Tag: apple

  • Apple Services Event March 2019 Notes

    Apple opened yesterday’s event at the Steve Jobs theater in Cupertino with a 1960’s-style movie credits animation that paid homage to previously successful products their people have created. The iPod, the iPhone, the Mac, all great things but an odd thing to reference for an all-services event. Tim Cook came on stage to introduce the notion…

  • New AirPods

    Updated AirPods are finally available. Announced way back in 2017, alongside the still absent AirPower oval charging mat. Apple says the 2nd generation of AirPods have a new H1 SOC that replaces the W1 chip in the first generation, faster connection times, support the “Hey Siri” wakeword/hotword without having your iPhone out, and have longer battery…

  • New (old) iMac Day

    Well, not as old as yesterday’s iPads. But the non-pro iMac finally received an update to its internals after a little more than a year and a half. This update was also delivered via press-release, ahead of Apple’s upcoming press event on the 25th which is rumored to be exclusively about their video streaming service.…

  • It’s New (Old) iPad Day

    If you don’t want to waste time at an upcoming event by talking about updates to old products that nobody will think about for too long, you do it in a press release. As rumored, that’s what Apple has done with this press-release update to their iPad lineup. The iPad Mini has been updated for the first…

  • Musish is Better Than iTunes for Apple Music on Windows, Linux, and macOS

    If you use Apple Music, the streaming music service from Apple that gives artists pennies instead of dollars, and want to listen on your computer, Musish is open source, runs in your web browser, and a much better alternative to running the full desktop iTunes instance if you don’t need to listen to a locally-stored…