The Worst of WWDC - Apple's biggest missteps on the way to success
WWDC is Apple's annual backdrop for its most important software and hardware announcements. It has also unintentionally launched some of Apple's biggest flops.
WWDC is Apple's annual backdrop for its most important software and hardware announcements. It has also unintentionally launched some of Apple's biggest flops.
Aiming to show that its carbon reduction efforts are not mere "climate-washing," Apple has spotlighted how its Restore Fund is contributing to the restoration of a Brazilian rainforest, and attempts to save over 3,000 types of tree from extinction.
An eight-part drama about Benjamin Franklin's role in the American Revolution starring Michael Douglas is set to premiere on Apple TV+ on April 12.
Best Buy is clearing out M2 15-inch MacBook Air inventory to make way for M3 models, allowing for impressive discounts that knock up to $400 off the closeout laptops.
A worksman left his car keys on the dash, and the vehicle was promptly stolen. Apple's AirTag came to the rescue.
About half of recent Mac purchases are not made by long-time Apple loyalists, but are instead switchers from PCs and Chromebooks.
The Keychron Q1 Max is a 75% mechanical keyboard filled to the brim with foam with a smooth typing experience, featuring exclusive — and pricey — Gateron Jupiter switches and a 1,000 Hz polling rate.
Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 is very close, price-wise, to the 14-inch MacBook Pro. With similar core specifications, here's what to consider when you have to choose between the two.
Two years after pulling his music from Spotify in protest over the Joe Rogan podcast, Neil Young claims Apple Music and most streamers are all as bad — so he might as well be on all of them.
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Investment firm Evercore says Apple is facing weakening demand and strong competition from AI rivals, but investors should stick with it for the long term.
Apple is researching ways to embed multiple cameras in the body of a "flexible" device like a folding iPhone or iPad, and allow the device to be bent to take a picture or change a setting of the embedded cameras.
When recording using QuickTime Player on a Mac, it's often useful to be able to pause the recording, but the control for that is not obvious. We'll show you how to reveal and use it.
Investing in the new M3 MacBook Pro is now more affordable thanks to B&H Photo's $200 cash discount on this upgraded 14-inch MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM.
A report surrounding mobile app subscriptions provides in-depth data from across 2023, which shows how most struggle to make enough to get by.
New information about the Apple Watch ban, like how permanent the solution is and when it can be lifted, has been detailed in the now published Customs order.
An Apple Store in the Toronto, Canada Square One mall is moving to a larger location, but no other details are available.
According to some scattered user reports, updating macOS to Sonoma 14.4 is causing some USB hubs embedded in monitors to stop working and there doesn't seem to be a clear fix.
Next time you're heading out to the store, you can snag an Apple gift card and redeem it for free gems in Clash of Clans — assuming you're heading to one of the stores participating.
Exclusive coupon savings are in effect on Apple's M3 MacBook Air, with every 13-inch and 15-inch configuration eligible for triple-digit savings. Plus, grab a $40 discount on AppleCare.
A second micro LED supplier has announced the abrupt cancellation of a project believed to be for micro LED displays for the Apple Watch Ultra 3.
Subscribers of Apple Arcade will be able to play five new titles, with the list including "Crossy Road Castle" and "Solitare Stories" for Apple Vision Pro.
Apple's latest update to the MacBook Air brings M3 to the consumer-oriented lineup. Sure, it's a spec-bump, but it's one that should be tremendously attractive to Intel Mac users.
Apple is significantly increasing its R&D facilities in China, with the expansion of an applied research lab in Shanghai and a new lab constructed in Shenzhen.
As part of further concessions to the European Union Digital Markets Act, Apple is now saying that developers don't need to fire up their own App Stores, and instead, they can sell apps directly from their websites later in the Spring.
In an interview on Monday, the European Union antitrust chief said that its $2 billion fine on Apple Music was over obvious consumer harms leading to discovery issues — despite Spotify holding more than twice the market share.
Apple's lobbying efforts under CEO Tim Cook has continued throughout the term of President Joe Biden, with executives, lobbyists, and Cook himself visiting the White House 87 times in four years.
Auto-generated podcast transcripts are now available in the Apple Podcasts app, and is one of the most useful features of the recent iOS and iPadOS 17.4 update. Here's how to try it out for yourself.
Apple released new MacBook Pro models with M3 in October 2023, but the company isn't ready to slow down yet. Rumors suggest that the M4 MacBook Pro lineup is already in development.
