Facebook is poaching Apple veterans and tasking them with building a “Siri-style voice assistant” that should power the company's rumored wireless speaker and another upcoming device dedicated to video chatting, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
While Apple's Project Titan reportedly shifted gear and is currently focused on autonomous driving software rather than the actual car hardware, that doesn't necessarily mean that the Cupertino technology giant doesn't have some big plans in that space.
Since its debut ten years ago in June of 2007, Apple's iPhone has managed to move a total of 1.2 billion cumulative units globally, remaining the most popular smartphone model in the world in terms of unit sales, brand power and influence.
If the awesome ARKit-powered measuring tape hasn't knocked your socks off, how about PCalc, the best scientific calculator available on App Store, in augmented reality?
Apple on Tuesday reported its [fiscal] Q3 2017 earnings, offering a look at its performance over the last 3 months. The company says that during the period it sold 41 million iPhones, up slightly from the year-ago quarter, and made $45.4 billion in revenue, also up from last year. Here's a full breakdown of the numbers.
This quarter's numbers compared to those from Q3 2016:
Revenue: $45.4 billion versus $42.4 billion last year, up 7% iPhones: 41 million versus 40.4 million last year, up 2% iPads: 11.4 million versus 10 million last year, up 15% Macs: 4.3 million versus 4.2 million last year, up 1%And here are some comments from Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri:
“With revenue up 7 percent year-over-year, we’re happy to report our third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth and an all-time quarterly record for Services revenue,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We hosted an incredibly successful Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and we’re very excited about the advances in iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS coming this fall.”
“We reported unit and revenue growth in all our product categories in the June quarter, driving 17 percent growth in earnings per share,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “We also returned $11.7 billion to investors during the quarter, bringing cumulative capital returns under our program to almost $223 billion.”
Apple will be starting its conference call shortly, so stay tuned for more highlights from their Q3 earnings.
Aside from the “Hey Siri” response tone from the official video teaser for HomePod, we haven't heard any other sounds that Apple's wireless speaker will use when released this December.
Ukrainian developer Readdle today refreshed its award-winning Spark email app for Mac with powerful new search capabilities along with other notable improvements, such as snoozed emails syncing across devices, reduced CPU consumption and improved memory usage.
Apple is probably never going to build anything remotely like it, but the very idea of a transparent iPhone does make for exciting conceptual artwork, as evidenced by a batch of high-quality renderings commissioned by German magazine Curved.de, published today.
Premium Apple accessory maker Twelve South on Tuesday announced a new lineup of cases for Apple's newest MacBooks.
Apple's environmental efforts, part of its mission to “leave the world better than we found it”, are certainly commendable and have paid off as the company's now created enough sustainable forestland to cover all paper packaging products.
A limited run of “Assembled in India” iPhone SE models is now rolling from the assembly lines in India, run by Apple's contract manufacturer Wistron, but the Cupertino technology giant is now seeking extend tax breaks for its suppliers to build iPhones in the country from scratch.
The unreleased HomePod firmware that Apple “accidentally” published on its servers this past weekend has become a real treasure trove of information about not only iPhone 8 and the speaker itself, but also new fitness features that are possibly coming to Apple Watch.
As noted by MacRumors, a new skiing workout has been unearthed from the HomePod files.