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TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS:
Grab a $100 iTunes Gift Card with email delivery from PayPal for just $85 (15% off)
Apple’s latest 11-inch MacBook Air is a great buy for students, on sale for $700 shipped (Reg. $899)
Get Apple’s latest 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro for nearly $400 off: $1,600 shipped (Reg. $1,999)
Logitech’s popular MX Anywhere 2 Wireless Mouse is on sale for $50 shipped (Reg. $60+)
The Start-to-Finish Web Design Bundle: $50 ($476 value) | 9to5Mac Academy
App Store Free App of the Week: Dr. Panda’s Ice Cream Truck free for the first time (Reg. $2)
The popular GoodReader PDF & file manager app for iOS is now down to just $2 (Reg. $5)
You can now grab a free copy of Brushstroke for iOS inside the Apple Store app ($5 value)
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MORE NEW GEAR FROM TODAY:
Today’s Amazon Gold Box has something for everyone: Icemakers, Adidas threads, ukulele starter kit, Ooma VoIP
Timbuk2’s Back to School Sale has nearly every style on discount: Command TSA MacBook Backpack from $80, more
- Games/Apps: LEGO Dimensions Ghostbusters pre-order $30 (40% off), iOS freebies, more
- Amazon’s back-to-school Kindle E-reader sale starts at $60: Paperwhite $100 (Reg. $120), more
- Naturalrays Bluetooth Waterproof Boombox Speaker $10 (Reg. $20), more
- Upgrade your Mac’s audio system: Logitech Z623 200W 2.1-Ch. Speaker Set $100 (Reg. $130)
- Save 20% on this HP Chromebook 14 and spend your back-to-school money elsewhere: $200
- Daily Deals: Jawbone MINI JAMBOX Bluetooth Speaker $45, more
- Gas & other gift cards up to 10% off: Sunoco, BP, Speedway, AutoZone and more
MORE DEALS STILL LIVE:
Smartphone Accessories: Jackery Jewel Lightning Power Cable w/ built-in Battery $16 Prime shipped (Reg. $20), more
You can actually afford to pick up an Apple Watch band for every occasion during this Clockwork Synergy sale
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Apple gifting its flag-themed Watch bands to Olympic athletes in Rio while skirting official sponsorship
Apple isn’t an official Olympics sponsor, but it’s managed to still take advantage of the event for its own marketing purposes with limited-edition Apple Watch bands themed with country flag designs. Not only is it selling those watch bands for 14 different country flags to coincide with the Olympics this month, it’s also reportedly giving them away for free to athletes at its Apple Store in Rio (via iphone-ticker.de).
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Honda’s latest CarPlay vehicle is the 2017 Civic Hatchback arriving this fall
First announced at the New York Auto Show back in March, Honda today confirmed availability details for the 2017 Civic Hatchback, its latest vehicle with support for Apple’s iPhone-connected CarPlay system.
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Opinion: If KGI report is accurate, what are Apple’s plans for the future of the iPad lineup?
A KGI report this morning made for intriguing reading. Two aspects of the report were unsurprising: a new version of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro next year, and a ‘radical’ new form factor in 2018, using OLED screen technology in a flexible display.
By next year, the largest model in the current iPad lineup will definitely be due a refresh, and with Apple expected to adopt OLED for the 2018 iPhone, possibly with some form of flexible display, you’d naturally expect the company to use the same tech in that year’s iPads.
But a third element sounded rather more surprising: a new 10.5-inch iPad next year, sitting alongside a new 9.7-inch model. As Benjamin noted this morning, that’s a size difference of just 0.8 inches between the two models, which on the face of it sounds rather odd. So what might be the explanation for this … ?
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As more Space Black iPhone 7 photos emerge, which color do you plan to buy? [Poll]
We first started hearing whispers of a Space Black iPhone 7 in June, with claimed chassis and component leaks since then appearing to support the new darker model. New photos (above) emerged over the weekend – albeit low-quality ones, and from a source that has previously posted photos of likely mockups rather than the real thing.
But with a Space Black iPhone 7 seeming a likely bet, we thought it would be interesting to pull together a few of the renders we’ve seen so far and find out how popular an option the color is likely to be …
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Comment: iPhone 7 camera bulge a big improvement on iPhone 6, but iPhone SE still leads the way
One of the observations I made in my first impressions piece on the iPhone SE was how pleased I was to lose the camera bulge of the iPhone 6/6s. It really seemed to me that, in the iPhone 6, Apple was prioritizing an inconsequential bit of extra slimness over a pleasing design.
Assuming all the iPhone 7 mockup images are accurate, then Apple has smoothed out the edges on the upcoming model. I do think this is a big improvement aesthetically, and less likely to snag when removing it from a pocket. But when you put it up against the iPhone SE, as TWE has done with a mockup the site purchased from China, it still seems to me that the SE shows how it should be done …
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A year after iPad, Microsoft Office brings hand-written annotations to iPhone apps
Microsoft announced support for hand-written or drawn annotations on the iPad the day after Apple launched the Apple Pencil. It’s taken the company almost a year, but it has finally brought the same feature to the iPhone versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint …
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Twitter in talks with Apple to launch Apple TV app featuring free live streaming of NFL games
With Twitter winning the bid for Thursday night NFL football, the company is keen to get its live streaming content in front of eyeballs. This apparently includes Apple TV, according to a report by the New York Times. Twitter is holding talks with Apple regarding a new app which would enable Apple TV customers to watch NFL live through the Twitter app.
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KGI: Apple to introduce three new iPads in 2017 including a 10.5 inch iPad Pro, new ‘flexible OLED’ iPad for 2018
Apple is going to shake up the iPad lineup in a big way in 2017, according to securities analyst KGI Ming-Chi Kuo. Next year, Apple will reportedly release three new iPads, a 12.9 inch iPad Pro 2, a low cost 9.7 inch iPad and — most interestingly — a new iPad Pro with a 10.5 inch display, a new screen size for Apple’s tablet range. With a diagonal increase of just 0.8 inches over the 9.7 inch iPad, its unclear at this stage what will justify the introduction of another SKU.
Perhaps, the device will stay the same physical shape but feature an edge-to-edge screen, enabling Apple to increase the screen size slightly. An edge-to-edge iPad display would mirror the rumored revolutionary glass redesign currently expected for iPhone 8, which would also debut next year. Further into the future, Kuo also reports that the iPad will follow the iPhone in adopting OLED technology screens starting in 2018 …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook talks ahead of iPhone 7 launch about advice, AI/AR, and the future [Video]
The Washington Post this weekend published a very in-depth video/interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook just weeks before Apple is set to unveil its biggest product of the year by far, the iPhone 7. In it, Cook talks about the incredibly important people outside of Apple he turns to for advice at pivotal moments including Warren Buffett on returning cash to stockholders, Anderson Cooper on coming out, and folks like Bill Clinton and Laurene Powell Jobs on testifying before congress.
He also touches on the future of Apple including its Artificial Intelligence and and Augmented/Virtual Reality ambitions… more…
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