Category: Apple
Apple sees significant slump in iPhone sales over festive season
Apple has acknowledged demand for iPhones is waning, fulfilling the worst fears of investors concerned the company’s most profitable product has lost some of its lustre. The reckoning came in the form of a warning that Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered to the company’s shareholders in a letter released after the stock market closed on…
Apple denies claims of iPhone sales ban in China
Image: Press Association Chip-maker Qualcomm claims it has been granted two injunctions against Apple in China that prevent the sale of a range of iPhone handsets in the country. Qualcomm said Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court ruled that Apple had violated two software patents held by Qualcomm linked to photo editing…
Apple rolls out ECG test feature for heart health checks on the Apple Watch
Users of the latest Apple Watch are now able to take an ECG (Electro Cardiogram) reading of their heart’s rhythm as part of an update which is initially rolling out across the US. Apple announced the arrival of enhanced sensors for a unique ECG feature at the launch of the latest Apple Watch in September,…
Apple names Fortnite and Drake among most popular App Store downloads of 2018
Fortnite has been named as the most downloaded free game of the year from Apple’s App Store. The battle royale game, which recently revealed it had gone past 200 million registered players, is free to play across multiple platforms and has enjoyed runaway success over the last year. Aside from games, The Driving Theory Test…
Apple Music is coming to Alexa – in US from December 17
(Yui Mok/PA) Amazon’s Alexa voice-powered assistant is preparing to gain another high profile music service in the form of Apple Music. Support for Apple’s own music streaming service will be available to Amazon Echo devices across the US from December 17 with “additional countries coming next year”, the company said.…
Review: 10.5inch iPad Pro from £619
It looks good, but will it ever replace your laptop? Martyn Landi reviews the completely transformed Apple iPad Pro... The iPad has never undergone as dramatic a transformation as it has for the new iPad Pro, which completely rethinks not only the tablet’s form factor but how users interact with it on most levels. With…
10 years since Apple introduced Emoji to iPhone – see how they’ve changed
Apple added emoji to its keyboard on the iPhone 10 years ago today, transforming the way people communicate via text. iPhone OS 2.2 – known as iOS from 2010 – introduced emoji to users in Japan initially, in time for the newly released iPhone 3G. 😲 Astonished Face on iPhone #2008v2018 https://t.co/ajoEkNzgvQ pic.twitter.com/d6wi5ygjRq — Emojipedia…
MacBook is the focus of Apple’s Christmas ‘Share Your Gifts’ ad
Apple has revealed its new Christmas advert, a fully animated short film about sharing things created on a MacBook. The advert, called Share Your Gifts, focuses on an Apple user who is too afraid to share the things she creates on her laptop. Although it is a piece of advertising for the tech giant, product…
iPhone spacebar ‘hack’ allows you to move cursor around text message
An iPhone keyboard hack that enables users to quickly move the cursor through the text of messages has sparked excitement among users, despite being available in some forms since 2015. Flagged by several users on Twitter in recent days, the feature enables iPhone users to press and hold on the spacebar of the keyboard and…
Apple boss defends taking billions from Google to use its search engine
Apple recently added the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR to its line-up (Kirsty O’Connor/PA) Apple chief executive Tim Cook has defended the company accepting billions from Google to make its search engine the iPhone default, despite its commitment to privacy. The boss of the world’s first trillion dollar company…