Sometimes even the legends move on. Bloomberg has reported that Apple’s longest-running senior designer, Bart Andre, is retiring. Andre, who joined Apple in 1992, worked with Jony Ive and his team, his departure marking “the near-complete turnover” of Ive’s former design team. Andre announced his plans to retire this month. His departure is a significant […]
The rumored 12.9-inch “iPad Pro” could be getting a stylus to go along with it. Per AppleInsider, well-regarded analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities said numerous stylus-related patents filed by the Cupertino-based company and his own research lead him to believe the iPad maker will launch a stylus in the second quarter of this year […]
Late Wednesday, Apple released to developers the second external beta of its upcoming iOS 4.3, as well as a new pre-release copy of Apple TV software designed to support the mobile operating system’s new AirPlay feature for third-party programmers. The company also informed developers that some features present in the initial beta won’t make it […]
An unverified report claims that Apple is planning to remove the home button on the iPad and iPhone as early as later this year, the company opting towards multitouch gestures to return to the home screen. According to Boy Genius Report, an anonymous source has claimed that Apple is already testing iPads and iPhones without […]
And now, the reason you were curious about the Apple media event: new iPods. Per Macworld, Apple released dramatically updated iPod nano and shuffle music devices, the iPod nano receiving a touchscreen interface while the shuffle’s buttons were returned to its control scheme. At long last, the iPod nano has shed its Click Wheel interface […]