It turns out, the Android playbook works — Wear OS hits 17.3 percent in Q3, Samsung hits its highest quarterly shipments. Ron Amadeo - Nov 23, 2021 6:04 pm UTC Counterpoint Research has a new report detailing the smartwatch market, and Wear OS is a huge winner. Just three months ago, Google and Samsung teamed…
In 2020, the average American spent roughly four hours per day on their smartphones. Of course, people weren’t going as many places during the height of the pandemic. But, even with things picking back up, these magical little windows to the internet still hold huge chunks of our lives. You don’t want to skimp on…
For years now, the performance of iPhones has run circles around high-end Android phones. Combine that with great battery efficiency and a huge catalog of fantastic games (including some Apple Arcade exclusives), and the iPhone may just be the best mobile gaming platform around. Honestly, every iPhone made in the last few years will have…
Amazon's Black Friday deals are live early this year, and if you're looking for a new smartwatch or traditional wristwatch, there's plenty of great options to choose from. Whether you're looking for something with great health tracking capabilities like the Apple Watch SE or Apple Watch Series 7, or prefer a great-looking watch from Fossil…
Apple’s iOS 15.2 is nearly here, and it comes with a bunch of brilliant new iPhone features that will boost your privacy. The latest of these, launching in a few weeks when iOS 15.2 drops, is a feature that allows you to use the fantastic Hide My Email function from within your iPhone’s Mail app. Hide…
Apple's decision to allow ratings for its own apps is producing... mixed results. As developer Kosta Eleftheriou and The Verge have noticed, the official Podcasts app has flipped from an abysmal 1.8-star rating to over 4.8 in the space of just a few weeks thanks to a surge of reviews. As you might have guessed,…
Apple might be eager to minimize future complaints about working conditions. NBC News said it obtained a newly released internal memo telling employees they're allowed to discuss conditions and pay outside the company. Staffers should be free to talk about issues in the way they "feel most comfortable," including with managers and the People (human…
One of Apple’s best qualities is the time and energy it spends on pushing the envelope of technology. In recent years, it’s debuted impressive camera features, world-class tablets, amazing processors, and much much more. But one challenge with continually moving the state of the art forward is that sometimes it comes at the expense of…
Apple Ahead of watchOS 8.2, which is currently in beta testing, Apple has released watchOS 8.1.1 for the Apple Watch Series 7. This update specifically addresses a problem with the Series 7 watch that prevented it from properly charging. This update may not appear if you are using an older series watch. We haven’t heard…
According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is stepping up its car ambitions. The company now aims to launch a fully autonomous vehicle in four years, though that 2025 target date is fluid. Apple has been hiring engineers and automotive veterans for years under what is widely believed to be called Project…
