OPINION: Apple this week shocked the tech world by finally conceding in a long-running battle between it and Android giant Google to bring RCS support to iPhones. It’s something Apple has refused to do for the past few years, but it’ll finally be coming to iPhones sometime in 2024. That’s great news for Android and … [Read more…]
The brand new Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the most premium smartwatch Apple has ever made and there’s already a sizeable discount ahead of the Black Friday sales. Best Buy is selling the Apple Watch Ultra 2 for $60 off, dropping the price to $739 from the asking price of $799. Save big on the … [Read more…]
Apple will adopt the RCS messaging standard in late 2024, the company has surprisingly revealed. In news that’ll delight competitors like Google, which has long campaigned for Apple to adapt RCS to level the messaging playing field, Apple says the move will unlock better interoperability between iPhone and Android users. In a statement, the Apple … [Read more…]
It can be hard work uncovering genuinely great deals on Apple devices, but this Black Friday iPhone 12 contract offer is a total bargain. The deal gets you an iPhone 12 on a 24 month Three contract with unlimited data for just £25 a month. There’s no up front fee either, so there really is … [Read more…]
Apple has extended its offer of free access to the Emergency SOS via satellite service for iPhone 14 users. When Apple launched the iPhone 14 range in late 2022, one of the main new features was the ability to contact emergency services when there’s no mobile or Wi-Fi signal, courtesy of satellite connectivity. While this … [Read more…]
It’s emerged that Google pays Apple a massive chunk of its advertising revenue from Safari web searches. Kevin Murphy, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, accidentally let slip that Google paid Apple a whopping 36% of any advertising revenue it earned from web searches through Apple’s own Safari web browser. As reported by … [Read more…]
Apple has been tipped to give its often-bashed Siri personal assistant a huge AI upgrade at WWDC 2024. According to tipster @Tech_Reve, Apple has been using a large language model (LLM) to “completely revamp Siri into the ultimate virtual assistant”. They go on to predict that the development of this new smarter Siri is well … [Read more…]
OPINION: Last week, Apple announced that it would be discontinuing its Apple Music Voice Plan in November, but could this point to a bigger problem than Siri’s skills as a digital assistant? It’s been just over two years since Apple introduced its Apple Music Voice Plan, a subscription tier of the company’s music streaming service … [Read more…]
During the iPhone 15 Pro launch event in September, Apple debuted a 3D video capture feature called Spatial Video, which the company claimed would unlock an immersive experience when viewed back on the forthcoming Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Using two of the three cameras, Spatial Video records record simultaneously to capture the footage in … [Read more…]
The Apple Watch Series 9 is the latest in the range and has only been out just over a month. However, that hasn’t stopped Amazon offering the first big discount. Ahead of the Black Friday sales, you can buy the Apple Watch 9 for just $379 which is a $50 saving on the $429 asking … [Read more…]