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- 30 mins agoNetflix ends support for older Apple TV models in July
The Netflix streaming service will soon stop working on second- and third-generation Apple TV models. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)31 mins agoIndian stocks plunge as Modi’s likely weaker win causes policy worries
As vote counting trends in the general election suggested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance was unlikely to win the… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.32 mins agoYour future AirPods case may look a lot like a modern iPod nano
Sometimes with Apple, what’s old becomes new again. Designs and product names are at times revisited as the inspiration for new products. AirPods and HomePods, for example, play off the strong brand awareness for the iPod. According to a filed patent, Apple may take things a step further with the iPod inspiration, creating an AirPods case that looks and works a lot like a modern iPod nano. more…54 mins agoHow to get color text in the Apple Notes app
I recently had to Google how to get color text in the Apple Notes app, because the way to do this is rather deeply hidden! Especially if you want to do it in the iPhone or iPad app, you have two use one of three workarounds, because – strangely – the feature isn’t directly supported … more…01:00 pmInstantly share photos, videos, links and more with AirDrop
If you want to know the fastest and easiest way to send someone photos, videos, files and so, so much more, you should know how to AirDrop. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)12:59 pmApple is still considering screens for AirPods charging cases
It's the idea that just won't go away — Apple is again looking at adding screens to AirPods charging cases.Detail from the patent showing music controls on an AirPods charging caseAirPods and AirPods Pro have always come in a case that's more than a holder to stop you losing them. It's not that much more, it specifically only recharges the AirPods, but it is more than a simple plastic container.Only, Apple has plans to make even more use out of the AirPods charging case and it will not let the idea go. Apple keeps coming back to the notion of putting a touch screen on the case so that users can play, pause, and skip music. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums12:52 pmApple supplier TSMC says it has discussed moving chip fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible | Mac Daily NewsApple supplier TSMC says it has discussed moving chip fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible
Major Apple supplier TSMC, the Taiwanese contract chipmaker whose major clients include Apple and Nvidia, said on Tuesday it had held talks… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.12:42 pmAirPods Max versus Sonos Ace: premium personal audio, compared
The Sonos Ace is the company's new push into premium personal audio. Here's how it fares when compared to Apple's AirPods Max.Sonos Ace and AirPods MaxThe Sonos Ace were launched as a premium pair of headphones, its first foray into personal audio. They're a stylish pair of headphones that ticks many of the premium audio boxes for consumers.It's hard not to make a direct comparison of them to AirPods Max. As over-ear headphones with metal accents and a leaning towards audio quality, it's hard not to do so. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums12:22 pmNetflix dropping support for older Apple TV models this summer
Netflix has announced that it is dropping support for select older generations of Apple TV. In an email sent to subscribers this week, Netflix said that it is “sunsetting support” for the Apple TV (2nd generation) and Apple TV (3rd generation) on July 31. more…12:21 pmApple chip plants can’t be moved, despite China’s war games, says TSMC
TSMC’s Apple chip plants cannot be moved off the island, the company has said, despite ever-growing fears of a Chinese invasion. The chipmaker’s chairman C.C. Wei said that it had held talks with “some customers” about the idea following China carrying out war-game exercises around the island, but that it simply isn’t practical … more…12:05 pmApple TV+ and Netflix are neck-and-neck for viewer satisfaction
Subscribers are just satisfied with Apple TV+ as they are with Netflix, and more satisfied than Disney+ subscribers. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)12:00 pmBalance, Not Mandates, Needed To Keep Kids Safe Online: Report
An effective approach to children’s online safety needs to strike a balance between protecting kids' user privacy and free speech, as well as distributing responsibility to the government, online services, and parents, according to a new ITIF report. The post appeared first on TechNewsWorld.12:00 pmApple TV+ customer satisfaction continues to rise, according to latest survey
The latest telecoms customer survey from ASCI has been published and — despite rising prices and industry pullbacks — the bottom line is streaming services are still hot. Almost every video streaming service tracked by ASCI grew its customer satisfaction score compared to the previous year, with Apple one of the biggest risers. The 2024 score for Apple TV+ came in at 79, up from 76 in the year-ago survey. more…12:00 pmAptoide iOS game store launches this week; wait list of 20,000
An Aptoide iOS game store launches in Europe on Thursday, the third, uh, third-party app store to be announced after Setapp and AltStore. All three companies are taking advantage of the changes Apple was forced to make in the EU by the Digital Markets Act, which opens up the App Store to competition for the first time … more…11:56 am13-inch iPad Pro review: hardware of the future running software of the past
Apple's 13-inch iPad Pro is a testament to the power and efficiency of Apple Silicon, but WWDC has to address at least some of the shortcomings of iPadOS for those hardware upgrades to mean anything.13-inch iPad Pro reviewAs Apple shaves away every millimeter from the iPad, it gets closer to realizing the dream of offering information on a sheet of glass. At 5.1 millimeters, there's not much else Apple can do to the hardware without physics getting in the way.However, the only thing in the way of improving iPad software is Apple and its philosophy surrounding the tablet. While iPad is the perfect work device for some, there are obvious limitations and shortcomings that need to be addressed. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums11:27 amApple’s iPhone recycling robot no longer unscrews phones: It rips them apart
