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As developers and businesses take stock of Apple’s recently announced platform updates there is growing concern among publishers that a particular feature, Mail Privacy Protection, could collapse an entire industry. During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, the company unveiled Mail Privacy Protection, a new feature that effectively restricts email services or associated advertisers

Apple is due to launch an augmented reality headset in the second quarter of 2022, according to well-connected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a note to investors on Tuesday, Kuo reiterated a launch timeline first established in April. A month earlier, the analyst said Apple would debut a headset device in mid-2022. “We predict that Apple

Twitter is allegedly getting close to launching its long-anticipated “Super Follows” feature, which would provide paid access to bonus content supplied by popular personalities on the microblogging service. Twitter is working through ways to earn a profit from its user base, and has recently launched its Twitter Blue subscription. The company is still looking at

Previous issues surrounding reporting tools reporting heavy wear on SSDs in Apple Silicon Macs now appear to be fixed in macOS 11.4 Solid State Drives (SSDs) can only be written to so many times before they can become unusable, but it takes many years. A series of reports in February 2021 about the SSDs in

Dear Tim and Executive Leadership, Thank you for your thoughtful considerations on a hybrid approach to returning to office work, and for sharing it with all of us early this week. We appreciate your efforts in navigating what has been undeniably an incredibly difficult time for everyone around the world, and doing so for over

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lost his bid to sue YouTube over scam videos that claimed he was host of a Bitcoin giveaway and used his image. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Sunil R. Kulkarnia has denied Steve Wozniak’s lawsuit against YouTube, saying that there were insufficient factors to overcome Section 230 immunity. This

An internal email written by late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs offers a window into the tech giant’s hardware strategy just after the first iPhone launched in 2007, plans that included a tablet Mac and a 15-inch MacBook Air. The document, made public as part of discovery in Epic v. Apple and highlighted by Twitter account

Apple on Tuesday stopped signing iOS 14.5.1 code, effectively blocking downgrades to the operating system following the release of iOS 14.6 at the end of May. The code signing stoppage comes a week after Apple issued iOS 14.6 with new features including the activation of Apple Card Family and support for paid subscriptions in the

App Store word game “Up Spell” is seemingly an evolution of an internal Apple testing tool created by the lead developer of the original iPhone’s software keyboard. “Up Spell,” which launched in October 2020, is a fast-paced solo spelling game for iOS. It was developed by Ken Kocienda, a longtime Apple user interface designer and

Members of the Royal Family are reportedly “gobsmacked” about some of the content and comments in Prince Harry’s new Apple TV+ series “The Me You Can’t See.” “The Me You Can’t See,” produced by Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey, is a series that focuses on conversations about mental health. According to The Daily Mail, The

Apple is being sued by a man due to repeated accusations the man was behind numerous thefts at Apple Stores across the eastern seaboard of the United States, attempted thefts that were conducted by others who were impersonating the man. The lawsuit, filed on May 28 in the U.S. District Court for the District of

Apple on Friday released its annual Supplier Responsibility Report for 2021, offering detailed information about labor, health, educational, and environmental initiatives throughout the company’s manufacturing supply chain. Covering progress made in fiscal 2020, this year’s report (PDF link) provides a broad top-down view of Apple’s sprawling supplier operations across Asia and, to a lesser extent,

Twitter’s rumored “Twitter Blue” subscription service has been unofficially confirmed through what appears to be an errant listing in the iOS App Store. Twitter’s App Store listing now includes an in-app purchase for a Twitter Blue tier that costs $2.99 per month. While the option does not appear to be live, researcher Jane Manchun Wong

Less than two weeks before the 2021 WWDC, Apple has detailed the stories of three companies who attended the Apple Entrepreneur Camp and the apps they’ve created. Each Apple Entrepreneur Camp brings a group of underrepresented people in tech together to learn and share their experience. The first camp in 2019 invited women in tech

