Speaking at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit on Wednesday, Apple design guru Jony Ive responded to a question about cinematic representations of Steve Jobs, his former friend and colleague, about how you might expect. He’s not a fan.
While Ive says he hasn’t yet seen Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs yet, he knows plenty of people who have, and more importantly he knows what we all suspect every time we sit to watch a two-hour movie about a decades-long life; there’s no way it can encapsulate the whole person.
“I just find it ever so sad,” Ive said to the crowd. “[Jobs] had his triumphs and his tragedies, like us all. And like most of us, he’s having his identity described, defined by a whole bunch of other people. I think that’s a bit of a struggle, personally.”
The “most of us” here, presumably referring to people with enough notoriety to merit lengthy magazine profiles, biographical films, and mean tweets. And rightly so; it’s impossible to capture every nuance of a life in such a short amount of time, in a single medium, or maybe even at all. Still, Ive might want to give Sorkin’s effort a try; it may not let us know Jobs in any meaningful way, but it surely helps us understand him.
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This is Apple’s newest spaceship. Or at least it will be, once the ink dries and construction begins. The new Sunnyvale campus, named Central & Wolfe for the streets that border it, is reportedly the latest in Apple’s big land grab and building craze. This campus is situated five miles from where Apple’s new main campus in Cupertino is being built. It’s designed, notably, not by original spaceship architects Foster + Partners but by the studio HOK, who designed Apple’s current offices at 1 Infinite Loop. There’s no news on when construction will begin or what the buildings will be used for, but we have the first renderings of the massive space (HOK didn’t respond to a request for comment).
Renderings of the plan show Apple transforming nine buildings from an old, ’70s-era office park into a single curving building that looks like a three-leaf clover. The six story, 770,000 square-foot building has nary a straight line in sight, save for the outline of the main courtyard that you can look out onto from Apple store-esque curved glass windows. The clover leaf sections also open onto individual courtyards with the hope, we presume, to bring the some 4,000 computer-obsessed employees who will be working in this building closer to nature. In total, the plan calls for 90,000 square-feet of accessible green space.
It appears that Apple is doubling down on its spaceship aesthetic. The company is so committed to its curvilinear form factor that there’s even a website celebrating the fact that the building isn’t a box. You can see this same aesthetic creeping across technology companies (see also: Google’s flexible, transparent canopied headquarters). These more organic shapes could be a way to imbue a warmth into an otherwise high tech environment. It’s been found that the human brain simply finds curves to be more aesthetically pleasing than hard, straight lines. There’s also the fact that, for the first time, we’re actually able to build these curving structures from glass, thanks to improved glass manufacturing technology. Whatever the reason, it’s probably safe to assume that we’re going to be seeing a lot more curving, sinewy architecture in the future.
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Your Mac’s latest makeover, OS X El Capitan, is finally available for download right here. You should download it for new features like split screen apps and (finally!) transit directions in Maps, but also because it’s the biggest push yet toward the gradual unification of OS X and iOS.
Or, you know, hold off until that first update comes through, the one that fixes all the bugs. Either way, Apple’s desktop future is once again yours for the taking.
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Just as surely as the leaves fall from the trees, selling a record number of new iPhones has become an autumn tradition for Apple.
Today the company said it that it had sold more than 13 million new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models over this past opening weekend (Foursquare called it). This is—you guessed it—a new record all over again, tearing past last fall’s record of more than 10 million.
Apple must have a fill-in-the-blank template for such press releases by now. “Sales for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have been phenomenal, blowing past any previous first weekend sales results in Apple’s history,” Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said in a statement this go-around. “Customers’ feedback is incredible and they are loving 3D Touch and Live Photos.”
(Here’s Cook in Apple’s post-iPhone launch weekend press release last September: “Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn’t be happier.”)
The latest iPhones got a boost from launching in China the same weekend as it launched in the US. China is the world’s largest smartphone market, representing 30 percent of global smartphone sales, and it’s still where iPhone sales are growing fastest. Saturation in the Chinese smartphone market means fewer first-time buyers. But the demand for upgrades as China transitions to 4G technology makes the iPhone a coveted purchase.
