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Apple is said to be preparing a lower cost iPhone for later this year, with a plastic shell instead of its typical recipe of metal and glass to lower component costs. Now a site called Techdy, which?creates Android knock-off handsets of higher-end devices, is claiming to have obtained the new phone?s plastic casing and front-screen assembly. The supposed early manufacturing prototype leak? ??Read?More

Samsung has missed expectations for its quarterly earnings guidance, which is bad news since those expectations were already pretty low. The slowing growth of the smartphone market dominator is being attributed to lacklustre Galaxy S4 sales. Samsung?s premiere handset has reportedly sold 20 million units since its launch according to a recent report from Yonhap News, however. ??Read?More

The USPTO is big on Apple patents this morning, with a new application published around earbud technology. Apple?s own earbud designs have been mostly underwhelming, even if the last change for the stock set that comes with iPhones and iPods was an improvement. The new patent application describes tech that could be truly game-changing, however, by adjusting earbud output to match any user?s? ??Read?More

The US Patent Office has just published a new patent application by Apple that integrates crowdsourced traffic data for real-time information about road conditions, similar to what Waze does. Waze, which was just acquired by Google, seeks user input on changing road conditions, and rewards users for making accurate reports. Apple?s patent also offers route choices based on criteria like ?Scenic? ??Read?More

Apple is said by Bloomberg to be working on a deal that would bring Time Warner Cable content to its Apple TV set-top streaming box, for subscribers to TWC?s existing cable packages. Which is nice, for those people, and something that?s like the iOS apps which allow cable and satellite subscribers to view content they pay for access to on devices other than their TV, but in the big picture, it?s a? ??Read?More

Apple?s iOS mobile operating system is winning even more ground in mobile advertising market share, according to mobile ad firm Velti. The firm saw Apple?s share grow from 59 percent overall to 64 percent between May 2012 and May 2013, with the iPhone 5 grabbing a lot of those new impressions. The iPhone 5?s share grew by 7.4 percentage points between May last year and May of 2013, and the iPad? ??Read?More

Apple?s iOS 7 is growing quickly with more tablets and iPhones running the beta software than were running iOS 6 at the same time last year, according to new data released by mobile web optimizing company Onswipe. The startup found that by July 1, 2013, 0.28 percent of all iPad visits to its mobile-optimized sites were from devices running iOS 7, and as of June 17, 0.77 percent of all iPhones? ??Read?More

Apple has just been granted a new patent (via AppleInsider) for unique bezel technology that could not only add touch controls to a bezel on a small device screen (like one for an iWatch), but that would also make it possible for that bezel to fade in and out of view, providing maximum screen real estate when required, and then coming back into view when it would work better to have a bordered? ??Read?More

Let the speculation merry-go-round continue. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple has trademarked the name iWatch ? again. This time Japan is the territory, while the trademark covering ?products including a handheld computer or watch device? was actually filed with the Japan Patent Office on the 3rd of June but was only made public last week. It follows an unconfirmed report by a Russian? ??Read?More

An iPhone app needed 23,000 free downloads per day to reach spot number 50 in the top Free charts in the Apple App Store, says mobile app analytics firm Distimo, based on research performed during the month of May 2013 aimed at discovering what it takes to break into the App Store?s top Free, Paid, and Grossing charts. For paid applications, that number was 25 times lower, at 950? ??Read?More

iOS 7 is getting a lot of mixed reaction from blogs, critics and the Twitterverse, but it?s actually winning over a lot of people, according to polls created by Polar, a mobile polling tool built by Input Factor to gauge user and community sentiment. Polar?s results find that in general, its users prefer iOS 7 versions of system icons almost two to one vs. the existing versions, with over 46,401? ??Read?More

When we first discovered that Makerbot was looking to partner with Stratasys I was a bit non-plussed. Makerbot, as I?ve noted before, has a certain indie cred that makes this move a bit unpalatable. ??Read?More

If there?s one striking thing about those PRISM slides, other than their hideous aesthetics, it?s that Apple?s allocated yellow oval, instead of a date, has the words ?(added Oct 2012)? underneath it. That difference is most striking when you consider the fact that Apple competitor Microsoft cooperated with the government a full five years earlier. ??Read?More

The MacBook Air was the only new Apple hardware to be announced and launched at WWDC this year (besides the new AirPort Extreme), and while it isn?t a big change from the previous version, it packs some crucial improvements that really cater to the Air?s existing strengths. The 2013 Air is really Apple pushing the envelope with its ultraportable, and that has helped make one of the best computers? ??Read?More

Apple posted a press release on its site reaffirming its ?commitment to customer privacy? and stating that it first heard of the Prism program when questioned by news organizations on June 6. The company also said that it received between 4,000 to 5,000 requests from U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement for customer data between December 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. ??Read?More

It was a big week in gadgets, and thus, a big TC Gadgets podcast it shall be. This week, we discuss developments at E3, including Xbox One and PS4 pricing, the death of Nokia?s Symbian OS, and of course, WWDC.

