Apple has debuted a new “A Day in the Life of Your Data” report today with updated details on its efforts to preserve user privacy. The new report focuses on the behind-the-scenes technology Apple uses to manage the impact on user privacy of targeted advertising. This comes ahead of this spring’s launch of App Tracking Transparency.
This marks the second version of Apple’s “A Day in…
Scam iOS apps latest: a VPN that charges $9.99/week, uses ‘Recommended by Apple’ pop-ups
April 7, 2021
FlickType and Fleksy founder Kosta Eleftheriou has been pretty busy over the past few months exposing scam iOS apps, some of them bringing in millions of dollars of revenue. The latest of these is a VPN app that is promoting itself as “recommended by Apple” and which is…
Tweetbot for iOS has received another notable update with version 6.1 now available on the App Store.
With this update, Tweetbot for iOS brings a redesigned video play with picture-in-picture support, a new set of custom icons, a high-contrast Light theme as well as a new…
Piper Sandler’s latest survey of more than 7,000 US teens shows that Gen Z loves Apple, as 88% of teens own an iPhone and 90% expect an iPhone to be their next phone. Both of these numbers are new all-time highs.
Last October, 86% of the teens said they owned an iPhone, with 89% saying they intended to purchase one.
In fact, it’s not only Gen Zs who are satisfied with Apple and the iPhone.
Today Electrek turns its spotlight to the up-and-coming EV company, Electric Last Mile (ELMS), which is targeting one of the hottest EV markets: commercial fleets. While most new EV companies are years away from production, ELMS, headquartered in the suburbs of Detroit and…
After years of customers asking OnePlus to make a smartwatch, they finally did. The OnePlus Watch is set to release later this month, and we’ve had the chance to spend a bit of hands-on time with the product.
At first glance, the OnePlus Watch may look a little familiar…
Designer and commercial architecture photographer George Moua has designed and 3D printed a highly unusual photo tool that he calls a stereoscopic “wiggle lens.” In short, it allows you to combine multiple frames shot with a single lens into a moving image that appears to have depth.
Example of an image captured using the wiggle lens.
These bespoke 3D-printed lenses use a trio of 30mm optics…
iOS 14 adoption surpasses 90% according to Mixpanel
April 7, 2021
Apple announced in December 2020 that 81% of iPhones introduced in the last four years were already running iOS 14, which is the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system. Now the analyst company Mixpanel says that iOS 14 adoption among iPhone and iPad users…
Tesla (TSLA) is doing so well these days that bears are now grasping at straws with some nothing-burger stories to try to paint great results in a bad light.
You can smell the desperation.
Last week, Tesla released its Q1 2021 delivery and production results.
The automaker…
Quick Charge Podcast: April 6, 2021
April 7, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
