In comments earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook compared the launch of ARKit to the launch of Apple’s App Store. He compared the early apps using ARKit to the early third-party apps for the iPhone, which were criticized for being gimmicks. ”
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What you need to know about the Apple App Store in iOS 11
With the release of iOS 11, the Apple App Store offers new challenges and opportunities. Source: Shutterstock THE stats for the Apple App Store are pretty incredible: half a billion weekly visits and 180 billion downloads during its short life, with over …
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Apple’s €850 million Irish data centre has finally been approved by Ireland’s top court
Objectors are likely to appeal the court’s decision, meaning it could end up in the Supreme Court. Apple wants to use the data centre to store European user data and to help power online services, including the iTunes Store, the App Store, iMessage …
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People are petitioning for Apple to take down games glorifying Duterte’s war on drugs
Over a hundred organisations in the Philippines are calling on Apple to take down gaming apps associated with … The games, some of which are also available on the Google Play store, see Duterte doing everything from shooting guns at criminals to killing …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals a career secret and tells how YOU can follow in his footsteps
Tim Cook speaks to children at Apple’s flagship store in Regent Street, London The Sun Online caught up with Tim at the flagship Apple Store on Regent Street yesterday. He was in town during EU Code Week – a European drive to teach people how to write the …
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Pathable on Apple’s App Store issues
Earlier this year, Pathable had a brief scare when a number of our apps were rejected by Apple because they alleged (incorrectly) that they were built in a way that allowed us to replace functionality after the app was approved. It took about two weeks …
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Why Apple Won’t Include a Higher-Power Adapter With the iPhone
Image source: Apple. While, as Potuck points out, Apple charges the same $19 on its online store for the 5W and 12W adapters, I suspect that the manufacturing costs of the higher-power adapter are simply higher. Including it in the box with the iPhone …
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Apple’s iPad mini 4 128GB discounted to $300 with in-store pickup at Target
iPad mini 4 is astonishingly thin at 6.1 mm, is our lightest iPad ever at 0.65 lb., and fits easily in one hand. It packs 3.1 million pixels in its new fully laminated 7.9-inch Retina display. It includes the A8 chip with 64-bit architecture, Touch ID …
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Jony Ive’s creativity pales compared to Apple’s App Store lawsuit defense
Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, might want to take a lesson in creativity from Apple’s lawyers. The iPhone is beautiful, and we all know that. But Apple’s response to an App Store antitrust lawsuit brought by consumers may take your breath away.
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Apple Removes Pro-Life Groups App From the App Store After Abortion Activists Complain
In 2013, Human Coalition released a mobile app allowing pro-life individuals and church groups to pray for Human Coalition’s abortion-seeking clients, who remain anonymous, in real time. The app, “Human Coalition,” was available for android devices …
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Amazon Prime On Apple TV Release Date: What The Rumors Say
Apple said earlier this year the Amazon Prime Video app was finally coming to the Apple TV later this year, but the much-awaited app is still M.I.A. in the App Store. Apple announced the addition of the app during its Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
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Sketchy Rumor Points Towards October 26 Launch for Amazon Prime Video on Apple TV
all of which have subsequently been passed by with no official debut of Amazon Prime Video on the tvOS App Store. Another sketchy rumor has been shared on the Apple TV Subreddit this week by a user who claims to work for Amazon, pointing towards a late …
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Apple ropes in Spielberg to give shape to its original video production dreams
Apple currently has on-offer shows on its iTunes Store, and it is likely the new Amazing Stories too might be hosted at the same place. The deal involving what is inarguably one of the biggest names in Hollywood also matches with the usual Apple line of …
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This ‘crazy, irrational decision’ Apple made 20 years ago turned out to be the key to its outrageous success over Samsung
Apple made this crazy irrational decision 20 years ago to forward integrate into the medium that was supposedly going away. Stores. And they have somewhere between five and six billion dollars in store leases now on their balance sheet and have reallocated …
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Apple’s Cook repeats benefits of AR in interview, says AR glasses tech not mature
As he has done in the past, the executive likened AR to existing successful Apple technologies like multitouch on iPhone and the App Store. “Think back to 2008, when the App Store went live. There was the initial round of apps and people looked at them and …
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Apple Plans to Release Spielberg Series as Part of a Bigger Push Into TV
After years of selling other companies’ TV shows and movies in its iTunes store, Apple has taken the plunge into Hollywood and begun competing with those same companies for the rights to produce future TV series. The company has pledged to spend $1 …
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Apple adds refurbished 15-inch MacBook Pro in its store
Apple has updated its store with the inclusion of 15-inch MacBook Pro 2017 refurbished versions. These are the same models that came equipped with a touch bar. This is the first time these 15inch MacBooks have made it to Apple’s refurbished products store.
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