Apple
It's that time of the year again - Apple's fall iPhone event, where the Cupertino company to unveil its newest generation family of iPhones. This year's theme is "Wonderlust," and will be the backdrop for the launch of iOS 17 as well as what should be the iPhone 15 series. This year is widely expected to see Apple switch from their proprietary Lightning connector to the newer USB-C connector, in large part to comply with EU phone charger regulations. Besides the compatibility benefits that entails, the Lightning connector itself is coming up on 11 years old – fulfilling Apple's promise for 10 years of support and then-some. And while Lightning is the progenitor to the modern reversible connector, its lower overall pin count is limiting...
Apple Announces 2018 MacBook Air: Entry-Level Laptop Gets Essential Refresh
This morning at a keynote in New York City, Apple took the wraps off of their latest notebook update, the 2018 MacBook Air. The entry-level member of Apple’s laptop...
75 by Ryan Smith on 10/30/2018Apple Announces New 11" and 12.9" iPad Pros with A12X SoC
Today at Apple’s Special Event in New York, among other things such as the a new release of a new Macbook Air and a new Mac Mini, Apple has...
107 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/30/2018Apple iPhone XS Review Addendum: Small Core and NN Performance
Last week we published our iPhone XS and XS Max review, in which went into great depth into the various aspects of the phones, especially into the section regarding...
33 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/12/2018Apple Licenses PMIC Technologies & Hires Engineers from Dialog Semiconductor
Apple and Dialog Semiconductor on Wednesday signed an agreement that will see Apple buy part of their long-term power management IC supplier, while continuing to do regular business with...
8 by Anton Shilov on 10/11/2018The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets
It’s been a little over three weeks since Apple unveiled the new iPhone XS, XS Max and the XR. The new flagship line-up is one of Apple’s most important...
253 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/5/2018Apple Found To Infringe On 1 Qualcomm Patent; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports
A bit over a year ago, Qualcomm started the process of suing Apple at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) over alleged patent infringement. At the time, Apple was...
31 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2018TechInsights Publishes Apple A12 Die Shot: Our Take
As is custom by now every year, we look forward to TechInsights teardown of the latest new mobile SoCs. This time around we’re delighted to see a new die...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/25/2018Apple Announces The Apple Watch 4: Fully Custom SiP
Today alongside the new iPhone XS, XS Max and the XR, Apple first introduced the new Apple Watch Series 4. The fourth generation of the watch sees a major...
88 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/12/2018The iPhone XS, XS Max, XR and Apple Watch 4 Hands-On
Today at Apples iPhone launch event, we saw the unveiling of three new iPhones as well as the Apple Watch Series 4. We go into more detail about the...
113 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/12/2018Apple Announces the 2018 iPhones: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, & iPhone XR
Today at their 2018 “Gather Round” iPhone & watch event, Apple announced the 2018 iPhone family. The latest and greatest iPhones build off of the industrial design and feature...
78 by Ryan Smith on 9/12/2018The Apple 2018 iPhone Event Live Blog
With fall quickly approaching, it's that time of year again in the tech industry as well: iPhone season. To that end, kicking off in a few hours for Apple's...
53 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/12/2018Apple’s Market Cap Hits $1 Trillion
A day after posting strong results for the third quarter of fiscal 2018, Apple has become the world’s first publicly traded company with a market capitalization of over $1...
20 by Anton Shilov on 8/2/2018Apple Announces Q3 FY 2018 Results
This afternoon, Apple announced their earnings for the third quarter of the 2018 fiscal year, and as we’ve all come to expect, they did very well again. Revenue for...
34 by Brett Howse on 7/31/2018Ian on the iMore Vector Podcast: Discussing Core i9 and Thermal Throttling
On Monday this week I was invited onto the Vector podcast, one of the popular Apple-focused podcasts, run by iMore’s Rene Ritchie. In the podcast we discuss Intel’s product...
12 by Ian Cutress on 7/24/2018Apple Updates MacBook Pro Family for 2018: More CPU Cores, DDR4, & Same Form Factors
A surprising no-show at this year’s Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference was any kind of hardware refresh for Apple’s Mac products. While WWDC is first and foremost a software...
104 by Ryan Smith on 7/12/2018Apple Deprecates OpenGL Across All OSes; Urges Developers to use Metal
As has long been the story at One Infinite Loop, what Apple giveth is what Apple taketh, and Apple’s latest rendition of OSes is going to be no exception...
52 by Ryan Smith on 6/5/2018Apple Announces iOS 12: Siri Suggestions, Faster Performance, 6 Years of Support, & More
Among the many announcements made this week at Apple’s 2018 WWDC Keynote, we saw the unveiling of iOS 12. Apple's event follows Google’s event last month in showcasing their...
15 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/5/2018The Apple WWDC 2018 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1pm ET)
Kicking off at 10am PT (1pm ET) is Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote speach. We're live from always sunny San Jose, California, to see what Apple has...
21 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/4/2018Apple Announces Q2 FY 2018 Results: Another Record Quarter
This afternoon, Apple announced their earnings for the second quarter of their 2018 fiscal year, and the company has set a new revenue record for the quarter with $61.1...
27 by Brett Howse on 5/1/2018New Apple iPad with Pencil Support: From $299 for Students
As part of the Apple announcements today at the education focused event in Chicago, Apple introduced/refreshed an iPad aimed mostly at students. The heart of the iPad is similar...
31 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018