VisionOS could be the sleeper hit of WWDC (but probably won’t)

Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch…

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Apple Watch, AirPods dominate wearables market

Apple Watch Series 9 Apple continues to top the wearables market, but it has lost some ground with Apple Watch and AirPods shipments declining year-on-year. The Apple Watch and AirPods lines are hugely popular in the wearables category of products. Thanks to continued demand, Apple is still top of the food chain in the market,…

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Apple’s App Store beats Google Play in Q1 2024 revenue

App Store icon on an iPhone Apple is continuing to thrash Google in customer app spending, with iPhone owners outspending Android counterparts. Over the years, Apple has continued to enjoy a lead on Google when it comes to consumer spending on apps. In Sensor Tower's Digital Market Index Report for the first quarter of 2024,…

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Apple’s been hiding Thread in its iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs

New iPad Air Apple seems to be on the cusp of incorporating Thread in many of its new products without having officially listing it in the product specs yet. In 2020, Apple released its first Thread-enabled device, the HomePod mini, and similarly has been introduced in both the HomePod 2 and new Apple TV models.…

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Bartender app’s new owner has burnt years of good-will with a lack of transparency

Bartender on Setapp Popular app Bartender was quietly bought, and a shady certificate replacement, insertion of invasive telemetry, and a lack of transparent responses by the new owners has shaken confidence in the Mac community Menu bar organization tool Bartender has been around for a long time. For most of its life, it had an…

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Save triple digits on this loaded M3 MacBook Air

Article Hero Image In stock with free 2-day shipping, Apple's latest MacBook Air is on sale, with bonus savings on AppleCare. Grab the M3 model with 24GB RAM and a 1TB SSD for a fraction of the retail cost. We're tracking a triple-digit discount on Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air with the top-of-the-line M3 chip equipped…

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Get ready for Apple Intelligence with an M3 MacBook Air for an insane $899

It’s WWDC week and Amazon is celebrating by slashing the price of the new MacBook Air by $200 for the very first time. That means you can get the M3 MacBook Air for $899, $100 less than Apple charges for the M2 model and the best price we’ve ever seen. Usually available with an MSRP…

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Apple announces Vision Pro availability in the U.K., Canada, China and more

Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset finally went on sale at the start of this year–but was initially available in the U.S. only. At WWDC 2024 on June 10, the company announced when it will appear elsewhere. Eight countries–the U.K., Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, China (both mainland and Hong Kong), and Singapore–are getting their hands…

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Qualcomm: Some Snapdragon X Elite Laptops Will Come with 5G Modems

One of Qualcomm's indisputable strengths are its 5G modems – something which even Apple has yet to successfully ween itself from. And while Qualcomm is not integrating a modem into its first-generation Oryon-based Snapdragon X chips, the company is still looking to leverage that technology advantage via discrete modems that can be installed in Snapdragon…

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