Will you buy a PS4 or an Xbox One? Does despair fill you from nose to navel when you remember the good old days of Symbian? Is the new iOS 7 design repelling, attractive, or some bizarre? ??Read?More

Apple has now taken another step to push app publishers to use its preferred?ad tracking option, the Identifier for Advertisers?(IDFA), with the debut of the iOS 7 beta. Confirming what many have suspected, Apple is eliminating an alternative option involving tracking by MAC addresses. This method had sprung up following a change to Apple?s Developer Documentation in 2011, announcing its? ??Read?More

Lisa Frank. Dayglo Barbie. Rainbow unicorn. Fisher Price.?A mess, trouble, confusing. Marketing department. What are, ?words used to describe the iOS 7 redesign,? Alex? Now that the Apple keynote beer goggles have worn off, the polarizing makeover of Apple?s iOS 7 operating system is starting to sink in. Surely, this is not it? This is not done, right? ??Read?More

Apple is looking at various changes to its iPhone lineup over the course of the next year, according to a new report from Reuters, including two sizes of larger smartphone devices, in both a 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch flavor. The ?phablet? plans are also being considered alongside a less expensive iPhone model, which is slated to begin production next month, according to Reuters? sources, after a brief? ??Read?More

Apple has just posted a lengthy, nearly 10 minute video (via 9to5Mac) about how apps built for its platform are used around the world to make changes that significantly impact people?s lives. It?s a very different approach from the typical Apple commercial, which is generally a short affair focusing on what apps are doing to add a little bit of levity or convenience to the average consumer?s life. ??Read?More

Apple had a great big belly laugh at the expense of near field communications (NFC) at its WWDC keynote this year, but it also quietly adopted a tech that has received an equal amount of general scorn (if not more): the QR code. Apple actually built a QR code reader into iOS 7 ? yes, right into the OS ? but in a way that makes clear its presence is more of a mildly unpleasant but useful tool? ??Read?More

Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. ?Just do what?s right.?

That?s what Tim Cook told the audience of Apple employees at the memorial for Steve Jobs, following his passing in 2011. Now, nearly two years later, we?re starting to see that plan being executed. ??Read?More

Apple has been quietly growing its share of the U.S. e-book market according to its testimony during the current e-book price fixing court case against it, and now accounts for 20 percent of e-book sales overall stateside (via MacRumors). That?s about twice as much as has been speculated in the past by market-watchers, and it indicates that Apple, while nowhere near the dominant force that Amazon? ??Read?More

If you think QR codes are a bad joke then consider NFC. Near Field Communications? evangelists have been trying to get smartphone owners to share stuff by bumping and grinding their phones for years. And progress has been painful, to put it mildly. The reality is NFC is an ugly wasteland of non-use. Ever seen anyone IRL tapping their phones together? It?s about as rare as hen?s teeth. ??Read?More

We?ve all been waiting restlessly for the release of the jOBS biopic, starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, but dismay overtook us when we heard its April release date had been pushed back.

But fear not, you Jobsian fanbois, for Open Road has finally revealed that jOBS will see a nationwide release on August 16.

Word comes by way of The Wrap, which got the scoop last night, and official? ??Read?More

Apple demonstrated that it will keep its iron grip on iOS 7, despite Tim Cook saying it?s time for Apple to start opening up. Rather than debut new opportunities for developers, Apple squelched them at WWDDC by building its own substitutes for widgets, phone modifications, and whole categories of existing apps. ??Read?More

Apple revealed a number of notable new features with the debut of iOS 7 yesterday, but there are many smaller features which are now leaking out as developers have had a chance to play around with the new operating system. Though most of these didn?t get a shout-out during Apple?s keynote and accompanying demo at WWDC, they are the ?little touches,? which help to make iOS 7 something bigger than? ??Read?More

Apple?s WWDC Keynote yesterday left one impression on me above all others: the executive team seems much more comfortable and in sync under CEO Tim Cook now than they ever have before. Rarely has a keynote or event gone as smoothly as the one Apple delivered yesterday, and rarely has the ensemble cast approach (where different execs present different features and announcements) worked as well in? ??Read?More

Apple is no longer offering the ?Genius? feature as a way to surface and discover new mobile applications in the iOS App Store in the latest version of Apple?s mobile?operating?system, iOS 7. Instead, the spot that used to belong to ?Genius? now goes to ?Near Me,? a new feature demoed during yesterday?s keynote at WWDC, which recommends apps based on your location. ??Read?More

Apple debuted the next generation of iOS yesterday at WWDC and now you can watch Jony Ive?s 7 minute iOS 7 introduction video.

?True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absences of clutter or ornamentation,? Ive explains. ?It?s about bringing order to complexity.? ??Read?More

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