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TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS:
Turn your iPad into a second display for your Mac w/ Duet Display at 50% off: $10 (Reg. $20) + new Apple Pencil features
August’s 2nd Gen. HomeKit Smart Lock lets you open your door with Siri: $194 shipped (Reg. $230)
ZeroLemon’s iPhone 7 4000mAh Slim Battery Case is on sale for $30 Prime shipped (Reg. $50)
Best Buy is taking $100 off all 9.7-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi models, prices start at $500 shipped
Save up to 23% on iPad mini 4 and iPad Air 2 at Target: Wi-Fi 32GB configurations from $309 shipped
Spigen unveils affordable in-ear Lightning headphones w/ remote + mic, pick up a pair today at 50% off: $24 shipped (Reg. $47)
The entire Goat Simulator franchise just went on sale for iOS: Waste of Space hits its all-time low $3 (Reg. $5), more
App Store Free App of the Week: Night Sky 4 goes free for the first time (Reg. up to $4)
Inspire Pro painting/sketching app goes free for the first time in over a year (Reg. up to $15)
The best smart LED light bulbs with HomeKit, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity
MORE NEW GEAR FROM TODAY:
Daily Deals: Skullcandy Ink’d 2.0 Earbud Headphones (Various Colors) $9, AOC 24-inch 1080p Monitor $80, more
- KMASHI 8000mAh Car Jump Starter/Power Bank $32 (Reg. $40), more
- Verizon has new streaming video perks that include a free NBA League Pass subscription
- Games/Apps: Zelda Triforce Heroes $20, FF XV pre-order deals, freebies, more
- Nike is taking an extra 20% off all clearance items: save big on Dri-FIT, Tech Fleece, more
- Amazon has up to 50% off loads of watches today from $50 shipped: Fossil, Diesel, more
- Trick or Treat freebies you can get on Halloween at Chipotle and Krispy Kreme
- Today only: Amazon is offering several all-time lows on Graco car seats, strollers and more
MORE DEALS STILL LIVE:
Give your Apple Watch a genuine leather band (42 or 38mm) for just $14 Prime shipped (Reg. $20)
Anker Smartphone Car Mounts for iPhone 7/Plus, Galaxy S7/Edge, Pixel, more in a variety of styles from $8 Prime shipped
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Report: Apple to announce new app for Apple TV at tomorrow’s event, a personalized TV show ‘watch list’
Although the Apple event scheduled for tomorrow has been colloquially labelled as a ‘new Mac’ unveiling, it appears Apple will be talking about some other things as well.
USA Today is reporting that Apple is preparing to unveil a new app for Apple TV, which will give users personalised TV shows recommendations. The app will contextually suggest TV shows to watch based on their existing viewing habits and content subscriptions.
Filed under: Apple
New $49 Elgato Eve Light Switch adds smart HomeKit features to your house’s existing lighting, no bridge/hub required
Elgato is expanding its range of Bluetooth HomeKit devices with a new standalone smart light switch, available from today for $49.95. The Eve Light Switch replaces the wall switches you already have in your house, to make the lighting in the room accessible to HomeKit without changing bulbs or buying bridges and other accessories.
The lights are then exposed to HomeKit via Siri or the iOS 10 Home app; simply use your voice to turn them and off. The lights are also controllable away from home if you have a third-generation or fourth-generation Apple TV to act as a hub for Remote Access.
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Comment: Prepare to say hello to the first MacBook Pro designed without input from Steve Jobs
Quite a few people have been commenting on Apple’s use of ‘hello again’ as the tagline for tomorrow’s MacBook event. ‘Hello’ featured twice in the launch of the original Macintosh back in 1984: it was displayed on the screen in ‘handwriting’ to show off the graphics capabilities of the machine, and of course the Macintosh famously introduced itself by speaking the words ‘Hello, I am the Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag.’
It was 14 years later before Apple again referenced the greeting, when the first iMac – the colorful cube variety – displayed ‘hello (again)’ on the screen. That was the machine credited with turning around Apple’s fortunes just a year after the company had to be bailed-out by Microsoft. The ‘industry-altering success of the candy-colored iMacs’ as Forbes put it.
So it’s no surprise that Apple’s use of ‘hello again’ as the tagline for tomorrow’s event is being taken as evidence that the company thinks it’s going to be showing us something pretty special …
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Delta app lets you track your bag’s location in real-ish time via RFID tags
I usually travel hand-baggage only as it saves time on arrival and removes the stress of wondering whether your luggage will arrive, but if you can’t avoid hold baggage, Delta now lets you keep an eye on it via its Fly Delta app.
Delta started attaching RFID tags to bags back in April, but at that stage it was purely for use by the airline itself. It’s now making that same data available to customers, so you can see whether your bag made it onto the plane and then track it all the way to the carousel on arrival …
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AAPL shares fall 3% in after-hours trading despite Q4 results close to expectations
Despite Apple announcing Q4 earnings which lined-up almost perfectly with analyst expectations, the company’s shares price fell 3.26% in after-hours trading. After closing at $118.25 before the announcement, they were trading at $114.40 at the time of writing.
Although the company did report its first full-year decline in revenue since 2001, this had been predicted. Comparing the pre-announcement analyst consensus with the actual results, it’s remarkable just how close they were …
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Services now worth more to Apple than each of iPad and (for now) Mac
Apple’s Services category covers everything from paid iCloud storage tiers to Apple Music subscriptions, and it’s been clear for some time that this recurring revenue is becoming increasingly important to the company’s bottom-line. Just how important was revealed in yesterday’s earnings report: in Q4, Services revenue was larger than each of iPad and Mac sales …
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Apple Pay exec Jennifer Bailey to speak at Code Commerce in December as Apple Pay transactions grow by 500%
Apple’s head of Apple Pay, Jennifer Bailey, is set to appear alongside other industry titans at Recode’s Code Commerce conference this December. The Apple exec ran the company’s online stores for many years and now leads Apple Pay, Apple’s contactless mobile payments solution.
The Code Commerce meeting takes place multiple times a year; Bailey will be appearing at the last one in 2016 on December 6. No doubt the new MacBook Pro with integrated Apple Pay will form part of the discussions.
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Apple VP Lisa Jackson talks of sharing user data with government, but nothing new here folks
WikiLeaks’ ongoing dump of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta have already offered a few insights relating to Apple and Tim Cook. The most recent dump, however, includes an email from Apple executive Lisa Jackson which may seem a little jarring to Apple customers at first because she is boasting about the thousands of times every month that Apple is sharing data with the government and the acknowledgement that, even with encryption, Apple devices still have some juicy morsels for law enforcement:
Thousands of times every month, we give governments information about Apple customers and devices, in response to warrants and other forms of legal process. We have a team that responds to those requests 24 hours a day. Strong encryption does not eliminate Apple’s ability to give law enforcement meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data.
But keep in mind, there are over a billion Apple devices out there. The email was sent following Clinton voicing her opinion regarding encryption in the tech industry, but it is all stuff we’ve seen before…
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No hardware Escape key on new MacBook Pros? Don’t fret, macOS Sierra lets you remap the Escape action to a modifier key
After seeing the leaks for the upcoming MacBook Pro, many people have wondered how their workflows might be hindered by the removal of the hardware Escape key. While it’s very likely that an Escape key will be able to be mapped to the OLED Magic Toolbar, macOS Sierra contains another handy provision for those of you who still prefer to use a dedicated hardware key.
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