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This Is What Android Fragmentation Looks Like

We didn’t get a new verision of Android at Google I/O, but it’s not like there weren’t enough already. As Apple pushes on into the beautiful iOS 7 future and brings the lion’s share of its user-base along, there’s still a lot of Android users stuck in a multiple OS-ghettos. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ios-7-everything-you-need-to-know-512269828 Apple’s walking into the…

iOS in the Car Is Putting Apple Behind the Wheel of Your Ride

You shouldn’t text and drive, but iOS in the car is aiming to make phone usage on the go a little less deadly. Powered by Siri—with updates including integration for settings, and (Bing-powered) web searches as well as 3rd party apps like Twitter, and Wikipedia—iOS in the car is about as close to an Apple…

iTunes Radio: Apple’s Pandora Service Is Finally Here.

After boundless speculation over the last year, Apple has finally announced its online streaming and music discovery service. This is how millions of people will listen to music from now on. What we’re looking at here is a Pandora-like radio service that’s built directly into the standard iTunes app across all of Apple’s platforms including,…

AirDrop Is Now Baked Into iOS 7

Sharing is getting just a little bit easier in iOS 7 with the addition of AirDrop. Just like in the latest versions of Mac OS X, you’ll be able to share photos, contacts, notes and the like over a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi network or over Bluetooth. So any item that works with iOS’s share function, can…

The New iOS Safari: Finally More Than 8 Tabs

Just like its OS X big brother, Safari for iOS just got a major overhaul for its new, flat home—an overhaul that suspiciously looks quite a bit like Chrome. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-safari-wants-to-be-your-google-reader-replaceme-512319454 You now get a “smart” search field that brings up your favorites as soon as you tap it, and just like everything it else, it’ll…

iOS 7 Adds Multitasking for All Apps

Until now, multitasking in iOS has been fairly limited. Now, it’s going to work for all apps—and Apple says it’s going to provide background updates to all apps—and Apple says all those background cycles aren’t going to hurt your battery life. Apple’s multitasking is smart—it learns from your habits and updates the apps you use…

This Is What iOS 7 Looks Like in Motion

iOS 7 is here. It’s beautiful. You can cehck out all the details in our main post, but here is some video to see how it looks in action. You really want to see this. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ios-7-everything-you-need-to-know-512269828 There are some crazy details, like the way screens slide in and out of the frame, and how control…

Apple iOS 7: Everything You Need to Know

The new iOS 7 is here. Jony Ive’s first iOS—minimalist, elegant, devoid of the infantile artifice that infected its recent incarnations. It’s pretty impressive. And here’s everything you need to know about it. Here’s a video that summarizes it: Flat design, grid, 3D layers and gestures The iOS interface has been completely revamped. That means…

Apple Takes on Google, Microsoft with iWork for iCloud

Well this makes sense. Apple is trying to make iCloud more useful—a noble pursuit—and is is integrating the service into iWork. The new software suite, iWork for iCloud, works a lot like the old software suite except that everything you do in Pages, Numbers and Keynote happens in a web browser and gets saved in…

Apple Is Making Badass New Mac Pros

Today during the WWDC keynote, we got our first look at what Apple is thinking in terms of the future of Mac Pros. Everyone who said the Mac Pro is dead can just shut up. Here comes a new freaking generation of high-performance computing from Apple, and we couldn’t be more excited. The new Mac…

The New MacBook Air Comes Packing Intel’s Awesome New Processor

Today’s golden children may be iOS 7 and all things software, but that doesn’t mean the actual machines running that software are being tossed to the wayside. Confirming recent rumors and stock shortages, we are officially seeing Apple’s super skinny MacBook Air get a much deserved refresh. https://gizmodo.com/our-wwdc-2013-meta-liveblog-kicks-off-monday-6-10-at-12-511781107 Perhaps most exciting, all MacBook Airs will…

Apple Maps Is Coming to Your Desktop and Calendar’s Losing Its Leather

Apple Maps is getting a pretty little desktop client in the new OSX Mavericks. The desktop client includes the same (steadily improving) offering of 3D-flyover views, and provides you with information cards as you skirt around different locations. And once you find your destination on the desktop, you can shunt it right over to your…

iCloud Finally Looks Like It’s Useful (Updating)

While all the hullabaloo at WWDC is focused on what iOS and OSX look like, we should be more concerned with whether or not they actually work. The late Steve Jobs did say over a decade ago that Apple focuses on not just the aesthetics of its products but also how they actually work: “It’s…

The New Safari: Your Power-Saving Google Reader Replacement

Apple updates Safari every year, but now with the help of Intel’s Haswell processor, they might actually have made something that people will actually want to use. Running at about a third the energy usage of Firefox, way less memory, and 1.44 times faster than Chrome, this might just do it. Definitely the most notable…

Apple Just Fixed the Single Dumbest Thing About OS X

Apple’s OS X 10.9 Mavericks looks nice and shiny and new, in all the ways that new operating systems usually do. But it’s got one big fix for what had been the single stupidest thing in all of OS X for the past two years. That’s multiple displays. https://gizmodo.com/apple-os-x-mavericks-everything-you-need-to-know-512268500 Until now, Apple’s OS X full…

Apple OS X Mavericks: Everything You Need to Know

While iOS 7 was expected to be the star of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) this year, it wasn’t the only operating system getting a significant update. Supposedly codenamed “Cabernet” at headquarters, OS X Mavericks was unveiled on Monday with little fanfare. The specific improvements, however, are designed to improve performance across Apple platforms. So…

Good news AT&T iPhone owners, you’re getting a push-to-talk app, a first for the iPhone in the US! Whether non-corporate customers will be privy to the app is anyone’s guess. The AP has clarified its original story and now says the app will not work unless it’s been properly integrated by both AT&T and its…

7 Bizarre Apple Products That Were Just Too Weird to Exist

You can’t always be at the top your game, and Apple is no exception. As we eagerly await today’s WWDC reveals, it’s fun to remember that for every hit there’s a handful of slightly more questionable ideas that just never quite clicked. Here are the seven of weirdest Apple gadgets that just weren’t good enough…

Apple’s WWDC keynote will be streamed on Apple TV at 1PM ET. Head to the new “Apple Events” channel on the set-top box, grab some popcorn, and see what Cook and co have to offer up. You can also watch it through a browser—but you’ll need to use Opera.

Rumor: This Is What iOS 7 Will Look Like

9to5mac has had been given the chance to look at beta version of iOS 7—which Apple is set to announce later today—and this is what it apparently looks like. The image above is actually a mock-up created by 9to5mac after they saw a phone running the new OS; the source of the leak wouldn’t provide…