When Apple announced the M1 iPad Pro in April with a new mini-LED display, the M1 chip, and up to 2TB of storage with 16GB of RAM, there was only one thing missing: the software that would take advantage of this high-end machine. Two months after introducing the M1 iPad Pro, Apple previewed iPadOS 15 but with no pro apps, no Xcode integration, no windows, or even macOS – as some would suggest it....
Apple parody videos are nothing new, but they often highlight how normal consumers look at new product launches and in many cases beyond upgraded internals to more superficial features like hardware design. Apple’s new colourful iPhone 5c lineup seems to be getting somewhat overshadowed by the new gold color option for the iPhone 5s, but its new iPhone 5c cases are also receiving a less than great response, mostly due to their appearance to crocs and lack of attention to detail....
Sales channel data from 35 countries compiled by Counterpoint shows that the iPhone 5s remained the world’s best-selling phone as of May, some eight months after its launch. This backs up a report from ABI Research that the phone had retained the number one slot through Q1. The news wasn’t quite so good for the iPhone 5c, which came in at number 5, behind both the Samsung S5 and last year’s S4 – as well as the company’s Note 3 phablet....
New Q2 data from both Strategy Analytics and Kantar shows that the iPhone 6s is the best-selling smartphone in both the USA and worldwide. The 6s accounted for 4.2% of global smartphone sales, says SA, with the iPhone 6 taking second place at 2.5%, just ahead of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 at 2.4%. Kantar’s U.S. data concurs, the company noting that iOS market share was also up … “Apple’s iPhone 6s is currently the world’s most popular smartphone,” said Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics....
The survey was done by research firm On Device and it shows that the new iOS 6 features aren’t impressive to users, and there’s a slight decrease in their level of satisfaction. If the level of satisfaction was 6.93 out of 10 at the time of the iOS 4 update, growing to 7.75 for iOS 5 and it’s now at 7.65 or iOS 6. This slight decrease may be due to the dissatisfaction with Apple giving up on Google Maps to make room for its own maps app....
Phil Schiller mentioned on stage at Apple’s event today that the new iPhones include the most LTE bands that have ever been included in the company’s smartphones. After taking a look at the Xs and XR tech specs, not only do the new devices include more bands, one of them is new to iPhones this year that can offer T-Mobile users better coverage. For the first time, the iPhone has gained LTE band 71 with the Xs and XR....
No more updates or support At some point, Apple will no longer support its products, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Software: macOS Each fall, Apple releases a new version of macOS, which runs Mac. The latest version, macOS Catalina, was introduced in 2019, and its unnamed successor is expected to arrive in just a few months. The free macOS Catalina update supports a significant number of Macs, including:...
Download the iTunes U app to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You’ll get a message to sync iTunes U courses across your devices. The interface is the familiar bookshelf you get with the iBooks and Newsstand apps. Tap the message to subscribe to courses. Now you can browse through all of the available courses by topic, university and other schools. When you find a course you like, check out the description and materials included....
The methods presented here, however, are intended for professional software developers and each technique is based on a custom-created application. We are not encouraging any kind of malicious hacking approach by presenting this article; in fact the contents of this paper help to pinpoint the vulnerability in the source code and learn the various methods developers can use in order to shield their intellectual property from reverse engineering. We shall explain the process of disassembling in terms of obtaining sensitive information from source code and cracking a Java executable without having the original source code....
Ever since she made her name on Friends, arguably the most popular sitcom of the ‘90s and early ‘00s, Jennifer Aniston has been one of the biggest stars in the world. While her five co-stars from Friends never managed to break away from their TV roles, Aniston has been regularly starring in big Hollywood movies for years. She started out making romantic comedies, but she’s since expanded into more dramatic territory, as well as taking more risks with darker, edgier, raunchier comedies than she used to be in....
UPDATE: April Fools! It looks like Jared Leto’s Joker remains in Birds of Prey. But should Phoenix’s version get more than one movie? Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker may find himself joining the DCEU proper after the actor films a cameo with Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn for Birds of Prey. This would see the one-shot villain replace Jared Leto as the prime Joker going forward. The next two movies from DC Films have, thus far, been viewed as entirely separate endeavors....
