Apple has been granted 54 new patents by the USPTO, with one of those possibly paving the way for flexible screen technology to make its way into a future iPhone or iPad.
Apple has just dropped a number of new developer and public test seeds, with beta 5 of iOS 9.3, OS X 10.11.4, watchOS 2.2 and tvOS 9.2 all now available to download.
A new concern for Apple has come to light with experts suggesting the company could be looking at anything from heavy fines to jail time for CEO Tim Cook if it continues to deny the FBI's demands for backdoor access to the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.
In a separate iPhone unlocking case, a New York judge has ruled in favor of Apple, concluding that the U.S. Justice Department/FBI can't force Apple to hack its own iPhones to provide data based on All Writs Act.
Those familiar with Apple's dedicated app stores for Mac and iOS would know that the company simply needs an excuse to throw some quality paid apps at us for absolutely free. Given that today is February 29th, a day that comes around once every 4 years, Apple is giving away five paid iOS apps worth $15 for free through its "Leap Into Leap Year" promotion.
Apple is rumored to he hosting a media event in March next month to announce its next wave of products. Previously, it was reported that this event will take place on March 15th, with announced products being available for purchase almost immediately on March 18th. Now however it seems like that rumored March 15th event will instead take place in the week of March 21st, with Monday, March 21st itself being the most likely date for the event.
Rather than face the laborious process of having to defend itself against governmental requests and court orders once again, Apple is said to be looking internally at strengthening its cloud encryption in order to effectively make it impossible to comply with court requests for data in the future. A number of sources who are seemingly familiar with Apple's plans have suggested that the Cupertino-based company is assigning engineering resources to add encryption to iCloud backups in such a manner that it's impossible to comply with valid data requests from government agencies.
Trusted KGI analyst has shed light on 4-inch iPhone SE price, camera and other specs. Here are the details on it. Apple is expected to announce iPhone SE at its rumored media event in March.
As the Apple vs FBI iPhone unlocking case moves forward, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies have come together to support the company in court.
Apple has filed a motion to what it hopes will prevent it from creating "GovtOS" which will enable FBI access to an iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters. The motion filed claims that the court order to allow the FBI access to the aforementioned iPhone gives FBI "dangerous power" that breaches the company's constitutional First Amendment right to free speech.