For 24 hours only, Apple Authorized Reseller B&H Photo is knocking $200 off the Intel Mac mini, bringing the price down to $599 during its latest Deal Zone event. Intel Mac mini $599 If you missed out on last week’s $599 Mac mini deal, the Intel model with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD

Quin Snyder, head coach of the NBA’s Utah Jazz, is apparently a fan of Apple TV+ exclusive “Ted Lasso” and says the show should be required watching for colleagues in his profession. Snyder invoked Apple’s hit comedy in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune sportswriter Andy Larsen, saying the team needs to forge ahead

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is being sued for copyright infringement for allegedly taking the idea of producing a tech school bearing his name, a concept that was apparently talked about years before the establishment of “Woz U.” In 2017, Steve Wozniak launched “Woz U,” a programming boot camp that offered courses on learning to code.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — Apple has a new line of colorful iMacs, and they’re probably going to change computing forever. A month ago, Apple continued the inexorable extermination of Intel on the Mac. The latest Apple Silicon Mac is an update to the iMac lineup, but instead of reusing the

After adding iOS support for Sony’s PlayStation 5 DualSense controller in April, Apple this week began to sell the accessory directly through its online storefront. Apple introduced expanded game controller support to its various platforms with the release of iOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5 and macOS 11.3 last month, enabling compatibility with both Sony’s PS5 DualSense

It’s launch day for the M1 iMac, iPad Pro, and Apple TV 4K, and customers in certain parts of the globe are starting to receive their orders. It’s already Friday in Australia and New Zealand, so some early buyers are starting to receive their orders at least a day before their counterparts in the U.S.

An Apple employee testified that Apple earned more than $100 million from “Fortnite” via the 30% commission on the App Store. According to a report from Bloomberg, head of App Store business development for gaming, Michael Schmid, said Apple earned more than $100 million in revenue from “Fortnite” on the App Store. He would not

Apple appears to be rolling out a fix for a bug that in some cases would prohibit users from enabling App Tracking Transparency functionality, a problem that was supposedly remedied with the release of iOS 14.5.1 earlier in May. A growing number of users are reporting that the “Allow Apps to Request to Track” option

Apple manufacturing partners are reportedly facing difficulties producing key components for top-tier models of the recently announced iPad Pro lineup, pushing availability of the flagship tablet into July. Unveiled at a special media event in April, the new iPad Pro line features the top-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display. Production of the

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Apple is preparing for another “paradigm shift” that embraces 3D, according to VR and AR evangelist Robert Scoble, with predictions that Apple’s strategy involves creating a realtime 3D map of the entire planet, as well as more work on 3D audio and a headset like the often-rumored “Apple Glass.” Apple is thought to be working

Former Apple ads engineer Antonio Garcia Martinez said Apple was “well aware” of his writing before it hired him, and accused the company of defamation in its recent statement regarding his firing. In a Twitter thread on Friday, Garcia Martinez said that “Apple actively recruited me for my role on the ads team, reaching out

A highly suspect rumor claims Apple is set to unveil a revamped entry-level AirPods product on May 18, and a lossless Apple Music streaming tier could be in tow. Without citing sources, YouTuber Luke Miani in a tweet on Thursday claims Apple’s third-generation AirPods will debut next Tuesday. In a statement to AppleTrack, he added

Apple has reportedly fired Antonio Garcia Martinez after an employee backlash over sexist comments that he made in his book “Chaos Monkeys.” The newly hired engineer is “gone from Apple after employee backlash,” the company confirmed to Bloomberg on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Apple employees began circulating a petition that called for an investigation

Apple TV+ had an estimated 40 million subscribers at the end of 2020, according to a recent report from analysis firm Statista. Apple has yet to reveal the actual subscriber count for its fledgling TV service, but Ampere Analysis estimated that the platform had hit 33.6 million subscribers by the end of 2019. Statista more

A class action lawsuit filed with London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal takes issue with Apple’s customary App Store commission rates, arguing the developer fee is passed on to consumers. In a press release Tuesday, claimants in the case argue Apple has overcharged nearly 20 million UK App Store customers for years by imposing an “excessive” and