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Craig Federighi speaks at Web Summit, says allowing sideloading on iPhone would be “a criminals best friend”

Speaking at the Web Summit conference today in Portugal Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi spoke about his and Apple’s views on privacy and sideloading on the iPhone. This follows the recent provision from the EU with the Digital Markets Act that would force Apple to allow sideloading on the iPhone. Federighi said that sideloading is a criminals best friend and that it would open the floodgates to malware on […]

Beats discontinues Powerbeats, Solo Pro, and EP

Beats this week has culled a handful of products from its line up, including the Powerbeats, Beats Solo Pro and the Beats EP. The Beats Solo Pro are on ear headphones and were introduced in 2019, with ANC, a Lightning port and the folding mechanism for a way to turn on and off the headphones. Powerbeats were introduced last year and replaced the older Powerbeats 3, with a design similar […]

Toyota stops selling the Camry in the UK

The Toyota Camry is a staple in the US, but it has only recently made its way back to the UK after a 14 year absence in 2019. However, after two months of introducing a new refreshed model, Toyota has now discontinued the Camry in the UK – citing poor sales performance. The Camry is still listed on the Toyota UK website, but it is unavailable to be configured. The […]

Apple is now classing the 4th generation iPad as obsolete

Apple has this week marked the iPad 4th generation from 2012 as officially obsolete. The fourth generation was introduced just a few months after the third generation, which itself was the first iPad to feature the now standard Retina display, which at the time the only other devices to feature it was the iPod touch 4th and 5th generation and the iPhone 4 and 4s. As of 1st November the […]

Apple is now extending its return policy for Christmas shopping

Apple has announced this week that its extended return policy is now in place, as we approach the Christmas holidays and the whole shopping season. The new policy applies to nearly everything the company makes, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods and HomePod mini. This following policy applies to the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands. Apple has said that any items […]

New MG ZS EV facelift model now on sale in the UK

Starting today in the UK, the new MG ZS EV has now go on sale, with prices starting at £28,495, including the government’s £2,500 plug-in car grant. MG announced the new redesigned ZS EV last month, with its new larger battery pack, at 72kWh it’ll do 273 miles on one charge. There is a smaller pack available still, at 51kWh and that’ll do 198 miles – however that version is […]

Weekends with A&T Tech – Best stories of the week

Another week has gone by and its time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on A&T Tech. This week has pretty much been an Apple focused week, with new AirPods, MacBooks and the all new cloth, from Apple. Apple discontinues the old Intel iMac 21.5-inch Earlier in the week, it was discovered that the old 21.5-inch iMac, powered by Intel had been discontinued, marking another step of […]

Apple has now discontinued the 21.5-inch Intel iMac

Apple has now, as of this week stopped selling the old Intel 21.5 iMac on its online store. The base model has been left on sale since Apple introduced the brand new iMac 24-inch back in April, with the Apple M1 SoC and new colours. This change affects the Apple online store and its retail locations, third party stores will still stock it, so long as stock lasts. The model […]

SpaceX Starlink delayed for some, until late 2022 or early 2023

New customers looking to pre-order the Starlink satellite internet service from SpaceX might be in for a long wait, as the company has updated its shipping estimates this week. Some areas of the UK and US are now seeing mid to late 2022, with some states in the US seeing late 2022 and early 2023. Some areas of the US, such as Roundhill in Virginia, and Evergreen in Colorado have […]

Apple Music is now available on the PS5

This week, Apple has made the official Apple Music app available on the Sony PlayStation 5, marking the first time the music service has been fully integrated into a games console. For a couple of weeks, some users on the PS5 have been reporting that the Apple Music app has been appearing. The new app allows users to access Apple Music from within games and it also supports background play, […]