Apple celebrates Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Road to Halftime’

Kendrick Lamar is set to headline the Super Bowl LIX halftime show for Apple Music, so Apple has packed its services with special features related to Kendrick and the Super Bowl. Last September, Apple announced that Kendrick Lamar would be heading up the 2025 Super Bowl Half-Time show. In preparation, Apple Music has a week's…

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AirTag 2 rumors, Matter ice maker, & Logitech’s presence sensor

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, your host covers the latest news for the week including the release of iOS 18.3, AirTag 2 rumors, and a Matter update for the Govee ice maker. Last week, Apple released iOS 18.3 to the masses. While this was expected to include support for robots vacuum cleaners,…

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Top Discounts on Apple’s iMac: Offers starting at $599.99

Grab a 24-inch iMac from $599.99 today - Image credit: Apple Apple's 24-inch iMac is on sale today, with limited-time discounts driving prices down to as low as $599.99. New iMac discounts for FebruaryThe lowest price across closeout models can be found at Amazon-owned Woot, where the closeout M1 spec with 8GB of RAM and…

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iPhone 15 leads 2024 sales & boosts global smartphone revenue

Apple's iPhone 15 led global sales in 2024, with Pro models close behind, as premium device demand drove a revenue rebound. According to Counterpoint Research, global smartphone revenue grew 5% year-over-year, with the average selling price (ASP) reaching an all-time high of $356. Despite economic challenges in previous years, improved consumer sentiment and demand for…

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Apple fixes bug that stopped utilities making bootable backups

SuperDuper! app icon amidst hard drives and a Mac keyboard Mac utility app SuperDuper! will no longer always fail to make a bootable backup because of a bug in macOS Sequoia — but Apple's fix doesn't remove all problems. The newly-released macOS Sequoia 15.3 has corrected a problem that saw the SuperDuper! backup utility fail…

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25 years of Apple’s innovation with iPod

To celebrate 2025, I compiled Apple's top ten major areas of innovation over the past 25 years. Let's look at the decisions that led to this blockbuster success of the iPod and implications for new products today. The first segment discussed Apple's 2000 release of Mac OS X Public Beta, its most important innovation in…

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India prepares for Trump trade disruption by dropping taxes for manufacturers

Certain iPhone components including circuit boards and accessories such as chargers will no longer face import taxes in India as the country positions itself to weather changes in global trade. In 2024, the Indian government reduced its import taxes on chargers, printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and smartphones themselves, from 20% to 15%. That 5%…

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Grab AirPods 4 for $99, Apple Watch for $169 in Amazon’s latest Apple Sale

Amazon drops AirPods 4 to lowest price on record - Image credit: Apple Amazon's latest Apple deals provide bargain hunters with the lowest price on record for AirPods 4, along with 2025's best price on the Apple Watch SE 2. AirPods 4 plunge to $99Kicking off the sale is a stellar price drop on AirPods…

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Swift Build goes open source, cross-platform as of February 1

Apple has made the build system in its high-level programming language Swift — used by llbuild, the Swift Package Manager and Swift Playgrounds — officially open source. Apple formally contributed the code of Swift Build to GitHub on February 1. The repository contributed by Apple also includes support for Windows and Linux, alongside Apple's platforms.…

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