If you’ve been meaning to take advantage of Apple’s deal on a replacement iPhone battery, then you’d better hurry. It only has a week left to run. The Cupertino, California-based company slashed the cost of its iPhone battery replacement service after admitting last year that it deliberately slowed down some of its handsets to stabilize performance as the battery ages. But Apple plans to revise the cost upward at the start of 2019. Read full story here: iPhone: Apple’s Cut-Price Battery Offer Only Has A Week Left To Run |…
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How Do Apple’s Screen Time And Google Digital Wellbeing Stack Up? | The Verge
Developer conference season is coming to an end with Apple’s WWDC this week, and the main takeaway is that between Google’s “Digital Wellbeing” and Apple’s “Screen Time,” the two biggest smartphone developers are taking some time to discourage smartphone overuse. On the surface, the two companies are taking very similar approaches with the tools they’re offering to present information to users. Apple and Google are both adding new dashboards, with options for more zoomed-out perspectives on how you’re spending your time, along with more granular views of how often you’re…
Read MoreMicrosoft Windows is beating Apple – Business Insider
Microsoft Windows is beating Apple – Business Insider For decades, Microsoft Windows users were locked in a seemingly eternal debate with fans of Apple’s Macs over who had the superior platform — a conflict spurred by the very public rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Around the mid-aughts, things settled into kind of a stable duopoly, as Apple found its niche as the maker of premium hardware for the culture-conscious, and Windows PCs earned a rep as the computer of the mainstream, especially for gamers and office workers. Apple…
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