While most industries suffered during the pandemic, things went well for one technological sector: tablet computers. According to a recent report from analyst firm IDC, the global tablet market recorded 18.6% year-over-year growth in Q2 of 2020. In …
Lees meerThe four horseman of the techpocalypse – the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google – joined the US House of Representatives today for an antitrust hearing. We watched every second of the more than five and a half hours of Congress’ grilling of…
Lees meerI’ve been on an iPad journey the last couple of months. I hadn’t used one of Apple’s tablets regularly for almost a decade, giving me a lot to catch up on. And one of those things was the iPad Photoshop app. When I last used Apple’s tablet, there wa…
Lees meerBusiness Insider’s Aaron Holmes reports that three of the lawmakers tasked with leading an antitrust investigation into the operations of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google own more than $100,000 in stocks of those tech firms — not the best way to …
Lees meerThe Apple iOS feature that replaces the need for those dumfungled car keys is now here for you to use, assuming you have a compatible iPhone and car. Following the roll out of the iOS 13.6 and watchOS 6.2.8 update this week, CarKey, Apple‘s feature …
Lees meerYesterday, a new iPhone cable leaked. Woah, hold on, don’t leave. Basically, it’s rumored the iPhone 12 won’t come with a crappy plastic wire. Oh no. Instead, we’re going to get a new braided iPhone cable with USB-C to Lightning connections. You can…
Lees meerApple has won its appeal against an EU order to pay Ireland $15bn in back taxes, after Europe’s second-highest court rejected the bloc’s claims that the tax breaks were an illegal subsidy. The case stems from a 2016 European Commission ruling that I…
Lees meerWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Get comfortable and let me spin you a yarn you’ll one day tell your children. Last week, I went out for lunch. …
Lees meerApple this year settled a lawsuit over its slowing down of older iPhones. Now you could potentially claim compensation for having owned one of those phones, under the terms of the settlement — though be warned, you’ll get $25 at most for it and prob…
Lees meerWanna hear something disgusting? A vintage copy of Super Mario Bros. on the NES was just sold at auction for $114,000. Admittedly, it’s one of the most influential games ever (it introduces Mario to the world) and the specific copy was given a 9.4 g…
Lees meerLast week, I put together a piece about the rising size of iPhone screens. It was, in summary, a graph showing them getting bigger. Surprise! But as the week progressed, I thought about it a bit more and had another thought: what about the evolution…
Lees meerProlific Apple analyst Ming Chi Kuo is at it again with another prediction on Cupertino’s upcoming products. Specifically, Kuo believes Apple is planning to launch a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and a new MacBook Air with the newfangled chips as early as t…
Lees meerThis is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Recently, a rumor made the rounds that Apple is planning to remove the charger and earbuds from the iPhone 12 bo…
Lees meerIs this stupid? Damn right it’s stupid, but that’s never stopped me before. So, Steve Jobs never liked styluses. This began publicly at the launch of the original iPhone, where — when talking about the device’s physical keyboard-less design — he fam…
Lees meerWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I’m not a Night Shift fan per se. I don’t like it when my iPhone or iPad screen becomes orange-tinted on a sche…
Lees meerHave you ever looked at the screen on your new iPhone and thought “wow, is this bigger than the old iPhones?” You and me both, pal. But we’re all busy people, right? To prove such a hypothesis you’d need to look at figures and facts and — sickeningl…
Lees meerApple’s approach of making privacy one of its main selling points isn’t new, but it’s come to the forefront again with the ongoing iOS clipboard saga. For some context, Apple announced iOS 14 at WWDC in June and, shortly afterwards, made the beta av…
Lees meerLooks like the rumors are gathering pace: the iPhone 12 might not come with a charger or earbuds in the box. You might think this is a shameless cash grab, a way of forcing you to shell out another $60 or $70 just to use the product you already paid…
Lees meerMarket analyst Ming-Chi Kuo noted that Apple might ship the next iPhone without a charger and wired earbuds in the box — which would be a first for the company. 9to5Mac relayed that, according to Kuo, Apple wants to keep the iPhone 12’s price close …
Lees meerThis is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Plugged In is back and coming at ya like Cleopatra — if Cleopatra had a borderline problem with buying too much …
Lees meerThere are not many adventurous things you can do in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. So, I turned to install iOS 14 developer beta hours after Apple announced it at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday. I’ve previously install…
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