Analyst’s Canalys reduced down their estimates for global smartphone shipments in a new report. AppleInsider reported that they now expect sales in 2019 to total 1.35 billion units. That is down 3.1% from the 1.39 billion units sold in 2018. The Hua…
Lees meerFirst created in 2009, Pl@ntNet is a social network for plant lovers, as well as a plant identification app. Once a user makes an identification (or marks the plant as unknown), they submit their photos to the Pl@ntNet community. Thousands of profes…
Lees meerSecurity researcher Patrick Wardle found he can bypass macOS security by using synthetic clicks built with AppleScript. Typically apps are signed with a digital certificate to prove that the app is genuine and hasn’t been tampered with. If the app h…
Lees meerApple Card is coming soon, and Bryan Chaffin and guest-cohost Jeff Gamet compare it to the Amazon Prime card and other credit cards. They also dive into the heady topic of what exactly Apple is in the process of coming. Spoiler, Jeff guesses wrong w…
Lees meerLet’s just get them out of our system now. FCPX writes: I thought I’d get ahead of the predictable 2019 Mac Pro complainers before its [probable] announcement at WWDC on Monday. Feel free to add your own in the comments here.
Lees meerWWDC 2019, like all WWDCs, will be full of interesting developer details and new Apple initiatives. But to be truly magical, Apple will just have to mesmerize us with details of the new Mac Pro—even if it’s not ready to ship.
Lees meerApple’s WWDC 2019 event is on Monday, June 3. The Mac Observer will host a live blog where you’ll get a live play-by-play of the event, with our commentary and reactions, so bookmark it in your favorite browser ? Dave: We’ll see you here Monday morn…
Lees meerIn the latest issue of Fast Company magazine, Mark Wilson writes about the business of spying, advertising, and analytics that the App Store enables. [Apple] designed a dead-simple interface that, to this day, allows users to sign away contacts, loc…
Lees meerAvi Bar-Zeev, who works on AR/VR/MR, says that eye tracking is the holy grail of advertising (And he’s all for it). While I don’t disagree with that point, I do wonder how prevalent it will become. For example, when Face ID first came out, there was…
Lees meerSecurity expert Tarah Wheeler recently tweeted a list of the top 20 most common iPhone passcodes. These are all four-digit passcodes.
Lees meerDave Hamilton and Andrew Orr join host Kelly Guimont to discuss AirPort Base Station updates, and look ahead to WWDC plans and coverage.
Lees meerOn July 1, 2019 Apple plans to shut down its Back to My Mac service. This let users set up a network of Macs that could be accessed remotely.
Lees meerIn the future, Apple might limit third-party trackers in the App Store, at least for kids apps.
Lees meerCould it finally be the end of the road for iTunes? That is one of the rumors circulating in the run-up to WWDC 2019. Bloomberg News reported that iTunes retirement could be announced next week. The changes will showcase Apple’s new generation of de…
Lees meerFacebook is under-fire at the moment. CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about his position as the shareholder meeting yesterday. At Fast Company, Mark Sullivan argues that the only way to change the company is to change the man at the top. Natasha Lamb,…
Lees meerFormer UK Prime Minister David Cameron has a new job. Mr. Cameron is to chair the advisory board of Afiniti, a Washington-based AI firm, the Guardian reported. He follows his former deputy into the tech sector. Sir Nick Clegg, who served as Deputy P…
Lees meerA study of the impact behaviorally targeted advertising found that targeted ads only gave publishers 4% more revenue than non-targeted ads.
Lees meerApple removed a bunch of screen time apps from the App Store, saying that the MDM technology they used was a security risk. Now the developers want Apple to create a screen time API.
Lees meerApple has increased the size of games and apps that users can download from the App Store via a cellular connection, but not by much.
Lees meerAlthough Apple discontinued its line of AirPort base stations (routers), it recently released a firmware update, version 7.9.1. It fixes several security issues, one of which seems especially bad. Impact: A base station factory reset may not delete …
Lees meerApple’s advertising agency has revamped its leadership ranks, promoting new creative leads for the iPhone and Apple’s Services.
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