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Friday June 28, 2019. 06:00 PM
Apple's chief design officer announced on Thursday that he is leaving the company after nearly 30 years at the firm. John Gruber of DaringFireball making sense of things and what it means for the company: I've never been an 'Apple is doomed without Steve Jobs' person. But...
Apple iOS developer David Smith noticed something that really jumped out at him when he was reviewing his iPhone's device analytics. 'People really, really like the 4.7-inch iPhone,' he writes. 'When I look at the iPhone distribution for Pedometer++ the four most popular...
Thursday June 27, 2019. 11:25 PM
Apple's chief designer Jony Ive is leaving after decades at the iPhone maker to form an independent company -- with Apple as one of its primary clients. Ive was at Apple for more than two decades in which his iconic designs for the Mac, iPod and iPhone turned one of Silicon...
Apple has hired one of ARM's top chip engineers as the iPhone maker looks to expand its own chip development to more powerful devices, including the Mac, and new categories like a headset. Bloomberg reports: The company hired Mike Filippo in May for a chip architect...
Tuesday June 25, 2019. 12:00 PM
Apple is planning on bringing 2,000 jobs to Seattle by 2024 -- twice the number it initially planned. Engadget reports: The new roles would focus on software and hardware and effectively multiply Apple's existing workforce by five. Currently, there are roughly 500 Apple...
In response to Spotify's antitrust complaint, Apple claims that Spotify has greatly exaggerated how much money is being taken by the App Store. 'Apple says that it's currently taking a 15 percent cut of subscription fees for around 680,000 Spotify subscribers, representing...
Monday June 24, 2019. 09:20 PM
Apple today seeded the first beta versions of upcoming macOS Catalina update, iOS 13 update, and iPadOS update to its public beta testing group, giving non-developers a chance to try out the software ahead of their fall public release. Beta testers who have signed up for...
Thursday June 20, 2019. 11:22 PM
Apple on Thursday launched a voluntary recall and replacement program on Thursday for the 15-inch 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina Display, saying that batteries on some of these devices could overheat and 'may pose a fire safety risk.' From a report: The current generation is...
pacopico writes: There's a very weird trend going on in Silicon Valley right now where tech giants like Apple, Facebook and Twitter are raiding university neuroscience labs. They're hiring people who do pretty esoteric research on animal brains and putting them in their AI...
Wednesday June 19, 2019. 06:50 PM
Apple is counting on apps built for the iPad and the iPhone being converted to the Mac as a way to infuse new energy -- and a lot of new software -- into the granddaddy of its devices. From a report: The party started last year at WWDC 2018 when Apple announced a 'sneak...
Monday June 17, 2019. 06:45 PM
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Sunday in a commencement address at Stanford University that technology companies need to take responsibility for the 'chaos' they create. From a report: He did not name specific companies in his speech, but referenced several reasons that tech firms, ...
Saturday June 15, 2019. 12:00 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: On Friday afternoon, the Israeli forensics firm and law enforcement contractor Cellebrite publicly announced a new version of its product known as a Universal Forensic Extraction Device or UFED, one that it's calling UFED...
Friday June 14, 2019. 03:30 AM
Catalyst is Apple's framework that enables developers to easily bring existing iOS apps to the Mac, while SwiftUI is a new, Swift-based technology that makes it easy for developers to create one app that runs on all of Apple's platforms. Jason Snell from Macworld highlights...
Wednesday June 12, 2019. 08:08 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: In April, Google announced a groundbreaking technology that could allow Android users to use their smartphones as hardware security keys whenever logging into Google accounts on their laptops or work PCs. Initially, the technology was...
A senior executive at Foxconn says they have enough capacity to make all iPhones bound for the U.S. outside of China if necessary. Bloomberg reports: China is a crucial cog in Apple's business, the origin of most of its iPhones and iPads as well as its largest international...
Tuesday June 11, 2019. 04:00 PM
Apple has a backup plan if the U.S.-China trade war gets out of hand. From a report: The Cupertino, Calif.-based company's primary manufacturing partner has enough capacity to make all iPhones bound for the U.S. outside of China if necessary, according to a senior executive...
Monday June 10, 2019. 06:10 PM
Group of 20 finance ministers agreed over the weekend to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes, a copy of the bloc's draft communique obtained by Reuters showed. From the report: Facebook, Google,...
The editor of Dice's 'Insights' blog argues that Apple's Swift language 'has begun to eclipse Objective-C in a key way.' Apple was never shy about prioritizing Swift. As one developer on Twitter pointed out, once Swift dropped, Objective-C documentation and tutorials quickly ...
Sunday June 9, 2019. 01:04 PM
This week The Street ran a new article arguing that 'Breaking Up Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook Is Not the Solution': The Microsoft anti-trust case twenty years ago showed that judges are reluctant to break up companies even when there are definite signs of market...
'As a consumer, the idea of Apple sign-in is genuinely an exciting one...' writes developer/tech journalist Owen Williams at Char.gd. 'As a person in digital marketing, as well as a coder and startup founder, the feature terrifies me... I don't have a choice. Apple plans to...
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