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Rumor: Apple Watch 2 to retain similar appearance to first gen model, will feature larger battery

The current rumor has it that the Apple Watch 2 will look pretty much the same but run for a longer period of time. And that’s a decent thing. Apple’s second-generation Watch is unlikely to see any external changes, a Thursday morning report from South Korea suggests, with the company instead focusing on tightening up […]

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Apple confirms existence of “Applebot” web crawler, says program indexes the Web for Siri, Spotlight

Sometimes it’s the Web traffic logs that really let you know what Apple is up to. Last fall, a number of webmasters began seeing web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17, an IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Apple has now officially confirmed in a support document that it is operating its […]

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Mozilla to discontinue support for Firefox under Leopard this October

Ya gotta upgrade sometime. Per Macworld, Mozilla will drop support for Apple’s OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers. “We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17,” said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox platform group, in a message last […]

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Retina Display MacBook Pro battery more expensive than previous iterations

Apple’s new Retina Display MacBook Pro may be snazzy, but it isn’t cheap to fix if the battery fails. Per Macworld, the battery on the current model has been priced at 54 percent more expensive than the previous iteration. Apple updated the pricing list for MacBook battery replacements, showing that servicing the new model’s battery […]

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Rumor: Apple expected to phase out 17-inch MacBook Pro in upcoming hardware generation

The 17-inch MacBook Pro had a great run, but it may not be long for this world. Per AppleInsider, With a new MacBook lineup said to be on the way, Apple is expected to discontinue its 17-inch MacBook Pro this year, and might even ax the Pro lineup entirely in favor of the “new MacBook” […]