Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reports on the group inside Apple working on VR/AR hardware: Although the headset now in development is less technologically ambitious than originally intended, it’s pretty advanced. It’s designed to feature ultra-high-resol…
Lees meerThe operating system that drives the Apple Watch, watchOS, doesn’t get as much attention as macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. But as someone who wears an Apple Watch every day, any improvement to watchOS has the potential to improve my everyday life in numero…
Lees meerIt occurs to me, in this season of WWDC wish-list items, that it’s worth mentioning that perhaps my top feature request for iPadOS was fulfilled in March: The bottom line: Months before that Magic Keyboard arrives, iPadOS 13.4 will make the iPad vas…
Lees meeriSH will give you a command line on iPad, but it’s Linux running on a virtualized Intel processor.With less than a week between us and WWDC, it’s a great time for wild ideas about what Apple could do, even though the conventional wisdom says they wo…
Lees meerIt’s the week before WWDC so it’s the perfect time for Apple to have a fight with developers.
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s anagrammarful, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests John Moltz and Christina Warren to discuss pie-in-the-sky WWDC predictions, Apple’s latest App Store kerfuffle, streaming video games online, a…
Lees meerBloomberg’s Shelly Banjo and Mark Gurman: “Inclusion and diversity are core Apple values and we deeply believe the most diverse teams are the most innovative teams,” Apple said in an emailed statement confirming the news. “Christie Smith will be lea…
Lees meerStephen Hackett: When Apple added the Breathe feature to watchOS 3, I — like many of you, I suspect — turned it off pretty quickly. However, over the last six months, it has come to be one of my favorite things about wearing my Apple Watch…. It can …
Lees meerThe European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, launched two separate antitrust investigations of Apple on Tuesday. The first deals with the App Store: The European Commission has opened formal antitrust investigations to assess whether Apple’s rul…
Lees meerHere’s an interesting Apple press release trumpeting a study from Analysis Group that claims “the App Store ecosystem supported $519 billion in billings and sales globally in 2019 alone.” Half a trillion bucks? That’s a lot of in-app purchases. But …
Lees meerI’ve been beating the drum for a Star Wars dogfighting game in the style of the classic X-Wing and TIE Fighter games for as long as I can remember, and it looks like it may have finally paid off. EA on Monday took the wraps off its upcoming game, St…
Lees meerAfter years of rumors, it appears that Apple is finally going to commit to release Macs that run on Apple-designed ARM processors rather than chips made by Intel. Based on reports, the announcement could come as soon as this month’s WWDC 2020 event,…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute podcast that’s tautologically 30 minutes, Dan and Mikah welcome special guests Rosemary Orchard and Rene Ritchie to discuss whether we’d use a Mac Upgrade Program, what we track on our iPhones, what excites (and worries) …
Lees meerApple: Now in its 31st year, WWDC20 will be the biggest WWDC to date, bringing together the global Apple developer community of more than 23 million in an unprecedented, virtual way, from June 22 to 26. Apple today shared the WWDC20 lineup, incl…
Lees meerI really enjoyed this post by Gus Mueller about what’s likely to happen if Apple is indeed transitioning the Mac to ARM processors: With all the recent rumors flying around about the Mac transitioning to ARM processors, I’ve seen some assertion…
Lees meeriBooks Author, Apple’s application for creating and publishing ebooks, wrote its last chapter on Wednesday. The company announced that the app will be discontinued for new users as of July 1, 2020. iBooks Author came out back in a January 2012 …
Lees meerAs Mac users approach Apple’s annual developer conference and the promise of the whole operating system cycle starting over again, it would be natural to feel a lot of trepidation. It’s been a rough ride for macOS Catalina, with overly strict and ch…
Lees meerApple introduced HealthKit in 2014, but the iPad and Mac are still left out. Since the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple has become increasingly focused on health technology. As someone who makes an effort to fill the rings on my Apple Watch, I appr…
Lees meerWith WWDC two weeks away, Myke and Jason share their wishes for iPadOS updates. They also analyze why they love certain kinds of games but are repelled by others and discuss Apple’s inevitable move into streaming live sports.
Lees meerThe Chief of Medicine at UC San Francisco, Bob Wachter, has been a must-follow during the COVID-19 outbreak. Last month he posted a tweetstorm, upgraded to a Medium post, with some clear and sensible explanations of how masks work at preventing the …
Lees meerTony Romm, reporting for the Washington Post about a proposed bipartisan bill to regulate privacy among virus-tracing apps: “I think if you ask most people, ‘Do you trust Google to respect your privacy?’ …they don’t trust Google,” said Republica…
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