This week on the AppleInsider podcast, we discuss Apple’s stock, the ‘iPhone 7’ and rumors of the headphone jack reappearing, a patent for a possible ‘Apple Pencil 2’, smart voice assistants, Fitbit’s performance, and more.
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This week on the AppleInsider podcast, we discuss Apple’s stock, the ‘iPhone 7’ and rumors of the headphone jack reappearing, a patent for a possible ‘Apple Pencil 2’, smart voice assistants, Fitbit’s performance, and more.
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Apple, Google parent company Alphabet and a number of established car makers are reportedly on the hunt for prime real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area to serve their respective autonomous vehicle projects, with Apple in particular said to be looking at an 800,000-square-foot plot.
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Another recent Apple hire has been linked to the company’s rumored “Project Titan” automotive initiative, as a report on Thursday uncovered a Google patent application for electric vehicle charging systems co-invented by current Apple employee Kurt Adelberger.
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Immersion Corporation, a leader in haptic feedback technology, expanded its legal battle against Apple on Thursday with a new patent infringement suit targeting technology built into iPhone 6s and various MacBook models.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s latest charity auction closed on Thursday, with the winning bid raising$515,000 for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.
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Netflix on Thursday released an important update to its iOS app, enabling more control over streaming on cellular networks, as well as extending the use of 3D Touch gestures.
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At launch, the overwhelming majority of Apple Watch buyers were men. But in the year since it debuted, women have begun to close the gap and embrace Apple’s new wearable platform, new research shows.
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Apple and enterprise software firm SAP on Thursday announced a partnership that will see the creation of a new SDK, allowing the latter company’s clients and developers to produce iOS apps exploiting the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
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The city of Cupertino, Calif. — which is economically dependent on Apple — is reportedly embroiled in a conflict over how it should fund the transport infrastructure needed to deal with congestion created by the company, as well as other businesses in the area.
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In what could be described as a somewhat surprising move given the company’s proclivity for indecision, Microsoft on Thursday announced that it would stick to the plan it announced last year and begin charging for Windows upgrades this summer.
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