November 15, 2024

Month: April 2016

Rumor: Apple Watch 2 to be Independent of iPhone

AppleWatch-2Over the past few days, CompuScoop has been fielding rumors about the new Apple Watch.

Reliable sources are telling us that the new watch "Will be thinner, and have a special chip inside that'll let the device make calls and/or have the ability to sync to iCloud without an iPhone."

This possibility is huge for Apple, as the company would be in a position to have a device that no other company would have, and put them in a catch up position, much like what happened in 2007 when the company introduced the iPhone.

The source also said that the company plans to have a special event sometime in the 4th quarter of 2016.

Apple Embraces Macintosh – Is a Massive Reinvention Near?

MacOSLogo“Apple’s Mac lineup is stale, and that is putting it mildly,” Mark Reschke writes for T-GAAP. “The Mac Pro is now a staggering 2 1/2 years into its lifecycle without a single upgrade. The MacBook Air has seen almost no changes, save for incremental processor updates since 2010. The iMac form factor has not changed since the fall of 2012. The newly minted MacBook and MacBook Pro’s have seen only slight incremental upgrades this past year, and the Mac mini is a mere afterthought. What’s going on?”

“Apple’s Mac lineup has become a cash cow with little invention, but that may be about to change,” Reschke writes. “There has been increased chatter of Apple moving to use its exclusive Liquidmetal license in MacBook chassis, which would likely usher in all-new form factors for Apple’s laptops. Liquidmetal is lightweight and incredible strong and rigid. The metal technology would set Apple’s laptop apart from all others in the industry.”

Read more in the full article here.

Lost Teen’s iPhone Recovered – Family Seeks Apple’s Assistance

An iPhone 6 thought to belong to a Florida teenager lost at sea in 2015 has been recovered from the vessel the youth and his companion were in they disappeared. Both Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen were just 14 when they embarked on a small fishing trip off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. Mystery surrounds what happened to the pair, after a large scale air and sea search failed to find the teenagers, but did locate their empty 19-foot boat some two days after they were reported missing on July 24, 2015.

Via: MacNN.com

You may have Missed:

Verified by MonsterInsights