Editorial

A closer look at the new Mac Pro

By Peter Cohen, Monday, Jun 10, 2013 a 6:15 pm

Over the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time writing about the Mac Pro - how to keep it alive a while longer, its importance as Apple's most high-performance computer, and what I thought the future was likely to hold for the aging but still powerful machine.

WWDC 2013, Wall Street, and what it will take to get Apple stock moving again

By Chris Umiastowski, Monday, Jun 10, 2013 a 12:18 am

Starting first thing in the morning, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference opens its doors. Tim Cook and other execs will take the stage to share all that is new from Apple. And unless you’ve been living under a rock you know that Apple’s share price has dropped from $700 last September to below $400 in April, and has now recovered slightly to about $440 as I write this.

Editor's Desk: Setting -- and blowing -- WWDC expectations

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 a 11:45 am

I'm sitting across from Moscone Center West where, in around 28 hours, Apple executives including CEO Tim Cook will take to the Keynote stage to kickoff their annual developers conference, WWDC 2013. No period in Apple's recent history has been more competitive for them, with rivals Google and Samsung pushing the mobile pace into damn-nearly a sprint, and no period in Apple's recent history has it been so long between keynotes before, almost 8 months having past since the iPad mini even back in October of 2012. Those twin tensions put a lot of expectational pressure on Apple. Everyone is waiting. Everyone is watching. Everyone wants to know -- what will Apple do, and what can Apple do?

Rumored iRadio to be supported by in-stream advertising; wait, really?

By Richard Devine, Friday, Jun 7, 2013 a 8:51 pm

If the rumors are to be believed, one of Apple's announcements at the WWDC keynote on Monday will be a music streaming service. Currently referred to as iRadio, the latest reports suggest that not only are the three big labels now on board, but that Apple will launch it as a free service supported by advertising. Wait, what?

In the age of iCloud, does Apple need to maintain a monstrous iTunes?

By Richard Devine, Friday, Jun 7, 2013 a 3:44 pm

Breaking up iTunes is Peter Cohen's number one want for OS X 10.9. He's probably not alone on that front, I myself went as far as saying I'd love to see the Podcasts app broken away from iTunes and released as a stand alone as on iOS. On their iOS devices, Apple has made the iTunes experience so much better than on the desktop, and it's been this way for a long time. And, with iCloud at their disposal, Apple could easily strip apart the "bloated, unwieldy mess" that is the current iTunes desktop experience.

WWDC 2013 wish-list: iMore's top Mac hardware wants!

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 a 10:25 am

While there won't be new iPhones or iPads at WWDC 2013 -- those are coming in the fall -- there will be new Macs. Peter's been covering everything from the new Haswell chipsets we can look forward to, to the new Mac Pros every geek is hoping beyond hope for. But what are we most looking forward to? Which non-mobile slab of glass and aluminium do we most want to bring home with us this June?

Well...

WWDC 2013 wish-list: iMore's top iCloud wants!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 a 11:14 am

To the internet! That's what everyone is doing these days, and for Apple, that means iCloud. The rebirth of MobileMe, which was the rebirth of .Mac, iCloud has been praised for its effortless backup and restore, easy app and media re-downloads, and it's $0 price tag for the basic level. But it's also caught flack for outages, for iMessage, and for Core Data sync, which has bedeviled developers. So what do the staff and friends of iMore most want to see in iCloud next?

Let's see!

Hall of fame: Loren Brichter and Tweetie

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 a 10:15 am

Tweetie for iPhone launched in 2008 and from the very beginning was described as the Twitter app Apple themselves would have made. While that was certainly meant to compliment Tweetie's native look and feel, and its incredible performance, it falls short of capturing the skill and vision of Loren Brichter, the man behind the app.

WWDC 2013 wish-list: iMore's top OS X 10.9 wants!

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 a 9:05 am

What does everyone here at iMore want to see in OS X 10.9? Apple does still make a desktop operating system, after all, and let's face it, even trucks need new engineering and body work. Since this is the final week before WWDC 2013 it's the last chance for us, staff and friends alike, to make with the feature requests. So...

To the wish-lists!

2013 iMore hall of fame

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jun 3, 2013 a 11:05 am

The 2013 iMore hall of fame will be inducting apps that were launched no later than December 31, 2008, which means this year, for the first time, the first wave of official App Store apps, and the developers and designers who crafted them, are now in contention.