Apple lost a whopping nine billion bucks in 2018 by overpaying for its own shares.
WSJ details a single underperforming investment that cost Apple $9 billion in 2018
Instagram briefly tested Stories-like horizontal scrolling for the main feed, everyone hates it
In October, iDownloadBlog was among first to report on Instagram's horizontally scrolling design for posts in the Explore tab. That test has now expanded to the main feed, with a huge number of users in the UK and elsewhere spotting it on Thursday afternoon.
Apple may start assembling flagship iPhones in India as early as 2019
Reuters has reportedly learned that Apple is most likely to begin assembling flagship iPhone models in India sometime in 2019. According to the report, Apple's primary contract manufacturer Foxconn will invest 25 billion Indian rupees, which works out to about $356 million, to expand its plant in Sriperumbudur town in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Saurik acknowledges Cydia Substrate freezing bug in latest update, says fix is imminent
Less than two weeks ago, Saurik (Jay Freeman) released an official iOS 11-centric update for Cydia Substrate, but it wasn’t long after the release that users who installed the package began reporting unexpected freezing issues with their jailbroken handsets.
A support thread was opened on GitHub nine days ago brought some much-needed attention to the issue, prompting high-profile members of the community like Pwn20wnd, sbingner, and Saurik to start looking into it.
DearMob iPhone Manager: transfer photos from iPhone to computer with high flexibility [sponsor]
Transferring photos between an iPhone and your computer is a process you have little control over beyond choosing a group of photos to move. Any higher level of iOS media file management requires a specialized app like DearMob's iPhone Manager which offers a bunch of advanced photo-syncing features and advantages over Apple's default method.
iPhone XR accounted for a larger proportion of Android switchers than iPhone 8 & iPhone X
Fresh data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) indicates that Apple's colorful iPhone XR, which starts at $749, has likely attracted a significantly larger proportion of Android switchers in the United States than iPhone 8 and iPhone X did last November.
How to easily rotate videos on iPhone or iPad
Learn how to rotate landscape or portrait videos on your iPhone or iPad using the Apple Photos app to ensure they’re perfectly oriented and look their best.
How to add an iCloud Drive shortcut to your Mac desktop or Dock
Find out how to add an iCloud Drive shortcut to your Mac desktop and Dock for faster access to your online files, folders, and documents.
Electra jailbreak tool updated to resolve an issue on iOS 11.0 – 11.1.2
It was only yesterday that the Electra Team pushed a significant update to the Electra jailbreak with initial support for the Sileo package installer and a bevy of bug fixes and performance improvements, but the team is still fine-tuning the iOS 11-centric jailbreak tool as we speak.
Citing a Tweet shared by the Electra Team Wednesday evening, one out of the two available Electra jailbreak tools was updated once again, this time to version 1.1.0-2, with a fix for a jailbreaking issue on iOS 11.0-11.1.2:
Electra jailbreak updated to version 1.1.0 with bug fixes, stability enhancements, and Sileo support
Just this week, the Electra Team updated its jailbreak for the first time since this Summer, bringing the tool(s) up to version 1.1.0.
Unlike the all-in-one unc0ver jailbreak by Pwn20wnd, the Electra jailbreak is fragmented into two separate tools; one of those supports iOS 11.0-11.1.2 and the other supports iOS 11.2-11.4 beta 3. Regardless, both tools received notable updates.
First public beta of the Sileo package manager released for the Electra jailbreak
On Christmas day, the Electra Team released its public beta of Sileo, a package manager that will attempt to compete with Cydia for market share on the jailbroken iOS 11 platform.
Citing the official Sileo Twitter page, the Sileo beta preview is being hosted on the default Electra repository in Cydia on devices jailbroken with Electra. When Sileo comes out of beta, it will be distributed on an entirely different repository.
How to disable Split View and Slide Over on iPad
Learn how to block the Split View and Slide Over multitasking features on your iPad if you never use them, and they accidentally get in the way, causing distraction and confusion.