Tag: Apple

You can now use Apple Music on Sonos

Apple hasn’t been too keen on working with Sonos in the past, or so it seems but earlier in the year we leaned that Apple Music will be coming to the Sonos music system, up until now the feature has been in beta but now all Sonos users who use Apple Music can now add the service to the app by logging into your account, under the ‘Add Music Service’ section. […]

New Apple TV beta enables voice dictation search

When the new Apple TV launched back in November last year, a few days after headline after headline popped up in the Apple community regarding various things that had been discovered that the new device couldn’t do, one of which was voice dictation meaning the user was forced to go through the process of manually entering each character. Also things such as keyboards couldn’t be used with bluetooth initially as […]

iTunes Radio is no longer free, requires a subscription to Apple Music

Earlier this month, Apple revealed that the ad-supported stations on iTunes Radio wont be supported from the end of the month leaving Beats 1 to be the only free element of Apple Music. Well true to its word this week Apple has ended the free, ad-supported iTunes Radio. Users using Apple Music without an active subscription will now be prompted with a message stating – “Get on Our Wavelength” and […]

Barclays will support Apple Pay in the UK by April

Back in July last year when Apple Pay made it over to the UK initially most of the major UK banks and credit unions signed up for the service apart from Barclays, as of writing a total of 15 banks or credit card companies in the UK now support Apple Pay, including Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, TSB and Halifax. In July, Barclays initially stated that they wont be accepting Apple […]

Warning: People are sharing a link which will crash your iPhone

There’s a link being shared over the internet which is primarily designed to crash the Safari browser on your iPhone, once you visit the site which is crashsafari.com it’ll force the device into a reboot, TechRadar have tested the website and have confirmed that it does indeed crash your iPhone, iPad or computer running Safari. The website works buy loading a never ending stream of characters, which in turn makes it so that the […]

Back in 2014, Google paid Apple $1 billion to be the default search on iPhone

Just today the news has broke that back in 2014 Google actually paid Apple $1 billion to simply be the default search engine on the iPhone, as well as the iPad. This deal was obviously kept very secret until now but the news came from court transcripts which were aquried by Bloomberg. The question is, if Google hadn’t of paid Apple that money what would be the default search engine on […]

Samsung may be investing $7 billion to supply new OLED displays for iPhones

The next iPhone might have a OLED display as Samsung Display might have a deal with Apple to supply OLED displays for the iPhones in 2018, so multiple reports say. Samsung is reportedly investing around $7.47 to manufacture new OLED displays. The display division of Samsung is said to be ramping up production of OLED displays by 30,000 to 45,000 panels per month for the rest of this year. Despite the […]

Aaron Sorkin and Kate Winslet win at the Golden Globes for ‘Steve Jobs’ film

Earlier this week, it was the golden globes and the highly doubted film Steve Jobs won won awards for Kate Winslet who played Joanna Hoffman and Aaron Sorkin who wrote the film. Danny Boyle’s film actually picked up around half the awards that it was nominated for at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. Last year when the film was in cinemas, it had an ambitious release and that didnt really fair […]

iPhone 7 might have wireless Beats earbuds included

Over the past week or two the rumour mill has been churning out the speculation that the next iPhone, the iPhone 7 will be drastically thinner, waterproof and also something which is most controversial – drop the headphone port. To also aid this rumour, 9to5Mac have reported that Apple may be working on a special wireless version of Beats earbuds to complement the iPhone 7, according to the site the […]

9 years ago today, Apple unveiled the iPhone

Back in 2007 – exactly nine years ago today Apple made history, unveiling the very first iPhone which may look a bit restricted but back then Blackberry ruled the smartphone market, so this entry from Apple was a big change. Steve Jobs famously took to the stage and said these words “A revolutionary mobile phone. A breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod. A phone. And an internet communicator. An iPod. […]