Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

18 апреля Google обновил UserAgent поискового робота для смартфонов. О предстоящем изменении в компании сообщили в марте. Разница между старой и новой версией – в замене Apple iPhone и Safari в строке агента пользователя на Android и Chrome. В новой версии строка выглядит так: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Инженер и аналитик отдела качест... →

Billion-dollar customer insight startup Qualtrics hopes to recruit top Silicon Valley talent to its home base in Utah as it continues to grow and part of that strategy involves adding professional tech coach Kim Scott to the board of directors. Qualtrics become one of a handful of new unicorns in the Beehive State last year and it continues to climb up and to the right. But it’s hard… Read More... →

If Apple really is working on a car, it won’t be the Ultimate Driving Machine™. BMW and Daimler have discontinued talks with Apple over a potential automotive collaboration, Handelsblatt reports. Read More... →

Keep, Google’s note-taking service, is getting an update today that introduces support for hashtag-style labels and an update Chrome extension that will make it easier to save links to sites and add notes right from the browser. None of these updates are revolutionary, but they are definitely welcome additions to a service that is essentially Google’s version of Apple’s… Read More... →

Apple’s head of legal has denied a long-standing rumor that it has collaborated with the Chinese government to provide its source code. Read More... →

Samsung has already said it will launch Samsung Pay in Singapore this year, but today it set a more definite timeline–sort of. The company announced that the service will be available in retail stores “as early as Q2 2016,” the day after rival Apple Pay rolled out in Singapore for the first time. Read More... →

Posted by EricEnge[Estimated read time: 12 minutes] The world of mobile continues to explode. Major players like Google, Facebook, and Apple are investing massively in efforts to establish themselves as the dominant player in the new markets that are emerging as a result. These companies are betting in a big way on continuing changes in mobile usage and in user expectations for mobile devices, and that means you should be, too. It means you need to have a mobile-first mentality. The investments by these com... →

Apple is finally getting around to adding web previews for tvOS apps — correcting a rather baffling and prolonged omission. Read More... →

The FBI’s legal battle with Apple over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony from law enforcement officials and technologists about the role encryption plays in criminal investigations. The FBI’s executive assistant director for science and technology, Amy Hess, and… Read More... →

Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center – yes, without even unlocking your phone – is now the #15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur Widget Game,” the game is a very simple… Read More... →

Apple’s single-port-wonder MacBook gets a mid season upgrade with faster processors, better graphics, faster internal memory and an hour more of battery life today — all in a Rose Gold finish. Read More... →

Apple has launched Apple Pay in Singapore today, making it the second country in Asia after China to get the digital payment service. Read More... →

Apple today is unveiling an overhaul to its App Store developer website, a resource available to the 11 million registered developers worldwide who have helped to grow the App Store to now over 1.5 million applications. The updated site will include new articles and videos which are aimed at helping developers better understand how to grow their businesses and engage users. For example, some… Read More... →

Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the startup class of 2008 – 2009: Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber and Tiny Speck (Slack) all got their early funding in those dismal years. And, while not everyone agrees that there is a massive… Read More... →

Apple has yet to update its website, but we now know the dates of the next World Wide Developer Conference. When you ask Siri “when is the next WWDC,” Siri already has an answer for you. Apple will hold its annual developer conference from June 13 to June 17. This is in line with Apple’s previous conferences. The company will very likely present a bunch of new stuff during… Read More... →

Инженеры Apple считают, что iPad Pro — это «новая концепция персонального компьютера для современного мира». Судя по описанию на сайте, компания полагает, что планшет для многих пользователей может заменить ноутбук. Вместе с последними анонсами планшетов компания также представила внешнюю клавиатуру и электронное перо — для тех, кто часто взаимодействует с текстом и дизайном. Редакция vc.ru публикует список сторонних приложений для работы, которые поддерживают функциональность iPad Pro и доступны в App Stor... →

Под Windows или Apple iOS приложение не выходило, хотя логотип Moosic, представляющий из себя перевёрнутый логотип Beats Music (собственность Apple), намекает, что о iOS в холдинге точно задумываются.... →

It’s a small branding change, but it would make a lot of sense. Many different signs point to Apple abandoning the name “OS X” in favor of “MacOS”, or maybe “macOS” without a capital letter. Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller first hinted at this change last year at WWDC in an interview with John Gruber. Then a configuration file →

Chameleon Run launched a little over a week ago and has been heavily promoted by Apple. Admittedly, I love this game and I am not the only one. Chameleon Run is an auto-runner where you fly through the air bouncing off platforms, see-saws and slides to make your way to the end of each level. It costs roughly $2 on both iOS and Android and there is no free version. Yet, it’s on the paid… Read More... →

Despite Apple’s highly-publicized sparring match with the FBI over unlocking an iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters, security engineers pushed back against the idea of Apple as an opponent to the government in a meeting with reporters. Senior Apple engineers feel that government intrusion is not their primary threat model when designing iPhone security and said… Read More... →