WhatsApp is the leader across the world outside of the U.S. and China, so Apple is in a competitive race. This is likely why the Messages app is getting such regular feature updates compared to other Apple apps — stickers, iMessage Apps, and soon message …
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WhatsApp Starts Letting Users Delete Messages After They’ve Been Sent
According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently testing group voice calls internally, so it’s likely this feature will also turn up in a forthcoming update. WhatsApp is a free download for iPhone from the App Store. [Direct Link] Tag: WhatsApp
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Apple regains its grip in China
Apple is showing signs of a comeback in China following six … Click here to learn more about how you can gain risk-free access today. EXCLUSIVE FREE REPORT: The Top 4 Apps and Platforms Takes That Go Against The Grain Report by the BI Intelligence …
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CNBC reviews the $1,150 new iPhone X — the best smartphone you can buy
Not all apps have been updated to look right for the screen yet … You’ll get wireless charging, a great display, a solid camera and more. The iPhone X is the best iPhone Apple has ever made — as it should be. It’s not for everyone, just the folks …
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Spotify won’t work with Siri on Apple’s HomePod (AAPL)
Apple’s smart speaker, HomePod, will go on sale in December for $349. People will use it by talking to it. Apple wants developers to make Siri apps for the HomePod, but only in a few categories — messaging, lists, and notes. This means that users won’t …
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Apple regains its grip in China (AAPL)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Apple is showing signs of a comeback in China following six consecutive quarters of year-over-year (YoY) declines in iPhone …
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How to Stop iOS Apps From Stealing Your Apple ID Password
iOS: Security researcher Felix Krause is killing it this month, if “it” means iPhone users’ sense of security. We recently covered two of his security warnings: If you give an app permission to use your camera, it can also track your location and …
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I’ve been using the iPhone X for 18 hours, and I’m already sold
Many of my apps haven’t been redesigned for the new screen size, so they show up with thick black bars on the top and bottom to mimic the aspect ratio you’d get on a regular iPhone screen. It looks like a lot of wasted space. Other apps have been refitted …
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Youth invited to explore black holes, quantum particles, mobile phone apps
Those hands-on activities include working with 3D printers and coming up with ideas for iPhone apps, and then actually creating those apps. Students from 10 Island high schools will visit the exhibit. It is open to the public Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The …
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How Google Finds App Store Spam
A Google patent was granted this month that finds app store spam. With Google inventing and running the Android operating system, it developed a marketplace for apps that run on Android devices. As a competitor of Apple, it has a lot to learn from Apple.
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YouTube TV is coming to Android TV, Xbox, and Apple TV
The best way to stay connected to the Android pulse … the new app will be released on Android TV and Xbox One in the next few days. The app will hit smart TVs from Samsung and Sony and Apple TV “in the coming weeks”. Availability for Roku and …
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YouTube TV Gets Apple TV App, at Long Last
Google has been expanding YouTube TV’s reach in recent months, with the service now available in “all top 50 … of a TV app had been an Achilles’ heel for YouTube to this point, with competitors Hulu and Sling already featured on Apple TV.
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Apple’s iOS continues to attract content apps first, despite smaller unit share
Rubin reports, “But even more recently, developers of content-focused apps that run the gamut from the serious to the superficial have launched exclusively on iOS despite having no need for the kind of processing and graphics performance that Apple often …
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iPhone apps with access to your camera can secretly spy on you
In this day and age, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of all the ways that our devices keep track of us. Many of us have simply come to terms with this new reality, but thankfully, there are others out there who are staying vigilant and doing their …
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Hey, So, Your iPhone May Have Tagged All the Photos of You in a ‘Brassiere’
Since mid-2016, Apple’s iPhone Photos app has used metadata analysis and image-recognition technology to sort users’ photos automatically and tag them for easy extraction. The categories include everything from various animals to inanimate objects like …
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How to Transfer WhatsApp Messages to New iPhone
Some of us prefer to use WhatsApp over other messaging apps such as Telegram or even iMessage. Over time, WhatsApp will store a lot of data on your iPhone, such as photos, videos, message, voice messages, and so on. When you buy a new iPhone, you cannot …
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Global Wearable Apps Market 2017 Top Players – Apple, Google, Appster, Intellectsoft, PointClear Solutions, Sourcebits
The market report on the Wearable Apps Market 2017 consists of all the important characteristics of the market. Estimation of the market size in the Wearable Apps market in terms of US$ value is included in the report. In this Report, we have tried to …
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