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Customers who bought a first-generation iPad in the last two weeks can opt to return their device to Apple, or request a $100 refund, now that the iPad 2 has been announced. Also, the company will release a new dock designed to fit the smaller form factor of the iPad 2, though no new keyboard [...]
Try and use the Youtube app thats comes on your iphone and you will get an error message Please note this error appears if you use edge or 3g connection not wifi Customers contacted o2 ireland customer care, they were told it was an apple issue with o2 and there was no solution
Apple has delayed shipping MacBook Pros on its online store for 3-5 business days… delaying the earliest day you can have a MacBook Pro shipped to you to well-ahead of the rumored Thursday launch of the next-gen MacBook Pros. Given how religious Apple’s Tim Cook is about supply, this has all the markings of an [...]
Thanks to the success of Apple’s iPad, the Mac-maker accounted for 17.2 percent of all mobile PC shipments worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2010, making it the overall segment leader. DipslaySearch reports Apple shipped over 10.2 million MacBooks and iPads combined during the period, giving it the edge over closest competitors HP by almost [...]
Apple has opened a new chapter in its campaign against hackers with a feature that prevents jailbroken iDevices from accessing iBooks. According to the Social Apples blog, iPhones and iPads running the latest iOS firmware contain a “jailbreak check” that automatically detects when the devices have been unlocked using the greenpois0n jailbreak kit. Jailbroken devices [...]
In addition to going smaller with the iPhone, Apple is also looking to jump beyond its standard 3.5-inch iPhone screen to 4 inches, according to the site Digitimes. The news, while unconfirmed, doesn’t come as a big surprise. Even with the iPhone 4, Apple’s adherence to a 3.5-inch screen was beginning to seem dated — [...]
This cheaper, smaller iPhone “would be about half the size of the iPhone 4,” WSJ reports. The device could feature “an edge-to-edge screen that could be manipulated by touch, as well as a virtual keyboard and voice-based navigation,” according to an unnamed person reportedly familiar with a prototype of the new phone. A miniature iPhone [...]
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber recently gave us his opinion on where Apple is going with its incredibly popular iPad. However, unlike all of the iPad 2 rumors that have been circulating recently, Gruber has instead speculated on Apple’s third-generation device iPad 3 — suggesting that it could be released when the iPod line is updated in September of [...]
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Add this to the growing list of rumors tied to Apple’s next version of the iPad: The Wall Street Journal reports production on a thinner, lighter version of the device has started. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the newspaper says the new and improved iPad will include at least [...]
Reviewer Dana Wollman of the Associated Press writes that the Mac App Store “has made downloading software on a Mac computer as easy as it is on an iPhone.” Wollman calls the Mac App Store “revolutionary,” noting that it “has encouraged software developers to create apps no one ever thought of before and encouraged consumers [...]