Apple’s professional-grade audio editing app, Logic Pro X, was given a significant update on Thursday, adding a number of fixes and enhancements, including more than 300 new Chinese instrument Apple Loops.
Source:: Apple Insider
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Apple debuts ‘Shot on iPhone’ ad timed with European Football Championship
Apple’s U.K. branch on Thursday premiered a new “Shot on iPhone” ad, “The Beautiful Game,” exploiting the UEFA European Football Championship beginning on Friday.
Source:: Apple Insider
Apple establishes ‘Apple Energy’ to resell green energy back to providers
Apple has established a new subsidiary firm, “Apple Energy LLC,” geared towards reselling surplus energy from the company’s solar farms back to local grid systems.
Source:: Apple Insider
New Apple wearable display patent may point to future Apple Watch generations
An Apple patent application published on Thursday suggests the company is interested in flexible, wearable displays, possibly with a future incarnation of the Apple Watch in mind.
Source:: Apple Insider
WWDC 2016: Apple’s Siri and the future of voice vs. Amazon’s Alexa Echo, Google Now, Microsoft Cortana
While a variety of tech commentators have played up a dramatic “voice-first” rivalry ostensibly led by the Amazon Echo, a yet-unreleased Google Home and Microsoft’s Cortana (and apparently miserably trailed by Apple’s Siri), real data shows that’s not actually the case.
Source:: Apple Insider
Apple Maps transit directions come to Atlanta, Miami & UK’s National Rail
Apple on Thursday expanded the availability of Maps transit directions to the US cities of Atlanta and Miami, and to National Rail lines in the United Kingdom.
Source:: Apple Insider
Google’s Larry Page bankrolling two flying car moonshot projects – report
Google co-founder Larry Page isn’t waiting for his company’s self-driving car technology to hit the market before reportedly looking toward the next big thing: personal flying cars.
Source:: Apple Insider
Heart rate monitoring app Cardiogram goes native with watchOS 2 update
Cardiogram, the HealthKit-enabled Apple Watch app tied to an ongoing University of California, San Francisco heart study, received a major update on Thursday with support for native watchOS 2 operation, a new complication, 3D Touch support and a refreshed look.
Source:: Apple Insider
DOJ urges Supreme Court to return Apple vs. Samsung patent case to lower court
The Justice Department on Wednesday filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Apple’s appellate court win over Samsung in a nearly five-year-old patent dispute, a decision that would inevitably lead to a new round of litigation.
Source:: Apple Insider
More evidence of ‘macOS’ rebranding surfaces on Apple website
In another subtle hint that Apple plans to rebrand its desktop operating system “macOS,” the company on Wednesday published a support document containing reference to the new naming convention alongside software pillars iOS, tvOS and watchOS.
Source:: Apple Insider