Apple’s hardware designs, software, icons, marketing, retail strategy, and branding have all been closely copied by its rivals. One thing they aren’t copying is Apple’s vast, premium installed base of loyal buyers. That’s the primary foundation of Apple’s wildly successful, global business that’s uniquely selling massive volumes of luxury-class, premium-priced products in markets where competitors fight over sales of low-priced commodity units with thin margins. Why can’t anyone else achieve what Apple has?
The poor reception of Apple Maps in 2012 was a turning point for Waze, fueling enough interest in the navigation app to lead to its $1 billion acquisition by Google a year later, Waze’s CEO said in a interview published on Wednesday.
Sure, it doesn’t come with nice gift-wrapping but a subscription to software is something that will be used, remembered and hopefully even treasured. Especially if you buy them something that will radically change or improve how they use their Macs.
Apple and Charter Spectrum appear to have flipped the switch on zero sign-on functions for the Apple TV, even though a promised Spectrum cable app is still missing in action.
Another Wall Street firm has reduced its target for Apple’s stock price, with Jeffries continuing a downward trend displayed by analysts in the last few weeks, but at the same time continues to support the idea that the Services arm will become a more important part of the company’s finances in the future.
Amazon has confirmed that Apple Music will in fact migrate to third-party Alexa powered devices, but we’re not sure how long you’ll have to wait for it.
Apple is wise to hide certain key files so that they can’t be edited or deleted by accident but this can be very inconvenient from time to time. Fortunately, Apple also provides five completely different ways to reveal them all. AppleInsider details how to pick the right technique for you and then how to use it.
In what is the lowest price we’ve seen to date on Apple’s 2018 9.7-inch iPad, Amazon has units in stock at just $229, a discount of $100 off MSRP. What’s more, these tablets ship for free with delivery by Christmas.
A damning report on Tuesday provides further details on Facebook’s shady data sharing practices — already under intense scrutiny for the Cambridge Analytica fiasco — and suggests the social media giant enabled Apple devices to surreptitiously collect information about users without their knowledge.
For the fourth time in less than two weeks, Apple has used the push notification mechanism of a native iOS app for what amounts to an advertisement, this time touting Apple Music compatibility with Amazon’s line of Echo devices.
