Apple Pay has been coming "soon" to Mexico for what feels like all of 2020. But it may actually be about to happen.
A video shows off which banks may support Apple Pay in Mexico ahead of official launch
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iOS 15 concept imagines interactive widgets, Split View multitasking on iPhone & more
There's no shortage of various renderings and mockups attempting to envision goodies that Apple's next major iOS software update might deliver. But this one that I just stumbled upon on YouTube by French creator "the Hacker 34" ticks many boxes without the kind of exaggeration or sci-fi stuff that other artists envision that you know will never see the light of day.
Apple seeds third betas of iOS 14.3, iPadOS 14.3, tvOS 14.3, and watchOS 7.2 and to developers
Apple welcomed the first beta of iOS 14.3 in November. Now, the company continues to move forward towards the public update with yet another beta.
Telegram’s new beta supports Announce Messages with Siri and AirPods
While Apple made it possible for developers to access "Announce Messages with Siri", it's still not readily available in third-party apps. But it looks like the tide might be changing, at least a little.
Video: virtualizing Windows 10 on ARM using an M1-powered Mac mini and a little bit of trickery
While we're waiting for Windows virtualization solutions from the likes of Parallels, Docker and others, 19-year-old YouTube producer and checkra1n tinkerer Martin Nobel jumped through hoops to virtualize the ARM edition of Windows 10 on Apple's new Mac mini with the M1 chip.
Apple reopens 32 stores in England, resumes the iPhone Upgrade Program
England entered a four-week national lockdown on November 5, but now shoppers are returning to stores under the country's new tier system after non-essential retailers such as Apple have reopened their doors. The Cupertino company has reopened all of the 32 stores it operates in the country and has allowed the iPhone Upgrade Program to resume.
Kuo: Two redesigned MacBook Pros in 2021, a more affordable MacBook Air in 2022
Apple is predicted to release a pair of new MacBook Pro notebooks in 2021 featuring an overhauled appearance, with a more affordable MacBook Air model to follow in 2022. All models are expected to use Apple's own chips and the rumored mini-LED backlighting tech.
Look back at your listening habits over the year with Spotify Wrapped 2020
Spotify today announced its annual Wrapped feature, highlighting the music you've been listening to on the service over the year. With Spotify's year-in-review roundup, you can easily see your most listened to songs, artists and albums over the last eleven months in the Spotify app, in a Stories-style format.
Apple finally brings FaceTime Video in 1080p resolution over Wi-Fi to older iPhones
Although Apple's official release notes for the iOS 14.2 software make no mention of any significant FaceTime improvements, Brazilian blog MacMagazine has managed to discover that the update enables support for FaceTime video calling in crisp 1080p resolution (1,920-by-1,080 pixels) over Wi-Fi on all iPhone models from the iPhone 8 onward.
Here’s Apple’s physical App Store Best Of award, inspired by the signature blue App Store icon
Apple today celebrated fifteen of the App Store apps and games for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch devices that inspired the world in 2020. And in doing so, it also introduced a physical award in form of an ‌App Store‌ icon made from 100 percent recycled aluminum, with the winner’s name engraved on the other side.
Chimera jailbreak updated to v1.5, supports up to iOS 12.4.9 & adds Procursus bootstrap
As iOS 12-using jailbreakers might recall, the Chimera Team issued a new public beta of its Chimera jailbreak tool earlier this week with Procursus bootstrap and full libhooker tweak injection integration and a plethora of backported improvements from the iOS & iPadOS 13-centric Odyssey jailbreak tool.
Early Wednesday morning, however, the Odyssey Team took to Twitter to announce that Chimera version 1.5 had been officially released to the general public without the ‘beta’ asterisk attached to the name:
Apple unveils the best and most downloaded App Store apps and games of 2020
Following its picks for the best books, audiobooks and podcasts of 2020, Apple today unveiled this year's top 20 most downloaded apps and games across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch, as well as its picks for the best titles across those platforms.