Category: Apple

My daily Apple blog for Computerworld

• Will Apple’s iPhone 9 be ‘Made in India’? January 22, 2020
  The morning runes suggest Apple may be preparing to increase the scale of iPhone manufacturing in India; component orders, market speculation and news from supply chain partners combine to suggest just that.The iPhone 9 unicorn is (almost) here – maybe Industry watchers expect Apple to very soon replace the iPhone 8 with a new device […]
• Tim Cook keeps promising new health features, probably for Apple Watch January 21, 2020
  The digital health sector should think deeply about what happens next as Apple CEO  Tim Cook has again spoken out about his company’s focus on wellness technologies.Prevention is good for business Cook talked up Apple’s plans for digital health with IDA Ireland CEO Martin Shanahan. His focus is very much on prevention, above cure – […]
• How the Xnor.ai purchase opens Apple’s AI future January 17, 2020
  Apple’s $200 million acquisition of Xnor.ai provides tools for evolution in imaging, edge-based AI, HomeKit and more.What does Xnor.ai do? Xnor.ai was spun out of the Allen Institute for AI by Professor Ali Farhadi and Dr. Mohammed Rastegari in 2017. These men were also responsible for YOLO, YOLO9000, Label Refinery and other machine intelligence achievements.To read […]
• How iPhones can help manage 'always-on' work-related stress January 16, 2020
  The great thing about smartphones is they help you work from anywhere; the bad thing is that this makes it quite difficult to make the separation between professional and personal life.This is a real problem that’s creating a health emergency. Here are several suggestions about how your iPhone can help relieve this stress.What’s the big […]
• Breaking iPhone encryption won't make anyone safer January 15, 2020
  Imagine all your tax documentation could be examined by officials from any government merely on suspicion. That’s the future some governments are pushing for when they demand that Apple put security backdoors into its products.Making no one safe Think about the nature of security backdoors:To read this article in full, please click here
• Apple’s ‘Pro Mode’ is made for Mac professionals January 14, 2020
  Apple’s focus on the needs of professional computer users for its Macs and iPads ‘for the rest of us’ continues on news the company is developing a new ‘Pro Mode’ that pushes more performance for some apps.The PC market will become a high-end market Apple is focused on pro users because it recognizes that this […]
• Apple’s App Store generates $1B a week January 13, 2020
  On average, Apple generated more than $1 billion a week from the half-billion-plus people visiting its App Store every week in 2019, new data shows.That’s $54.2 billion in the year.Chasing the (long) tail There’s lots of reasons for this, principally a successful push toward subscription-based business models and rapidly growing consumer acceptance that there actually […]