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Legendary Apple designer Bart Andre to retire, cost-cutting efforts leading to “unrest” inside design team

Sometimes even the legends move on. Bloomberg has reported that Apple’s longest-running senior designer, Bart Andre, is retiring. Andre, who joined Apple in 1992, worked with Jony Ive and his team, his departure marking “the near-complete turnover” of Ive’s former design team. Andre announced his plans to retire this month. His departure is a significant […]

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Rumor: 10th-gen iPads, complete with significant design changes, currently in production

Apple’s 10th-generation iPad is apparently in production, complete with “major” design changes. Per DigiTimes, the entry-level iPad is purported to be gaining a faster A14 Bionic chip as well as 5G support for cellular models. Other devices with the A14 chip include the fourth-generation iPad Air and all four iPhone 12 models. Apple is said […]

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FCC opens 3.5GHz spectrum band for consumer use

It’s been six years of collaboration, but the FCC has finally unlocked the 3.5GHz spectrum, aka the “OnGo” band, for consumer use. Prior to this, the 3.5GHz spectrum had been exclusively used by the U.S. Department of Defense for naval purposes alongside the coast. It will still be able to use the spectrum but now it […]

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Apple signs 10-year lease for 300,000+ square feet of industrial manufacturing space, reasons for expansion currently unknown

Apple has apparently signed a 10-year lease on 313,978 square feet of industrial manufacturing space in Milpitas, California. While it’s not yet known what Apple intends to do with the space, as it could be used for manufacturing, research and development, or warehousing needs. This also comes at a strange time frame for Apple, especially […]

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iFixit announces DIY MacBook Pro Retina Battery Fix Kits

This will come in handy. The cool cats at iFixit have come up with a fix to the issue pertaining to Retina display MacBook Pros that have plagued the notebook since their release in 2012: Inordinate amounts of glue holding the battery in place that make it next to impossible to replace. As such, iFixit […]