Apple Pay continues to pick up new banks and credit unions every month — and soon to Germany and possibly Austria. These are the latest new banks and credit unions added in the US, Russia, and Ukraine that let you pay with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac… United States: Bank of Holland Bank Of Walker County CapStar Bank Edge Federal Credit Union Firelands Federal Credit Union First Missouri Bank First National Bank (OH) First National Community Bank Greenville National Bank Iberville Federal Credit Union Inspired Member, Inc....
Apple today published its latest transparency report, detailing the requests it received from governments and private parties for customer data. For the first time, the report also includes information about requests Apple received to remove apps from its App Store. As detailed by TechCrunch, Apple says that it received 80 requests from 11 countries to remove 634 applications from the App Store. These were localized requests, with governments requesting the removal of applications only in their country....
Last fall we learned about a flaw with the Mail app in macOS that would prevent encrypted emails from being encrypted. With the public release of macOS 10.15.3 last week, the researcher who discovered the bug says it has been fixed. Apple IT specialist Bob Gendler discovered the vulnerability last summer and last fall Apple said that it would fix the bug in a future update. The flaw had to do with how Mail was saving database files that were being used by Siri which were actually unencrypted, even for encrypted emails....
Apple has quietly improved the MagSafe power adapter it ships with portable Macs, introducing the same kind of adapter design it has until now only made available with the MacBook Air and, more recently, with the unibody polycarbonte MacBooks. Hidden in among its recent upgrades to its portable line-up, Apple quietly updated MagSafe tips for the 85 Watt adapters which come with the 15 and 17-inch MacBooks, and the 65 Watt versions for the 13-inch MacBook and MacBook Pro....
According to a new report from Deadline this evening, Apple has reached a deal with Paramount to help finance Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon adaptation. Under the deal, Paramount would still distribute the film. The deal has also been corroborated by the Wall Street Journal. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to play the lead roles in the film alongside Robert Di Niro. Paramount originally acquired the project, though it recently allowed it to be shopped around as the studio grew weary of the $180 to $200 million price tag....
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has today published its rankings of technology companies regarding how they handle user data. Apple this year has received praise from the EFF for how transparent it is when it comes to handling requests form government agencies and standing up for user rights and privacy. On the EFF’s ranking scale, Apple received five out of five stars, as did Dropbox. Google, however, received three stars out of five, while Facebook received four stars....
