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A comparison of cellular bands in Apple's 2024 products
Which regional models of the new iPhones and Apple Watches have the best cellular band support?
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Day 5: Apple keeps deleting my games and music
The captain has turned off the seatbelt sign and my downloaded music is gone. What gives?
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Live Photos on the Web
_Update March 2020: After migrating this blog post, the code on this page no longer works. I'm leaving it here for historical reference. Mealwhile, if you want to display Live Photos on the web, Apple has tools for you. TL;DR: I made Live Photos work on the
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How Apple Censors News in China
The release of iOS 9 saw the launch of Apple’s attempt to revolutionize the news industry, Apple News. While Apple has been pretty clear that News is launching first in the United States, users typically haven’t had any problem using it in other countries as long as your
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Can Apple Notes replace Evernote?
Update: iCloud Notes's CloudKit got corrupted after moving a few hundred notes from Evernote - I contacted Apple on September 29th & have been promised that I will hear back from their engineering team within 10 business days. On October 5th, Apple support called me to let me
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How to move notes from Evernote to iCloud Notes
Update #2: You should use the built in import feature in macOS to move your notes from Evernotes to Apple Notes. This script is no longer supported. Update: I was able to resolve and workaround the problems I originally encountered and am happily Evernote-free. Your notes will probably be fine.
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Security Researchers Claim Internet Standards are Apple Security Flaws
There is a research paper entitled Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS announced by The Register and picked up by Macrumors claiming that security researchers have totally pwn'd Apple's sandbox security. They are quoted as saying: "We completely cracked the keychain
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Apple Watch First Impressions
Just finished day #4 with the Apple Watch. I keep getting asked what I think about it so I'm collecting my impressions here. Some background: I'm not a watch guy. I have little interest in expensive mechanical watches and haven't worn a watch since
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Apple Watch will make public wifi even worse
Like many globe-traveling entrepreneurs, I use a lot of mobile data. In Hong Kong, my carrier slows down my data when I hit 6 gigabytes every month, so I hook up to public wifi whenever possible. While there are tens of thousands of wifi hotspots across the city, public wifi
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Apple Pay: 4 lessons Bitcoin needs to learn
Apple Pay launched in the US on October 20, 2014, and has been doing very well. 1 million cards added in the first 3 days. In the first 3 weeks, just one merchant, Whole Foods, saw 150,000 Apple Pay transactions. Few Bitcoin accepting merchants are seeing anything close to
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Why Apple Watch needs the iPhone
Apple has done it again. It’s taken a product category filled for decades with failed products that saw little success even among dedicated nerds and re-invented it to make it both useful and cool. The most often heard complaint, even among fanbois is “But I wish it didn’t
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Secrets Revealed on China Mobile iPhone Launch Day
Today, Apple officially kicked off their alliance with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier with almost 800 million subscribers. While mainstream media widely covered the launch day from Beijing, complete with pictures of Tim Cook and China Mobile executives, they missed some of the more interesting details