Apple

According to shipment estimates, the iPhone XR was the most popular smartphone last year

Apple released the iPhone XR alongside the iPhone XS at the end of 2018 and while Apple heavily pushed the model with various trade in deals, it did seem to work pretty well as according to Omdia, a research firm – the iPhone XR was the best selling smartphone in 2019, the second being the iPhone 11. One impressive stat is how many iPhone 11 units were shipped in 2019. […]

New 2020 Maxda MX5 has Apple CarPlay as standard

The latest version of the Mazda MX-5 for 2020 is launching soon and it now has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integrated as standard across all the model versions. The model is fairly unchanged from the 2019 version, it now has sport-tuned suspension off the Grand Touring versions as standard, new colour options and also Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard. Inside the car is a 7-inch touchscreen, two […]

Apple Arcade can now be purchased annually

When Apple Arcade launched earlier this year, it launched for a monthly price of £4.99 / $4.99 and you could only pay per month, which for some people isn’t ideal, they would rather pay per year as you get some savings tacked on. Apple Music long provided a yearly fee and now, Apple has launched a yearly fee for Apple Arcade. The savings aren’t huge, but when you work it […]

Apple launches new, faster iPod touch

Yesterday, on Tuesday this week Apple announced that a new 7th generation iPod touch is out. Main features are that it is now based on the iPhone 7 internals as opposed to the iPhone 6 with the last model – from 2015. What’s new? The new iPod touch shares a lot of the same components as the last two models, with the 5th generation from 2012 and the 6th generation […]

Apple has stopped signing iOS 10.3.2

When Apple releases minor updates to iOS, it generally waits a few weeks before the new firmware is released and then subsequently blocks any downgrades to any previous versions of iOS, this is only done for a few reasons. Just yesterday, Apple stopped signing iOS 10.3.2 only three weeks after the release of iOS 10.3.3 – an update which only contained a few minor bug fixes. So, why does Apple […]

Apple launch new 9.7 inch version of the world’s most popular tablet

Apple have launched their new 9.7-inch version of the world’s most popular tablet, allowing access to the more than 1.3 million apps designed specifically for it – the iPad. This new upgrade is set to replace the iPad Air 2, which has now been discontinued. The iPad has been upgraded with a faster processor A9X chip and M9 coprocessor with a 10 hours battery life. Apple have capitalised on what […]

Apple Music on Android has had 10 million downloads so far

Apple surprised a lot of people last year when it announced that Apple Music would be coming to the Android platform. The Android version was release to Google Play in November 2015, now approaching the one year mark when the app was released iDownloadBlog have uncovered from Google Play meta data how many times the app has been downloaded. According to Google Play, Apple Music for Android has been downloaded around 10 […]

Apple launches new Mac update, OS X El Capitan

Apple has finally released the next big update for the Mac, El Capitan. This date for release was never mentioned by Apple but was hinted by Craig Federighi earlier this month at the iPhone event in a demo. This release may disappoint users expecting big name features, but like iOS 9 there isn’t much going on visually but a whole lot under the hood to improve the experience and performance. […]

New MacBook Pro 15-inch launches, with Force Touch

The new MacBook had all the fun with the Force Touch trackpad and so did the 13-inch MacBook Pro, now Apple has launched a new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro. When the new MacBook launched back in March, it got the new Force Touch trackpad and so did the 13-inch MacBook Pro, but the 15-inch didn’t receive any updates or attention, some rumours suggested a release for WWDC, but […]

A lot of new ‪iPhone‬ users are Android switchers

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has released some new data which suggests that users switching from Android have helped fuel the recent growth for iPhone in Europe. Kantar has tracked the growth in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain has had significant growth. iOS grew 1.8 percent from last year to 20.3% overall market share this year. What is interesting is that nearly a third of new iPhone users are switchers […]