Свежие новости и отзывы о Apple

ANALYSIS: News broke today that Rdio is effectively shutting down: The 5-year-old company is filing for bankruptcy and competitor Pandora is swooping in to buy “key assets” for $75 million. It’s a sad day, but anyone who has been watching the online music market knows that it was inevitable. Indeed, Rdio never disclosed user numbers, and […]... →

Apple SIM, the SIM card that lets iPad users switch between participating carriers in different countries, has launched in Japan through a partnership with KDDI. Read More... →

If voice-based assistants are to become the primary way we interact with our devices now and in the future, then Google has just upped the ante in the battle between its own voice search functionality and that of rival mobile assistants like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. While Google’s app has historically done a better job at understanding its users and answering… Read More... →

TokBox is launching a developer SDK for the new Apple TV that brings its interactive voice and video capabilities to the small screen. With it, the company says this feature will enable viewers to consume live video content from an OpenTok powered application right from a tvOS device from the comfort of their living room. “We […]... →

Google today detailed improvements to its main Android and iOS app, Google (formerly called Google Search), specifically related to answering questions. You can download the latest version now from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. The app is can now better at understanding complex questions. In particular, the Google app can now handle superlatives, ordered […]... →

After the U.S. and the U.K., Apple is about to launch Apple Pay in Canada tomorrow. The news was first spotted by iPhone in Canada. American Express is one of the launch partners, but it’s unclear whether Apple has partnered with other credit card issuers. Read More... →

Apple seems to be using the Top Charts section of its iPhone App Store to promote its own applications by listing apps like Numbers, Keynote, Pages, and iMovie, in higher positions than they would normally rank. When viewed on an iPhone, these apps are showing up intermingled in the Top 20 Free applications on the iPhone, but when viewed from the desktop version of the App Store,… Read More... →

Apple CEO Tim Cook has told the The Irish Independent he has no plans to converge Cupertino’s lovingly crafted iPad and Macbook hardware lines into a hybrid tablet-plus-laptop device — arguing that melding the two device types would undermine the user experience. Read More... →

Специалисты отрасли заметили, что разработчики Apple внесли значительные изменения в алгоритм поиска по App Store. Теперь он учитывает не только слова, которые встречаются в названии и метаданных приложения, но и контекстные ключевые слова. В результате результаты поиска стали более релевантными запросу. Кроме того, непопулярные приложения, разработчики которых выбирают удачные названия, стали получать более низкий рейтинг и ранжируются ниже. На позицию приложения в поисковой выдаче теперь также влияют отз... →

Apple has confirmed that it will open its first retail store in Southeast Asia, located in Singapore, as the U.S. phone maker begins to increase its efforts in the region’s fast-growing smartphone market. Read More... →

После запуска Яндекс.Музыкой потоков на 320 kbps среди главных стримингов наметился паритет. Равная цена и одинаково высокое качество звука.... →

Earlier this week, Apple Store employees at the Highpoint Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia asked a group of black students to leave the store because they worried they might “steal something.” Apple has since apologized to the students, and Apple CEO Tim Cook recently sent out a company-wide email, obtained by BuzzFeed, in which he called what happened (see below) an… Read More... →

A number of mobile app developers and industry observers recently noticed a significant change in the way the App Store’s search algorithms are returning results. Following a series of shifts that took place beginning on November 3rd, developers say that app search results now appear to be more intelligent, and far more relevant – especially among the top results – than in… Read More... →

It was bound to happen. Now that Apple Music is available on Android, Apple is going to shut down its other music streaming service, Beats Music. The company will automatically cancel all subscriptions on November 30, and remaining users should move to Apple Music. Read More... →

YouTube представил музыкальное приложение YouTube Music. Новый стриминговый сервис призван составить конкуренцию Spotify и Apple Music. Приложение работает на базе поисковой технологии Google и позволяет искать музыку по композиции, альбому или исполнителю. Результаты поиска включают широкий спектр релевантных видео: живые трансляции с концертов, версии композиции для караоке и обучающие ролики, показывающие, как сыграть понравившуюся мелодию. В YouTube Music также есть подборки треков, которые могут заин... →

Apple announced Thursday that it’s shutting down Beats Music on November 30, nearly half a year after the launch of Apple Music (the company’s new music-streaming service that Beats has essentially been folded into). It was only a matter of time before this happened — Beats Music already stopped accepting new subscribers following the launch of […]... →

Just 24 hours after developers of the popular screen brightness app f.lux released a side-loaded version for iOS, Apple has told the developers that they are in violation of the company’s developer program agreement. Since f.lux’s private APIs are not allowed in the App Store, the developers decided to allow users to directly download the app’s source code, taking advantage… Read More... →

OPINION: The iPad Pro is one of the most hotly anticipated products to come out of Apple in quite awhile. The 12.9-inch work-oriented tablet went on sale this week, and the first crop of reviews came out yesterday. Unfortunately for Apple fans, some of those reviews don’t look so hot. Reviewers who normally rave about Apple […]... →

Oops! A number of users have been reporting error messages and other issues with apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. The warnings prompted them to delete and then re-install their apps, but this was not necessarily correcting the problem, customers found. The issue, as it turned out, was related to Apple’s failure to renew a security certificate. And while Apple quickly addressed… Read More... →

When Apple combined their iOS and Mac developer programs a few months ago, the company also quietly dropped the requirement that you had to be a registered developer to load apps from Xcode to your iOS device. While Apple’s intention may have been to remove the financial barrier for new app developers, a side effect is that now anyone can download an open-source iOS app and install… Read More... →