Across the last couple years, Apple’s new Macs have been roundly criticized for raising their prices using flashy — rather than purely utilitarian– new features like the Touch Bar, while delivering only incremental improvements in performance due to a reliance on Intel’s processors. Yet when Microsoft follows the same playbook, suddenly high prices are reasonable, flashy but unnecessary features are a sign of innovation, and big performance gains aren’t really necessary.
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Billionaire David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital has disposed of all of its shares in Apple, due to fearing the potential retaliation from China against U.S. trade tariffs affecting imports, by imposing restrictions and other measures that could affect the iPhone producer in the country.
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The Nike+ version of the latest Apple Watch launched a couple weeks behind the other models, but we now have ours to check it out and what makes it different than the standard aluminum.
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Mozilla this week announced that it will support Google’s compressed WebP image format in Firefox, leaving Apple’s Safari as the one flagship browser without any compatibility.
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Apple’s new macOS update means you can markup images, rotate photos, trim videos and more without ever opening an application. It’s only going to get better, too, because you can very easily create your own Quick Actions. AppleInsider shows you how.
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An exploration of an Intel chipset function known as the Management Engine revealed Apple failed to lock down an undocumented feature until the last High Sierra patch, a vulnerability that could grant a skillful attacker the ability to write data to the RAM of a Mac if left unchecked.
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Woot is knocking $400 to $500 off Apple 12-inch MacBooks today only, and $950 off 15-inch MacBook Pros. With prices starting at $799, these are the lowest prices available for the cheap Macs. Since Woot is owned by Amazon, Prime members can also snag free shipping on the discounted laptops.
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A report claiming Apple and almost 30 other companies were targeted by Chinese spies embedding chips in hardware has faced more scrutiny over the last 24 hours, with government officials and security agencies sharing doubts over the story’s accuracy.
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This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, Neil and Victor discuss Bloomberg’s claims of a spy chip implanted in Apple and Amazon’s servers, the vociferous rebuttal, .reports of problems installing Mojave, iOS 12 charging difficulties, and more!
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On Friday Apple announced plans to offer some 2,000 free coding workshops across its European stores between Oct. 6 and 21, reflecting its participation in EU Code Week.
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