Google on Tuesday announced that its new and consolidated mobile payments service, Google Pay, is now available as a standalone app in Play Store.
Google Pay rolling out now, will soon include an answer to Apple Pay Cash
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Spotify may be planning to enter production with its own HomePod rival
Spotify last spring ran a curious job ad for a Senior Product Manager that signaled its interest in the hardware game, and now we're learning via a collection of new job listings that Spotify's HomePod rival may in fact be in the works literally as we speak.
Twitterrific for Mac picks up important multi-account features, slashes price temporarily
Developer The Iconfactory yesterday evening pushed a nice little update to Twitterrific for Mac, its popular Twitter client, bringing several appreciated enhancements just as Twitter has unexpectedly stopped support for its own Mac app.
Video: behind the scenes of iFixit’s iPhone X teardown
When a new iPhone launches, iFixit goes to work performing its ritual teardown dance so all of us can marvel at Apple's latest technology and peek at it from the inside.
Tip: the fastest way to toggle AirPlay as an output on iPhone & iPad
iOS 11 brought a customizable Control Center and also moved AirPlay options around.
Starting April 2018, all new apps must natively support iPhone X display
Apple confirmed in a promotional mailer sent last week to its registered developers that new iPhone apps, including universal apps, will soon need to include native display support for the 2436-by-1125 pixel resolution OLED screen on iPhone X.
Apple changes its corporate address to One Apple Park Way
Apple has been in the process of moving an entire workforce from its old headquarters to the new Apple Park campus for almost a year now.
This tweak protects jailbroken devices from the Telugu character bug
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, then you might’ve caught wind about a severe bug that crashes iPhones and iPads when a particular Telugu character gets sent or received in emails or text messages.
Apple plans to fix this bug in a future update for iOS, but firmware updates aren’t ideal for jailbreakers that depend on older firmware versions, and that’s where a new free jailbreak tweak called NotTodaySatan by iOS developer Zack Hankewycz comes in.
Google Maps for iOS picks up Explore, Driving & Transit tabs
Google said yesterday that the most recent update to its mapping and navigation app on App Store has brought three new tabs—Explore, Driving and Transit—that Android customers have had for more than a year.
Facebook is pushing its own Onavo VPN service within iOS app
Facebook users in the United States, and possibly elsewhere, are starting to see, or have been seeing for some time now a new Protect option in Facebook for iOS's navigation menu, which redirects users to the Onavo VPN app on App Store.
For the first time since its inception, Apple Watch overtook Fitbit in annual sales
For the first time since its April 2014 debut, Apple Watch has managed to overtake Fitbit in terms of annual sales—a major milestone for Apple's wearable device, especially when you take into account all of the inexpensive fitness bands, watches and tracking device Fitbit is selling.
HomePod costs an estimated $216 to build
Apple's Siri-driven HomePod wireless speaker retails for $349, but the components that go into it cost an estimated $216, suggesting Apple is making 38% margin on its latest product.