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Apple Might Bypass EU Law With a Proprietary USB-C Charger
Last year the European Union (EU) issued a new law mandating that all technology products sold in the region, specifically those containing a battery, and, by proxy, requiring an external charging capability, must offer support for USB-C. – In other words, they’d just made the USB-C port and cable the…
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Original Boxed & Sealed Apple iPhone 1 Goes Up for Auction!
While many would make the argument, quite rightly I think, that Apple isn’t an innovative company anymore, it’s impossible to deny the impact the original iPhone had on the market. In terms of ‘smartphones’, it was truly revolutionary and in no small part due to its unique and user-friendly menu.…
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Apple Launches New Mac Mini Systems Featuring their Latest M2 Processors
Apple has officially unveiled the new Mac mini, supercharged by M2 and the all-new M2 Pro. With the M2 chip, the Mac mini is even more powerful, capable, and affordable. The new M2 Pro chip delivers pro-level performance to Mac mini for the first time, enabling users to run high-performance…
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Apple Prepares to Bend the Knee by Allowing Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone
Apple has certainly had a bit of a rough year when it comes to its dealings with the European Union. – Firstly they’re having to deal with the new regulations that by 2025 all smart devices sold in the region must adhere to a USB-C charging standard, and then, of…
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Apple iPhone 15 Rumoured To Be Targeting A Huge Leap Forward in Image Quality
Although the Apple iPhone 15 is not expected to be released until sometime around Summer/Autumn 2023, speculation is already high as to what the tech giants might be planning for its next-gen flagship smartphone design. – And, in something that’s hardly surprising, it seems that camera technology is once again…
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Apple Confirms They’re Moving to New USB-C Standard – (In Europe At Least)
Earlier this month, the EU formally mandated into law that all battery-containing tech products sold within the region would require USB-C support by the end of 2024. – Now, for the vast majority of companies, this wasn’t a problem. Most things these days are USB-C compliant right out of the…
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Sealed Original Apple iPhone Sells for $40,000 at Auction
Say what you will about Apple, but it’s hard to deny that the iPhone was one of the most iconic tech products ever released. – Offering functionality and features well beyond anything else available on the market at the time, while it has, of course, spawned many revisions over the…
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Apple Faces New Legal Challenge in UK Over iPhone Throttling
Taking a small trip down technologies memory lane, you may recall that back in 2017 Apple got into some exceptionally hot water when it was found that they were applying updates to iPhone devices that reduced their performance. – Unlike an ageing PC filled with years worth of bloat, your…
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Apple to Finally Dump Lightning Port in Favour of USB-C by Late 2023?!
While Apple has continued to press forward with its proprietary Lightning charger connection port, the writing has been on the wall for more than a little while now that, sooner or later, and by either choice or mandate, they would eventually have to transition or at least offer out of…
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Apple Officially Launches its Self Service Repair Store!
For many years now, Apple has been the subject of a lot of criticism (both from customers and consumer groups) over the, basically, total lack of options when it comes to fixing a product of theirs that is either faulty or broken. – Putting things like screen replacements to one…
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Apple Made an Extra $6.5 Billion by Scrapping iPhone Accessories
Back in 2020, Apple announced that as part of a supposed environmental move, moving forward, they would no longer supply their smartphones, and similar tech products in general, with accessories such as chargers or earphones. In other words, when you opened the box, all you’d likely find is your iPhone,…
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Apple Offers Customers iPhone Repair Kits But the Elephant in the Room Remains!
I’ve never personally been a fan of Apple products. While there are many reasons behind this, reliability and durability have undoubtedly been some of my biggest concerns. It’s a lot of money to throw at a piece of technology that seems happy to break, and worse, Apple has always loved…
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Apple iPhone 14 to See a ‘Complete Redesign’
While the Apple iPhone 13 has proven to be (perhaps surprisingly) very popular with consumers, I don’t think it would be unfair to say that when compared to the prior generation model, there isn’t a huge amount of new things going on here. It’s simply a little bit better in…
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Apple (Mostly) Wins Epic Games Lawsuit With 1 Major Caveat!
A little over a year ago Epic Games officially launched legal action against Apple over what they considered to be monopolistic policies on their app store. The main and basic crux of the issue was that Epic Games was not happy over Apple enforcing its standard 30% transaction cut for…
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