We're now just three days away from the iPhone 6 announcement that we've all been counting down to, and with leaks upon leaks already having spoiled some aspects of the big unveiling, one feature that we're still largely in the dark about it mobile payments.
Apple's design team may be second to none when it comes to constantly dreaming up gorgeous computers and portables, but that doesn't mean that even Jony Ive's team can't be improved upon. That's presumably why Apple has snapped up design genius and Ive's friend Marc Newson.
The security of Apple's iCloud servers has had some considerable focus of late after a host of celebrities had their accounts raided and personal, intimate photos of them distributed online. After initially appearing to have been hacked, iCloud suffered quite the bloody nose over the incident.
We're now less than five days from the grand unveiling of Apple's major new releases, including the company's inaugural smartwatch. Although we've a pile of info regarding the also-impending iPhone 6, the mere fact that the iWatch hasn't apparently gone into production as yet means that details have been incredibly scarce. Still, with announcement day now imminent, tidbits of info appear to be slipping through the next, and while Ming-Chi Kuo revealed earlier today that the device may include 8GB of storage and 512MB RAM, another reliable source has dropped some information pertaining to the device's other major features.
Apple's iWatch is expected to take the smartwatch world by storm when it's announced next week, and although it likely won't begin shipping until early next year, the Cupertino company clearly wants to ensure that its first major wearable is among the competition as smartwatches go mainstream. Jony Ive, Apple's lead designer, is naturally quite excited about the prospect of the iWatch hitting the market, and as quoted by a fellow member of the design team inside Cupertino, has jokingly suggested that Switzerland "is in trouble."
Next week, Apple will take to the stage at the Flint Center for Performing Arts in Cupertino where it is likely to announce the iPhone 6, iWatch, and according to a well-respected analyst, the second-generation iPad Air. The iPhone keynote is regularly beamed live across the world through a variety of different mediums, and with less than five days to go now until the curtains are pulled up, Apple has announced the official live streaming options for those wishing to tune in to the action.
As well as noting that the iPad Air 2 may arrive next week as opposed to the usual October launch, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has also shared some details on the iWatch. It emerged just prior to Apple sending out the September 9th invitations that the company's elusive smartwatch would be showcased alongside the iPhone 6, and although, as has already been disclosed, Kuo believes two separate iWatch variants are in store, he's also divulged a few key tech. specs as well.
We're inching closer and closer to Apple's big iPhone unveiling on the 9th of this month and while there's little doubt what we will be treated to product-wise, questions still swirl around what Apple is up to with a new structure that it is building at the Flint Center at De Anza College in Cupertino.
This week's headlines have been dominated by yet another incident regarding the compromising of mobile devices, with several celebrities and news outlets having outlined Apple's iCloud as the wrongdoer in this particular sequence of events. But while, after an internal investigation, the Cupertino company has since stepped out and inferred that private photos wouldn't have leaked out if two-step verification were present, one reporter has done a little digging of his own, and found that in certain pockets of the Web, folks are using law enforcement tools to snatch iCloud backups of unwitting victims.
Concept designs are a wonderful thing, and they always will be. Not only do they do good for our own imaginations, but often suggest creative ways of doing things to product manufacturers as well. That’s one of the primary reasons they get maximum exposure from tech blogosphere as well, and that makes certain concept artists really famous too.
















