The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the transitions to PowerPC, OS X 10, and a move to Intel chips before unveiling its plans to use Apple’s own ARM-powered silicon in Macs in the future.

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Vox

JANUARY 29, 2021

Apple is rolling out new privacy protections that could affect Facebook’s data-driven ad business. Angry CEOs, operating system updates, and maybe even a lawsuit — the feud continues. Facebook and Apple’s fight over your data is heating up. Now Facebook is considering suing Apple, and Apple is digging in its heels.

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TechSpot

JULY 14, 2022

Flex is a fork of the Chromebook operating system that is compatible with most hardware. Google has certified nearly 400 devices that can run Flex without issues, including various Apple models. On Thursday, Google announced that it has moved ChromeOS Flex from "early access" to "general availability."

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2013

How much and what you leak depends on your wireless driver, operating system, and the networks that you’ve connected to in the past. It’s supposed to be a feature — the operating system is attempting to see if you’re around any of those networks by sending out a beacon request to see who responds to them.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Mac OS X is finally finished, with Apple confirming that it’s officially moving to macOS 11 with the newly announced Big Sur update after almost 20 years of OS X (or macOS 10.) X versions that Apple has been using for nearly two decades to version 11.0. With Apple moving on to macOS 11, though, it’s anyone’s guess what happens next.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. For the most part, OS X has delivered that over the years.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Back in June, Apple promised that new Apple Silicon would power future Mac computers, and the first chip is being announced today. Read More.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Apple angered many in the iPhone and iPad developer community yesterday when it announced that iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 would be available to consumers today. The surprise comes as some iOS developers are already exasperated with the way Apple is exerting control over its App Store. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Apple's deals with top chipmakers have historically fizzled out, but its relationship with leading chip fabricator TSMC will likely last. Read More.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Apple proceedings kicked off, and the news has been relentless. 1] Apple keeps iMessage closed in order to sell more iPhones. 3] Apple pulled out all the stops to keep Netflix selling subscriptions on the iPhone. But for a while, Apple was willing to do just about anything to keep Netflix from giving in to the obvious economics.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

While the ads can be easily dismissed, they’re still a frustrating experience in an operating system that’s traditionally been ad-free. Sadly, Microsoft isn’t alone in advertising its own services in its operating system or apps. Microsoft has been experimenting with ads inside Windows for a decade now.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Microsoft’s first version of Windows might not have been well received, but it kick-started a battle between Apple, IBM, and Microsoft to provide computing to the masses. While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Carol Halebia.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won’t be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unlike Google and Apple, Amazon doesn’t have a smartphone platform of its own for native integration of its voice assistant, after the short-lived Amazon Fire Phone. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy). Google regularly updates Android, and the feature relies in part on systemwide microphone access.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cook has been singing the praises of AR for five years Tim Cook has just marked 10 years as Apple’s CEO , and while he’s grown Apple into the most valuable company in the world, it’s reasonable to argue he hasn’t yet introduced a signature, industry shaking product like Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did with the iPhone, iPad, Mac and more.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. It also marks a step forward in Apple’s steady march toward becoming a sort of bank.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

Image: Apple. Apple’s annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is coming up fast, kicking off with the keynote presentation on June 7th at 1PM ET. And don’t be surprised if Apple has a few surprises in store, too. A promotional image for WWDC 2021. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly. Apple hasn’t designed its M1 Macs with dual-boot or Boot Camp in mind. Corellium has some experience in working around Apple’s operating system protections.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 22, 2020

Following three years of rumors, Apple is officially beginning the process of moving the Mac over to CPUs based on ARM technology, like iPhones and iPads. Read More.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s part of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to build more consumer devices that circumvent Apple and Google, the two dominant mobile phone platform creators that largely control Facebook’s ability to reach people. The watch offers Facebook a way around Apple and Google. Facebook’s track record for making hardware is spotty.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. It also marks a step forward in Apple’s steady march toward becoming a sort of bank.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Contact Us.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

He noted that Google’s acquisition of Fitbit is still “pretty early in the integration” since the purchase only went through a few months ago — it takes time to develop a product, after all, especially one with a new operating system that Fitbit has never used before. But years later, Google’s list of hardware partners is wearing thin.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We’ve hit that time of year when enterprise IT prepares to support teams as they upgrade all their Apple operating systems across smartphones, tablets, and Macs. The need for a stress-free upgrade process is accompanied by refreshed demand for hardware upgrades, as new models of iPhones, iPads, the Apple Watch, and Macs appear.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Then Apple came and threw a wrench in the gears. In June of 2020, Apple announced changes to its mobile operating system that would give iPhone users a chance to tell app-makers not to follow them around the internet. Now Facebook is saying, in public, that Apple’s ad changes have been a really big deal, after all.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

Image: Apple. I really would just like Apple’s next iPad Pro to be a laptop. Not a clamshell, but a Surface Pro type of deal: a tablet with laptop hardware and a laptop OS. I think there must be people at Apple who want this, too, so I’m now respectfully requesting that the company stop dilly-dallying and make it happen.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

” Amazon is at a disadvantage on smartphones vs. Google and Apple, which integrate their voice assistants directly into the popular mobile operating systems. Part of the idea is to take Amazon’s voice assistant further out into the world, DeLorenzo explained in a recent interview. .

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

I’ve already tested the Chinese version of the Oppo Watch, and I found the hardware to be pretty good, but it’s impossible to avoid the fact that it looks an awful lot like an Apple Watch. It’s up to you whether that’s what you want out of your wristwear. We do have pricing information for a couple of key regions, though.

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2022

Apple is releasing cool new desktop Macs again , but people are still doing plenty of fun projects using older Apple machines. A fun example that we spotted recently (h/t Input ) was this mod by someone named Connor, who took the internals of an M1 Mac Mini and put them into one of Apple’s most iconic desktops, the iMac G4.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

”‘ The Samsung Knox capability is the premiere mobile security solution, and it can offer hardware backed security. In other words, Dropbox is now available on the Knox Apps store, which the company says will give employees the access they want while maintaining “crucial IT control.”‘ Via The Next Web, more here.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

At its WWDC 2023 conference, Apple revealed the Vision Pro, the long-awaited augmented reality (AR) headset that has many asking, “What does Apple Vision Pro do?” What does Apple Vision Pro do The Vision Pro hsa been released on February 2, with preorders currently available on the Apple Store.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Apple is greatly improving its gaming support in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS. Apple is also planning to support some controllers with motion inputs, like Sony’s DualShock 4 controller. Apple is finally adding support for the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 in its upcoming iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS updates.

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The Verge

MAY 23, 2021

Once again , Google is hitting the reset button, combining with Samsung’s Tizen wearable operating system for a new wearable OS, tentatively called “Wear.”. That’s not even counting the rest of Google’s hardware team, which includes its $1.1 billion for the HTC’s smartphone design team, and the existing Pixel hardware group.).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A former guide and systems engineer at the Paul Allen-founded facility, which announced its permanent closure in June, Irving decided to his marry his expertise with a bit of childhood nostalgia when he came across a 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus in a thrift store. Now living in Blacksburg, Va., “It was a pretty gross experience.”

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

While its phones use Google’s Android operating system, Samsung has consistently tried to build out an ecosystem of its own software that runs atop Android, including the Bixby voice assistant and the Galaxy app store.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

An android phone is a powerful and highly advanced Smartphone which runs on the Android operating system, which is created by Google. Android operating systems run on almost all the mobile and handheld devices, it also provides a host of handsets for the biggest mobile manufacturers in the world. Handsets for Androids.

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