A study found smartphone use while driving continues to be an issue in the United States, but Apple’s introduction of Do Not Disturb While Driving last year has made a small difference, reducing the amount of iPhone use while at the wheel by approximately 8 percent.
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Epic Games’ “Fortnite” — a free-to-play third-person shooter, which took off after adding a battle royale mode copying “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” — amassed over $25 million in its first 30 days after being ported to iOS devices, according to research data shared this week.
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An analyst predicts that Apple Music’s dramatic growth over the next three years will be another major factor driving services revenue upward, but may push down overall margins.
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Apple may be close to announcing a follow-up to the iPhone SE, after the discovery of a regulatory filing reveals details and images for unannounced mobile devices from Apple, effectively confirming new iPhones will be on the way in the near future.
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Apple’s U.S. customers installed 45 new iPhone apps in 2017, a growth of 10 percent over last year, while Services revenue from In-App Purchases and Subscriptions expanded by 23 percent–driven by games, music and video streaming and dating services. And overall, Apple’s U.S. App Store customers drove significantly higher revenue per user ($58) than Google Play ($38).
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Dropbox updated its iOS app on Tuesday with a few new features suited for iOS 11’s iPad-centric features, including the ability to drag and drop files between folders and other apps.
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Apple could soon find itself caught in the middle of a quickly escalating trade scrum between the U.S. and China. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday moved forward with plans to limit sales of certain Chinese telecommunications products, a move that leaves America’s high-tech industry open to tit-for-tat retaliations.
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AppleInsider would like to congratulate the winners of our latest giveaway, Angela M. and Sally J., each of whom will receive a pair of BlackPods premium customized AirPods.
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The Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Puck packs a Radeon RX570 GPU inside a portable, Thunderbolt 3-compatible package, offering MacBook users a take-anywhere graphics boost.
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Continuing the comparison between Apple’s iPhone X and Samsung’s Galaxy S9 Plus, AppleInsider pitted the flagship smartphones against each other in a number of battery life tests, to see which can last the longest. Can the battery in Apple’s premium device out-last its main rival?
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