A critical New York Times report on Saturday suggested Apple culls screen time monitoring apps that compete similar first-party features built into iOS. In response, SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller said the titles in question abuse a device management technology designed for enterprise users.
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Apple is being praised for disrupting the credit card industry with its forthcoming Apple Card, but Amazon is already offering a lot of the same benefits — and you even get a metal credit card from them, too. AppleInsider breaks the two down.
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These top deals are back, but only while supplies last. Grab Apple’s latest MacBook Air for $999 after a $200 markdown, just in time for Mother’s Day. Or pick up a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for $1,499 after a $300 price drop. Meanwhile, Apple’s high-end 15-inch MacBook Pro is on sale for $2,299, a $500 discount and the lowest price ever recorded for the upgraded model.
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Apple has eliminated 11 of the 17 most popular screen time monitoring and parental control apps from the App Store, and has done so with increasing frequency since it launched its own monitoring tool, Screen Time, in iOS 12.
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Rumors suggest Apple’s iPhone XR follow-up will upgrade to a dual-lens rear camera in 2019, potentially delivering the company’s advanced photographic technology to an entry-level smartphone model for the first time.
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Apple was indeed in talks about potentially buying portions of Intel’s cellular modem business in order to speed up its own internal modem development, a report claimed on Friday.
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August on Friday announced a surprise halt to sales of its iPhone-connected, battery-powered View doorbell, saying it will return sometime “in the near future” after connectivity problems are solved.
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The AirPods are a now-iconic piece of tech that finally received a long-awaited update just weeks ago. AppleInsider has now spent a month jamming out to Apple’s wireless earbuds, to see if the upgrade truly was worth the wait.
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Many backpacks are roomy enough to carry MacBooks and iPads, but if you’re looking for something tougher we recently stumbled across 5.11’s lineup, including the AMP24.
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Renders of Apple’s alleged “iPhone XI” and “XI Max” designs compared to the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max don’t demonstrate a lot of design differences, other than that three-lens camera protrusion.
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