Sam Henri Gold last week wrote about the difference between advice from tech reviewers and real-world usage of our devices.

He rejected arguments by reviewers saying that the MacBook Neo is not the right machine for those wanting to do things like video editing, and a new test backs his view …

Gold reminisced about his childhood video editing on a hand-me-down Mac.

I was running Final Cut Pro X on a 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB RAM and 120GB of spinning

We noted yesterday that Apple’s 50th anniversary celebrations, which began in New York , were moving on to China . CEO Tim Cook was spotted at a celebratory event in Chengdu.

Unfortunately for the company, the party atmosphere has been rather dampened by a dispute with the Chinese government …

Pressure on Apple started ahead of the visit, with the iPhone maker announcing last week that it was reducing its standard commission on App Store purchases from 30% to 25% in mainland China. The company said at

Ikea smart home products have long been the preferred choice of those who want to begin or expand a smart home at an affordable price. The company’s use of physical remotes also simplified the process for those new to the technology.

But when the company expanded its lineup with some budget Matter-over-Thread devices, things rather quickly headed south – with Apple Home users among those affected …

We saw a growing number of complaints from frustrated users who were often unable to even add the devices to their smart home networks

Apple just released the first two episodes of its new psychological thriller starring Kerry Washington ( ), Elisabeth Moss ( ), and Kate Mara ( ). Here’s what to expect from the limited series.

For the past few weeks, Apple has been promoting with events including a Today at Apple session at Apple The Grove, and a gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, both in Los Angeles.

The show, which also stars Corey Stoll ( ), Leslie Odom Jr. ( ), Sheryl Lee Ralph

In an interesting test, DuckDB’s Gábor Szárnyas compared the 512GB with a range of cloud servers to see how Apple’s new entry-level laptop performs on heavy database workloads. Here’s how it did.

In a blog post titled (via ), Szárnyas describes how he benchmarked the using two benchmarks: ClickBench and TPC-DS:

ClickBench has 43 queries that focus on aggregation and filtering operations. The operations run on a single wide table with 1

When Apple removed the free music streaming app Musi from the App Store in 2024, the developers sued . This week, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice in what might become a landmark case related to App Store delistings. Here are the details.

As , US District Judge Eumi Lee in the Northern District of California dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit Musi Inc. brought against Apple in 2024.

In a nutshell, Musi was a free streaming music app that pulled songs from YouTube, and

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As , Apple’s hardware chief for home devices, Brian Lynch, is leaving the company to join smart ring maker Oura. Here are the details.

According to Bloomberg , Lynch’s departure is another setback for Apple’s smart home initiative, which recently made headlines after the company reportedly delayed its long-awaited smart display to as early as September.

From today’s :

Brian Lynch, who has been Apple’s senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, has joined the

Following a few weeks of testing, WhatsApp is officially rolling out the new profile tab to iOS users. Here are the details.

Last month, that the TestFlight beta of WhatsApp replaced the Settings tab in the bottom right corner of the interface with a new tab called You.

At the time, the report explained that the new tab opened a redesigned profile settings page and used the user’s profile photo as its icon, instead of the usual stylized gear.