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Apple has long been against the phenomenon called iOS jailbreaking, which is essentially a method to gain root access on iOS devices so apps from outside the App Store can be installed, and several other modifications done. But why is Apple dead against iOS jailbreak tools and other unauthorized modifications to iOS? On its support…
Recent reports from KGI Securities state that Apple plans to rope in LG for OLED display supply for its upcoming devices over the next two years and beyond. Samsung has been the exclusive supplier of OLED displays to Apple thus far. The decision from Apple isn’t surprising, considering it is well known for its strategy of…
The most recent speculation is that Apple is planning to standardize OLED – organic light-emitting diode – screens for all upcoming iPhone models starting the second half of 2018. OLED displays can be seen in premium iPhones released this year (iPhone 8), while the other two – iPhones 7s and iPhone 7s Plus – will…
Apple has been eyeing the streaming video market for some time now, but none of those efforts have yet put the iPhone maker on the map as far as streamed video content is concerned. With Netflix, Amazon and others going gung-ho around the world, Apple finally has serious plans to bring quality original programming to…
After years of media speculation, leaks and rumors about Apple’s moves in the self-driving car space, Apple CEO Tim Cook has finally come out in public with his comments on the company’s plans to develop and deploy autonomous driving systems. In an interview with Bloomber’s Emily Chang, Cook said: “We’re focusing on autonomous systems. It’s…
There are more than a billion active Apple iPhone devices around the world. And every quarter, the world’s number one premium smartphone maker sells tens of millions of devices to add to that pool. As such, Apple’s other services and applications can potentially reach hundreds of millions of users around the world, but Apple never really concentrated on…
Apple has been promising the world a future in augmented reality, or AR. Until now, however, we’ve seen little evidence of that other than the fact that they had a massive team working on several projects. With iOS 11, AR support is now coming to the iOS ecosystem. At the ongoing WWDC17 in San Jose,…
This year, Apple Inc. is giving attendees of WWDC 2017 black Levi’s jackets with the WWDC logo embroidered on them, ceramic pins with various logos like the vintage multi-color Apple logo, the logo for their programming language Swift and others. They’re also giving out pins with flags based on the developer’s nationality, as well as…
Siri might not be the brightest star in the voice assistant constellation, but any device that she’s a part of is very likely to sell in the tens of millions of units. The new Siri-controlled smart speaker that Apple is expected to unveil at its developer conference that’s starting tomorrow, June 5, 2017 in San…
Insider information via Bloomberg shows that Apple could be announcing its own smart speaker powered by Siri next week at its developer conference, WWDC 2017. Should Amazon Echo or Google Home feel threatened by a new presence in the smart home assistant segment? Let’s take a look at the facts and see if they should….
If you’re looking for the really short answer, it’s a “NO”, and you can move on to the next article. But if you want to know why Apple will never be able to kill off iOS jailbreak attempts or destroy the jailbreaking community, read on. Apple’s “hate affair” with iOS jailbreaking goes back to the…
By now, most of us know that Google Assistant has made it into the iOS ecosystem. But the big question is: how did Apple even allow it inside its gilded prison walls? Of course, Cortana is already living inside iOS, but having Google Assistant on iOS – even as a mere app – could spell…
As millions of jailbreak enthusiasts wait expectantly for Team Pangu to release the iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak that it teased at the end of April, it appears that nothing is going to come after all. This despite the fact that Pangu actually did get through the hardware-level Kernel Patch Protection on iPhone 7, and did have a proof…
Judging by the delay in Apple releasing iOS 10.3.2, it would appear that Team Pangu’s iOS 10.3.1 jailbreak is actually part of a scheme by Apple to put the squeeze on jailbreakers and the jailbreaking community as a whole. There are several clues that lead to this assumption, which we’ll be exploring today. #1There is no need for…
Facebook is going full tilt on its video ambitions, with plans to launch its original programming portfolio as early as during the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the second half of June 2017. Back in March, Facebook launched a standalone video app for Apple TV users, which could now be one of the ways the…
