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Former Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky reckons the new Arm-based Apple silicon Mac will become the “ultimate developer PC”.  According to Sinofsky, Apple’s shift to Arm is the death knell for Intel and potentially Windows too, with the Arm-based Mac set to become the preferred platform for software developers. “In ...

Apple just revealed the next major software update for its iPad lineup, iPadOS 14. The announcement was made during the opening keynote of WWDC, its annual developer conference where the company also announced iOS 14, WatchOS 7, and TVOS 14.  Among the new features in iPadOS 14 is a new-look ...

Apple has revived the chime effect for macOS 11 Big Sur startups, bringing back the familiar sound effect while moving the desktop towards the look and feel of iOS.  Mac users are in for big design changes in macOS 11 Big Sur, which Apple unveiled this week at WWDC. But ...

WWDC, Apple’s annual developer conference, kicked off Monday, with the headlining news that the company is moving away from Intel processors and will soon use its own Apple Silicon processors in the Mac line. The Mac may have been the star of the show, but that doesn’t mean Apple didn’t ...

Apple confirmed it is moving the Mac to the Arm architecture amid a big software design overhaul that brings MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS together in both look and feel. At WWDC 2020, Apple laid out a roadmap that started with operating systems and went into hardware and processors. Going forward, ...

One of the aspects of iOS that I think has made it the winner that it has become is that it offers even the most casual of user great security out of the box. And the security is well balanced against usability, so users, on the whole, don’t go trawling ...

Last year, Apple surprised everyone by announcing it  was splitting up iOS , which, at the time, powered both the iPhone and the iPad. It was arguably the first time Apple showed that it was serious about improving the iPad software experience and finally catching it up with the hardware.  ...

Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/ZDNet Apple on Monday released iOS 13.5.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. The release notes only mention security updates, and the update itself was 77.5MB on my iPhone 11 Pro Max.  Shortly after releasing the update, Apple updated its security updates page with more information about ...

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Apple’s Magic Keyboard accessory for the iPad Pro line adds a backlit keyboard and a trackpad to the company’s high-end tablet. And now some users are complaining about excessive battery drain on their iPad Pro.  The Magic Keyboard doesn’t have a dedicated battery. Instead, it’s powered by the Smart Connector on the back ...