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Apple allies with Merchants Bank Co. to offer installment-based payment plans to Chinese customers

If you’re buying Apple equipment in China, there’s a payment plan for you. Per Bloomberg, Apple on Thursday introduced a new option for Chinese buyers of iPhones and MacBooks, allowing them to spread the cost of purchases ranging from from 300 yuan (US$48) to 30,000 yuan (US$4,800) over as long as two years. The new […]

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Apple releases seventh OS X 10.8.3 beta to developer community

The betas, they just keep on comin’ Per AppleInsider, a seventh beta of OS X 10.8.3, Apple’s forthcoming maintenance and security update for the Mountain Lion operating system, was supplied to developers on Wednesday. Sources familiar with the latest pre-release software said it is identified as build “12D54.” Any changes that may have been made […]

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AT&T to enable FaceTime for tiered customers with compatible iOS devices

Nothing like a little competition to get the wireless carriers to try to beat each other’s offerings. That and the FCC yelling at you to do it sort of helps. Per the company’s blog, AT&T announced on Wednesday it will enable FaceTime over cellular at no extra cost to any customers with a tiered data […]

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Cocktail updated to 6.3

On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 6.3 of CocktailCocktail (Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 5.2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Added ability to clear Quarantine Events database. – Fixed a problem where Cocktail may report […]

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Rumor: Apple to release all-Retina iPad, MacBook Pro lineups in 2013

Even though it’s a rumor, there’s got to be a nugget of truth in there somewhere. Per AppleInsider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has made his Apple hardware predictions for the upcoming year, and expects a bevy of new iOS and Mac product releases will help the iPhone maker address a wider swath of […]