At this point there can be no overstating Jony Ive's importance to Apple both in the hardware and software that it ships. Having previously been labelled as a Senior VP of Design, Ive is now Apple's first ever Chief Design Officer. More details on the news and the memo which Tim Cook sent to his team regarding this can be found right here.
New videos featuring Apple co-founder Steve Jobs don't pop up every day at this point, so when a new one does surface everyone tends to take note. That happened recently, and the video has the added bonus of featuring Steve Wozniak, too.
Anyone looking to order a new Mac may have to pay more for their new computer today than they did yesterday, after Apple increased the price of some of its machines in response to the Dollar's strong showing against the Euro.
Apple has released first ever Apple Watch software update, Watch OS 1.0.1, for download. Changelog, new features and how-to download info is detailed below.
Dubai is all set to become home to the world's largest Apple Store as the Cupertino giant looks to open its first brick and mortar retail outlet in the Middle East region. The store is slated to open in the next few months, with Mall of the Emirates being chosen as the roof for it.
The first official trailer of Aaron Sorkin's upcoming Steve Jobs biopic is out. The movie stars Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg in lead roles.
In this day and age online security and encryption is often at the forefront in the minds of those of us that all but live our lives on the Internet. We send so much information about us over the wires that we often forget that the mediums we use may not be as secure as we would hope. It’s a modern problem that isn’t going to go away.
Can you imagine what life would be like if smartphone based artificial intelligence actually evolved to the point where it could replace the maternal responsibilities of your mother? We already rely on our handheld devices for pretty much every aspect of our daily lives, from storing details about our friends and family to sending and receiving communications via email or social networks, and even getting us to a selected destination via turn-by-turn directions. But what if - and bare with us on this one - Apple's Siri digital assistant was actually your real life mother? Can you imagine how utterly ridiculous and confusing our life would be if that was so?
If you take a look back over some of the decisions made internally at Samsung over the last few years it's extremely difficult to argue in favour of the integrity of its design department. We will never truly know if the decision to blatantly copy the visuals of numerous Apple devices is made at the top of the corporate food-chain and then passed down to the individual departments, or if the design teams are so lacking in individuality that they take the easy option, but what we do know is that if this latest Galaxy S6 video is anything to go by the trend has managed to infiltrate the company's marketing departments as well.
When the Apple Watch was announced it was clear that it would suit particular use cases more than others, and it was hoped that developers would take that on board when creating applications for the new wearable. So far that hope has not always resulted in great apps landing on the App Store, but there are undoubtedly better than others. The best apps out there embrace what the Apple Watch is instead of trying to shoehorn an iPhone app onto your wrist.
















