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Apple seems to be testing iPhone battery support program via Canadian Apple Support app

If you’re north of the border, this is relevant to you. Apple seems to be launching a trial of its iPhone battery replacement program in Canada. The company has geared support its app to take names for particular iPhone models and says the app will alert users when the battery is available locally. The program […]

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Apple reports $88.3 billion in revenue for Q1 2018

Even if iPhone X sales are slumping, Apple still reported a record-breaking $88.3 billion in revenue for the quarter ending on December 31st, 2017. This represents a 13 percent increase over last yearā€™s $78.4 billion. The company managed to sell 77.3 million iPhones in the three-month holiday quarter, about a million less than last year, […]

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18-core iMac Pro customers begin to receive shipping notifications, 14-core notifications still absent

Three of the four iMac Pro sub-groups have shipped, with purchasers of the 18-core model now getting notifications that the machines are on their way. Anonymous sources close to the story have stated that “a small number of early orders have shipped to U.S. customers.” No information was available about international orders, although it’s assumed […]

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Home app to help manage HomePod software updates

It looks like you’ll use Apple’s Home app to update your HomePod once it arrives. Developer Guilherme Rambo dug into Appleā€™s iOS code and found the HomePod software update mechanism. Along with alerting you to new software updates, the Home app will also let you enable automatic software updates, much like Apple TV. While this […]

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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 […]