Deviating from its usual practice, Apple also gave buyers an extra week to pre-order the new iPhone models ahead of their actual appearance in stores—two weeks instead of the usual one. The extra time presumably meant more sales, which made it easier for Apple to boast a bigger number.
As in the past, it’s reasonable to believe this big number will get bigger. Apple said today that it would sell the 6S and 6S Plus in additional territories starting October 9. The new models, the company said, will be available in more than 130 countries by the end of 2015.
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Apple is a notoriously tight-lipped company, a reticence that leaves the public hungry for any clues that promise glimpses of its secrets. The latest: Foursquare claims it can mine its trove of foot traffic data around Apple Stores to predict this weekend’s sales of Apple’s iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, which were released today.
“Combining Foursquare’s foot traffic with Apple’s sales data on a graph shows how closely the two are linked,” Jeff Glueck, Foursquare’s chief operating officer, writes in a blog post on Medium. Increased traffic, Glueck says, is a strong signal of how the phones will sell over the weekend
Based on these analysis, Foursquare predicts launch day traffic will more than quadruple from preceding weeks (a jump of 360 percent), which should translate to record sales of 13 to 15 million iPhones. Last year, Apple sold more than 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets during the first weekend (the current record) after Foursquare says foot traffic increased by 330 percent.
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Foursquare told WIRED the company believes it has “the best location data in the industry,” as does Glueck: “We believe this is the world’s best ‘panel’ of global foot traffic,” he writes, “and is a strong enough sample size to be a strong indicator of sales overall.” But the company does warn that foot traffic is only one facet of predicting sales. Foursquare acknowledges that it’s drawing inferences without access to pre-order data from Apple.com, carrier websites, and other online retail sites selling the iPhone this weekend.
Lines outside the door of iPhone retailers doesn’t always appear to tell you much about how well a new phone will sell, as Walt Piecyk, an analyst with BTIG Research, demonstrated pretty well this morning in his Twitter feed with pictures of stores with small or no lines—mostly storefronts for the major carriers. “As we state every year, counting the number of people in line does not provide enough evidence to properly formulate estimates,” Piecyk wrote today. Piecyk did hypothesize, however, that shorter lines than in previous years were likely due to including China in the initial launch, meaning would-be resellers didn’t have to line up to get their hands on phones for wannabe-early adopters overseas. Phones were also available to pre-order for a longer period of time, he said.
“We aren’t claiming a causation at all, what we have observed is a tight correlation,” Foursquare tells WIRED.
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As data scientists try to divine Apple’s secrets from an array of signals Around the issue of device sales, Apple is likely to keep doing what it does: releasing data when it suits them, and staying silent otherwise. The company has already said its new iPhones are selling like mad. These days, in the world of Apple, predicting success is a low-stakes bet.
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It’s iPhone day! Which means you can finally get your grubby hands on a
pink
Rose Gold iPhone. If you took the day off to stand in line to pick it up, that is. If your reservation appointment is still upcoming and you simply do not have the time to go and handle the iPhone acquisition yourself, you have options.
TaskRabbit
Everyone’s favorite errand app is a obvious go-to for iPhone pick-up assistance. A quick search of Taskers in the San Francisco area suggests prices range from $20 to $80 an hour, but it will depend on your area.
Craigslist
Surf to Craigslist and navigate to your respective location. Hit “gigs.” Search “iPhone” + “line.” Select a willing participant. If nothing shows up, advertise your offer. And then just wait.
Enjoy
Enjoy is a relatively new platform that is akin to a Genius Bar on-the-go. If you have AT&T and live in the Bay Area or New York, Enjoy won’t just deliver you your iPhone, but will also help you set it up and answer any questions you have. (They cannot explain why the new emoji didn’t ship with iOS 9, sorry.)
Sprint
Are you currently a Sprint customer or want to become one? Didn’t preorder an iPhone? Don’t care about getting it ASAP? Yes, that’s a lot of qualifiers, but if they are all true, then Sprint’s Direct 2 You service is a great option. A Sprint “expert” will hand deliver your phone to you, wherever you are, and help you transfer all your data from your old phone to the new one. Sprint says that right now, customers who call to make Direct 2 You appointments today by 3pm CT can have their iPhone delivered tomorrow.
