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According to a report from IDG, Sharp has not so surprisingly announced in its recent earnings report there is “‘material doubt’ about its ability to continue operating.” While Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn previously agreed to buy an 11-percent stake in the company, today’s report noted those negotiations continue to drag on and risk falling through as Sharp’s stock price continues dropping. To turn the company around, rumor has it Sharp will focus on its IGZO technology and displays for smartphones and tablets, while possibly seeking investments from Apple in the process:...

Apple has pushed out the fourth beta version of the iOS 9.1 mobile OS update. The software is designed to fix bugs that appeared in the public build of 9.1 and introduce a few new features, like a larger emoji set and an option to disable contact photos in the Messages app. The most recent beta introduced four new wallpapers. The latest build is available to both developers and public beta testers....

After 46 days of this new year, Apple Music Replay 2022 is now available to all users. With that, it’s possible to see how your listening experience has been so far on the Apple Music app in 2022. As first spotted by Twitter user Baby V, Apple is once again bringing back the Apple Music Replay experience. This playlist shows the top 100 most played songs, the most listened to artists, and the top 10 albums of the year for each user....

Marking the completion of a construction project over a decade in the making, Apple today welcomed the general public to their new campus with a grand opening celebration at the Apple Park Visitor Center. Apple Park’s Visitor Center is located across the street from the main campus “spaceship” building, separated by N. Tantau Ave. While the public isn’t allowed in employee areas or at the Steve Jobs Theater, the visitor center offers a rooftop observation deck overlooking the campus....

Apple has recently signed a deal with Indian ride-sharing service Ola that will see Apple Music become available in some of the service’s cars The Los Angeles Times first reported on the partnership, explaining that Apple Music will come to some cars as part of a platform known as “Ola Play.” Ola, for those unfamiliar, is India’s largest ride-hailing company, similar to that of Uber and Lyft. The service’s partnership with Apple is similar to Uber’s 2014 partnership with Spotify, which allows riders to control the music played in their Uber via the Spotify app on their phone....

Today, September 9th marks the fifth anniversary since Apple Watch and Apple Pay were unveiled. It also happens to be the anniversary of when Apple loaded U2’s album Songs of Innocence onto all of its users iTunes accounts before releasing a tool a week later to let frustrated customers remove it (and of course, Tim Cook and Bono’s finger tap). Follow along for a look at how Apple’s payment platform and market-leading wearable have evolved over the years and where they’re heading next....

With Apple steadily rolling out its mobile payment service across the United States, support for Apple Pay has now gone live from these new banks and credit unions: Banner Bank BayPort Credit Union California Coast Credit Union Centier Bank Community First Credit Union (CA) Glenview State Bank HAPO Community Credit Union Prestige Community Credit Union Provident Credit Union Staley Credit Union Synovus Wood & Huston Bank The new banks follow the addition of even more new institutions added last month with the full list below:...

In a post on its developer website this afternoon, Apple has announced that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year. Apple hasn’t yet said which countries are included in this expansion. [Update: View the list below] Apple says: The focus of today’s announcement is on informing developers of the upcoming expansion and ensuring they are prepared. Here’s what Apple says developers need to do before April 10:...

Apple has made the iOS 13.6 golden master available to developers today. The update comes with new features like improved support for downloading and installing system updates, the all-new Apple News+ Audio content, as well as the exciting CarKey feature. Update: Shortly after going live for developers, the GM releases were renamed to beta 4. This could be to line up the public release of iOS 13.6 with the new Apple News+ Audio launch....

Following the launch of new iPhone video ads targeting Android users earlier this month, Apple today released three new ads as part of the “Life is easier on iPhone” campaign. In the previously released videos, Apple highlighted features such as music, privacy, and photos. In the three new ads released today (below), Apple focuses on security, contacts, and performance… When Apple first launched the new video ad campaign earlier this month, it also revamped its apple....

