Yesterday, Apple announced that after 21 years, the last iPod on sale has now be discontinued. The iPod touch was last updated back in May 2019 when it had a very light spec bump, receiving the A10 Fusion from the iPhone 7. Ever since the first iPhone was introduced in 2007, the fate of the iPod was settled. The iPod helped a struggling company at the time get out of […]
BMW is temporarily sending out brand new cars to customers, without any support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The company has stated that this is due to a chip shortage, but it will be fixable later this year via an over the air update. BMW has been using new chips, but they require some updated software in order to support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. To this end, BMW […]
Ian Goodfellow joined Apple back in 2019, he came from Google as one of their top AI employees at the time. When Goodfellow joined Apple he was appointed as director of machine learning. However, late last week he wrote an email to staff saying that he was resigning. His letter detailed that he was indeed leaving Apple, mainly due to the company’s increasing rules on staff coming back to the […]
Apple this week started offering a new longer Thunderbolt 4 Pro cable for use with the new Studio Display which provides a much longer version than the standard lead that Apple includes with the display itself. The cable comes in at $159 in the US and is also joined by a 1.8 metre version, which costs $129. The Thunderbolt 4 Pro cable supports Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB 4 […]
This week Apple has settled a long going class-action lawsuit, which lasted six years. The lawsuit accused Apple of slowing down older iPhone models, specifically the iPhone 4s when it was updated to iOS 19 back in 2015. As part of the settlement, Apple has agreed to pay some customers who were affected by this issue. Apple will be paying $15 to each customer. The actual lawsuit was submitted ages […]
Elon Musk has come out this week on Twitter and said that the 30% tax Apple enforces on the App Store is “definitely not ok.” This was in reply to an article from Slashdot talking about how PayPal had helped make sure an antitrust complaint against Apple was pushed forward. Apple has long charged companies an extra 30% on any app payments customers make and on any in app purchase […]
The Belkin Wemo Smart Video Doorbell is now available to purchase direct from Apple, at its physical retail stores and the online website. The doorbell was announced at CES earlier this year in January and supports all of the core HomeKit features for doorbells. At the moment there are not many HomeKit doorbells which support Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video (HSV), so it is good to see another product launched with […]
Apple has this week announced that macOS Server is coming to an end, as of 21st April 2022. Apple has been slowing phasing out the application for a number of years, extracting popular features from the app into macOS itself, such as Caching Server, File Sharing Server, and Time Machine Server. Apple still offers the macOS Server app for download on the Mac App Store, but has published several support […]
Apple has this week released a new minor firmware update for the MagSafe Battery Pack, with version 2.7.b.0. The MagSafe Battery Pack is compatible with the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 series of devices. There is not much information on what the update adds, so it is hard to know what Apple has changed or fixed but the battery pack will update when it is connected to an iPhone. The […]
According to a report from Gartner Apple’s worldwide shipments of its Mac product line has increased for the first quarter of 2022, even though the PC market as a whole has been declining. Gartner has estimated that in Q1 2022, Apple has shipped 7 million Macs, up from 6.5 million in Q1 2021. The reason for this growth could be attributed to the new models Apple has launched lately, with the M1 […]
