On Tuesday, the App Store editors announced 2016’s best apps and games for iOS devices, alongside popular music, TV, and movie picks from Apple Music and the iTunes Store. Looks like 2016 was quite the year for Apple entertainment. Did your favorite apps …
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Aussie apps Zova and Sweat with Kayla make Apple’s list of best of the year
THIS is straight from the horse’s mouth: these are the best apps everyone should have on their smartphones. Apple has released its annual best of list which looks at both the most popular and subjectively best products in the Australian App Store and …
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The app factor
People have built entire companies on creating apps. It all started in 2008 when Apple launched the App Store with around 500 apps. Today, the App Store and its rival Google Play offer over 2.5 million apps each and that number is increasing daily …
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NYTimes – Breaking Election, National & World News
Introducing the New York Times app for iPad. Experience The Times’s in-depth journalism, elegantly designed with enhanced imagery and multimedia and streamlined navigation. The NYTimes app also includes our International Edition with global news and …
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25 Christmas Gift Ideas for 2016: iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch Gift Guide
Apple’s increased the capacity, so you can now have a 256GB phone, perfect for all app addicts! The iPhone is also now water resistant, and on the Plus model sports a fancy dual camera (perfect for Portrait photos). We talk all the time on the podcast …
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CIOs assess how Apple and Google approach enterprise apps
Apple and Google both try to woo enterprise customers with unique strategies for business app development that mirror their respective visions. And as might be expected, each company elevates its strengths in enterprise and downplays points of weakness …
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Apple App Store Had Record Sales In November
Questions may be arising about demand for Apple’s iPhone 7 and its Apple Watch Series 2, but when it comes to the Apple App Store, the consumer electronics giant is killing it. That’s according to Philip Schiller, vice president of worldwide marketing …
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These were Apple's most popular apps of 2016
The self-deleting, image and video-sharing app beat out Messenger and Pokémon Go to become the most popular downloaded app this year. It’s an impressive leap for an app that landed fifth on the same list last year. On Apple Music, Drake dominated the top …
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Apple's App Store has best month ever
Apple (AAPL)’s emphasis on software and services seems to be paying off. The company had its highest monthly sales ever in the App Store in November, tweeted Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Tweet: November 2016 was a …
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Apple Reveals 'Best of 2016' Apps, Books, Games, Movies, and TV Shows
The others on the ’10 Best Apps of the Year’ list include Fitso Fitness and Running app, Folioscope, Hyper, Tinycards, Memrise, Meditation Studio, Quartz, and WiFire. The ’10 Best Games of the Year’ list includes Chameleon Run, FIFA Mobile Football, Plants …
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Smartphone health apps often miss real medical emergencies
Woman looking at health and fitness apps on an iPhone. Don’t count on smartphone health apps to help when you’re having a serious medical emergency, warn the authors of a new review of the technology. The study, published Monday in the journal Health …
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Be very careful when downloading apps from Mac App Store – confusion could cost you
Some of the apps currently on the Mac App Store are misleading consumers into thinking they are official software packages from big brandsApple Just bought a new MacBook and looking to kit it out by downloading software? That’s a good idea, but be careful …
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Apple Criticized by Korean Game Developers for its App Store Refund Policy
Apple has been criticized in South Korea for its mobile app refund policy which game developers say removes them from the process and is regularly being abused. Apple controls the App Store payment refund process for paid-for apps and determines whether to …
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App Store developers say app refunds are being abused, and Apple isn’t helping
As part of its App Store policy, Apple can choose to give refunds to customers who are unsatisfied with an app they download. It’s a good, common-sense move, and a valuable tool for anyone who’s ever read a description, downloaded the app, and then …
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Apple using drones to catch Google Maps, report says
Thanks to drones, that soon may change. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is said to be using the aerial robots as well as some indoor navigation tech to improve its app to better compete with Google. Apple, like Google and Microsoft’s Bing …
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12 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
Can you believe we’re less than a month away from 2017? New Year’s Eve is just four short weeks away, but we’ve still got plenty of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free to share with you before 2016 comes to a close. Today’s list features 12 …
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Best iPhone Apps 2016: Photoshop Fix, Prisma, Slack, Snapchat And More
It’s becoming an increasingly difficult chore trying to scour the App Store for decent apps given its very saturated library. A plethora of excellent apps intermingle with shovelware, and it’s often a tall order to sort the ones worthy of downloading from …
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