Apple’s ongoing practice of sherlocking, where it ‘gains inspiration’ from apps and utilities others have developed and added them as features into its own platforms, has been going on for…
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Apple Intelligence officially arrives in Australia
The release of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2 means users of Apple’s products will no longer need to change locale and language settings on their devices to…
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Apple’s recent product announcements are really all about selling Apple Intelligence
If you’ve been following the announcements made by Apple regarding the new products being released this week, you’ll note that the performance comparisons made by Apple regarding the M4’s performance…
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Thoughts on Apple Intelligence
It’s been a few months since WWDC 2024 and Apple’s announcement of its take on AI. As a long-time observer of Apple – I was a contributor and editor of…
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The CrowdStrike lesson – risk recognition, single points of failure and Zero Trust
It’s been a couple of months since the CrowdStrike incident occurred and the world is starting to resume some sort of normality after massive technology outage that was caused by…
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Apple is at a significant crossroad – which way will it turn?
The European Union’s recent regulatory ruling that opens the iPhone to greater competition, the legal issues that have hit the Apple Watch over its blood-oxygen measurement tech and the release…
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Health app showdown – Athlytic v Welltory
While the Apple Watch has many different use-cases that make it a great companion to the iPhone, one of its most powerful applications is as a health monitoring tool. With…
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Apple unveils the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards – AI is nowhere to be seen
Apple has unveiled the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards. The 14 apps and games that were included in this year’s winners include developers from across the world were…
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Blue vs Green – the battle for text message supremacy
In the green corner we have Android and the rest of the world. In the blue corner there’s Apple. The battle over text and rich messaging interoperability is in full…
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Zoom to stop support for old versions of macOS
Zoom, the videoconferencing system no-one had heard about until the pandemic, has announced that the most recent release is the last that will be updated for older versions of macOS….
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