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It’s always troubling when a salesman looks into the future and tells me that I’m going to love something. How can he possibly know? It makes me feel so terribly obvious, devoid of secrets and subtlety. Oddly, Apple has decided to use the opportunity of this weekend to tell me why I’m going to love the iPad. How does Apple know ...

A recent analysis of Twitter activity during the debut of Apple and Samsung’s latest smartphones shows a wide difference in how much both products were mentioned. That study, done by Investing Analytics, showed that the iPhone 5 was mentioned in more than five times the number of tweets than the Galaxy S4 on the day of and the day after their respective unveilings. “We believe ...

Apple’s long been at the top of the heap when it comes to making money on one key aspect of its portable devices: storage. That trend continued with this morning’s announcement of a 128GB model of the iPad, a device that costs just a steak dinner short of a full-blown Mac notebook. The new models ring in at $799 for the Wi-Fi only, ...

Your iPhone or iPad may one day be able to resize its display based on the distance from your face. Filed recently with the US Patent and Trademark Office was a new Apple patent application dubbed “Scaling of Visual Content Based Upon User Proximity,” details a method by which the display automatically scales as your face moves toward or away from the device. The content on ...

Apple’s new Lightning specification is living up to its speedy name. Just one month and 11 days after announcing the connector, which replaces its decade-old 30-pin connector on devices like the iPhone, iPod and iPad, Apple has put it into all its relevant products. There is, of course, a cost of the speed. The newly-announced, fourth-generation iPad replaces the 7-month, 7-day-old third-generation model the company ...

Apple was quick to obsolete the “new” chip in the third-generation Retina iPad – not to mentionthe iPad itself. So the question is, why so fast? But before we answer that question, let’s look at some of the improvements. Apple says the A6X “delivers up to twice the CPU [central processing unit] and graphics performance of the A5X chip” — the A5X ...