Apple has overhauled its developer guidance for in-app subscriptions, with new pages in the Human Interface Guidelines and App Store documentation pages. The revamp reorganizes existing advice into a more modern design with clearer segmentation of sections, as well as clearly detail some ground rules for the first time. For instance, the price of a monthly subscription must be clearly shown. Conversions into yearly savings, or similar advertising copy, should be less prominent than the actual amount customers pay in each renewal period....

We’ve long touted the upcoming Broadcom 802.11AC chips as a natural fit for upcoming Macs, as well as long-term solutions to Apple’s TV streaming product(s). 802.11ac allows wireless networks to transfer data at the speed of Gigabit Ethernet (1.3Gbps on paper, but probably a bit below in real-world usage). Today, TheNextWeb says it has information that the next round of Macs will include the Broadcom technology. Theoretically, if Apple updates its Macs with this technology, it will also update its Airport Express/Extreme/Time Capsule line of Wireless products to include the new 802....

Apple seems to have found favor with analysts this week. As Bank of America seeks to show investors that Apple continues to innovate, another Apple analyst has outlined four reasons to believe in Apple’s continued success. He also argues that the claim once made by Steve Jobs – that the iPhone gave Apple a 5-year head-start on other smartphone brands – is twice as true when it comes to wearables …...

The format is developed using tools Apple’s christened TuneKit, a JavaScript framework that’s perfectly capable of delivering Adobe Flash-like media sequences, without Flash, Roughly Drafted first informed us. Apple’s extended media delivers its content at a width and height of 1,280-x-720 – exactly the same resolution as video output through an HDTV using an Apple TV. It’s also potentially high-res enough for an Apple tablet device. The limitation of this format is it doesn’t yet play on an iPhone or an iPod touch....

The news is making rounds that Apple is going to protect iOS developers from copyright infringement claims by patent troll Lodsys which claims its in-app purchase patents don’t extend to third-party apps distributed on the App Store. FOSS Patents explains that Apple’s legal team has filed a motion with the Eastern District of Texas to intervene as the defendant in a lawsuit from Lodsys: The publication specialized in patent-related cases has provided the filing which reads:...

Apple has just announced that setting up any new iOS device will ship with free copies of iWork, iPhoto, and iMovie for iOS. The 3 iWork apps including Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, in addition to the two iLife apps– iPhoto and iMovie– will be available for free to users purchasing a new device. During the setup process, users will be prompted to download the five Apple apps for free. Apple will be making the apps available to all iOS 7 compatible devices purchased after September 1st....

Apple has been ordered to pay $506 million for infringing upon patents held by PanOptis and related companies, according to a court ruling today. As Law360 reports, the ruling comes from an Eastern District of Texas federal jury. Notably, this was the first in-person jury trial over patents since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The lawsuit centered around a handful of Optis Wireless patents, all of which related to the use of LTE cellular technology in the iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad....

Apple has posted the full video of the Steve Jobs memorial and celebration of his life at the Cupertino, California campus. The event was held on October 19th and was only streamed to Apple employees who were not physically attending the event. The full video can be viewed at Apple’s website. Don’t come wearing any browser except for Safari. Apple Stores to close for one hour on October 19 to watch Steve Jobs’ memorial (9to5mac....

After launching the first macOS Monterey 12.1 beta at the end of October, Apple has seeded developers with macOS 12.1 beta 4. It arrives as Apple has slated the launch of Universal Control and SharePlay as coming “later this fall” for Mac with not much changing in this latest release. Update 2:04 pm PT: Now available for public beta testers as well. macOS 12.1 beta 4 is appearing now via OTA for developers and public testers with build number 21C5045a....

Apple has released the second iOS 10.3.3 public beta for users to test without paid developer accounts. The update likely includes bug fixes and performance improvements as well as new wallpapers discovered only on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro… Apple’s public beta program is free to participate in unlike its paid developer program. iOS 10.3.3 will be released to everyone likely next month, and the public beta allows more users to test pre-release versions of the software update before it’s finalized....