What's really going on with Apple's modem chip efforts?
A recent report suggests Apple's in over its head with it's iPhone modem efforts, but — to borrow a phrase — we think differently.
Since Peter's first high school internship duplicating disks for a banking software developer, Apple computers and devices have figured prominently in Peter's professional life. His first career in tech support for Mac hardware and software makers led to a career in IT working for graphic design firms, newspaper, book and magazine publishers.
His experience creating web sites for his employers led to Peter's first web publishing success: MacGaming, a leading source of Mac game news, reviews and info. Peter rode the Web 1.0 wave as prominent daily Apple news resource MacCentral acquired MacGaming in 1998. A year later Mac Publishing LLC acquired MacCentral, and Peter spent the next decade on Macworld's staff as a senior editor. Since then Peter's written for iMore, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware and many other sites as a freelance writer, editor and journalist.
A recent report suggests Apple's in over its head with it's iPhone modem efforts, but — to borrow a phrase — we think differently.
So far, it looks like macOS Sonoma's rollout has not been plagued with widespread reports of app compatibility issues — but there are a few holdouts worth noting.
PostScript, the venerable page description language dating back to Macs in the '80s, has finally hit the end of the road in macOS Sonoma.
Legendary game designer Hideo Kojima has listed which Apple devices which will work with "Death Stranding Director's Cut," coming in 2023.
The goodwill that game engine developer Unity burnt over the last week with its bizarre and retroactive pricing demands are going to be a problem for not just the iPhone, but Apple Vision Pro too.
The iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9 Apple released on Tuesday are expectedly evolutionary and not revolutionary, but what's inside them makes us wonder where we go from here.
Apple consistently beat the drum about data security at its Wonderlust event and it's a message that's worth emphasizing — keeping your data safe sometimes means keeping it out of the cloud altogether.
Some green activists have turned to an AI-generated Tim Cook video to try to convince Apple to do more to save the environment with a modular iPhone — and plan to protest the point at Apple Stores this week.
Think the iPhone 15's transition to USB-C would simplify the contents of your cable drawer, or neaten up the bottom of your backpack? Think again.
Apple's latest flagship, the iPhone 15 Pro, promises the best gaming experience on any smartphone with hardware-based ray tracing, thanks to changes Apple's made to the A17 Pro powering the device.
Apple's first spatial computing device, the Apple Vision Pro, is on track for release early next year, according to Tim Cook.
Apple's iPhone 15 transition to USB-C is good in the long run, but is bound to create consumer confusion in the larger population, thanks mostly to the continued evolution of USB-C connectivity itself.
Two hikers trapped Wednesday on a riverbank in New Zealand's Arthur's Pass National Park used the satellite SOS feature on their iPhone 14 to summon help for first time in the country.
A free cash exploit involving Apple Cash and CashApp that spread on social media turns out not to be so free, with users waking up on Friday to find negative account balances.
Apple is bringing Game Mode and a porting toolkit to macOS Sonoma. It's a good start, but Apple needs to do far more to attract gamers and game makers to the Mac.
Apple has released macOS Ventura 13.5.1, incorporating a single fix for location permissions settings not displaying.
A Russian court this week fined Apple about $4200 for failing to suppress Apple News content about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, equivalent to barely over two seconds of profit for the company.
The Mac has taken a back seat to Linux as the number two operating system in use by customers of Valve Software's Steam gaming service, according to the company's most recently polled survey data.
Apple, other smartphone makers, and app developers may have to introduce limits to how Chinese children can use devices like iPhone and the apps to run them, if a new proposed law is put into effect.
As Apple continues to crank out new developer preview builds of visionOS and readies a hardware seed program, the company is also looking for a research software engineer to join its Vision Pro development team.
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