Apple introduced the first dual-SIM iPhone in 2018 when the iPhone XS generation added eSIM support in addition to a regular nano-SIM. The feature has been available on every iPhone Apple launched since then, even the cheaper iPhone SE. The technology paves the way for iPhones that can work without a physical SIM card. Several …
Remember all of those iPhone nano rumors that kept surfacing year after year between 2009 and 2012? None of them ever came true. Apple never made an iPhone nano, and the smaller, affordable iPhone came several years later. Naming scheme aside, Apple did launch the iPhone SE line of affordable iPhones. It also made an …
One of the nice surprises from Apple’s “Spring Loaded” event on Tuesday — which showcased a slew of new products like a refreshed iPad Pro and updates to existing Apple offerings like Podcasts and the Apple Card — was the reveal of a purple iPhone 12 that no one was expecting. The iPhone 12 and …
Most of us, when we think of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, probably fixate on the stereotype of him as a detail-obsessed quasi-workaholic, whose near-mania when it came to the seemingly tiniest details brought about world-changing products like the iPhone and helped Apple became the most valuable company in the world. But Jobs’ former executive …
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday night weighed in on the Facebook vs Apple drama this week that’s resulted in the social networking giant taking out full-page newspaper ads against the iPhone maker. Cook via Twitter defended the App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14, which will require apps to get their users’ express permission …
Bill Gates would like you to know that the reason his late rival was able to resuscitate Apple and take the iPhone maker from near-death to being the most valuable company in the world is that Steve Jobs was so successful at making people believe in an idea. Or, as Gates puts it, that Jobs …
Steve Jobs is known for a lot of things. He was an incredible businessman, a world-class salesman, and he was obviously quite the visionary. When listing Jobs’s top qualities, however, his sense of humor doesn’t typically come up. Jobs was a terrific showman though, and the little jokes he cracked here and there during Apple’s …
“Every once in a while,” he began, “a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” That was Steve Jobs’ opening for what would go down as one of the best displays of product showmanship and marketing savvy in tech history, as Apple’s then-legendary chief executive went on to unveil the iPhone during the Macworld conference …
There’s been no shortage of insider stories about how demanding a boss Steve Jobs could be and how exacting a quality standard he expected everyone at Apple to adhere to during his tenure. Still, it’s always interesting to hear from insiders who have juicy, detail-rich anecdotes to share from the time when Apple’s mercurial co-founder …
“Nope. Sorry, kid.” That was Steve Jobs’ dismissive reply to his eldest daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the child of Steve and his high school girlfriend Chrisann Brennan, when Lisa asked whether the desktop computer Apple released in the early 1980s called the Lisa was named after her. She recounts that memory from her high school years in …
