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Apple releases iTunes 12.2.1 update

If you were hoping for an iTunes update that resolved some of the recently-introduced bugs, this is it. Late Monday, Apple released iTunes 12.2.1. The new version, a 232.8 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixes an issue for iTunes Match where iTunes incorrectly changed some songs from Matched to Apple Music.

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AppleCare Hardware MacBook Pro News

“Staingate” controversy gains traction, cites Apple as responsible for screen coating damage on Retina display notebooks

This is pretty much the digital version of the local peasantry showing up at your front door with torches and pitchforks. A small number of Retina MacBook Pro owners are calling for Apple to replace or repair their notebooks after discovering what appears to be irreparable damage to an antireflective screen coating layer, a problem […]

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Apple apparently co-designing third-party accessory packaging for Apple Store locations

Your product’s packaging has to look pretty enough to be on an Apple Store shelf. And Apple will help you with that. A series of redesigned packages for several Mophie battery packs were recently spotted at an Apple Store in Japan. The boxes match the style used for Apple’s own products, with large images and […]

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Finance iPhone News

Report shows Apple taking 92% of smartphone industry profits on 20% market share

There’s market share and there’s profits. And Apple seems to be gobbling up 92 percent of the latter. A report released by Canaccord Genuity indicate that Apple takes 92 percent of the profits for the entire smartphone industry despite accounting for only 20% of sales.