Apple has become increasingly popular in the United States and around the world. According to Apple CEO (and Auburn alum) Tim Cook, over 130 million people became new Apple customers this year along, buying their first Apple device. Regardless of your opinion on iPhones and iPads, both devices have helped fuel the sales of Macbooks, [...]
According to new reports, Apple is indeed set to launch a wearable device sometime in the very near future. According to Nikkei Asian Review: "Apple is getting set to move to its next stage of growth with a wearable health-monitoring device, hoping to establish a solid foothold in the promising healthcare sector."Yuichiro Kanematsu, Nikkei Asian [...]
Right after Apple CEO, Tim Cook made his appearance at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference this week, he and Apple executive Eddy Cue went to their Austin Texas plant where the new top shelf Apple Mac Pro is manufactured. Apple's PR department made a big deal out of the trip, picking up on the momentum [...]
Although Apple just recently announced their $3 billion dollar acquisition of Beats by Dre, the most recent change in MFi specs was probably in the works much earlier. MFi specs are the standards that Apple puts out for their hardware partners to make officially sanctioned accessories to support Apple devices. Typically there are a lot [...]
I never thought the day would come where as tech writers we could write about Dr. Dre, I mean other than pointing out how much Andreesen Horowitz partner Ben Horowitz loves hip hop, and of course he's really an east coast hip hop kind of guy. But now with Apple acquiring Beats By Dre, and [...]
Among many thing announced by Apple on Monday at WWDC was HealthKit. The new iOS 8 functionality has been a long-time coming, and has been the subject of several leaks over the past few months. Anyhow, HealthKit acts a central hub/repository where third-party apps can store data in one central location. The idea being that [...]
Apple's CEO, and the most influential Auburn University alum in the world, Tim Cook, took to the stage on Monday morning to kick off the World Wide Developers Conference. The WWDC, now in it's 25th year is an annual gathering of developers working on Apple platforms. Cook was quick to point out that the first [...]
It's that time of year again. The time when the Moscone conference center in San Francisco transforms itself into a haven for hackers, developers and all things geeky. It starts Monday with WWDC, but Google's not far behind. Google's I/O developer event will also happen a the Moscone from June 25th-27th. Mark Gurman the Apple/Mac/iOS [...]
Earlier this week we were wondering if the Beats by Apple deal would really get done, and if so, what were the hold ups. After all it was back on May 8th that the humongous deal for Apple to acquire beats for $3.2 billion dollars was initially leaked. With those leaks came a promise that [...]
May 8th the world was abuzz with what looked like the first billionaire hip hop artist, Dr.Dre. After performing on and producing multiple Grammy award winning records Dre was already celebrating his billionaire status not for his rhymes but for his Beats. May 8th was the day that multiple "reliable" sources reported to the likes [...]
