Intel is ending production of its mobile Atom processors as the reality sets in of a mobile world where virtually all the profits are inhaled by devices sold by Apple and powered by the iPhone-maker’s own custom Ax series Application Processors.
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MagSafe has long been a defining feature of Apple’s market leading notebooks. Thanks to the Smart Connector charging capabilities first introduced by the new Logi Base dock for iPad Pro, Apple’s iDevices now have their own convenient MagSafe equivalent.
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In many ways the last week of April was a negative one for Apple, with disappointing financial results, a death on campus, and word of more labor abuses at a key supplier. Rumors did emerge, however, about plans for the “iPhone 7” and a second-generation Apple Watch.
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As part of ongoing website redesign efforts, Apple on Friday launched a revamped Support Pages mini-site with a cleaner layout, easy to access topics links and responsive web assets supporting desktop and mobile browsing.
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A contentious debate is brewing in Cupertino. Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller on Friday took to Twitter to inform tech plebes that Apple devices should never be pluralized, a stance diametrically opposed by CEO Tim Cook.
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Apple forensics experts will attempt to extract data from an iPhone 6 used by missing Florida teen Austin Stephanos, who was presumed lost at sea some nine months ago, a lawyer representing the Stephanos family said Friday.
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Months after the hiring was announced, Apple on Friday officially instituted Tor Myhren as the company’s new VP of Marketing Communications, replacing Hiroki Asai, a now-retired 18-year veteran with the company.
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Apple has quickly moved to overhaul the equipment installed at the San Jose, Calif., chip fab it acquired from Maxim Integrated Products in December, indicating that the purchase was a strategic priority for the company in its relentless drive to out-innovate its competitors.
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New leather Apple Watch bands made by luxury fashion brand Coach could arrive as soon as Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June, a new report has revealed.
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Fiat Chrysler on Friday issued a free software update to owners of some 2013-, 2014-, and 2015-model vehicles, giving them access to Apple’s Siri Eyes Free, which enables voice commands to an iPhone by tapping a button on the steering wheel.
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