Month: October 2013
Small number of iPhone 5S units having battery issues
Recently, a small number of battery complaints have been popping up on Apple's discussion boards. Â It had further came to light when the New York Times contacted Apple about the issue. Â An Apple rep (Teresa Brewer, an Apple spokeswoman)Â has acknowledged an issue, and said the following statement:
"We recently discovered a manufacturing issue affecting a very limited number of iPhone 5S devices that could cause the battery to take longer to charge or result in reduced battery life. Â We are reaching out to customers with affected phones and will provide them with a replacement phone."
Apple confirms: Future OS X versions are going to be FREE like Mavericks
During the conference call for its fourth quarter financial statement, Apple confirmed that future versions of Mac OS will be free. That will keep them in line with a precedent Apple set with the the OS X Mavericks OS update, which Apple released earlier this month. The free operating system updates, along with iWork updates and free copies for each purchaser of Mac and iOS hardware, is part of a $900 million sequential increase in deferred net revenue for software upgrade rights and non-software services.