Bruce Sewell is retiring at the end of the year after eight years in the role of Apple's chief attorney, the company announced Friday.
Apple’s chief attorney Bruce Sewell retiring, to be replaced with Honeywell’s Katherine Adams
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KGI: iPhone X super cycle won’t truly gain momentum until 2018
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new report saying the reported TrueDepth camera production issues won't be “significantly addressed” before the end of the year. But once manufacturing issues are solved, iPhone X shipments will “pick up strongly” in the first half of 2018.
Truphone to bring its Apple SIM data plans to 30+ markets later this year
Truphone announced today that its Apple SIM data plans for cellular iPads are now officially available in Ireland and Portugal following last week's launch in Australia and the Netherlands.
The service is also available in Hong Kong, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, with an additional 31 countries to follow by the end of 2017.
These plans let iPad owners instantly get online and stay connected via the Truphone network at home and while traveling in 40 countries without international roaming charges.
Truphone is giving customers 100MB of data for free, with a try before you buy offer making it easy for customers to get 4G data directly on their iPad with no obligation to purchase.
To sign up for the service, just tap Settings > Mobile Data > Set Up Mobile Data, select Truphone as your provider and choose a data bucket you need for a month. You can buy more data at any time with a valid Visa or MasterCard in 40 countries.
Two new features are now available, too:
Auto Renew: Automatically purchase a new data plan when the current one expires or is consumed for uninterrupted 4G connectivity, with built-in overspend protection. Top Up Anytime: The freedom to add more data anytime, anywhere without having to wait for your plan to expire. Create an easily-managed queue of data plans to make sure you never run out of data.Apple SIM is built into all cellular iPad Pro models and is compatible with the fifth-generation iPad, first-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro, iPad mini 4 and iPad Air 2 cellular models.
Apple acknowledges that ten iCloud services are currently plagued with intermittent issues
As noted on Apple's System Status webpage for consumers and the corresponding dashboard for developers, many iCloud services are currently displaying “intermittent issues”.
Hundreds of new emoji coming to iOS 11.1 soon
Apple just announced that hundreds of new emoji will make their way to iOS 11.1 in the near future. Including gender-neutral characters, various clothing options, mythical creatures, and more, these new emoji are adapted from approved characters in Unicode 10.
Apple Music launches Facebook Messenger extension
Facebook's Messenger service has gained a new Apple Music chat extension for recommendations, song sharing and more. You don't need to be an Apple Music subscriber to listen to and share 30-second clips from any track you discover within the Messenger app.
Fantastical makers tease upcoming Cardhop app for managing your contacts like a pro
Flexibits, the brains behind the ultimate calendar app Fantastical for Mac, iPhone and iPad, today teased their upcoming macOS app that will let you manage your contacts like a boss.
macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update fixes Keychain & APFS Disk Utility vulnerabilities
Apple on Thursday released a supplemental update to macOS High Sierra 10.13 which fixes a few bugs, among them a major vulnerability (we told you about it this morning) that could expose the passwords of encrypted Apple File System volumes in plain text in Disk Utility.
Netflix hiking prices for US users next month
Netflix is rising prices, again. Starting this November, customers in the United States will be paying more for the company's middle and top-tier plans.
As Mashable reported Thursday, the standard $9.99 per month service that offers simultaneous HD streaming on two screens will cost $10.99 per month.
The premium tier will rise from $11.99 to $13.99, meaning customers who want to stream Netflix on up to four screens at once in Ultra HD will be paying an additional two bucks per month for the privilege, which works out to an additional $24 over the course of twelve months.
The basic $7.99 plan's price is staying put, for now.
Enjoy Netflix's current prices while you can.
The company released the following statement regarding the upcoming price hike:
From time to time, Netflix plans and pricing are adjusted as we add more exclusive TV shows and movies, introduce new product features and improve the overall Netflix experience to help members find something great to watch even faster.
Netflix will notify US subscribers of the price change on October 19. By December, every Netflix subscriber will be paying the higher price, grandfathered or not.
Netflix's standard $7.99 per month plan is still more affordable than HBO NOW at $14.99 per month or Hulu's ad-free plan at $11.99 per month though it lets you stream only in standard definition on one screen at a time.
Back in My 2014, Netflix raised prices of the entry-level tier from $7.99 to $8.99 per month for new customers in the United States and European markets though existing subscribers were exempt from paying extra for 24 months.
macOS High Sierra’s Disk Utility exposes passwords of encrypted APFS volumes
Brazilian developer Matheus Mariano has discovered a pretty serious security vulnerability in macOS High Sierra which exposes passwords of any encrypted APFS volumes in plain text.
Android makers delay their own plans for 3D camera sensors
Android vendors have reportedly discovered just how complicated and difficult it is to reliably mass-manufacture cutting-edge depth sensors that iPhone X's Face ID relies upon, and have now delayed plans to use 3D-sensing camera technology in their own flagship devices.
Twitter and Twitterrific apps now play nice with iOS 11’s Smart Invert mode
iOS 11's Smart Invert, which reverts the colors of the display while attempting to leave the colors of images and media intact, has been gaining some much-needed support from popular apps.