You can now use MyCokeRewards with Apple Pay (and score a free Coke)
Last year Apple rebranded its Passbook app as Wallet and boosted Apple Pay by adding support for loyalty cards. Coca-Cola started accepting Apple Pay debit and credit cards at many of its vending machines around the same time, and now its loyalty card is catching up. Customers can add the MyCokeRewards loyalty card to Apple Pay and receive a free drink in return.
Filed under: Apple Pay Tagged: Apple pay, Coca-Cola, MyCokeRewards, wallet
Spotify now has 100M users, but only twice as many paid customers as Apple Music
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Spotify has reached a streaming music milestone with its user base officially reaching 100 million users, 25 million more than last reported. But the numbers are very different when you only look at paying customers…
Filed under: Apple Music Tagged: Apple Music, Spotify
9to5Toys Lunch Break: Apple Watch $49 w/ iPhone purchase, Dell 24-inch Monitor $115, Blue Yeti Mic $100, more
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TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS:
Best Buy will give you an Apple Watch for $49 w/purchase of iPhone 6s/+ plan on AT&T/Verizon/Sprint ($250 off)
Grab a 42mm Space Gray Apple Watch Sport with Black Band (Refurb) for $226 (Orig. $349)
Pebble Steel Smartwatch for iOS and Android $80 shipped, Apple Watches up to $200 off, more
Amazon Gold Box saves tons upgrading your Mac/PC/Network setup: Dell 24″ display: $115, more
LG’s 27-inch 4K FreeSync Monitor brings massive work space to your battlestation: $400 shipped (Reg. $500)
Daily Deals: Blue Yeti USB Microphone in Silver $100, Logitech G302 Daedalus Prime Optical Mouse $25, more
Apple’s latest 13-inch MacBook Air 1.6GHz/8GB/128GB drops to $830 shipped (Reg. $999)
App Store Free App of the Week: TextGrabber + Translator goes free for the very first time (Reg. $5+)
Yoga Studio: one of the best iOS yoga apps out there just went free for the first time in a year (Reg. $4)
All the iOS Grand Theft Auto titles just went on sale up to 60% off: Liberty City Stories $3 (Reg. $7), more
Rovio’s Bad Piggies for iPhone/iPad goes free for the first time in years (Reg. $1)
How-to: Put a USB Charging port just about anywhere, without AC power for as little as $50 (Solar+Battery)
Giotto’s $10 Rocket Air Blaster is the best way to keep your Mac clean for the money
Review: At just $24, this Leather Loop Band for Apple Watch looks great and won’t break the bank [Gallery]
MORE NEW GEAR FROM TODAY:
Smartphone Accessories: OLALA 6000mAh Power Bank with Built-in Lightning Cable $24 Prime shipped (Reg. $30), more
- The Logitech Harmony Ultimate Home Remote does it all: $170 (Reg. $250)
- Games/Apps: Doom $38, Fallout 4 $20, iOS freebies, more
- Acer’s huge Chromebook 15, 1080p HD display, 9 hours of battery life -just $229 ($70 off)
- Your HDTV’s speakers are probably terrible, upgrade to Sony’s 300W Soundbar for $199
- Get your Anti-Virus software checkboxes ticked w/ Norton Security 10 for $27.99 download
- Mercedes of tea kettles, the Ivation 1.7 Liter, 1.5kW stainless has all the bells and whistles for $50
- It’s time to get some free money w/ up to 20% off gift cards from Staples, Jiffy Lube and Petco
- Bring the Samsung 50-inch Smart HDR Ultra HDTV to your living room for $629 (Reg. $749)
- It is time to spoil the kids with Fisher-Price/Power Wheels electric kid cars starting at $55
MORE DEALS STILL ALIVE:
This flash drive adds another 32GB to your iPhone or iPad thanks to Lightning + USB 3.0 connectivity: $36 (Reg. $50)
Ditch that ugly plastic flash drive for an all-metal USB 3.0 Samsung from $7 Prime shipped (up to 60% off)
Filed under: Tips and Tricks Tagged: 9to5Toys, Amazon, app deals, Apple watch, Best Buy, Blue Yeti, Daily Deals, Dell, free apps, Gold Box, monitor, video games
Nomad adds iPhone 6/6s cases to its new Horween Leather collection
Last week Apple accessory maker Nomad launched a new collection of Horween Leather-made products starting with two Lightning plus battery-equipped wallets. Today Nomad is expanding that collection with a new iPhone 6/6s case made with high quality leather from the Chicago company.
