This week on the AppleInsider podcast, we talk about Google’s new Home speaker announced at I/O 2016 and what it could mean for Apple’s Siri and HomeKit. Plus, we discuss Fitbit’s purchase of Coin, Android Pay, Tim Cook’s trip to India, and the latest “iPhone 7” scuttlebutt.
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Samsung on Thursday announced it will bring its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China through a partnership with e-commerce giant Alibaba’s financial arm, an institution once rumored to be negotiating an identical deal for Apple Pay.
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As part of Apple’s tour of India, the company’s environment and government affairs chief Lisa Jackson visited a school in Rajasthan this week to meet with so-called “solar mamas,” or women trained in the manufacture and assembly of solar lamps build solar powered lanterns.
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Mac specialist Other World Computing on Thursday released software drivers that bring Apple Boot Camp support to its entire lineup of aftermarket SSDs, giving users who run Windows a wider selection of storage upgrade options.
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Apple Pay on Thursday picked up support for Chime, a U.S. online-only bank, while the brick-and-mortar Chase Bank promised to give away a new Eric Clapton album to Apple Pay users.
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An OS X feature under construction by Apple may let people unlock their Mac by way of Touch ID on a paired iPhone, a report said on Thursday.
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Ride hailing company Uber confirmed Thursday that it is testing a self-driving, hybrid Ford Fusion on the streets of Pittsburgh, bringing the ride-sharing giant one step closer to an autonomous future.
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While ridiculed by many as a flop and often misunderstood as a product, Apple Watch has very successfully worked to turn around the fortunes of Apple’s Other Products segment, essentially becoming the modern iPod for the next decade. Here’s how.
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Google has announced it will hang onto its established Hangouts chat service despite the upcoming arrival of Allo, leveraging both apps to reach audiences with capabilities that are not yet provided by Apple’s competing iMessage.
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Amidst rumors of an all-new glass-backed look for the iPhone in 2017, the chief executive of Catcher, the company that builds metal casings for the iPhone lineup, added fuel to the fire on Thursday with new comments about next year’s model.
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