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Apple dials a ride to lower-cost Macs with A-series chips – Computerworld
What these Macs did well is likely what Apple envisions for the speculated upon new model. Think web browsing, casual Mac use, access to web services, writing, reading, Apple Music and iCloud. It also likely means Apple Intelligence, access to cloud-based AI and almost certainly movies, light image editing, and so forth. It won’t be the Mac you use for anything…
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Google Calendar is now on the Apple Watch
Apple’s native calendar app on watchOS includes customization options that let you see alternate views, like a week summary and a full month. But the Google Calendar app only shows a week’s worth of events on your Apple Watch with their time and location, as well as Google Tasks in a simple list view showing the day of the week…
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Google Calendar Now Works Better With Your Apple Watch
Google has released a dedicated Google Calendar app for the Apple Watch, but it’s a lot simpler than you’d think. It’s going to be easy to use and read, and will have pretty basic features, and it will sync to your Google Calendar. This new app on the Apple Watch Store was included as part of version 25.24.1 of the…
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Apple changes EU App Store rules, but will fight Europe’s demands – Computerworld
Malicious compliance But there is still a problem; Apple says that even though it’s been meeting intensively with European Commission regulators for more than a year, the experience has been a frustrating one. Regulators have continuously moved the goalposts on what compliance looks like. The company complains that they have even prevented Apple from implementing new solutions to bring its…
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Apple Wants to Make Android Apps Better, With Swift
Summary Swift is extending to Android, with a new group to facilitate official support and better integration with Android OS. The Android Working Group aims to eliminate unofficial versions of Swift, enhance core packages, and define Android support. This move could facilitate easier app porting from iOS to Android but still requires further development and testing. There are stark differences…
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Apple overhauls EU App Store rules following penalty
Apple has introduced new App Store changes in the EU in an attempt to avoid being further penalized under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Thursday, the company announced a new tier system for its Store Services fee that’s applied to purchases made outside apps, and it will only give developers access to the full set of App…
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Apple should Sherlock SAP’s open-source energy management app – Computerworld
When it comes to managed fleets, IT can poll this data from across their devices to gain excellent oversights into energy use. If you’re running a business that uses dozens, hundreds, or thousands of Macs, you’ll already know that this information can tangibly help manage costs. It’s the kind of information any graduate of the Apple-supported Clean Energy Procurement Academy needs…
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Get a free iPad and Apple Watch with your iPhone 16 purchase at Verizon — here’s how to get yours
With 4th of July sales around the corner, now is an excellent time to save big. For example, here’s one deal that gets you two of my favorite Apple devices for free. For a limited time, Verizon is offering a free iPad (A16) or Apple Watch 10 with your iPhone 16 Pro. Additionally, new customers can get the iPhone 16…
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Malware on Google Play, Apple App Store stole your photos—and crypto
A new mobile crypto-stealing malware called SparkKitty was found in apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store, targeting Android and iOS devices. The malware is a possible evolution of SparkCat, which Kaspersky discovered in January. SparkCat used optical character recognition (OCR) to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from images saved on infected devices. When installing crypto wallets, the…
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Has Apple become addicted to ‘No’? – Computerworld
It is also worth thinking about retention at this point. Keep them keen Several pieces by Mark Gurman in recent years tell us that in many cases, people Apple has hired on the purchase of their companies have subsequently jumped ship, as they did not find their happiness. If that is the case, that’s a problem that needs to be fixed;…
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