Apple Music has rebranded its A List: Hip-Hop playlist to Rap Life while adding a weekly show with the same name to Beats 1 Radio. The changes have been led by Apple’s global editorial head of hip-hop and R&B, Ebro Darden. As reported by Billboard, the branding shift to Rap Life should help Apple Music as it competes against rivals like Spotify who has its RapCaviar playlist. Here’s how Apple describes the change:...
For a limited time, Apple has started offering a three-month free trial of Apple News+ to new subscribers. This is up from the regular free trial period of one month, and matches the trial offered for new Apple Music subscribers. As first spotted by MacRumors, the three-month Apple News+ trial offer is valid only for this weekend in the United States and Canada. This means that you have until Monday, December 2 to secure the extended free trial offer....
Hot off the heels of Apple’s iBook Textbooks and iBooks Author announcement, the Cupertino, Calif.-based Company passed a $400 billion market cap briefly today, AllThingsD pointed out. Apple also saw a new company record of $431 a share this afternoon —up $2 from yesterday’s record. As the afternoon continued on, Apple’s market cap went down to $398 billion again, but it is still close to coming back. For comparison, the world’s most valuable company, Exxon, has a market cap of $417 billion....
Apple’s head of Apple Pay, Jennifer Bailey, is set to appear alongside other industry titans at Recode’s Code Commerce conference this December. The Apple exec ran the company’s online stores for many years and now leads Apple Pay, Apple’s contactless mobile payments solution. The Code Commerce meeting takes place multiple times a year; Bailey will be appearing at the last one in 2016 on December 6. No doubt the new MacBook Pro with integrated Apple Pay will form part of the discussions....
Apple created a new section on its website dedicated to the enhanced iTunes U service that was updated during last week’s education announcement. The new web-based resources available at www.apple.com/support/itunes-u contain a wealth of information and how-to topics for educators to implement the new iTunes U digital features into their workflow. Specifically, training course are available for iTunes U Public Site Manager and iTunes U Course Manager, as well as various guides on publishing on iTunes U....
Apple announced macOS Big Sur with a redesigned interface and new features, including widgets, Control Center, and more. The update also brings some important changes that weren’t mentioned on stage at WWDC 2020, such as a system capable of installing software updates faster in the background. Users are currently unable to use the Mac during the update installation process, which can take up to an hour depending on the update. Both the preparation and installation process are done on boot, so the system remains inaccessible until the update is complete....
After three weeks since first launching the macOS 12.2 beta for developers and public testers, the second build of the software is now available for developers. The macOS 12.2 beta comes with a new native Music app and improvements to scrolling in Safari with ProMotion on MacBook Pro. Update 1/12: macOS 12.2 beta 2 is now available for public testers as well. The second macOS 12.2 beta (build number 21D5039d) is appearing now for developers and public testers on Apple’s Developer website and public beta website....
There’s up to 1TB worth of SSD storage with today’s sale. You’ll also find the usual four Thunderbolt 3 ports, 16GB worth of RAM, and a redesigned Touch Bar with physical escape and power buttons. It’s arguably the best content-creation machine on the market today if you’re in need of a portable design. Check out our hands-on review for additional details. AirPods Pro with ANC, more start at $195 Best Buy offers Apple’s AirPods Pro in certified refurbished condition for $195....
New data from SensorTower today reveals 164 publishers generated their first million dollars in net revenue during 2018, an approximately 13% increase from 143 in 2017. The interesting data point arises when comparing to Google’s Play Store, who saw 71 publishers last year net one million dollars, and just 88 in 2018. Considering iOS accounts for less than a quarter of mobile operating systems globally with Android generally dominating the remainder, it’s further demonstration of how lucrative iOS app revenue is compared to Android....
Yesterday, we reported that Apple is gearing up to launch its iPhone trade-in program in September. The program will allow an iPhone user to exchange an older iPhone model for a new iPhone at a discounted price. Today, we’ve learned several new details about the program, including how it works, the official name, and information about the launch. The trade-in program will be marketed as the “iPhone Reuse and Recycle Program....
