The German government has announced a change in policy over the weekend, and now favors the Apple/Google contact tracing approach for the coronavirus over the rival one proposed by the European Union. Apple, meantime, is pushing an alternative term designed to emphasize the benefits over the methodology … Germany had so far backed the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT). This works in a similar way to the Apple/Google API, but with one crucial difference: instead of Bluetooth codes being stored locally on your phone, they would be uploaded to a central database....

Kicking off the WWDC 2018 keynote today, Tim Cook announced some updates on App Store progress. There are now 20 million Apple developers creating apps. Another big milestone, Apple has now paid out $100B in revenue to developers. We’ve seen several reports of how the App Store redesign that came with iOS 11 has improved traffic and downloads. We’re sure to learn more about how iOS 12 will continue this trend to provide a better experience for developers and users alike as the keynote and WWDC 2018 continues....

Apple has been celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day all week, highlighting its Accessibility features and sharing the stories of those who use them. To cap off its celebrations, Apple yesterday held a concert at its headquarters with Stevie Wonder… Apple held the concert as part of its annual “Beer Bash” festivities, which in the past have featured artists such as Pharrell Williams and Zane Lowe. A plethora of images have emerged on social media showing the gathering of Apple executives and employees for the concert, which was kept a surprise until the day of....

As the clock officially turns to summer, we are starting to inch closer to the iPhone 14 Pro Max release date, and the rest of the iPhone 14 lineup. When will the iPhone 14 Pro Max be released? Head below for what we know so far… iPhone 14 Pro Max features Following a relatively modest year-over-year upgrade with the iPhone 12 to the iPhone 13, we are expecting some more significant changes with the iPhone 14 this year....

Apex Legends is gearing up for its Grand Soiree Arcade event this month, which is adding new game modes and some very dapper looking character skins. Apex Legends was developed by Respawn Entertainment and launched on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One last February. The game was a total surprise for the gaming community as there was no prior marketing or announcement before the game released and most assumed that Respawn was working on another Titanfall title....

In this episode of the Apple @ Work podcast, Nilay Patel from Backblaze discusses its new integration with Vultr, and why businesses should be considering a multi-cloud life. Sponsored by Direct Mail: Bring the power of email marketing to your internal communications, with Direct Mail for Mac. Create, track, and securely send right from your desktop. Request a free trial today! Sponsored by Kandji: A modern, cloud-based platform to manage and secure your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices....

Apple and a number of other companies have filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of affirmative action programs being challenged at some universities. Apple and the other companies say “diverse groups make better decisions.” As explained by Bloomberg, the Supreme Court is set to rule on a pair of affirmative action cases. These will mark the first affirmative action cases since conservatives gained a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court....

Apple on Tuesday announced the winners of the 2021 Apple Music Award, which is an annual award that chooses the best artists who have excelled with their songs during the year. The third Apple Music Award names The Weeknd as Artist of the Year, while Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R., and Wizkid are also on the list. The Canadian R&B and pop singer The Weeknd has been chosen Artist of the Year as Apple says he “took over popular music and culture on his own terms....

At its education event, Apple has announced new versions of its iWork suite. Updates to Pages, Keynote and Numbers for iPad will bring rich integration with Apple Pencil. Pages will also integrate book authoring features, as a replacement for the iBooks Author Mac app. With the new updates, users will be able to add drawings and annotations to Keynote, Numbers and Pages documents just by writing on it with the Apple Pencil stylus....

Apple announced its 2012 Apple Design Award winners this afternoon at Moscone West after the opening keynote. Apple opened this year’s award nominations in late April, but today we get a look at who won. The winners received a hefty load of prizes, including: a special lanyard to commemorate the event, a new MacBook Air, a new third-generation iPad, an iPod touch, and the good-looking ADA trophy seen in the image above....

Apple is making some big improvements for gamers in the coming releases of iOS and OS X, and not just the new standardized gaming controllers we told you about previously. Not only is Apple introducing enhanced leaderboards, improved challenge modes, and new turn-based gaming features, it is also providing developers with tools to combat and prevent cheating. Head below for details on everything Apple is doing in iOS 7 to improve the gaming experience…...

