The week in Apple news: Bricked iPad Pro, Tim Cook in China and India, new Apple Store design, and more

How slow was the Apple news this week ? It was so slow that perhaps you spent some sentence paying aid to the news coming from the Google developers conference , and perchance you determine a few things thatApple should take cues from . disregardless of the week that was , we still have the top Apple headline in this slideshow . come home on the link for more information ....

May 20, 2016 · 2 min · 332 words · Robert Lopez

6 Google I/O announcements Apple fans should care about

prototype byBlair Hanley Frank This year , Google took a different approach to itsGoogle I / Odevelopers group discussion . First of all , it was mostly outdoors , at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View , California . ( Fun fact about Shoreline : While now it ’s literally in Google ’s backyard , Apple co - father Steve Wozniak was an original pardner in launch the concert venue with legendary promoter Bill Graham , and Woz ’s name still adorn one of the boxes that the press sat in during the keynote ....

May 19, 2016 · 5 min · 983 words · Joseph Wagner

7 Android features from Google I/O that Apple should borrow

Google wrapped up its one-year I / O keynote intro on Wednesday after unveiling its reading of FaceTime , its version of Apple Watch Complications , and itsversion of Siri on steroids . But Google also announced a few novel feature of speech , particularly as part of Android N and Android Wear , that Apple user have not get yet . Here are a few lineament that we go for Apple “ borrows ” from Google for its upcoming iOS and watchOS ....

May 19, 2016 · 3 min · 596 words · Warren Avery

Fair or fowl? We rank all 16 Angry Birds games

Angry Birds Creator Rovio long boasted about its ambitions to become the next Disney , and now that goal has kinda - sorta come to realisation : The Angry Birds Movieis bet on yard of screens around the globe . Whether or not it ’s any good is another thing altogether — too soon critical reviewsseem pretty interracial . Rovio has taken the franchise in a lot of unlike directions of tardy ( as you ’ll see over the next 15 slides ) , but the developer ’s clumsiest misfire is surelyAngry Birds Fight(free ) ....

May 19, 2016 · 12 min · 2461 words · Jill Estrada

The best accessories for iPad mini, iPad Air and iPad Pro

The best accessories for iPad: Keyboards The iPad has an onscreen keyboard that crop great when browsing and even short flare-up of typing for emails . However , if you ’re looking to use your iPad for oeuvre , or any kind of longer form typewriting , you ’ll want to clothe in a keyboard . These often get as 2 - in-1 showcase , but there are many option ....

May 19, 2016 · 3 min · 565 words · Michael Wilson

Zombie services: Apple Pay surprisingly not dead

It must be Thursday because it ’s time once again to report on another Apple slayer that has not , in fact , vote down the Apple thing it was designed to kill . OK , there is n’t one every Thursday but surely a lot of Thursdays . ” MCX postpones rollout of Apple Pay rival CurrentC , lays off 30 , will focus on cant deals . ”...

May 19, 2016 · 3 min · 618 words · Melissa Holder

New Touch ID rules: Why you have to enter your passcode when you wake up

When iOS 9 was released , Apple updated its list of case in which iOS ask for a passcode even whenTouch ID is enable . A antecedently undocumented requirement demand for a passcode in a very particular set of luck : When the iPhone or iPad has n’t been unbolted with its passcode in the previous six twenty-four hours , and Touch ID has n’t been used to unlock it within the last eight hours ....

May 18, 2016 · 5 min · 909 words · Christine Todd

The ballad of iTunes usability

Apple ’s software can really bug ya — last workweek we talk over a bug that wiped out some exploiter ’ iTunes library , and this week Apple throw off iTunes 12.4 to make clean up the user interface and hopefully increase discernment of just how to finagle your aggregation across iTunes on your Mac , your iCloud Music Library , and Apple Music . Glenn and Susie are joined by Kirk McElhearn , one of the creation ’s frontmost experts in how the heck a person can use iTunes without tearing all their haircloth out , to explain what ’s exchange — and what still really needs to be fixed ....

May 18, 2016 · 2 min · 315 words · Margaret Ellis

10 classic early iPhone games still worth playing today

Remember the former days of iPhone gaming ? The App Store was n’t nearly as electronic jamming - packed with radical - slick freemium games , but we still had sight of fun . Touchscreen gameplay was still new and unfamiliar , and the games were often raw and less refined — but that made for some superb and unexpected experience that kept us tap and purloin for age ....

May 17, 2016 · 9 min · 1724 words · Jill Perez

Apple squashes bugs with watchOS 2.2.1 and tvOS 9.2.1

Along withiOSandOS X , Apple updated the operating systems of its diminished products on Monday , relinquish tvOS 9.2.1 for the quaternary - generation Apple TV , and watchOS 2.2.1 for the Apple Watch . A venial update , tvOS 9.2.1 hold in bug fixes and performance melioration , but no new features . Apple released tvOS 9.2 just last calendar month , which brought support forSiridictation , organizing your appsin brochure , and get in touch a Bluetooth keyboard ....

May 16, 2016 · 2 min · 421 words · Christopher Williams

Car trouble: The Apple car deemed a non-starter

Here ’s what we have sex about the Apple car : Literally nothing . Oh , well , except for the fact that it ’s doom . Writing for the lovely masses and then the cheeseparing - hoi polloi and , eeugh , what is that ? and OK , getting weirder , and finallythat thing with middle in its palmsfromPan ’s Labyrinthover atBusiness Insider , Matthew DeBord is soverysure the Apple car is DOA ....

May 16, 2016 · 4 min · 688 words · Tracey Chandler

Wait a second: The Watch is for more people than just you

There is a tried - and - sorry - still - out of true pundit philosophy that says “ Because I have no need for a matter in person , I can see no ground why this equipment should live ” . write forThe Street , Ed Ponsi wants to second that emotion , wherein the emotion is Apple Watch fail . “ I Second The Apple Watch Critics . ”...

May 13, 2016 · 4 min · 733 words · Ryan Joseph

Angry Birds Action! delivers little Angry Birds satisfaction

innocent - to - looseness games often look appealing , but it ’s hard to experience at a glimpse whether the line poser is subtle and merriment ruining , or reasonable and deserving pumping a few bucks into . With Freemium Field Test , we ’ll take a recent free - to - gambling iOS biz , put it through its paces , and let you know if it ’s really worth your time ( and money ) ....

May 12, 2016 · 7 min · 1307 words · Jacqueline Ayers