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Customers wait for the opening of the first Apple store in Brussels, Belgium September 18, 2015. FRANCOIS LENOIR/Reuters/Corbis
Apple opens new stores all the time, but this one, which opened Saturday in Brussels, is special: It was designed by Sir Jony Ive himself.
We knew an Ive-ified store was coming. A profile published February in The New Yorker noted that Ive had “begun to work with [Angela] Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice-president of retail, on a redesign—as yet unannounced—of the Apple Stores.” A few months later, news of Ive’s promotion to chief design officer indicated he would play a larger role in the design of Apple’s retail spaces.
What we didn’t know (but probably should have predicted) was that Ive’s first store would boast some of the most impressive work in glass manufacturing to date. The store walls are made of 26-feet tall, floor-to-ceiling glass panels, a few of which are even curved, to round out the building’s corners. Apple has been pushing the limits on what it can construct with glass for a while. In terms of engineering, this is a leap ahead of what the company did for its store in Hangzhou, China, where the 50-feet-high panels of glass already represented some serious sweat. It’s also a small hint of what’s to come at Apple’s new donut-shaped Cupertino headquarters, which will be made almost entirely of concave glass panels—the ultimate expression of these new manufacturing techniques.
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Imagine that. The iPhone is still hot.
Apple started accepting preorders for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus last weekend, and says the new phones are “on pace” to beat last year’s record of 10 million units sold on the first weekend of in-store sales. The new phones, which have a couple of significant improvements beyond the fact you can finally get them with a rose gold finish, go on sale in Apple Stores on Sept. 25.
“Customer response to iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has been extremely positive and preorders this weekend were very strong around the world,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller says in a statement. In fact, Apple claims online demand for iPhone 6s Plus has been stronger than expected. But don’t worry. The company promises to have plenty of them available.
The preorders bode well for Cupertino. Some investors have worried about whether Apple, which has a market cap of almost $658 billion, can maintain the sales momentum its cash cow has long enjoyed. While demand for new iPhones appears to remain high, some analysts say sales are “on pace” to beat last year’s record because this is the first time customers in China have been able to pre-order iPhones.
Apple’s momentum ultimately will depend on whether it can continue beating last year’s record numbers, or if the people who wanted new phones already have preordered them. Investors seem appeased for now. Apple stock rose as much as 2.68 percent on Monday, closing at $115.31.
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Apple’s legal battle against Samsung still isn’t over.
Next year, the two companies will face off over damages in the fourth jury trial spawned by Apple’s 2011 lawsuit alleging Samsung infringed on Apple’s smartphone patents. The series of suits and counter-suits that ensued culminated in an import ban on certain older model Samsung products in 2013. Next year’s trial, to be held in March or April, will be held to award damages for the infringement of Apple patents by Samsung products, including the Galaxy S Showcase and Vibrant, according to a scheduling order spotted by Ars Technica.
And it won’t even be the first trial on damages. A judge originally ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1.05 billion, but the amount was later slashed to $600 million.
The irony is that despite being fierce competitors in the smartphone space, Apple and Samsung are also heavily dependent on each other. Apple still relies heavily on Samsung parts, such as processors and displays, despite years of trying to find alternate vendors. Samsung, meanwhile, relies on Apple for much of its manufacturing revenue. Putting this case behind them will be good for both companies.
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Apple’s September 9 invites are out, and as per usual, the Cupertino company is teasing us with a sort of-clue. The “Hey Siri, give us a hint” line likely points toward something to do with voice activation. But instead of just guessing, why not just ask Siri that exact question, right?
So we did, and here’s the response.
Molly McHugh
How rude.
This isn’t her only answer, though. Siri has plenty of lip for anyone asking what’s happening September 9.
