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Apple: Mac OS X, iPhone, iPod, iPad and more

News about the latest Apple developments, including iOS, Mac OS X, MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, iPods and more Apple related software and hardware products.


Rumored Apple "iWatch" to feature curved glass design

Rumored Apple "iWatch" to feature curved glass design
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Apple
  • Fueled by sources purportedly familiar with Cupertino's developments, a report by The New York Times indicates Apple's rumored wristwatch-like device will feature curved glass. Rumors suggest the "iWatch", as it is being called for now, could enter production as early…

Alleged iPhone 5S photos from inside Foxconn leak online

Alleged iPhone 5S photos from inside Foxconn leak online
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 9:57 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • A new batch of alleged next generation iPhone photos have found their way online courtesy of a Chinese website. The pre-production images appear to have been taken inside a manufacturing facility – said to be Foxconn – and show the…

Seven million iOS devices jailbroken using evasi0n in just four days

Seven million iOS devices jailbroken using evasi0n in just four days
  • Posted February 8, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Industry News
  • Evasi0n, the first jailbreak available for iOS 6, launched earlier this week and in just 96 hours time, it’s managed to capture the title of most popular jailbreak ever. According to Jay Freeman, the person behind the jailbreak app store…

EA's Origin game distribution platform launches for Mac

EA
  • Posted February 8, 2013, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Apple
  • Just a couple of weeks after delivering an alpha client for a limited number of users, EA has now gone ahead and announced the full release of its Origin digital distribution service on OS X. The new client will include…

Mailbox mobile e-mail client now available in App Store

Mailbox mobile e-mail client now available in App Store
  • Posted February 7, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, Apple
  • Mailbox, a new mobile mail client for Gmail users on iOS, is now available in the App Store. But before you get overly excited, note that the company is filling reservations on a first come, first serve basis. So unless…

Apple's iTunes hits new milestone with 25 billion songs sold

Apple
  • Posted February 6, 2013, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple
  • Music streaming services may be on the rise these days, but apparently that isn't doing much to slow down Apple's dominance with its a-la-carte model. The Cupertino-based firm today announced it has sold over 25 billion songs on its iTunes…

Apple warns users against jailbreaking following evasi0n hack

Apple warns users against jailbreaking following evasi0n hack
  • Posted February 6, 2013, 10:02 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Software
  • Although unlocking a phone that's still tied to a contract was recently deemed illegal in the US, jailbreaking isn't, according to the latest review of exceptions to the DMCA in October. But that doesn't mean the practice isn't frowned upon…

Hidden radio icons in iOS 6.1 reignite Apple music service rumors

Hidden radio icons in iOS 6.1 reignite Apple music service rumors
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Rumors of an Apple streaming music service first came to light just after the iPhone 5 launched in September 2012. At the time, we were hearing that the service was close to being integrated into the new handset but negotiations…

Apple becomes top U.S. mobile phone vendor in Q4

Apple becomes top U.S. mobile phone vendor in Q4
  • Posted February 1, 2013, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • Apple’s record holiday quarter helped push the company ahead of Samsung as the top mobile phone maker in the U.S. for the first time ever, according to Strategy Analytics. That’s for all mobile phones, not just smartphones, with the Cupertino-based…

HBO Go coming to Apple TV in first half of 2013

HBO Go coming to Apple TV in first half of 2013
  • Posted February 1, 2013, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple
  • Apple TV owners might be able to access more than 600 hours worth of HBO  movies and TV shows sometime in mid-2013. According to a report by Bloomberg, the Cupertino-based firm is in talks with HBO parent company Time Warner…

Gabe Newell says Apple is the biggest threat in the living room

Gabe Newell says Apple is the biggest threat in the living room
  • Posted January 31, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Industry News
  • During a recent lecture at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said the biggest threat to the Steam Box or any PC ecosystem hoping to become a force in the living room isn’t…

Apple is awarded a trademark for their retail store design

Apple is awarded a trademark for their retail store design
  • Posted January 30, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a registration certificate for a patent that was filed more than two years ago with regards to the design of their retail stores. The trademark reportedly covers the design and layout…

Apple adds 128GB option to current iPad lineup (Updated)

Apple adds 128GB option to current iPad lineup (Updated)
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 10:29 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • Apple this morning announced a 128GB version of its fourth-generation iPad with Retina display. The Wi-Fi model will sell for $799 while the Wi-Fi + 4G model costs a whopping $929 -- a $100 increment in both cases over the 64GB variant.

Tethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1 now available, iPhone 5 coming soon

Tethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1 now available, iPhone 5 coming soon
  • Posted January 29, 2013, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Apple released iOS 6.1 yesterday sporting a couple of new features and bug fixes. We’ve since learned, however, that it has already been jailbroken courtesy of Redsn0w. It’s a tethered jailbreak but if you really have the need to update…

Apple releases iOS 6.1 with greater LTE support, Siri movie ticket sales

Apple releases iOS 6.1 with greater LTE support, Siri movie ticket sales
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Apple today released the first major update to iOS 6 since the operating system was released in September 2012. The update, aptly named iOS 6.1, includes a handful of bug fixes as well as a couple of new features –…

Apple terminates business with supplier following child labor violations

Apple terminates business with supplier following child labor violations
  • Posted January 25, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Apple’s seventh annual Supplier Responsibilities report has revealed that one of its suppliers violated their underage labor policy 74 times. Following the revelation, Apple cut all ties with China-based Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics and reported the labor agency responsible…

Best Buy slashes $200 off the price of all MacBook Air models

Best Buy slashes $200 off the price of all MacBook Air models
  • Posted January 25, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • Best Buy is slashing $200 off the price of a new MacBook Air now through January 26. If you’re interesting in scoring a big discount on one of the hottest notebooks around, you’d better act fast as we are told…

Origin alpha available for Macs, official release "launching soon"

Origin alpha available for Macs, official release "launching soon"
  • Posted January 25, 2013, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, Apple
  • Origin will be "launching soon" for Macs, their official blog states. Before the final release hits the web though, Origin has invited its Mac users to kick the tires on the latest alpha client. Don't get too excited though: the…

Apple posts record earnings, iPhone and iPad sales, yet misses Wall Street expectations

Apple posts record earnings, iPhone and iPad sales, yet misses Wall Street expectations
  • Posted January 24, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • One would think that posting record revenue and record quarterly profit would be seen as a good thing, but apparently that’s not good enough if your name is Apple. Despite the aforementioned good fortune, Cupertino still missed analyst’s lofty expectations…

Report: iPhone responsible for half of all U.S. smartphone sales

Report: iPhone responsible for half of all U.S. smartphone sales
  • Posted January 23, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Last week speculation surfaced suggesting demand for Apple’s popular iPhone may be slowing. That thought process was at least partially based on a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming Apple may have overestimated demand and is in the process…

Rumors suggest Apple is preparing three iPhones for 2013

Rumors suggest Apple is preparing three iPhones for 2013
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • The latest from the perpetual motion machine that is the Apple rumor mill suggests Cupertino is preparing not one, but three new iPhone models for 2013. One phone is even being called the iPhone Math, which we can only hope…

Al Gore exercises stock options, buys 59,000 Apple shares for $440k

Al Gore exercises stock options, buys 59,000 Apple shares for $440k
  • Posted January 21, 2013, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • It has been revealed in an U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that prominent Apple board member Al Gore recently purchased 59,000 shares of Apple stock. Normally such activity wouldn’t be particularly newsworthy but in Gore’s case, he was able…

The Apple Decade: Where They Succeeded and Others Were Too Lazy to Innovate

The Apple Decade: Where They Succeeded and Others Were Too Lazy to Innovate
  • Posted January 17, 2013, 4:30 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Apple
  • In the decade we have been publishing TechSpot, we have watched Apple resurge from the joke that G3 and G4 machines represented, to the Apple 'Mac vs. PC' debate -- during a time the company had better luck selling MP3 players than computers -- to today's ubiquity of Apple products in all forms of computing devices.

    During the past 10 years Apple has systematically attacked and conquered from several fronts. Here's a brief recount of those winning products, and where it applies, the industry incumbents that for one reason or another failed to innovate or at least failed to beat Apple at breaking products to the masses first.

iPad Mini 2 to go Retina, cheaper iPhone 5 coming, analyst says

iPad Mini 2 to go Retina, cheaper iPhone 5 coming, analyst says
  • Posted January 16, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • This latest batch of rumors indicate Apple's next iPad Mini will feature a high-PPI "Retina" display, similar to its pricier (and bigger) brother. Meanwhile, the next iteration of the iPhone -- iPhone 5S, if history repeats itself -- could be released…

Apple is awarded a patent for iconic trackpad design

Apple is awarded a patent for iconic trackpad design
  • Posted January 16, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Apple was recently awarded a design patent – US D674,382 – covering their infamous trackpad found on their entire line of notebooks. The patent specifically covers how the trackpad looks when housed on a portable computer; it has nothing to…

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