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Apple Said to Release New Entry-Level 13-inch MacBook This Year, Likely Replacing MacBook Air - Mac Rumors Apple's next entry-level MacBook will likely replace the 13-inch MacBook Air, Apple's lowest-cost notebook starting at $999. Apple's long-term aim was for the 12-inch MacBook to replace
Just under a year ago, I wrote this piece about the apps that were keeping me on a Mac over a Windows or Linux PC. Now that’s a year later and I’m more than a little smitten with the iPad Pro, I thought it would be interesting to
I saw the below two videos today and they both really struck me by how these videos are evangelizing different products, but they’re saying the exact same thing: computers ain’t what they used to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YM-lMtBN8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
NOTE: Samsung's "Fast Charge" charging pad does not have any hard numbers I can find that indicates how much power it will provide. The below findings display a notable change from previous testing of wireless charging I've done. I'll update this article
Removing the iOS App Store from iTunes makes a lot of sense. iTunes needs to slim down and become the best media player in the world again, but Apple’s latest decision to remove the App Store without having a replacement ready is madness. I’ve rolled it around my
Google’s AR project, Project Tango, finally has a second phone on the market 🎉. According to the reviews I’ve seen, it’s been noted in all cases that this phone is mercifully more compact than the previous Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. Now the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro not only
Please note that this article only addresses the merits of closing your apps to save battery life. If you close your apps because you just don't like apps in the app switcher, then you do you. Ah, the perennial debate between people who force close their apps on
Updated June 23, 2017 You shouldn't install the iOS 11 beta for many reasons, most notably the fact that tons of things are just plain broken. Here's a selection of things that are broken or annoying in the current beta state. * Battery life is terrible. * Everything
No You might be tempted to install the iOS 11 beta on your iPhone or iPad, but trust me when I tell you it’s not worth the risks or headaches yet. We’re not even to the public beta yet, this is a developer beta for developers to use
A lot of the talk I've seen online about Clips, the new video app Apple released last week, has been far more surface-level than I'm used to from Apple fans. People seem to think this is an app for taking quick single clips, adding a filter
Earlier this month I mocked up what a refined version of iOS 11's lock screen could look like, and that got my creative juices flowing, so I decided to tackle iOS's white whale: the home screen. The home screen is certainly more advanced than it was
UPDATE: If you would prefer to listen to some of the reasoning behind these ideas, my latest episode of The BirchTree Podcast has some additional reflection on these ideas. As much as Apple has left their home screen largely unchanged since its inception in 2007, the lock screen has proven
UPDATE: I talked about this on my podcast today, if you would rather listen to me gush about this feature instead. There are a few app types that get special treatment in iOS. Payment apps, for example, get to build in Siri actions. Ride-hailing apps can build in Maps extensions,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0RaMAQbCo I made the above video as an attempt to imagine what a new app picker would look like in iOS on the iPad. Most would agree the existing solution is less than ideal and needs work. The first change is with the app
Walt Mossberg writing for The Verge: But the signs of a shift to ARM only set the stage for a bigger development: the migration of the most important modern software platforms, Android and iOS, to laptops and other traditional hardware that once defined the old kind of PC. This is