Apple releases watchOS 3.1.3 Beta 2 to developers

Apple today released the second beta version of watchOS 3.1.3 to developers. If you have registered as a developer, you can download the update by using the Apple Watch app on the iPhone. Simply go to General –> Software Update. To install the Beta, the Apple Watch must be at least 50% charged, and..

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Report: Sharp to start OLED display production line for the Apple iPhone in 2019

Amid talk that Apple is taking in much of the world"s supply of OLED displays, a fresh report says that Sharp will spend the equivalent of $864 million on an OLED production line. Sharp, purchased last year by iPhone assembler Foxconn, is rumored to start production in 2019 at a Foxconn facilit..

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Apple preparing to enter talks with Indian government on opening local manufacturing plant

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Indian PM Narendra Modi
After relaxing its regulations that required foreign tech companies to locally source at least 30 percent of products sold in retail stores, the Indian Government said last week that it won’t give in to any more demands by Apple, or any other tech comp..

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Apple takes down app that helps you track your lost AirPods

Apple’s AirPods are small, lightweight, and completely wireless. They are also relatively easy to lose, which, coupled with their price tag, has made us wondering, “why is there no way to track a pair of AirPods using your iPhone?”
Well, a crafty iOS developer has decided to step in and provide peop..

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Operating profits gap between Apple and Samsung hits all-time low in Q4 2016

Samsung Electronics has reported a solid 17% operating profit rate for Q4 2016, which could mean that the Seoul-based manufacturer has managed to narrow the gap with its main rival Apple to an-all time low.
According to BusinessKorea, on January 8, South Korean industry sources reported that sales a..

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IBM and Samsung with most patents in 2016, Apple not even in Top 10

Due to a fundamentally flawed system the patent have become a synonym for trolling and suffocating innovation. Yet sometimes they also indicate a forward-driving spirit and amount of innovative ideas. The patent data experts from IFI CLAIMS published a Top 10 list of tech companies who filed most patents last year.
As you can see from the graph IBM is on top with huge lead ahead of Samsung. If we put it in perspective, IBM filed 22 patents a day, while the Korean company had 15/day. Following is a closely packed group featuring Qualcomm, Google and Intel with almost 8 patents per day while LG, Microsoft, TSMC and Sony are completing the top 10 with 5-6/day. Industry profit leader Apple didn"t make it to the list.
There’s an explanation for having so many patents. Companies don’t always put all this technology in action in their devices – they just want to make sure that no-one uses an idea they came up with first. And, of course, this graph shows us all patents, which stretch f..

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The Apple iPhone turns 10 today: a decade of redefining the "smart" in smartphone

One could sense a weird buzz coming from the Moscone Center in San Francisco in the early morning of January 9, 2007. The impending arrival of something exciting brought a palpable tension in the air, as the audience inside the complex was fixated onto Steve Jobs, who was hosting the most important ..

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The Apple iPhone turns 10 today: a decade of winning and evolution

One could sense a weird buzz coming from the Moscone Center in San Francisco in the early morning of January 9, 2007. The impending arrival of something exciting brought a palpable tension in the air, as the audience inside the complex was fixated onto Steve Jobs, who was hosting the most important ..

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Canada"s competition watchdog drops Apple probe

Apple Store in Quebec, Canada
Last Friday, Canada"s Competition Bureau officially announced that it is closing a two-year investigation into whether Apple had attempted to stifle competition back when it introduced the original iPhone to the country"s local markets.
The tech giant was put..

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Samsung was actually granted more patents than Apple in 2016

It"s been a running joke in the mobile industry that Apple has been patenting stuff left, right, and center. Even Steve Jobs joked with that during the unveiling of the first iPhone. But recent statistics show that some companies are way ahead of Apple in the patent race.
According to informati..

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Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch three new iPads in the second quarter of 2017

Yet another report claims that Apple is gearing up to release some iPads in April, and this time, the word is coming from the credible Mr. Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst for KGI Securities with an unbeatable track record of come-true Apple rumors. In his latest note to investors, Kuo suggests Apple is wor..

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Apple will surpass Microsoft in shipments of smart devices this year

According to analytical firm Gartner, in 2017 Apple"s shipment of smart devices (those running iOS and OS X) will surpass Microsoft"s shipments of smart devices powered by Windows, for the first time. Gartner then estimates that Apple will continue to out ship Microsoft through 2019. Both ..

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Apple shows off Portrait Mode in latest iPhone 7 Plus ad

Holiday season is over and Apple has released its first iPhone ad of 2017. This one focuses on the Portrait Mode feature on the phone.
Portrait Mode, for those not aware, uses the secondary 57mm telephoto lens on the iPhone 7 Plus along with the primary lens to create a 3D map of the object in front of it and then selectively applies a blur filter around its edges to separate the subject from the background. This creates a highly desirable shallow depth of field effect, which is particularly sought after for portrait image, which is what this effect is primarily designed for.
For what it"s worth, the feature is still technically in beta, but Apple probably has enough confidence in it now to make a commercial specifically for it.

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Latest commercial for the Apple iPhone 7 Plus focuses on Portrait mode

Portrait mode is the focus of the latest television ad for the Apple iPhone 7 Plus. With Portrait mode, you can take advantage of the extra camera on the back of the handset to take photos with a depth-of-field effect. This allows you to blur the background, helping you create professional looking p..

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Apple hogs AMOLED screen orders so Chinese smartphone makers form consortium to ensure supply

When Apple starts ordering components for building iPhones, this means big, big orders – sometimes big enough to prevent smaller companies from securing orders for their products, due to Cupertino"s overwhelming demand. It has happened with Sony camera sensors a number of times. In 2015, the co..

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Nomura Securities expects a huge supercycle for iOS to begin with the 2017 Apple iPhone 8

With the beginning of the new year, many Wall Street types, smartphone fanatics and even consumers who don"t obsess about these devices, are thinking about what Apple might have in store for this year"s iPhone. Nomura Securities analysts say that Apple is on the verge of a new supercycle t..

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Beats teaser appears to show Jet White Apple iPhone 7, but there is an explanation

Is there a Jet White iPhone 7 in this picture?
Back in November, we first told you about a report out of Japan that mentioned that a Jet White Apple iPhone 7 and Apple iPhone 7 Plus were on the way. Tipster Sonny Dickson fanned the fire by disseminating a video that showed a third party"s inter..

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Apple slashes Tim Cook pay for the first time this year as company misses sales targets

For the first time since he took the helm at Apple, chief executive officer Tim Cook will take a pay cut after the company missed its annual sales target for 2016.
Apple declared annual sales of $215.6 billion for the fiscal 2016 (Apple"s fiscal years end on the last Saturday of September), 3.7..

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Awesome Apple Watch stand transforms your timepiece into an 80"s Macintosh computer

If there’s one thing nobody can deny Apple’s good at, it’s creating lasting designs. A testament to that is the angular Macintosh 128K from 1984 – a computer with such an iconic look, 30 years later people are using it as a design piece. The cuboid Mac has been repurposed to such things as a flower ..

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A prototype of Apple"s click wheel iPhone: video shows us how clunky it would"ve been

We"ve heard tons of stories and legends about the designing of the original iPhone — Steve Jobs and the boys at Apple had to go through numerous concepts and juggle a lot of ideas before finally settling on the iconic design. It has been said that Jobs planned iOS out to be either an advanced v..

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