Recently Apple announced that developers who make less then $1 million in revenue per year can apply to a reduced App Store charge from 30% to 15%. This seems to be a direct response to Epic Games’ exodus from the App Store and the related lawsuit accusing Apple’s 30% cut and the App Store ofContinue reading “Apple’s 15% Decision and How It Changes Epic’s Fight”
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Time Flies Apple Event, GoPro, and Oculus Quest 2!
This week has been a crazy release week. We got a bunch of new products and all in a somewhat reasonable price category (all under $600 for base model). This week started off with Apple’s Time Flies event! This event was announced a week before and was expected to include Apple Watch and iPad, notContinue reading “Time Flies Apple Event, GoPro, and Oculus Quest 2!”
WWDC 2019
Recently Apple held their World Wide Developer Conference, or WWDC. This is usually where Apple releases their latest versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS and announces some other products. The past WWDC’s have not been very monumental, but this was very different. Apple did some crazy stuff. The first big thing they did wasContinue reading “WWDC 2019”
AT&T’s Fake 5G is on iPhone
(Image Credit: Screenshot of Apple’s iOS 12.2 release notes) (Image Credit: Screenshot of a 5Ge logo in the status bar on an iPhone XS) AT&T’s 5G Evolution or 5Ge is now on iPhone. I covered this a previous post (https://thesoftwareupdate.com/2019/03/08/atts-fake-5g/), but basically AT&T is showing a 5Ge logo when it’s actually LTE Advanced. This wasContinue reading “AT&T’s Fake 5G is on iPhone”
RIP AirPower 2017-2019
Apple’s charging mat is official dead. AirPower was announced in September of 2017 with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X. It went alongside Apple’s addition of Qi wireless charging and was supposed to be an easy way to charge your AirPods, iPhone and Apple Watch. The cancelation was brought to us in a statementContinue reading “RIP AirPower 2017-2019”
Apple Card
(Image Credit: screenshot from Apple’s YouTube channel) If you asked me what I though Apple was going to release at their March 25th event I never would have said credit card, but they did it. Apple has released their own credit card called Apple Card. I’m not really going to get in to the creditContinue reading “Apple Card”
Update your iPhone to iOS 12.1.4 NOW!
Many people have been very scared by the recently Group FaceTime bug. This bug allowed to listen and watch anyone with Group FaceTime without them picking up the phone. This made many people very stressed out, prompting many people to turn off FaceTime, until on February 1st when Apple turned off Group FaceTime. This wasContinue reading “Update your iPhone to iOS 12.1.4 NOW!”
The end of Techtober
This is a recap of the crazy month of October and all of the technology that has been released. -October 3rd – LG Event – LG V40 announced -October 3rd – Microsoft Event – Microsoft Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2, Surface Studio 2, and Surface Headphones announced. – October 9th – Google Event –Continue reading “The end of Techtober”
Apple AirPower
November 24, 2017. On this day the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8+ were released. These devices were not the only thing announced that day. In addition to announcing Qi Wireless Charging support, Apple announced the AirPower mat. A oval shaped device that can wirelessly charge your AirPods, Apple Watch, and iPhone, and thatContinue reading “Apple AirPower”
The Software Update 