Whether visiting family, off on vacation or spending some quiet time at home for Christmas, chances are you’ll have an iPhone or iPad at your side. AppleInsider offers together a list of critically acclaimed and family-friendly iOS games to make the season bright.
Pour some eggnog, pop in your EarPods and relax as the AppleInsider podcast discusses this week’s top news, including hi-res streaming audio rumors, more 4-inch iPhone talk, Dan’s fiery excoriation of Wall Street analysts and Neil’s review of Gamevice’s latest iPhone controller.
Three weeks after finally receiving $548,176,477 from Samsung over the South Korean company’s infringement of Apple’s design and technology patents dating back to a 2012 jury verdict, the iPhone maker has filed for another $178,659,870 in supplemental damages and $1,192,490 in interest payments.
As much of the world counts down the hours until Christmas Day, families can spend time together on their iPhone or iPad with these free apps that track the current location of Santa Claus.
With a clever Lightning-connected design and solid construction, we’re mostly impressed by the Gamevice gaming controller for iPhone. But with a $100 price tag, a risk of not fitting future iPhone models, and broken controller forwarding support from Apple in iOS, we feel it’s an extremely niche device.
Tipped off by a suspect buying hundreds of iPhones with Apple gift cards, police in Oregon have cracked down on an organized crime ring that they say was shipping handsets to Hong Kong where they were to be sold on the black market.
Apple on Wednesday released a renewed its Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Intermediate Certificate, a security protocol used by Apple Wallet Passes, push packages for Safari Push Notifications and Safari Extensions.
Word of a fairly well known pirated app service called vShare hit mainstream media outlets on Wednesday as part of a CNNMoney feature, which said the nefarious firm leverages Apple’s own enterprise tools to distribute free versions of top paid iOS titles without requiring a jailbreak.
Google is allegedly developing a new mobile messaging app that would include chatbots, capable of answering users’ questions by scouring the Web and other resources.
T-Mobile is reportedly downgrading the quality of YouTube clips viewed by customers, even though the service isn’t a partner in T-Mobile’s Binge On program.