In addition to the Apple Watch being made available in 7 countries today, the company has also confirmed via marketing material updates on a number of its country specific websites that the device will be coming to The Netherlands, Thailand and Sweden on July 17.
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The introduction of iOS 9 brought with it a number of feature additions and much-longed for functionality improvements. Rather than reinventing the wheel and attempting to serve up a whole new set of core features, iOS 9 exists as more of a stepping stone for what is to come and attempts to stabilize its core offering with a number of stability improvements that should make the whole experience more pleasurable across all devices. iOS 9 does however, introduce one very impressive little feature that should make a difference to a lot of users - Low Power Mode, which is designed to save battery life by reducing the performance of the device and preventing consistent background activity.
With Apple continuing to expand and push the capabilities of its HomeKit framework / program to developers and hardware manufacturers alike, it's inevitable that multiple new pieces of hardware will start to hit the market in the coming months. That can actually only be a good thing as we well and truly enter into the "Internet of Things" era, and will serve to offer serious choice for consumers as they embark on an iOS controlled home automation revolution. The recently announced Twist is yet another smart accessory, but one that hasn't yet jumped on the HomeKit bandwagon, choosing instead to rely on an Internet connection and Apple's AirPlay protocol.
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The Apple Watch seems to be the latest plaything of choice for developers and tinkerers looking to get to grips with something new and intriguing. We've already witnessed prominent developers and community figureheads like Adam Bell, Hamza Sood and Steve Troughton-Smith hacking Apple's smartwatch to run truly native apps. Now it appears to be the turn of developer Nick Lee, who has chosen to use his Apple Watch to run an operating system that was first released for the Macintosh nearly two decades ago.
iOS 9 beta 2 download for compatible iPhone, iPad, iPod touch devices has just been released and is available to registered Apple Developer Program members. The first beta was released immediately after the WWDC 2015 opening keynote two weeks ago.
The basic hardware design pattern of the iPhone has remained fairly consistent since 2007. The current-generation iPhone is visually miles ahead from the original, but the actual physical makeup of the hardware carries all the general pieces of the debuting device - such as the volume, sleep / wake, Home button, albeit in different locations. With that said, things could all change as we move into the future, as it’s being reported that Apple is internally working on a number of future iPhone designs that would see the iconic Home button being removed for good.
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It seems that the Apple Watch has impacted more than just the lives of those who have thus far chosen to integrate the watch into their everyday lives. The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, or the FSWI if that's too much of a mouthful, has today reported that exports of Swiss made timepieces has fallen for the first time in six years. Strangely enough, the significant reduction in exports, for the first time since 2009, coincides perfectly with the release of the Cupertino company's watchOS powered timepiece.
After discovering a number of faulty 3TB hard drives used in certain 27-inch iMac computers, Apple has announced a replacement program that will see potentially broken components swapped out for new ones. The Cupertino company, which has published a support page for this very issue, has confirmed that specific 3TB hard drives "may fail under certain conditions," and that the issue affects certain 27-inch iMac models sold between December 2012 and September 2013.