So I asked Siri what Apple is going to announce. Her response is priceless. pic.twitter.com/GY6Vq4OQPN
— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) August 27, 2015
so I did what the apple invite said and it made a bud light/tostitos joke fml pic.twitter.com/WPowf7ZBwh — Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) August 27, 2015
What Siri told me when I asked for a hint. pic.twitter.com/bzTrcjb5nS — Mary Catherine (@mcwellons) August 27, 2015
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— John Herrman (@jwherrman) August 27, 2015
And a personal favorite:
“Hey Siri, Give me a hint” apples event September the 9th! pic.twitter.com/p8zUW1YZNw
— Callum Willis (@callumwillis23) August 27, 2015
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It’s official: Wednesday (not Tuesday!) September 9 is the Apple event. Things kick off at 10am at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, a cavernous venue in SF’s city center that holds thousands of people. WIRED will be there—albeit somewhat begrudgingly because c’mon, that’s the Wednesday after Labor Day Weekend! We’re supposed to ease out of vacation mode, right?
We’re of course expecting the next iPhone. But that invitation graphic hints at something larger, too. Here are some Hipchat-crowdsourced guesses as to what the image could be hinting at:
• “What if the iPhone 6 is just a microphone?”
• Apple TV voice control
• Footballs in the ocean
• Almonds
• An Apple-branded Nexus Q
See you September 9!
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After some haxx… Custom watch faces on Apple Watch!
Watch face source code is on GitHub:
https://t.co/7ZvOz8nK34 pic.twitter.com/nQGJKlp6kt
— Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) August 18, 2015
A hacker on Twitter seems to have figured out the watch face on his Apple Watch, and has done some tweaking. The video shows watch faces that are a bit livelier than the default Apple ones. He has also provided a link to his source code, so you too can do some customizing.
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Earlier this month, Verizon joined the ranks of T-Mobile by giving up selling two-year contracts, and now Sprint will do the same. Instead of locking customers into two-year contracts, Sprint will keep service and data plans on a month-to-month basis. This is meant to supplement their new iPhone Forever plan, in which customers lease their iPhones and pay a monthly fee of $22 in addition to paying for data. If customers stick to the iPhone Forever plan, they’ll be able to upgrade to the latest iPhone when it becomes available. Last year, Sprint began offering a cellphone lease option, and according to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint says 51 percent of customers bought a new phone last year using this option. The iPhone Forever program is likely a reaction to the success of its leasing program.
Two-year contracts have appealed to customers because they offer the option to upgrade to a new phone at the beginning of a contract. But as companies phase out these contracts, the way people buy new phones may also change. With Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile getting rid of their contracts, AT&T is the only major U.S. carrier that will offer smartphone upgrades every two years. Whether or not AT&T will follow this trend is yet to be seen, but chances are it isn’t far behind.
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Apple Music was full of many confusing things, but none so frustrating as the absence of “shuffle all.” Sure, not actual absence, but the function is so buried it might as well be missing altogether. Happily, one redditor noticed that Apple is bringing it back to front and center. In the most recent version of the iOS 9 public beta, “shuffle all” now sits at the top of the Apple Music screen, making it way, way easier to mix all your music.
Seriously, thank you Apple. It’s back where it belongs.
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Four years ago, an Apple patent surfaced that outlined how the consumer electronics company might become something called an MVNO. Rumors to that effect have persisted for years, most recently resurfacing this week at Business Insider. Apple swatted the latest aside, telling CNBC that it hasn’t discussed and isn’t planning anything of the sort. And that’s a shame, because it absolutely should.
MVNO may sound like an obscure pharmaceutical stock ticker symbol, but it stands for “mobile virtual network operator,” which is admittedly still pretty inscrutable. In practice, though, it’s very straightforward, explains telecom industry analyst Jeff Kagan.
“An MVNO is simply a reseller,” says Kagan. “It’s a company who strikes up an agreement with a wireless network to sell wireless service without owning their own networks.”
Think of it as Costco, but for wireless service. In the same way that your favorite bulk toilet paper provider repackages name-brand cereal for its Kirkland Signature private label, MVNOs like Republic Wireless (Sprint) and MetroPCS (T-Mobile) are simply selling you access to a larger carrier’s network, often for less than their affiliated providers charge.
Take, for instance, Straight Talk, an MVNO owned by TracFone and available in Walmart retail locations. Straight Talk piggybacks on both GSM (T-Mobile, AT&T) and DCMA (Verizon, Sprint) networks, while offering an unlimited talk, text, and data plan for $45 per month, a significant discount compared to any of the big four carriers supplying the bandwidth. It’s able to do so in part because it’s bought up wholesale access to those networks on the cheap, and in part because the scale enabled by its Walmart partnership makes thin margins more feasible.