Last week Apple posted a video showing how the calligraphy mural painted at one of its upcoming Chinese retail outlets was created just days before that store opened to the public. Today the company has posted a new video of a second mural, this time at its new Chongqing location. The store features a unique cylindrical entrance, and Apple commissioned two artists—a China-based painter and US-based photographer—to collaborate on the artwork....

The popular high-intensity rhythm game and Apple Design Award-winner, Thumper: Pocket Edition is landing on Apple Arcade this Friday, October 1. First spotted by Engadget, Apple listed Thumper: Pocket Edition as the next big title coming to its gaming service. Selling for $4.99 on the App Store, Thumper is almost sure to be a hit on Apple Arcade. After first landing back in 2017, the hit rhythm game won an Apple Editors’ Choice Award and Apple Design Award....

After unveiling the new iPad at today’s event, Apple officially confirmed it would continue selling the iPad 2. The entry-level 16GB Wi-Fi-only iPad 2 will get a price drop to $399. The Wi-Fi+3G model will sell for $529. The price drops will presumably take effect immediately, because preorders for the new iPad begin today. Apple March 7th iPad event Liveblog (9to5mac.com) Apple drops 16GB iPad 2 to $399, $529 for Wi-Fi + 3G (9to5mac....

Now this speculation seems set to climb even higher with a source telling Business Insider that Apple engineers have been engaged in frequent trips from Cupertino to China. “A source tells us a system integration engineer friend of his at Apple has been ramping up his travels back and forth between China lately, broadcasting word of his travels over the Internet,” the report claims. What makes this even more interesting is that engineers are currently booked to head to China across the Holiday season, meeting with Apple’s manufacturers out there, presumably Foxconn, who we were earlier told has been contracted to produce 300,000 of the still unannounced tablet-type devices (dubbed ‘Slate’ according to the NYT) each and every month....

After introducing the iPhone 5c last fall in 16GB and 32GB variants at launch, Apple later added a cheaper and admittedly space-constrained version in a number of non-US markets around the globe. Apple’s position on the device’s purpose was that it offers a more attractive price while still offering LTE (unlike the iPhone 4s) in markets where the faster network is well desired. A few weeks ago, The Times of India reported that Apple was poised to introduce the 8GB variant of the iPhone 5c to iPhone buyers in India, and today The Times is reporting that Apple has indeed introduced that cheaper version of the colorful iPhone as was rumored and expected....

From 9to5Toys.com: Apple is using the upcoming London iTunes festival as a convenient excuse to revive its Apple TV iTunes gift card bundle. Beginning today and running through September 30th, all Apple TVs will be accompanied by a $25 iTunes gift card. The iTunes credit can be used to buy apps, music, movies and anything else Apple sells in its digital marketplaces. It cannot be used to purchase physical items or service from the Apple Stores....

Apple Music already offers a three-month free subscription for new users, but now Apple has announced an interesting Christmas deal. As of today until the end of 2019, you can subscribe to Apple Music without paying anything for the first six months. First spotted by Macworld UK, the campaign comes through the Shazam app, which is also owned by Apple. Shazam is a famous app used to identify songs that are playing anywhere, and now its users will have access to a great offer for Apple’s subscription music service....

Apex Legends have been very popular with mobile users as it’s quite an amazing game for smartphone gamers. But in spite of several updates and multiple optimizations done by the game developers, users often face multiple crashing issues with the game. There have been many instances with me as well as my friends where they are playing Apex Legends Mobile, but the game starts Crashing on Android or iOS devices. But most of these crashes are related to game settings and some other factors....

Apple has begun supporting the iDEAL payment method in its App Store. This allows customers to purchase apps with Dutch banks, instead of using a credit or debit card. As reported by Dutch Apple blog iCulture, iDEAL works similarly to iTunes or App Store gift cards in that it only supports adding a balance to your account versus using it to purchase apps individually as a user normally would with a debit or credit card....