Apple has disabled the Walkie-Talkie service on Apple Watch this morning, due to an unknown exploit that could have allowed a stranger to eavesdrop the Apple Watch microphone without consent… More here. I tried to get Walkie-Talkie to work many… Read More ›
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Jony Ive’s most iconic Apple designs
Ive’s involvement in the design of Apple’s HQ Apple Park could well have given him the taste to move beyond designing tech (just don’t mention the monitor stand)… More here. A bit of an obvious list, but they are all… Read More ›
The Apple TimeBand
Created as a concept piece by the “Industrial Design Group” who displayed it on the March/April 1991 back cover of Industrial Design magazine, it has buttons on the left that imply phone connectivity and print service. On the screen, menu… Read More ›
Bye Jony
Apple’s chief design officer Jonathan Ive will depart the company later this year, bringing an end to a tenure spent crafting some of technology’s most influential products, including the iPhone. Ive, who has led Apple’s design team since 1996, is… Read More ›
Apple’s stand
MSI shared an ad on Twitter for its 5K Prestige Monitor that takes a page from Apple’s popular “I’m a Mac” campaign from several years back and mocks Apple’s $1,000 Pro Display XDR stand… More here. Apple could have done… Read More ›
The Apple Store lustre
There was the time he visited the Easton Town Center location to buy a laptop for his 11-year-old daughter and spent almost 20 minutes getting an employee to accept his credit card. In January, Smith was buying a monitor and… Read More ›
No backdoor…
Cook and Sewell met with Eric Holder and Jim Cole, then the deputy attorney general, in late 2014, and FBI agents told them they were “interested in getting access to phones on a mass basis.” This was way before the… Read More ›
Apple’s Credit Card
The essence of the design of Apple Card is reduction. Some high-end credit cards move many markings to the back of the card. Apple has gone one step further. The usually present card number, expiration date, security code (CSC or… Read More ›
AirPower abandoned
In a highly unusual step for the firm, Apple has given up on a product because it could not make it work adequately. AirPower, announced in 2017, was a mat meant to charge multiple devices without needing to plug them… Read More ›
The Apple TV 4K is bad, really bad
I purchased an Apple TV 4K last week as I needed one for a freelance article and was expecting an experience that was better than the previous Apple TV or my smart TV, because after all I spent £179 on… Read More ›