Another Apple supercycle has been predicted, thanks to a growing number of products being bought by those new to the company’s products.
A new market intelligence study says that the iPhone 14, Macs, and Apple Watch all saw very large numbers of those buying for the first time …
What is a supercycle?
Many products experience cycles in demand – higher at some points, lower at others. A…
A video producer with a 3D printer has been creating and selling a range of iBook G3 iPad conversions – that is, a genuine iBook G3 case modified to hold a 10.9-inch iPad Air or 11-inch iPad Pro, complete with working keyboard.
Someone asked whether he could make tiny ones…
Suddenly want to leave the nest? Here’s how to delete your Twitter account on iPhone
October 31, 2022
Are you ready to take a break from or part ways with Twitter? Read along for how to deactivate or delete your Twitter account from iPhone, iPad, and the web. We’ll also cover how to download a copy of your Twitter archive.
Twitter notes that you can restore an account up…
Elon Musk considers making verification a Twitter Blue perk
October 31, 2022
With Elon Musk in charge, Twitter is planning to boost the price of its Blue subscription plan from $5 to $20 per month and make it mandatory for verified users, according to Platformer‘s Casey Newton and The Verge. If it launches the plan, verified users (celebrities, politicians, journalists, etc.) will have to sign up to the service within 90 days or they’ll lose the blue check…
Yes, the Google Play Store’s Update button got bigger
October 31, 2022
In recent weeks, the Play Store has picked up a handful of new multi-device features and more are coming. A much smaller Google Play Store tweak sees the Update button get bigger.
Google’s initial Material You rollout for the Play Store only applied to the homescreen and…
Google officially says you can get 24 hours of battery life from the Pixel Watch’s 294 mAh battery and now provides an official breakdown of how it got to that number.
At launch, Google’s fine print just said that the “maximum battery life is approximate and is based…
Next year’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are rumored to feature a number of different camera updates, due in part to Apple’s apparent goal of further differentiating these models from the non-Pro models. A new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today, however, says that one of those rumored camera updates may not come to fruition after all…
iPhone 15 Pro camera updates
In a post…
Apple this week launched the first betas of its next round of software updates, including iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS Ventura 13.1. A new report from g today indicates that Apple is currently targeting a release date to the public sometime in mid-December for these…
Arm reportedly changing licensing model to prohibit custom GPUs and TPUs, could impact Google Tensor
October 30, 2022
Arm and Qualcomm are currently involved in a dispute over the latter’s acquisition of a chip company called Nuvia and subsequent work on new desktop (and server) chips. This lawsuit has revealed that Arm is apparently changing its licensing terms and business model so that…
Google prototyped iris scanning during the Pixel 2 era
October 30, 2022
Like any other hardware maker, Google goes through a lot of ideas before the final product, and one such exploration involved putting an iris scanner on the Pixel 2.
Shared on Twitter yesterday by Internal Archive, we see a prototype Pixel 2 as evidenced by various identifying stickers and barcodes. However, the rear etched with various patterns is the more telling sign that this is an early…
