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Apple to use iOS 12 to focus on stability and performance as opposed to wheeling out loads of new features

You shouldn’t go looking to iOS 12 for huge, splashy new features. Instead, Apple will apparently be giving iOS 12 the Snow Leopard/Mac OS X 10.6 treatment and working on targeting stability, performance, and reliability as opposed to adding in loads of new features. The strategy helped fix what was becoming a growing list of […]

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Rumor: Apple working on “at least three” updated Mac models with custom co-processors

Apple may in fact be en route to designing its own processors, which could replace Intel as the supplier of Mac CPUs. The company began in 2008 when Apple bought chip manufacturer P.A. Semi. The acquisition led to the design of the A4 processor, popularized in the original iPad released in 2010. The same year, […]

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Rumor: Apple to continue selling current-gen iPhone throughout 2018

The rumor mill has changed and Apple may in fact stick with its usual strategy of selling the current model iPhone X as opposed to replacing it with a second-gen model later this year. According to unnamed industry sources, Korean publication The Investor reported on Friday that Apple will be launching two new OLED iPhone […]

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First iOS 11.3 developer beta out the door, offers improved power management, iCloud Messages, additional Animoji units, other changes

Following Tuesday’s release of iOS 11.2.5, which brought HomePod support, Siri news, and a fix for the Messages text bomb, Apple has offered preview access to iOS 11.3, which will include assorted nifty new features, including a toggle for CPU throttling on phones old batteries. Following the iOS 11.3 update, Apple says users will now […]

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Apple releases iOS 11.2.5 update, adds HomePod support, security fixes, other changes

This should come in handy. Apple pm Tuesday released iOS 11.2.5 for its iPhones and iPads. The release “includes support for HomePod and introduces the ability for Siri to read the news (US, UK and Australia only).” The company also announced earlier in the day that preorders for the HomePod will begin on Friday, January […]