Browsing: Apple

$1 000 for an iPhone: is Apple crazy?

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I know what many of you are thinking: there is no way you’ll pay US$1 000 (R13 000 before import duties and other taxes) or more for an iPhone. Let’s revisit this thought in six months after you’ve sashayed out of your local phone

What analysts think about the iPhone X

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Apple unveiled the most highly anticipated new iPhone in years on Tuesday, and with the tech giant’s shares already up 40% in 2017, the device had to live up to high expectations. CEO Tim Cook and other executives took to the

This is the iPhone X

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Apple has unveiled its most important new iPhone for years to take on growing competition from Samsung Electronics, Google and a host of Chinese smartphone makers. CEO Tim Cook showed

New Apple TV offers 4K, HDR

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Apple has upgraded its Apple TV set-top box to handle higher-quality video as competition from Amazon.com, Roku and Google heats up in the living room. The new Apple model can stream 4K

Apple debuts cellular Watch

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Apple unveiled a new Watch on Tuesday that can make calls and access the Internet without an iPhone nearby, freeing the device from a limitation that had given some potential buyers pause

Spotify looks set to launch in SA

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The big daddy of streaming music services finally looks set to launch in South Africa. The company has placed a job advertisement for a senior editor and music programmer for the local market. The ad, which

Apple’s next flagship is the iPhone X

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Apple’s most important new phone for years will be called the iPhone X, according to a leak of the company’s latest mobile operating system on Saturday. Strings of software code inside of the leaked

The case against self-driving cars

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If you believe the optimists, self-driving cars will dominate our roads within a couple decades. This will reduce or even eliminate such human-created ills as traffic jams and fatal accidents. I’m not so