Filed under: iOS Devices Tagged: Horween Leather, Nomad
Apple Watch Diary: Apple Pay saved the day when I left my wallet at home
Going out without your wallet or purse is something most of us have done at some time or another. When I did it four or five years ago, it was a complete pain as it was on a Saturday afternoon and no banks were open.
Picture the scene: I’m on my own in the car, call into a gas station to refuel, get to the till and … no wallet. Not the most convenient of times to discover one’s absent-mindedness. Fortunately I have a great bank. I called them, and they gave me an authorization number to give to the gas station attendant, who was able to put the transaction through.
But when I managed to leave my wallet at home on Friday evening, Apple Pay made it a non-event …
Filed under: Apple Pay, Apple Watch Tagged: Apple pay, Apple watch, Apple Watch diary
Russell Index reweighting will see $1.3B of AAPL stock sold, depress share value – Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse has predicted that a change to an index designed to help fund managers hold the right balance of stock to meet their goals is likely to see a net sell-off of AAPL shares to the tune of $1.3B. This scale of sales is expected to be large enough to cause a fall in the share price, reports Reuters.
The index concerned is known as the Russell Index, which classifies stocks as some mix of ‘growth’ and ‘value’ depending on their performance. Growth stocks are expected to generate higher returns at greater risk, while value stocks are those likely to generate lower returns at less risk. Apple is being reclassified as 92% growth and 8% value …
Filed under: AAPL Company Tagged: AAPL, Russell Index
New Indian ruling appears to finally give Apple go-ahead to open retail stores
Opening Apple Stores in India has been something of a challenge for the company. The law normally requires companies to manufacture at least 30% of their products within India before they can open a single-brand store under a Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rule, but TNW is reporting that a decision to liberalize the FDI deal will finally provide the go-ahead for Apple Stores.
Apple will likely be allowed to avoid sourcing products locally for eight years – three years as per the new norms and an additional five years if it can prove it deals in ‘state-of-the-art’ and ‘cutting-edge’ technology that’s unavailable in the country.
If confirmed, the ruling will be an important one for Apple, which Tim Cook has described as the next China. An eight-year deal does, however, seem unlikely …
Filed under: AAPL Company Tagged: Apple Store, Apple Stores, FDI, India
Boxee founder launches Public, a Talkshow-style ‘live broadcast chat’ app
Boxee founder Avner Ronen has launched Public, a chat app he described to Variety as ‘a third medium for broadcasting conversations’ after audio and video. The app appears similar to Talkshow in that a small group of people are able to participate in a text chat, but anyone can follow the conversation live …
Filed under: iOS Devices Tagged: Avner Ronen, Boxee, public, Talkshow, Variety
Samsung mimics Apple’s ‘Shot on iPhone’ campaign with ‘Captured on Galaxy S7’
Samsung may think that running ads mocking Apple was the right thing to do, but it appears it isn’t above copying one of Apple’s most successful ad campaigns.
As CNET noticed, Samsung’s latest video ad – showing off the 4K video recording capabilities of its latest devices – is titled ‘Captured on Samsung Galaxy S7.’ Not quite as catchy as ‘Shot on iPhone,’ admittedly, but clearly inspired by the latter …
Filed under: iOS Devices Tagged: Captured on Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung, Samsung ad, shot on iphone
Jailbreak developer digs deeper in iOS 10 code, activates Dark Mode theme for Settings app
The same developer who found the original iOS 10 Dark Mode references in the Messages app, Andy Wiik, has found even more evidence that Apple was/is developing a black appearance for its iPhone and iPad operating system. The latest screenshots show the iOS 10 Simulator presenting the Settings app in a dark interface style, with black cell backgrounds and white text.
The screenshots are captured from the iOS 10 Simulator where it is easier to inject code and discover unfinished flags and behaviour, like this Dark Mode interface style …
Filed under: AAPL Company, iOS, iOS Devices, Tech Industry Tagged: appearance, dark mode, dark style, iOS, iOS 10 dark, light style