The other way MVNOs make money? No overhead. “They have no network to invest in, so there’s very little capital expense” explains Iain Gillott, president of iGR, a research firm that specializes in the wireless and mobile industry. That freedom from having to build and maintain massive networks also enables MVNOs to seek out very specific audiences. “Since they do not have to invest in networks, they can afford to target niches,” Gillott goes on. “Prices are usually better, or at least they offer more value for similar dollars, but often MVNOs will not offer the same range of services.”
Republic Wireless and Straight Talk and MetroPC may be the best-known MVNOs (TracFone alone has around 30 million subscribers), but the one that may be most relevant to Apple-oriented speculation is one of the smallest, and most recent: Google’s Project Fi.
High-Fi
Google launched Project Fi this past April. Next to more established MVNOs, it operates on an infinitesimal scale, available only on the company’s flagship Nexus 6 smartphone. What Project Fi lacks in breadth, though, it makes up for in innovation. More importantly, it provides a blueprint for any similar ambitions Apple might have.
Project Fi offers a few features that are hard to come by among traditional carriers. Chief among those, and most common to MVNO, is a more competitive pricing scheme. In this case, you pay $20 per month for unlimited talk, text, Wi-Fi tethering, and international coverage, and then an additional $10 per month for each GB of data you use. Crucially, though, you only pay for what you actually consume; chew through 1.5GB in a month you paid for 2GB, and you get $5 credited back to your account.
The real key to Project Fi, though, is that Google bought up network access from both T-Mobile and Sprint. Whichever network is more reliable where you are in that moment, that’s the one to which your phone will connect. “Not all carriers are good in all places,” explains Gillott, “but in each market, a few carriers are very good. The problem is that they vary.” By hedging its network bets—and offering a seamless Wi-Fi to cellular handoff—Project Fi phones are better steeled against dropped calls and fuzzy connections than phones that rely on a single network.
Sounds good! But why so small? In part because it’s an entirely new business for Google, and a small pilot program helps determine whether it’s worth a more aggressive push. It also, though, doesn’t necessarily need huge scale to be effective. “I look at Google Fi in the same way as Google Fiber,” says Gillott, referencing Google’s equally disruptive, small-scale broadband play. “Has it had any operating impact on AT&T, Verizon, and the cable companies? No, but the fear of Google Fiber did make all the broadband folks sit up and invest in their networks. I get 100 Mbps from TWC for the same price I used to pay for 15 Mbps.” Similarly, the mere threat of an expanding Project Fi could potentially effect change among the big four U.S. carriers.
It’s worth spending so much time on Project Fi because this is the exact lens through which Apple would be looking at an MVNO of its own: A chance to reshape the unpopular industry on which its most important product relies.
Apple the MVNO
“Apple has been playing with the MVNO idea for years,” says Forrester Research analyst Dan Bieler. “Ultimately, it is about a power struggle with the telcos.”
The impetus for that kind of grappling should be apparent to anyone who’s ever spent time on hold with Verizon, or waded through fine print mined with early termination fees. Apple is popular. Carriers are not. So why cede so much of your customer’s iPhone experience to the latter?
It’s not a small gap, either. In the 2014 American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Apple ranked 15th overall, and just narrowly second (behind Amazon) among technology companies. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint all sit near the bottom, while Verizon managed to split the difference, likely thanks to its perennially reliable coverage.
Selling iPhones, then, must often feel like serving filet mignon in an Arby’s. No wonder Apple has been rumored to seek a way out. Especially one with such a relatively low barrier to entry.
“You can get into the wireless business overnight at low cost by being an MVNO and seeing if it works,” says Kagan.
If and when Apple changes its mind, you could expect it to follow the Project Fi model with a few improvements. It could tap into all four major U.S. network providers, providing even more comprehensive coverage than Google’s two-network MVNO. Apple could leverage its existing customer service chops to ease those common carrier pain points. It already has your credit card on file, which would streamline the billing process.
