Clicks Keyboard review: trading speed for well-made nostalgia

The Clicks Keyboard for iPhone will either be an amazing nostalgia trip that forces you to slow down and think, or it will be a finger trap of typing torment. Either way, it's a well-executed product. I want to get this out of the way at the top — Clicks is awesome. However, it is…

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Apple Stores fill with customers trying out the iPhone 16

A visitor to Apple Jing'an, Shanghai, trying out an iPhone 16 As the new hardware lineup becomes available in Apple Stores around the world, Apple has shared images of customers trying out the iPhone 16 and other products for the first time. Following the introduction at retail, Apple has started to share photographs of customers…

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Samsung mocks Apple design in a painfully awkward ripoff ad

Notice the lowercase word "different", with a period, and in what appears to be the Garamond font Samsung is now mocking Apple over a perceived lack of new designs for the iPhone, and doing it with a nod to the famous "Think Different" ads — as well as doing it despite a lack of new…

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Podcast #791 – Ryzen 9000 Gets Better, Intel Spinning Off Fab Business, new AGESA, bye 4090, and Too Much “ai” News

Get in fans, we're doing a bunch of AI stories!  And AMD freshens up AGESA (again), Intel splits off foundry ... we have have an Xbox fridge and so many Security stories! … Source

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Unboxing the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10

Unboxing the iPhone 16 Pro Max Apple's iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10 are larger devices — but they seem to come in smaller packages every year. Let's see if Apple's Journal app picks up on today's unboxing and recommends an entry about it. While in every case it is the device…

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What to do when you can’t open an app you just installed in macOS Sequoia

In macOS Sequoia, Apple has added another stumbling block to launching software that has not gone through Apple’s baseline vetting process for apps. Generally, this can be a good thing, preventing naive users from accidentally installing malware or privacy-invading software. However, for users who rely on software created by people who don’t work within the…

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Diving in to iPhone 16 and Apple Watch on the AppleInsider Podcast

Both the new iPhone 16 range and the Apple Watch Series 10 have been described as merely incremental updates, but in practice there is such a lot more to them, even before Apple Intelligence arrives. The perceived wisdom is that the iPhone 16 range is not complete until Apple Intelligence arrives — and that is…

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iPhone 16 goes on sale, Tim Cook opens Fifth Avenue store

Tim Cook poses for selfies with fans | Image Credit: CNBC Friday marks the start of iPhone 16 sales in retail locations, and as is tradition, Apple CEO Tim Cook was at the flagship Fifth Avenue store to kick off the sales. Crowds gathered at Apple Stores worldwide as they started selling the iPhone 16…

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