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Monday June 30, 2025. 02:11 PM
Apple’s revised App Store terms in the European Union may signal the company’s first global cut to its longstanding 30% commission. Buried within a maze of policy updates, developers and analysts have identified language suggesting a shift to a 20% commission rate,...
Apple is ramping up development in the head-mounted device market with at least seven products slated between 2025 and 2028. These include three extended reality (XR) headsets in the Vision lineup and four versions of smart glasses. The company’s strategy appears focused on...
Apple has a wearables problem. Not in quality, but in momentum. While the Apple Watch and AirPods continue to dominate their categories, growth is slowing. The wearables segment, which includes the Watch, AirPods, and other accessories, saw a 7% revenue decline last fiscal...
Apple is preparing to roll out a live translation feature for AirPods as part of the iOS 26 update. The feature will allow users to engage in real-time translated conversations using their AirPods, creating a more seamless communication experience across different languages. ...
Saturday June 28, 2025. 02:16 PM
Pfizer researchers have challenged Apple’s recent claims about the limitations of artificial intelligence in complex reasoning. In a direct response to The Illusion of Thinking, a study co-authored by Apple scientists, Pfizer argues that the performance drop seen in large...
Apple has acquired a two-building office campus in Sunnyvale for $350 million, adding to a rapid string of high-value real estate purchases in California’s South Bay. The deal brings Apple’s total property spending in Santa Clara County this week to over $517 million....
Germany has formally requested that Apple and Google remove the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from their app stores, citing serious concerns about the transfer of user data to servers in China. The country’s top data privacy authority warned that the app...
Friday June 27, 2025. 10:26 PM
I have been testing iOS 26 since it’s release, and I would say battery life on iOS 26 is rather terrible. This isn’t surprising to me as it’s expected on any beta version. There’s a variety of reasons for this, like most apps being poorly optimized to preserve health. While t...
Do you hate working with WebP files? Unlike PNGs or JPGs, you can’t just double-click a.webp and expect it to open in Photoshop. Instead, you’ll get a weird dialog saying “Done” or “Move to Trash.” You might even see a “Could not complete your request because...
You’ll see zipped files are everywhere, from email attachments to software downloads, and knowing how to unzip them on your Mac is a must. It’s quick, built-in, and requires no extra tools. If you prefer a more hands-on approach, macOS also offers command-line control via...
Buying a Mac isn’t as easy as it sounds. Sure, you’ve got the budget to cover the price tag, but now you’re faced with spec decisions, and Unified Memory stands out as one of the most confusing. It’s Apple’s take on RAM and replaces both traditional RAM and VRAM....
The iOS 18.5 update has introduced a new problem for iPhone users: Screen Time is reporting inaccurate app usage. A growing number of users say apps they barely touched or never opened at all are logging hours of activity. In some cases, apps show up to 18 hours of usage in...
Many iPhone users just discovered a long-standing iOS keyboard feature: holding the period key in a browser brings up a list of common domain suffixes like.com,.org,.net,.edu, and others. This shortcut, available when typing in Safari or other browsers, offers a faster way...
Apple’s stock slipped slightly on Thursday after JPMorgan lowered its 12-month price target for the company from $240 to $230. The investment bank cited weakening demand for the upcoming iPhone 17 and broader economic pressures but kept its “Overweight” rating unchanged,...
Apple’s latest round of App Store policy changes for the European Union is facing fierce backlash from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Calling the update a “malicious compliance scheme,” Sweeney accused Apple of undermining the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with terms that...
A purported screen protector for Apple’s rumored ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air suggests Cupertino is about to tinker with the Dynamic Island’s geometry again. An image posted by serial leaker Majin Bu shows the selfie-camera punch-hole on the left side of the pill-shaped...
Apple and Qualcomm will have to keep defending a long-running patent suit in Judge Alan Albright’s Waco courtroom after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to send the dispute west. In a ruling issued Tuesday, the three-judge panel said the companies...
Thursday June 26, 2025. 11:48 PM
Apple has announced its most extensive shake-up of App Store policies since the storefront debuted in 2008, detailing a raft of Europe-only rule changes meant to satisfy the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and avert additional fines that could climb to 5 percent ...
Apple has quietly added a new Bluetooth identifier to its device-syncing codebase, pointing to an audio product that does not match any current AirPods or Beats model. The reference, first spotted by MacRumors on Thursday, carries the hexadecimal ID 0x203F (8239), a gap that ...
Fortnite isn’t available on the Mac App Store, and the Epic Games Store carries an outdated version that lacks the latest features. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy Fortnite on your Apple machines. The easiest and most reliable way to play Fortnite on a Mac is...
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