Rumor suggests that Apple's infinite canvas app, Freeform, will get a new "Scenes" feature in iOS 18 that improves navigation across large boards.
Apple is planning on harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to buy and place ads in its App Store, similar to how Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+ platforms work.
Porsche has launched its new Taycan Turbo GT electric vehicle, and announced a Race Engineer Cockpit app for the Apple Vision Pro.
In stock with free 2-day shipping, Apple's upgraded MacBook Pro 14-inch is $200 off. Plus, save $50 on AppleCare.
A surgical assistant in London switched from HoloLens 2 to Apple Vision Pro for an operation and described it as a groundbreaking change.
An ultra-rare 4GB original-release iPhone has been put up for auction, and if sales records hold true, it is poised to bring in over $100,000.
On this episode of HomeKit Insider, your hosts touch on lots of new smart home news and product releases before going hands-on with a new air purifier.
The Apple Vision Pro could prove useful both in and out of the operating room as developers find new ways to utilize spatial computing.
Ever since the dawn of personal computing, there has always been a worry about how the public could be tempted to buy new hardware until there was enough new software written for it to make it demonstrably useful. Apple, not Meta, is in a prime position to make this happen with VR.
Reports of another fake bitcoin wallet in the App Store are claiming that "Leather Wallet & Hiro Bitcoin" took over $120,000 in a single fraudulent transaction.
The AirPods Pro could benefit from a new hearing aid mode in iOS 18, a report forecasts, with upgrades to the low and mid-tier models also expected sometime in 2024.
Despite 13 Academy Award nominations, Apple TV+ won none at the Oscars ceremony, in a year that saw almost all streamers shut out. Here's why that matters.
Time Capsule was Apple's discontinued line of network backup products. This is how you could use one on a modern network.
Police who wrongly raided and ransacked an elderly woman's home looking for a stolen truck and guns with Apple's Find My have cost the city of Denver $3.76 million in compensation and damages.
After the release of MacBook Air with M3, a report insists that updated iPad models are still on the way, accompanied by new accessories.
Apple is hoping to increase the number of subscribers to the MLS Season Pass, by alerting potential viewers to an offer of a free month's access.
Apple's 5th generation Time Capsule allows you to wirelessly back up your hardware. Here's how to refurbish the combined base station and NAS device.
Best Buy has issued a steeper price cut on Apple's loaded 13-inch MacBook Pro, now $1,299 for My Best Buy Plus members, while the base model has fallen to $899. But hurry, as these flash deals won't last long.
Parallels Desktop now improves clipboard syncing between the Mac and Windows or Linux virtual machines, fixes some game graphics bugs, and gives users more customization controls.
Apple has finally fixed its SSD speeds in the entry-level model of M3 MacBook Air, with it now using two flash chips in parallel instead of just one.
Apple has hired away an advertising executive from NBCUniversal, as it continues to build out its rumored video ad business for Apple TV+.
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Apple deals are heating up this weekend, as the launch of the M3 MacBook Air drives prices down to record-low levels on M2 models. Plus, grab an external display at up to $750 off.
Apple has inked a lease agreement to build a new Apple Store at Miami Worldcenter, set to show up by 2025 at the earliest.
We've had one month with Apple Vision Pro, we're seeing strange days with the EU and Epic Games, plus the M3 MacBook Air is here, all on the AppleInsider podcast.
A new rumor suggests that Apple will move the camera on the next-generation iPad Air to the horizontal center, the same as it did with the 2022 iPad.
Epic has committed to not violating Apple's App Store rules and DMA policies, and now both Apple and Epic Games are saying that Epic's third-party app store developer's account will be restored.
Preorder deals are in effect on Apple's new M3 MacBook Air, with both 13-inch and 15-inch models eligible for the exclusive VIP coupon.
A series of renders claimed to be of the iPhone 16 Pro back up questionable claims of a Capture button, but also suggest the existing Action button will be made larger.
Student Ellen Feiss may have looked stoned in her famous Apple Switcher ad, but it turns out that she wasn't kidding when she claimed that the paper a PC destroyed was "really good."
A Member of the European Parliament who worked on the EU's Digital Markets Act says Apple banning Epic Games is is weird, and so is likely to mean it becomes the first Big Tech firm to be fined under the new law.
Apple has announced a new store called Apple Jing'an will be opening shortly in central Shanghai, China.
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