The original iPhone had a 3.5” display at 480x320px resolution, or 163 points per inch (ppi). The iPhone 12 as a 6.1” display at 2,532x1,170px resolution, or 460ppi. Pretty much everyone with good eyesight would agree that the iPhone 12 display looks much sharper than the
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I got an email from Spotify this weekend asking me to resubscribe for a significant discount. This comes just days after the company rolled out their “2020 wrapped” report to millions of users. Users who, I must add, were more than happy to share these updates to social media. And
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Apple introduces the App Store Small Business Program: With the new App Store commission structure, small and individual developers who earn up to $1 million in revenue for the calendar year are eligible for a reduced 15 percent commission rate — half of the App Store’s standard commission. The savings
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A few weeks ago, the email service, Hey, released an update to their iOS app that added widgets. The widgets are great, and I use two of them because they’re so perfectly suited to how Hey works. The Android app does not support widgets. Despite Basecamp keeping their iOS
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Jon Porter writing for The Verge: Apple’s core argument for taking the charger out of the box is that it avoids piling on accessories that a lot of people already own. During its presentation, Apple estimated that there are 2 billion of its power adapters out in the world,
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Apple had their annual iPhone announcement event today, and it was a tight 70-ish minutes of updates from the company. We only got new iPhones and a smaller HomePod, but there's still a bunch to talk about, so let's cover it all quickly.
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The average Apple customer has an iPhone and a Windows computer. It’s important to remember this sometimes, especially for us in the Apple-centric community where we’re all in on Apple. A great example of this is recently when I was looking for a better service for saving links
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I've been using the Apple Watch Series 6 for a week and wanted to share my thoughts on it. Who should upgrade? How does the blood oxygen sensor work? Is that always-on screen noticibly brighter outside? Watch to find out!
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iOS 6: Sept 19, 2012 iOS 7: Sept 18, 2013 iOS 8: Sept 17, 2014 iOS 9: Sept 16, 2015 iOS 10: Sept 13, 2016 iOS 11: Sept 19, 2017 iOS 12: Sept 17, 2018 iOS 13: Sept 19, 2019 Blindsided by this sudden iOS 14 release on Sept 16,
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I've been doing big reviews of watchOS since the beginning, and for the first time, I'm venturing into video! The full text of the review is below, but frankly, the video is the primary version of the review, so if you can I'd love if you checked that out if
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