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System 7.0.1/early Macintosh emulator now available for download

This is about as true a labor of Mac love and geekiness as it gets. The cool cats over at the Internet Archive have worked out an in-browser emulation engine for early models of the Apple Macintosh. While there are certainly predecessors to the computer desktop paradigm, the introduction of the Macintosh brought it to […]

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Fiksu’s Bay Area usage data points to new iPad models currently in testing

The new iPads are en route. Or at least they’re apparently being tested in the Bay Area. Per mobile marketing firm Fiksu, a number of new iPad models are being tested in the region. This jibes with rumors and a leaked investor note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that indicated that Apple is expected […]

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Apple leads in holiday device activations, down 5 percent year over year

The Christmas gifts have been exchanged, the Chanukah ones are being given this week and it looks like Apple is leading the pack in terms of smartphone activations for the 2016 holidays. This year, 44% of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21%. While Samsung is slowly growing in popularity […]

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Hound app currently in development, could provide rival to Siri, other voice-based assistants

The Hound is en route. Perhaps competing with Android’s Assistant, Cortana and Siri, SoundHound has begun working on Hound for iOS, an app that provides results to spoken inquiries like Siri on iOS.

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Apple raises maximum iOS app size from 2GB to 4GB

Your iOS apps are about to get a lot larger. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Apple on Thursday announced that it is increasing the maximum app size from 2GB to 4GB, letting developers release apps that are up to 4GB in size. The extended limits will likely be useful for high-quality game titles that […]