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WWDC: watchOS 3 unveiled, explained

Amidst the hubbub of yesterday’s announcements, Apple unveiled watchOS 3, its upcoming operating system for the Apple Watch. The new operating system seems to focuses on addressing comments made about the speed and responsiveness in previous versions of watchOS, including background loading of data, a quick-access Control Center, and new uses for the side button. […]

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Updated App Store guidelines hint at possible rebranding from “Mac OS X” to “macOS”

While it’s been expected that Apple will rebrand Mac OS X as “macOS” at WWDC next week, this has all but been confirmed in paperwork sent out to the developer community. Hidden in today’s announcements regarding the App Store was yet another hint at the change. In a FAQ from on the iTunes Connect website, […]

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Rumor: Significant changes to Apple’s four operating systems, no new hardware announcements in works for WWDC 2016

The days leading up to WWDC 2016 are a mix of facts and rumors, but there’s some interesting stuff that’s being mentioned. On that note, the mighty Mark Gurman went on the Jay and Farad Show podcast and offered the following predictions: – There literally won’t be any new hardware product announcements at WWDC, but […]

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Apple releases watchOS 2.2.1, tvOS 9.2.1

Along with yesterday’s smorgasbord of updates, Apple also updated its watchOS and tvOS operating systems. tvOS hit version 9.2.1 and contained bug fixes and performance improvements, but no new features. Apple released tvOS 9.2 just last month, which brought support for Siri dictation, organizing your apps in folders, and connecting a Bluetooth keyboard. To update […]

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Apple Store down ahead of March 21st media event

As expected, the Apple Online Store has gone down ahead of today’s scheduled media event. At present, there’s just a graphic stated “We can’t wait to show you what we have in store”. Apple is scheduled to hold its media event at 10 AM PST in Cupertino and is expected to launch the 4-inch iPhone […]