• Neowin

    Apple worked for years to make Apple Watch compatible with Android, says report

    Apple reportedly spent a few years trying to make the Apple Watch compatible with Android. The information comes after the Justice Department sued the company for monopolizing smartphone markets.

  • Apple pursuing ways to launch TV+ and more in China, report says

    Over the weekend, Tim Cook confirmed that Apple Vision Pro will launch in China later this year. The Information now reports that Apple has reached a key deal with Tencent to make a number of China’s most popular apps available on Vision Pro. The report also makes mention that Apple is “pursuing” ways to launch its own content services, like Apple TV+, in China. more

  • Apple scraps plan to design watch displays in-house: report

    Apple is winding down a project to design and develop its own smartwatch displays, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The plan was shelved due to high costs and complexity, and Apple is now reorganizing the teams that handled display engineering and eliminating several dozen roles in the United States and Asia, according to the report. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

  • Apple to launch a new, 'mid-tier' version of AirPods, report claims

    Apple is working on two new versions of AirPods this year, with one of them being an entirely new, mid-tier model.

  • Third-party Apple TV remotes no longer working for some after tvOS 17.4 update

    The bug reports keep piling up after Apple's last batch of updates -- and the Apple TV hardware is suffering from a bug that stops third-party remotes from working. Apple TV 4K Earlier, it was learned that macOS Sonoma 14.4 had rendered some USB hubs embedded in monitors useless. A few days later, users discovered that the same update was removing drivers needed to interface with printers. Apple rolled out tvOS 17.4 in early March, and for the most part was a standard bug-fixing,...

    • VG247

    It sounds like Xbox wants a piece of the Nintendo Switch pie, as a new report claims that it's working on a "fully native" handheld

    Where PlayStation opted for the cloud-based handheld route, a new report is claiming the Xbox is prototyping a native handheld. Last year, in a clear attempt to tap into some of what Nintendo is offering with the Switch, Sony released the PlayStation Portal, a weird little cloud-based handheld for everyone and no one. While plenty have their hang-ups over the handheld's inconsistent stability due to its reliance on a good internet connection, it has done quite well overall, so clearly it's a...

  • Russell Wilson gets to work as new Steelers QB practices throw and carries out speed drills in offseason workout amid reports claiming Pittsburgh will discard him if Justin Fields becomes starter

    Wilson signed a one-year, $1.2million contract with the Steelers last Friday after he was released by the Denver Broncos, which brought an end to his miserable two-year stint with the organization.

  • Apple tried to make Apple Watch work with Android

    Apple tried to make Apple Watch work with Android devices, the company admitted, but ultimately gave up on the idea.

  • Apple @ Work Podcast: A brief history of the Mac at work

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    • GQ

    How Apple TV+ Cornered the Market on “Prestige Dad TV”

    Masters of the Air, the miniseries about young, shearling-clad World War II fighter pilots, felt familiar at first. Or, as we put it in GQ: “Masters of the Air Is Band of Brothers With Planes and Everyone Is in It.” Let’s parse this. Yes, everyone is in it (Austin Butler, Callum Turner, and Barry Keoghan, at least). As for the “Band of Brothers With Planes” part: Masters of the Air is an installment in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s WWII extended universe, which began with Brothers in 2001 and...

  • Apple tried to make the Apple Watch work with Android phones

    After the US Department of Justice launched a lawsuit against Apple, arguing that the company has maintained illegal monopoly over the smartphone market and some related services, the Cupertino-based firm came out with a surprising story. For years now, one of the main criticisms against Apple has been its walled garden approach, which makes it extremely difficult or impossible to use its devices with other non-Apple products. However, it appears that the tech company tried to make its Apple...

  • Apple worked on Android compatibility for the Apple Watch for three years before abandoning the project

    On Thursday, Apple responded to the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit, saying it "threatens" the company's customer base. The suit targets the iPhone and Apple Watch while roping in other aspects of the tech giant's business, including advertising, browsers, FaceTime, and News services. Apple promises to defend itself against a legalRead Entire Article