Apple’s New iPad Is Here Apple announced the new base model of its iPad, which is the most popular version of its tablet. As you’d expect from a new iPad, it comes with all the performance improvements. It features 20% better performance in both the GPU and CPU. That comes thanks to the A13 chip. There’s a 10.2-inch Retina display, which is both large enough and high enough resolution to perform a wide range of functions....
Low-power mode saves battery duration by deactivating a few highlights, for example, the consistently in plain view, exercise autostart, heart wellbeing messages, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg, while keeping up with the usefulness of fall discovery and action observing. tvguidetime.com The organization didn’t say whether the mode would be as successful on more established gadgets as it claims it will be on the Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra....
Apple has announced that its Everyone Can Code curriculum will be living up to its name, by making it accessible to blind and deaf students, as well as those with other disabilities such as issues with motor skills. A Swift training program which begins in kindergarten schools, Everyone Can Code started out as a free ebook (available here, with teachers’ guide) before being rolled out to colleges around the world, including a huge rollout in Chicago …...
Apple Maps and Google Maps are competing navigation apps and since around 84% of the world’s population uses a smartphone today, it is certain that a lot many of these users rely upon one of the two navigation apps daily. A thorough comparison between both Apple Maps and Google Maps will be conducted in this article and towards the end, a winner will be nominated. POINTS OF COMPARISON: While the apps provide one similar use, that is navigation, there are still many distinctive factors between Apple Maps and Google Maps....
Apple Music is adding even more songs to its catalog of millions of songs as Tencent Music Entertainment Group announced a partnership to distribute Chinese content through Apple’s own streaming platform. In a statement, TME said that “record labels and artists who are part of TME Music Cloud can now distribute their music around the world via Apple Music.” With that, users can expect even more songs in Dolby Atmos and Lossless, and TME is bringing “a large volume of high-quality new music in collaboration with industry partners....
Apple has opened up a secondary dedicated AppleCare repairs warehouse in the United States in recent days, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the new center. The new warehouse is located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and public records indicate that the facility comes in at just under 200,000 square-feet with an additional 2500 square-feet of space available for offices. Apple will use this facility to conduct repairs and replacements and to manage, package, and ship repaired Apple devices to both customer’s homes and Apple Store Genius Bars across the country....
A recent patent filed by Apple and discovered by PatentlyApple hints at ways in which Apple is planning to make its HomeKit platform smarter. The patent, published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is for an “automated environment” in which HomeKit would be able to track the routines of users and implement automated behaviors based on those habits. As an example, Apple points to the idea of a heating system being enabled at a particular time or when a particular temperature is met....
Some of us with shiny new M1-powered MacBook Pros have been finding that Apple Pay doesn’t work when trying to use Touch ID on the Magic Keyboard … This was always the case with Intel Macs, but it should work on Apple Silicon ones. Delving into the Wallet & Apple Pay module in System Preferences only reveals an opaque error message: Um, what? Apple Pay has been disabled because the security settings of this Mac were modified....
The iPod, which has had its own tab on the Apple.com web site’s homepage for over 13 years, today disappeared from Apple’s homepage and menu bar — replaced with and subordinated under a new Music button. iPod sales have been slipping for years, the result of both steadily increasing demand for iPhones and reduced support from Apple, which has left previously-introduced iPod hardware untouched and undermarketed. iPod shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod touch models remain available from Apple (and discounted elsewhere), but their de-emphasis suggests that Apple isn’t particularly concerned with promoting them to customers....
Apple has released an update to macOS High Sierra for all Macs running macOS 10.13.2. The supplemental security update likely addresses the Spectre flaw that affected Safari and may contain further mitigations for Meltdown. Apple released the original version of macOS 10.13.2 back in early December, but acknowledged last week that Safari would require further updates to help lessen potential issues related to recently disclosed vulnerabilities. Apple has already released mitigations in iOS 11....
