Competing with first entrant Colorware, new vendor Blackpods is also offering a coloring service for the white Apple AirPods, to allow users to color-coordinate the popular wireless earbuds with the iPhone.

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Apple is developing a custom fingerprint sensor for its OLED-based “iPhone 8,” and as a result might not begin production of the device until September — well after a July start date for two LCD-based iPhone models, a report claimed on Friday.

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This week on the AppleInsider podcast, Neil and Victor talk about USB-C and iOS devices, iPads as computer replacements, and what the definition of “pro” is.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook took time out of his schedule to attend former vice president and current Apple board member Al Gore’s new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” which was screened for a select audience in Silicon Valley on Thursday.

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Bare Bones Software recently announced it has halted development of popular — and free — OS X text and code editor TextWrangler in favor of BBEdit, the company’s professional-level HTML and text editor.

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Each member of Apple’s board of directors recently received an automatic grant of restricted stock units currently worth more than $253,000, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings show.

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Spotify on Thursday announced a milestone of 50 million paid Premium subscribers, keeping up a strong lead over its main rival in on-demand music streaming, Apple.

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Apple’s Macs and iPads have lost significant ground in the U.S. educational market during the last three years, in 2016 slipping to third place behind Chromebooks and Windows devices, according to new research.

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Tuesday’s major Amazon Web Services outage was caused through human error, the retailer has confirmed, with the downtime that impacted a number of online services, including Apple’s, traced back to a single wrongly-entered command performed during debugging.

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Apple on Thursday filed a fresh lawsuit against Qualcomm in the U.K., further escalating the legal row between the two tech firms over patent royalties and chip deals.

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