John Krasinski has had a very eventful career, so here’s where else you may have seen the Jack Ryan star. The character of Jack Ryan was created by author Tom Clancy and has been played by multiple actors. Ryan made his screen debut in The Hunt For Red October, where he was played by Alec Baldwin. Baldwin was supposed to reprise the role for 1992’s Patriot Games, but opted out and was replaced by Harrison Ford....
In a brief interview that took place at the iPhone X launch but has only been published this week, Apple’s design head Jony Ive said that while the new flagship phone represents the achievement of a long-held ambition, it is only the beginning. Ive said that the iPhone X is a huge change in the design of the company’s smartphones … Speaking to Japanese fashion and design site Brutus Casa, Ive said that Apple had been trying for many years to design what he has in the past described as ‘a single slab of glass....
Oscar-winning writer and director Jordan Peele has officially acknowledged the video of Detective Pikachu’s titular character recreating the classic Key & Peele sketch. Featuring the voice of Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Detective Pikachu is due for general release later this week. It will mark the first attempt at bringing the world of Pokemon to the screen in live-action. With potentially a whole franchise riding on the film’s success, marketing has ramped up in recent weeks, with Reynolds once again throwing himself into promoting the film in unconventional ways....
Following the $1 billion verdict in the Samsung vs. Apple case, Samsung has been attempting to get the courts to investigate juror Velvin Hogan. It claimed Hogan “concealed information” about his past history with Seagate, a company Samsung is now a shareholder in. CNET reported Federal District Judge Lucy Koh will consider Samsung’s claims in a hearing set for Dec. 6. At the heart of the allegations is whether Hogan disclosed that his former employee Seagate had previously sued him:...
Just Mercy is based on a true story of harrowing bigotry infiltrating, manipulating, and coercing the Alabama judicial system into abandoning its duty to protect and serve black Americans – but how does the Warner Bros. movie compare to the true story? Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, whose other credits include The Glass Castle and the indie gem Short Term 12, Just Mercy’s blockbuster cast includes Michael B. Jordan as civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as the falsely accused Walter McMillian, and Brie Larson as Alabama activist Eva Ansley....
Following a breakout of malware on Mac OS X that some experts estimated could have infected up to 600,000 Macs, research firm Kaspersky made claims late last month that Apple was 10 years behind Microsoft in terms of security, while claiming roughly 140,000 Macs were still infected. Today, Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov confirmed with Computing that the company has begun researching the security of OS X at Apple’s request: Grebennikov continued by claiming he expects to see similar issues with malware making its way to iOS devices over the coming year; although, none has been discovered:...
Keanu Reeves’ Cyberpunk 2077 character, Johnny Silverhand, was apparently so fun for the actor to portray that he actually pushed CD Projekt Red to have the character’s scree time doubled, according to industry veteran Italian dubber Luca Ward. Cyberpunk 2077 was already one of the most heavily-anticipated games currently in development prior to the reveal that Keanu Reeves was involved with the project at all, but once the Canadian actor took the stage at E3 2019 and showed off his starring role, hype for the next title from CD Projekt Red skyrocketed - and generated some of the most wholesome memes of summer 2019 as a side effect....
The new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro packs quite a few features, including backlighting and a built-in trackpad. One complaint from users, however, is the lack of a physical Escape key. Thankfully, there are two easy ways to replicate this functionality. Solution #1 There’s no Escape key on the iPad Pro’s Magic Keyboard, but there’s a built-in key combination to replicate the Escape functionality. I was actually unaware of this key combination until I read Federico Viticci’s piece on MacStories about his early impressions of the new Magic Keyboard....
It’s been an accepted truth for years now: iPad sales are declining. Apple’s own figures show that sales have declined for twelve straight quarters. But that doesn’t tell the whole story, suggests Above Avalon, citing the Fiksu data shown above. It’s actually the iPad mini whose sales are shrinking. Exclude these, and the combined 9.7- and 12.9-inch sales are actually flat to slightly up over the past year … The decline of the iPad mini of course makes perfect sense....
