Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo. Apple Apple’s Vision Pro headset went on sale outside the United States for the first time today, in the…
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Apple’s “Longevity, by Design” argues its huge scale affects its repair polices
Enlarge / Apple has a lot to say about the third-party battery market in “Longevity, by Design,” specifically about how many batteries fail to meet testing standards. Apple Earlier this week, Apple…
Apple rejects PC emulators on the iOS App Store
Enlarge / Don’t get your hopes up—this iOS version of Doom was ported from open source code, not run via a classic PC emulator. Earlier this year, Apple started officially allowing “retro…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. Samuel Axon OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all users…
iOS 18’s drive-formatting option shows how far iPhones have come for power users
Enlarge / The 2024 iPad Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has added the ability to format external drives in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, the major software updates for iPhones and iPads due…
Apple Intelligence and other features won’t launch in the EU this year
Enlarge / Features like Image Playground won’t arrive in Europe at the same time as other regions. Apple Three major features in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will not be available to…
Apple’s new Vision Pro software offers an ultrawide virtual Mac monitor
Enlarge / A Mac virtual monitor in visionOS 2. Samuel Axon CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple kicked off the keynote for its annual developer conference by announcing a new version of visionOS, the operating system…
MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades
Aurich Lawson As the Intel Mac era has wound down over the last couple of years, we’ve been painstakingly tracking the amount of software support that each outgoing model is getting. We…
Apple abruptly abandons “buy now, pay later” service amid regulatory scrutiny
Apple has abruptly discontinued its “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) service, Apple Pay Later, which turned Apple into a money lender when it launched last March in the US and became widely…
Reports: Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper
Samuel Axon A report by tech news site The Information suggests that Apple is shifting its augmented reality priorities. The next high-end version of the Vision Pro has purportedly been canceled while…