Two months after making a leap from iPhone to Android, the endless snowboard odyssey Alto's Adventure is now available for macOS in Mac App Store, too.
Alto’s Adventure hits the Mac
Apple
Apple Watch Series 4 teardown: stronger battery, doable screen replacements & more
Repair masters at iFixit earlier this morning published their detailed teardown analysis of a larger 44mm, cellular-equipped edition of the new Apple Watch Series 4 (model A2008).
Apple and Salesforce announce a strategic partnership
Apple today announced a major new global strategic partnership with Salesforce.
Sirius XM is buying Pandora for $3.5 billion
Satellite radio operator Sirius XM is acquiring the Internet radio service Pandora, which was founded in 2000, for $3.5 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced Monday.
Does Android have superior battery life?
The new iPhone XS sports some creative battery geometry, but that won't change the fact that the Apple smartphone continues to be perceived as having a weaker battery than comparable Android handsets. This may come as a surprise given Apple designs its own chips and optimizes the hardware and software for battery consumption. What exactly is going on here?
Apple-owned sleep tracking accessory Beddit is killing off its cloud service on November 15
In May 2017, Apple snapped up a sleep-tracking app, called Beddit Sleep Monitor, and an accompanying $150 accessory that helps customers achieve a better sleep. And now we learn that the Beddit cloud service is officially shutting down on November 15, 2018.
Weirdly-shaped iPhone XS battery maximizes every millimeter of space inside the chassis
Apple's new smartphones take advantage of the company's first in-house designed power management chip, but the bigger news is that iPhone XS seems to have borrowed some of the coolest terraced battery designs we first saw in 2015's 12-inch Retina MacBook.
Apple Watch Series 4 stars in Apple’s new ‘Better You’ ad
Just in time for today's launch of the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple has released a new ad featuring its latest wearable device. The 30-second video, titled "Better You" is launching online, and no doubt will be arriving on a television screen near you soon.
Huawei hands out free power banks to iPhone XS line waiters, but fans lash out
The Chinese phone maker Huawei has pulled quite a smart marketing stunt today by taking to the streets outside Singapore's Apple Store to hand out free power banks to buyers who queued to be one of the first to get the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max smartphones.
How to transfer a Apple Watch cellular plan to a new device
Here's a look at how to transfer an Apple Watch cellular plan from an old Apple Watch to a new one. The steps, unfortunately, are different, depending on your carrier.
iPhone XS camera enhances your vertical panoramas with uniform exposure & focus
If you take panoramic images, especially vertical panoramas, you're going to digg the improved cameras on the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max smartphones. According to travel photographer Austin Mann, vertical panos taken with these latest Apple smartphones retain focus uniformly across the shot and no longer suffer from exposure issues.
iPhone XS Max packaging & iOS 12.1 code both suggest Apple AirPower still in development
Is the long-delayed AirPower wireless charger still delayed or no longer under consideration? No one but Apple knows for sure. Nonetheless, two new clues suggest it will launch -- someday.
As Twitter user Gavin Stephens was the first to note, the manual for the iPhone XS Max mentions the charging device. In a "getting started guide" are the words: “Place iPhone with screen facing up on AirPoweror a Qi-certified wireless charger.”
https://twitter.com/ccgavind/status/1042917075675541504
Additionally, 9to5Mac has discovered some information in the first iOS 12.1 developer beta that suggests the AirPower project continues to move forward.
Looking into iOS 12.1, we noticed that the component of iOS responsible for managing the charging interface that appears when using AirPower has been updated, which means that Apple is still actively working on the project.
The AirPower was first announced on Sept. 12, 2017, and was designed to inductively charge multiple Apple devices at once, including many that were also announced on that date, such as the third-generation Apple Watch, iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8 Plus.
Earlier this year, Bloomberg said Apple planned on releasing the wireless device before the end of September. It said continued problems with AirPower’s multi-device charging mechanism was the reason for the device’s long delay.
I don't believe the AirPower mention in the iPhone XS Max manual means that much. This document could have been printed weeks ago, and Apple could have decided that republishing them before the iPhone XS Max release would be too costly.
The information 9to5Mac found in the iOS 12.1 beta, however, is not as easy to discount. If the AirPower was no longer under consideration, I'd think any reference to it would have been removed from a new iOS beta.
Hopefully, we'll hear more from Apple soon.
What do you think? Will we ever see an AirPower charging pad in the wild? Let us know your opinion in the notes below.