People awaiting iPads in the Czech Republic were told they’d be in the first group of countries (outside the US) to get an iPad on March 25th. We’re not sure why but the Czech Republic iPad website now shows they just got pushed back a month. (for those not in the know, Dubna=April). Update: Apple has removed (not corrected) the launch date. Update 2: Apple has finally got its Czech translator on the ball – says Brezna (March) now...
Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts has recently sat down with Fast Company for a brief interview in which she discusses what her first two years at Apple have been like. Ahrendts previously was the CEO of high-end fashion retailer Burberry. Ahrendts notes of the strategies she’s employed to improve Apple’s retail chain, including her strategy of treating them just as she would treat an executive. Ahrendts first notes that during her first six months on the job at Apple, she was able to travel to 40 different markets and spend time with retail leaders in each....
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was created in 1990 to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities, is turning 30 this week. As this has also impacted technology, TechCrunch interviewed Apple’s Sarah Herrlinger to explore how the company values accessibility practices and features. Herrlinger is Apple’s Director of Global Accessibility Policy. She reinforced the company’s commitment to accessibility and inclusion saying that Apple sees this as “a human right” and something “evident in everything we design today....
Apple today has shared a new advertisement on its YouTube channel for the iPad Pro. The ad positions the iPad Pro as a true replacement for a computer and is entitled, “iPad Pro – What’s a Computer?” Essentially, the ad is attempting to convince viewers to forget what they normally think of when they think of computers, because the iPad Pro is capable enough to be a computer in and of itself....
Apple from time to time updates Siri with new responses to make sure the voice assistant is up to date on pop culture and answering your questions as intelligently as possible. But this is the first we’ve heard of a partnership with a film studio in order to promote a movie release, in this case Universal Pictures’ ‘The Secret Life of Pets’. To go along with the digital iTunes release of the movie, Apple has added 15 programmed responses to Siri for the question, “What do my Pets do when I’m not at home?...
Ahead of next week’s Apple event where we expect new Apple Silicon Macs, Apple today has released the Release Candidate version of macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 to developers. Three weeks ago, Apple released macOS 11 Big Sur beta 10 to developers, continuing its focus on making bug fixes and performance improvements to the operating system ahead of its general release. Then last week, Apple released the first beta of macOS Big Sur 11....
Following an earlier Apple Music ad starring James Corden, Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue, and Bozoma Saint John, Apple today shared a new ad for the service. The newest video focuses on the changes that came to Apple Music with iOS 10 and comes in at 1 minute and 21 seconds. The video, which was shared on Apple’s YouTube channel, is titled “Explore the All-New Apple Music,” jumps through various aspects of the new interface....
As expected, the Apple Store just went down ahead of today’s iPad, AppleTV event. Anyone excited? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCP85FngzE] J33 Apple TV introduced tomorrow will be $99, B82 part will be $39, iPad AppleCare +: $99 (9to5mac.com) Apple’s next iPad will be available on March 16th, additional launch event planned (9to5mac.com) US-based iTV Entertainment preemptively strikes out against Apple over ‘iTV’ trademark (9to5mac.com) Apple is revamping the iPad App Store ahead of tomorrow’s event with optimized Top Charts and new ‘catalogs’ category (9to5mac....
Furthermore, even if we’re still talking about a huge amount, the judge denied Apple’s request for a permanent injunction against Samsung. At the time, Samsung said in its appeal that the damages award was ‘excessive and unprecedented’, as Reuters points out. The Asian company said it shouldn’t be forced to pay such a high price for making a “rectangular, round-cornered, flat-screened, touch-screened phone,” saying these are pretty basic features. And now fresh information suggests that things are once again improving for the South Korean company....
We’ve been rounding up the best Apple Black Friday deals for the past few weeks but we got a surprise today. Apple let us know earlier that it would have a ‘one-day shopping event’ – Applespeak for Black Friday sale – and the deals have now gone live in Australia and New Zealand. I wrote earlier that we weren’t expecting too much, and that has sadly been confirmed. Make sure to check our roundup of the Best Apple Black Friday Deals here and up-to-the-second Black Friday deals at 9to5toys....
