Comment: Apple's Spring Loaded Event – The Good the Bad... And Almost No Ugly

We've taken a quick peek at what Microsoft has planned for this year. Microsoft has promised a visual makeover – and as has now become known, this means removal of relics from Windows 95 leftover inside the current OS.

iMessage is indeed a fixed component of iOS, however, most iPhone users worldwide prefer messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. iMessage isn't available for Android smartphones or Windows. A court document now provides Apple's reasoning behind this decision.

There's been a recent trend started on FaceTime: spam group calls. Unfortunately, users can't limit incoming FaceTime calls to their contacts, and stopping an incoming group call requires blocking every participant. Those affected are often called by groups with 12 participants or more.

Following updates to iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS, a long-awaited big update has finally made its way to macOS – the second major update to macOS Big Sur, macOS 11.2, is now available.

Another large evening update is on the way, as Apple readies multiple new system versions for release. These include updates to iPhone, and iPad, as well as the Apple Watch, the Apple TV – and even older hardware. macOS 11.2 has yet to be released but should be on the way.

For the user, it's entirely simple – they snap a photo and it appears in the Photos app, where it can be viewed, sorted, or searched for. However, there's an entire process behind this function, as explained by a very interesting "white paper" from Apple. In this article, the roles that analysis and machine learning take in the process.

The aged iTunes-Suite is no longer a part of macOS since macOS 10.15 Catalina and has been chopped up into individual, specialized apps. Windows is now threatened with the same fate, a sign that the end-days are nigh for iTunes, with the software now potentially becoming history once and for all.

In 2010 Apple wanted to release a social network directed at music fans and performers. Ping’s promising start was followed by disillusionment, as the majority of users largely ignored the service, for multiple reasons.