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Month: November 2016
Apple issues special Thanksgiving offer for Apple Watch wearers
“Apple Watch owners can get a special Activity Challenge for Thanksgiving, this November 24th,” Benjamin Mayo reports for 9to5Mac. “Apple Watch owners are waking up to notifications on their wrist announcing a special achievement in the Activity app, the first time Apple has done this.”
To receive the reward, Apple Watch users must complete a run, walk or wheelchair 5K (3.11 miles) on November 24th using Apple’s Workout app or any third-party app that integrates workouts with HealthKit (such as Nike+ Run Club].
“If users do this, they will receive a unique Achievement medal in their iPhone Activity app and a special iMessage sticker to send to their friends,” Mayo reports. “This kind of contextual achievement is brand new to watchOS; although the facility to do Activity Challenges has existed in watchOS for a while, this is the first time the feature has been used.”
Read more in the full article here.
Apple’s Boot Camp / Windows Drivers may be damaging new MacBook Pro’s Speakers
(AppleInsider.com): Some reports are circulating that Boot Camp users with heavy audio use in Windows 10 are experiencing random, loud pops, and seeing distorted audio after a period of use that can persist when the computer is rebooted into macOS.
Some users are experiencing a periodic loud pop out of proportion with the volume settings while booted into Windows. The behavior does not manifest in Parallels or other virtual machines. Additionally, users of only macOS on the new MacBook Pro are completely unaffected.
The loud pops appear to be manifested by what appears to be an out-of-date Windows audio driver in Boot Camp. Over time, users report that the pops are physically damaging the speakers.
Users seeing the damage are reporting across the board volume imbalances between speakers, and others report distortion when the volume of the audio in any OS above around 50%.
The problem does not appear to be related to a particular model of the new MacBook Pro family, with scattered reports surfacing from users of all configurations.
AppleInsider has contacted Apple about the situation, and was told to have users manifesting the problem contact Apple Care phone support to document the problem, and to make a Genius Bar appointment for assessment and evaluation.
Amelioration of the problem
AppleInsider suggests that users who must use Windows with Boot Camp plug in a pair of headphones or speakers into the headphone jack on the computer while inside Windows. This completely bypasses Apple's speakers, preventing damage.
Some users experiencing the problem have solved it through installation of the Realtek HD Audio Driver version 6.0.1.7989 released on Nov. 15. The updated non-Apple-approved driver appears to rectify the popping issue.
Apple discontinues WiFi Router Division
For the past few days, Apple has been swinging an ax and getting rid of some of its key divisions. First, the Automation division, and now it seems that they are also getting rid of its WiFi division as well.
The report comes from an unnamed source that informed Bloomberg of the change.
Engineers working for the division have been distributed to other areas of the company.
That division was responsible for making such products as the company's Airport Router, which hasn't seen any new hardware revisions in quite sometime.
