Christopher Lee

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Siri catches up with Google in an important respect

Siri catches up with Google in an important respect

Christopher Lee · Aug 28, 2019

It’s public knowledge that, until now, Siri has been lagging way behind its competitors. According to the latest news, however, Apple has recently introduced a novel feature known as “Web Answers”, which is currently being tested in the US, could make the system a lot more useful. Readers who are familiar with Siri will know […]

Fragile Apple Card not allowed to meet other credit cards

Fragile Apple Card not allowed to meet other credit cards

Christopher Lee · Aug 26, 2019

Apple released Apple Card, its new titanium credit card, in the US this week. Unfortunately, it comes with a list of warnings and special care instructions that makes it decidedly user-unfriendly. To start off with, to clean your Apple card, you should start with a “soft, slightly damp, lint-free microfibre cloth.” This should be followed […]

Contract workers jobless after Apple stops listening to Siri conversations

Contract workers jobless after Apple stops listening to Siri conversations

Christopher Lee · Aug 23, 2019

After the furore that erupted when it became known that Apple was listening to people’s conversations with Siri, the company abruptly stopped this practice. A new report recently revealed that until then, Apple listened to thousands of Siri conversations. The third-party contractors who had to rate Siri requests had to listen to over a thousand […]

iPhone 11 will include USB-C charger, says new report

iPhone 11 will include USB-C charger, says new report

Christopher Lee · Aug 22, 2019

Rumours have been doing the rounds for some time now that Apple plans to switch to USB-C on its iPhones. A previous prediction that it will start with the 2018 iPhone range turned out to be incorrect. A new report now claims that the soon-to-be-released iPhone 11 will come with a USB-C charger. This suggests […]

Latest version of iOS reopens old security flaw

Latest version of iOS reopens old security flaw

Christopher Lee · Aug 21, 2019

Owners of Apple devices that run on iOS have been cautioned to take cybersecurity particularly seriously over the next couple of days. This follows Apple accidentally reopening an old security bug in the latest version of the operating system. In last month’s release of iOS 12.4, Apple patched a couple of security loopholes, and also […]

App developers call certain iOS 13 changes anti-competitive behaviour

App developers call certain iOS 13 changes anti-competitive behaviour

Christopher Lee · Aug 20, 2019

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has received a letter from a group of app developers who believe that their businesses will be hurt by specific privacy-related updates to Apple’s iOS 13. They accuse the firm of anti-competitive behaviour over new restrictions on the way that apps are allowed to access users’ location data. Apple argues that […]

Leaks reveal everything you wanted to know about iPhone 11

Leaks reveal everything you wanted to know about iPhone 11

Christopher Lee · Aug 19, 2019

Just about every possible detail about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 11 has been leaked. In a joint effort, XDA-Developers’ Max Weinbach and YouTuber Filip Koroy confirmed earlier leaks, but also revealed information about Face ID, camera, design and storage upgrades that nobody knew anything about until now. These upgrades might just save an iPhone release that […]

Court hears that Apple stole dual-lens technology from Israeli firm

Court hears that Apple stole dual-lens technology from Israeli firm

Christopher Lee · Aug 16, 2019

Another company is taking Apple to court, this time because its double-lens camera design is allegedly an infringement of patents earlier registered by Israeli camera tech company Corephotonics. Just before the end of 2017, Corephotonics took Apple to court, claiming that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8’s dual-lens camera system violated patents it registered earlier. […]

More students can now add student IDs to Apple Wallet

More students can now add student IDs to Apple Wallet

Christopher Lee · Aug 15, 2019

During the new school year in the US, well over 100,000 students will be able to carry their student IDs on either an Apple Watch or an iPhone. The list includes Georgetown University, Clemson University, University of Kentucky, University of Tennessee, University of Vermont, University of San Francisco, South Dakota State University, Arkansas State University, […]

FAA bans MacBook Pros with faulty batteries from all flights

FAA bans MacBook Pros with faulty batteries from all flights

Christopher Lee · Aug 14, 2019

Airline safety regulators in the US have banned certain MacBook Pro laptops from flights. This comes after Apple recently warned that some of these devices posed a fire risk because of faulty batteries. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement that it was “aware of the recalled batteries” in specific Apple MacBook […]

Apple Card does not offer web-based payments or enquiries

Apple Card does not offer web-based payments or enquiries

Christopher Lee · Aug 13, 2019

According to Apple, its new credit card was specially designed to be transparent and simple. It now seems that it was also designed to make sure that the cardholder always owns an iPhone or iPad. Apple Card offers no paper statements. You have to access everything – from balances to transaction histories, payments and previous […]

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