The latest version of Apple’s iPhone recycling robot no longer unscrews devices in order to access the innards; instead, it rips them apart. The change is one of many that have seen the practicality of Apple’s recycling robots grow from something which took 12 minutes per phone – which the company admits was really just a research project – to 18 seconds … more…11:14 amWWDC AI announcements will spark iPhone 16 upgrade cycle — eventually
Investment bank JP Morgan believes that Apple's combination of AI and privacy will mean a large swathe of users will upgrade to the new iPhone 16 throughout 2025, and that should reassure investors that are worried about the company's future.A Siri icon superimposed on Apple ParkAhead of the WWDC announcements on June 10, 2024, analysts at JP Morgan have told investors to expect Apple to concentrate on AI on-device features. It says that there will be cloud and data-center elements, but Apple will stress the on-device privacy and showcase improvements to existing apps.In a note seen by AppleInsider, the analysts predict that WWDC will be what they call a "tick all the boxes" announcement, that is specifically aimed at showing investors Apple has not fallen behind on AI. They say that investors will look particularly for any deals between Apple and OpenAI or Google, but that regardless of how it's done, Apple's AI implementation will be across all its native apps. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums10:50 amTicketMaster hack sees personal data of 560M for sale [U: Snowflake statement]
Update: After reports that cloud storage provider Snowflake may have been compromised, the company said there is no evidence of this. Reading between the lines, the attack may have been made via Snowflake, but it appears to have been TicketMaster credentials that were compromised. A TicketMaster hack has been confirmed by the company in an SEC security filing, stating that personal data of its users has been offered for sale on the dark web. The agency has not confirmed the scale of what appears to have been a massive breach … more…10:46 amChatGPT is down for many; recovery underway; Mac app may be best bet
ChatGPT is down for many, with OpenAI acknowledging on its status page that the chatbot is “unavailable for some users.” The partial outage appears to be global, though recovery does now appear to be in progress, with DownDetector showing a decline in the number of reports … more…10:45 amSo Apple really made a great iPad Pro feature and just didn’t tell anyone?
Macworld Apple’s obsession with secrecy has struck again but this time in an unusual way. Yes, the company that is only able to sell devices by tricking people with that icky “marketing” that no other company does actually forgot to market a feature! What is this feature? Well, according to developer Guilherme Rambo the M4 iPad Pro is: …the first device to support and use Apple’s new Secure Indicator Light (SIL) mechanism. When using the microphone or camera, the corresponding indicator dot is effectively rendered in hardware (using the display), making it a lot less likely that any malware or user space app would be able to access those sensors without the user’s knowledge. Guilherme Rambo Apple implemented this without fanfare. Or any kind of fare at all. In fact, it implemented it without even mentioning it when the product was rolled out. This is very odd behavior for a company that (according to many) only uses privacy as a marketing tool. You made the privacy, and you forgot to market it? What’s that about? Now, you may be saying to yourself, please, Mr. Macalope, sir. (Why so formal?) Your strawmen do burn oh so very prettily, but spare us your concocted arguments from fabricated Apple foes! But this is not a strawman argument at all! As it turns out, you are the only strawman here, fictional reader who purports not to think anyone says this about Apple. Ironic, right? One entity that suggests privacy is a marketing smokescreen for Apple is a little outfit known as… let’s see here, lemme just pretend to be looking this up… oh, yes! The U.S. Department of Justice. Apple’s emphasis on privacy was brought up multiple times in the DOJ’s suit against the company. The DOJ suggested that by not allowing third-party app stores, the company was reducing privacy options by not allowing a more privacy-focused store to set up shop on iOS. Yeaaah. Because that’s gonna happen. The horny one is sure there’s a long line of privacy-focused would-be app store overlords out there. It’s definitely not outfits like Meta that have tried for years to slip various privacy-hoovering apps into the App Store. Nope. Nuh-uh. The DOJ argued: By contrast, Apple allows certain enterprise and public sector customers to offer versions of app stores with more curated apps to better protect privacy and security. U.S. Department of Justice Like much of the DOJ’s filing, this is a poor explanation of the situation. These enterprise app stores are for employees and are designed to protect the privacy and security of the entity running the store, not the end user. In fact, many of them, because they’re run by companies that want to spy on their employees (or, to be fair, have to if they’re regulated industries) are absolutely terrible for privacy. The only privacy argument the DOJ makes that actually makes sense is that Apple degrades privacy by making Google the default search engine. And Apple does do it because Google pays them a ridiculous amount of money to do it, but most people were probably going to use Google anyway. (Still, they should stop.) IDG IDG IDG There are many good reasons to force Apple to loosen restrictions on the App Store. So many, really. Privacy isn’t in the top 20. Privacy doesn’t even know the items in the top 20. It never gets invited to their parties. Does Apple use privacy to market its products? Of course it does. It does so because privacy is an advantage of its products. These are not mutually exclusive things. But you can also make a pretty good case based on the above that privacy is so engrained at Apple that it defaults to that (unless someone wants to give them billions of dollars a year to kind of forget it for a bit). Is it perfect? No. But it’s still better than pretty much anyone else. iOS, iPad