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DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy
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Apple Maps will now be powering beautiful, private maps and location-based search for DuckDuckGo.
Throttled
Apple replaced 11 million iPhone batteries last year — 5x-10x normal
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During Apple’s all-hands meeting January 3, Tim Cook said Apple replaced 11 million batteries under the $29 replacement program, and they’d have only anticipated about 1-2 million battery replacements normally. — John Gruber
Music to your ear
Apple Music on HomePod: Multiple streams require a family account
Single stream for single accounts turns out to be the way HomePod and Apple Music were always meant to work together.
5th Ammended
It's time for the right to remain private
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I'm going to something so controversial I'm not even sure I fully agree with it, at least not yet. This is complex, nuanced, life, death, and the future of our society stuff, and the absolute last thing I'm going to do is take any of it lightly.
Charge It
Wow! AirPower rumored to finally be in production!
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AirPower was sneak previewed in 2017 as Apple's extension of Qi inductive charging, capable of replenishing up to two iPhones or an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. So, where is it?
Universe dented
12 years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone
Eleven years ago today Steve Jobs announced a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet device. But it wasn't three products. It was one product. And we got it, Steve. We got iPhone.
Many more things...
All Apple products and events to expect in 2019
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New iPhones, iOS, and macOS are as good as a given, but will we see new iPads, Apple Watches, Macs, and more in 2019?
Gimme a beat!
Happy 15th Birthday, GarageBand!
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15 years ago Apple announced GarageBand and the audio industry, and each and every one of our potentials to be part of it, has never been the same since.
Yeahbuwhat?
Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung and AirPlay on LG, Vizio, Sony TVs
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Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung Smart TVs. I'm going to just keep going while you let that sink in...
Wishlist
How Apple could fix HomePod in 2019
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Home Pod 2, HomePod mini, HomeBar, HomePad — the assistant battle has just begun and here's how Apple can fight and win it.
'Bent' iPad Pro: What you need to know
The new iPad Pro is an ultra-thin slab of glass, plastic, and aluminum but, recently, just how uniform and resilient that slab is has come under scrutiny.
Apple flips off Google, Amazon, on eve of CES 2019
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This year, Apple hasn’t started going to CES or counter-programming it again, but it has made sure that its shadow is hanging over every other vendor at the show. Literally.
But is it really?
iPhone and Doom: Analyzing Apple's Q1 2019 numbers
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Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple is revising its guidance for Q1 2019, lowering revenue projections from the previously stated 89 to 93 billion, down to 84 billion. So, why?
Vector
iPhone Privacy: How to lock down and delete threats to your online information
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'Privacy now is like security in the days of Windows XP. No one cared about it until everyone cared about it.'
Zero Entry
New Year's Security Resolutions: How to lock down your iPhone
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If you're more concerned about someone stealing your data than you losing your data, then these are the iOS security tips you need to know!
Great artists
Nine features Apple should steal for iPhone in 2019
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Nine features the iPhone artists at Apple should steal in 2019 — and take then to the next level in the next year.
Lights, camera, action!
A special thanks from Rene to you!
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As I write this VECTOR, the new YouTube channel I started back in February of this year, has just over 125 videos, 73 thousand subs, and 9 million views in the 10 months since this channel went live!
Rumor roundup
Are AirPods 2 destined to be the next big thing from Apple?
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In 2016, Apple deleted the 3.5mm headphone jack. Those jerks. But Apple also introduced AirPods. Making them magnificent jerks.
#Win
Apple's biggest wins of 2018
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Every year, to end the year, I put together lists of what I think Apple did best and worst for the last 12 months. I've already posted the list of the worst so, now, I'm going to spend a got minute focusing on the positive.
Vector
When and why Apple might bring back Touch ID
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Touch ID is gone as a single point of active authentication... but not as part of a multi-point passive authentication system.