When it comes to mistakes, over-estimating your quarterly revenue by between $5B and $9B is a pretty big one – and the market was understandably shocked when Apple admitted it had done so. One analyst says Apple’s failure to predict its holiday quarter can be explained by three errors, and he’s written a blog post explaining each. But he also believes there are three reasons for optimism about the coming year …...
A forecast published today by market intelligence company Gartner suggests that Apple’s combined market share of mobile phones, tablets and PCs will grow from just under 10 percent to over 14 percent by 2014 – shipping almost 3m devices this year, and rising to over 3.5m next year. Gartner is predicting that while PC sales will fall 10.6 percent year-on-year, and phones grow at a modest 4.3 percent, tablets will grow 67....
Following the launch of Apple Music on Android earlier this week, Apple today has revealed that it is officially shutting down the Beats Music service on November 30th. According to a support document shared on the Beats Music website, all subscriptions will be cancelled on that date, with users being asked to migrate to Apple Music. In the support document, Apple, of course, touts that all of the features Beats Music users have grown accustomed to are present on Apple Music....
Apple today began informing legacy TestFlight users that the services on TestFlightApp.com will no longer be available after February 26th, 2015. Apple bought the popular software testing distribution service through its acquisition of Burstly almost a year ago, and announced plans at WWDC 2014 to roll out its own version of the service in the future. Since then, Apple has integrated TestFlight beta testing for app developers with iTunes Connect....
Apple is rumored to be planning smaller and lighter versions of its USB-C wall chargers. The report comes from Digitimes, which says that Navitas Semiconductor is expected to obtain orders for gallium nitride, or GaN, chargers from Apple in 2021. Apple charger rumors The report also adds that Apple supplier TSMC will be included in the process and supply the GaN chips themselves to Navitas: Details here are somewhat sparse, but the need for Apple to adopt GaN technology is increasing as third-party accessory makers enter the market....
After being offline for more than a week, Apple’s Developer Center is back. Access to the portal was removed by Apple after it was discovered that a breach into the system granted individuals access to the names, mailing addresses, and email addresses of registered developers. Apple confirmed that sensitive personal data such as credit card information and developer passwords were encrypted and secure. The Developer Center looks the same as it was prior to its removal, but we assume Apple has followed through with its promise to overhaul the entire system by updating its server software and rebuilding its databases from scratch so as to prevent another intrusion....
Update: The Orchard page has now been removed from Apple’s site and redirects back to Apple’s homepage. Apple has quietly created a new program called Orchard with the goal of seeking out the next best marketing talent. Job listings have been appearing gradually over the past few weeks for the program, but Apple this evening has launched a new Orchard page on its website that talks about the program. Apple explains on its jobs webpage the goal of Orchard is to “bring together talented and diverse group of up-and-coming creatives to learn and grow with professionals at Apple....
What does it take to pack a mall with 10,000+ people in the age of digital retail? $50 iPhones will certainly do the trick. That’s what happened in Malaysia over the weekend when an Apple reseller advertised fire sale prices on old inventory — and the insane influx of customers ultimately caused the retailer to call off the spring cleaning promotion. The Verge reports that Malaysian retailer Switch advertised a special promotion to sell off mostly display inventory for near giveaway prices, but the response from customers forced the retailer to shut down the sale for security reasons....
Keeping with its recent annual update cycle, Apple showed off the next version of the Mac desktop operating system at WWDC today. OS X 10.11, the latest system version, carries the name El Capitan following Apple’s pattern of using names of prominent locations across California including Yosemite and Mavericks in years prior. Full details below: – 55% of active Mac users running OS X 10.10 Yosemite – Fastest adoption rate for any PC operating system...
A new report from Motherboard today delves into some details regarding Apple’s bug bounty program, an intitative the company launched last year in hopes of encouraging security researching to submit “high-value” bugs in exchange for money. Today’s report, however, explains that the program isn’t taking off as fast as Apple had hoped… At the time of announcement, Apple broke down the max payments as part of its bounty program: Secure boot firmware: $200,000 Extraction of confidential material protected by the Secure Enclave Processor: $100,000 Execution of arbitrary code w/kernel privs: $50,000 Unauthorized access to iCloud account data on Apple Servers: $50,000 Access from a sandboxed process to user data outside of that sandbox: $25,000 Motherboard’s report, however, explains that Apple isn’t paying researching nearly enough, as they can get considerably more for bugs from third-parties....