Most important, though, it would have the opportunity to reshape the arcane pricing labyrinth that makes negotiating the current cellular landscape such a pain.
“The more Apple can control the customer relationships, data collection, and revenue generation, the greater its influence will be… the emerging digital ecosystems,” explains Bieler. “I think Apple’s real intention is to force the traditional telcos to offer more competitive data and voice plans.”
And as counterintuitive as it may sound, the entrenched carriers may very well let it. “They’re frenemies,” says Kagan. “It’s the way the industry operates. On the one hand you’re partners, on the other hand you’re competitors. It’s been that way forever.”
It’s safe to assume that the maker of the world’s most popular high-end smartphone has plenty of leverage. You don’t even really need to assume, though; Apple’s already introduced a carrier-rankling iPad SIM card that lets you switch between AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint data plans at will. There’s been some blowback (if you purchase an iPad direct from the carrier, the SIM will likely come locked down), but clearly not enough to dissuade Apple from pushing forward.
Apple may be waving off the idea of an MVNO for now. It shouldn’t. Not if it wants what’s best for Apple, for its customers, and for anyone with a data plan.
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City of Cupertino
Visitors to Apple’s new Cupertino campus will get a ringside view of the action. According to plans the company filed with the City of Cupertino, the mostly glass visitor’s center will include a rooftop observation deck, where Apple fans making the Cupertino pilgrimage can gaze upon the rest of Norman Foster’s design.
The last time we got a good look at the plans for Apple’s new spaceship-esque headquarters in Cupertino, we saw one rendering that hinted at a design for a visitor’s center, but details were scant.
Now we have more intel: The center will include a 2,300-square-foot café and a 10,000-square-foot retail space, Cupertino’s first Apple store. According to an aerial shot of construction, it sits a few blocks southeast of the looping building. Apple has not yet responded to our request for comment.
The 2.8-million-square-foot donut-shaped Apple Campus 2 will be one of the most futuristically engineered buildings in the world, with floor-to-ceiling concave glass walls and a park designed by Apple’s own arborist. But until the campus and its visitor center open, we’ll have to be satisfied with surreptitious drone footage.
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On Apple Music users:
“Millions and millions.”
On iPhone customer satisfaction versus competitors’ customer satisfaction:
“[A] huge margin.”
On iPhone loyalty rate versus competitors’ loyalty rate:
“I see an enormous gap there.”
On iPhone numbers in countries including Russia and China:
“Very very high numbers.”
On iPhone growth rate in particular locations:
“Places where our growth rates are particularly strong.”
On Beats 1:
“Millions of listeners are tuning into Beats 1.”
On Apple Watch sales:
“[They] exceeded expectations.”
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Apple Music
If you’ve updated your iPhone recently, you may have noticed the iTunes logo was replaced by the brand spanking new Apple Music icon. It’s not just an aesthetic difference, of course, but what’s inside. And what’s inside is not necessarily all that easy to navigate, especially when it comes to accessing your own library of music that moved over from iTunes with you.
One, very important function that users are having trouble finding is “shuffle all.” Whether you’re in a specific playlist or even just want to listen to all of your music, “shuffle all” is seemingly no where to be found—and that’s because technically, it isn’t there at all anymore. In order to shuffle your music, you need to simply choose a song and wait for it to start playing and take over your screen. Then, make sure the shuffle icon is turned on.
Another easy hack? Tell Siri “shuffle all my music.”
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Yesterday, the bravest among us downloaded the iOS 9 beta—if you were one of them, then you may have noticed the worst thing ever about the iPhone keyboard has been addressed. The shift key no longer turns black or gray to indicate if you’re in caps or lowercase; now when you hit shift, the actual letters in the keyboard will be lowercase or caps. Revolutionary? No. A big deal? Definitely.
Shift key is fixed by using lower-case letters in iOS 9 pic.twitter.com/nlwKCGgvdB
— Harry Souris (@hsouris) June 9, 2015
The update was announced at WWDC, but now it’s finally here. You can enjoy it if you download the iOS 9 beta now (recommended for secondary devices only, given that it’s not a finalized build) or wait until the update is officially released.
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