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Apple Rolls Out Third Beta for iOS 10
July 19, 2016

They say behind every successful man is a woman — just like they say behind every successful product launch is a long line of software beta releases that got the kinks out of the way before public release. Apple stands by the latter claim at...

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Daily Data Dive: Apple’s Shrinking Marketshare
July 18, 2016

Though Apple probably didn’t need much in the way of more bad news, more ill tidings have come to call — nonetheless in the form of Kantar Worldpanel’s latest figures that indicate that Apple’s iPhone 6s/6s Plus did worse than Samsung’s equivalent Galaxy S7/S7 Edge in...

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Stats Prove Older iPhones Reign Supreme
July 12, 2016

Here’s some good news for Apple: Lots of its customers are poised for an upgrade just as the iPhone 7 is expected to hit store shelves this fall. Piper Jaffray Analyst Gene Munster polled 400 U.S.-based iPhone users and found 67.3 percent own an iPhone...

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Will The Brexit Take A Bite Out Of Apple?
July 07, 2016

Adding to Apple’s recent woes are mounting concerns that the looming exit of the U.K. from the E.U. will have a rather unfortunate effect on Apple’s bottom line. Wall Street has already dialed down its expectations for iPhone sales when Apple announces its Q2 earnings...

Apple’s Spotify Subscription Rules Spat
July 04, 2016

Tech giant Apple has issued a heated three-page response to a letter from streaming music company Spotify which had accused Apple of putting in place App Store policies that are ‘anticompetitive.’ Spotify had sent the ‘anticompetitive’ accusation letter to Apple earlier last week, after Apple...

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iMessage Is Opening Up For Square Cash Users (Soon)
June 14, 2016

Coming soon to an iPhone near you (literally, most likely to the one in your hand that you are reading this on right now) — Square Cash, via Apple‘s iMessage service. As part and parcel of the announcements out of WWDC yesterday (June 13), Square...

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Why The Experts Can’t Seem To Agree On WWDC
June 14, 2016

Apple has almost always been a company that has elicited strong feelings — from customers, from non-customers, from tech journalists. Until recently, those feelings were more or less positive and mostly based in adulation. Of late, with falling hardware sales and its air of invincibility...

Live Coverage of WWDC 2016
June 13, 2016

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 16) kicks off today, June 13, at 10 a.m. PST. PYMNTS will be following along to provide live coverage of the announcements to learn what Apple might reveal about Apple Pay, the App Store’s new Subscription model and more. Follow...

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What Apple Didn’t Tell You Last Week
June 13, 2016

This piece will give you important insight that hasn’t been covered about Apple’s developer announcement last week. So, keep reading. I promise it will be worth it. But we have to get into the right frame of mind – and for that we must first...