Yesterday
For the Taliban, Afghans’ best status symbol is a $2120 iPhone
Commerce is thriving for some entrepreneurs despite the difficulties imposed by the country’s rulers.
- Riazat Butt
This Month
Apple will revamp Siri to catch up with chatbot competitors
Apple is expected to release an improved Siri that is more conversational and versatile at its developer conference in June.
- Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz
Inside the fight for smartphone-free childhoods
A rising number of parents around the world, who have become addicted to handheld devices themselves, want to ban under-16s from having them.
- Pippa Bailey
Apple’s shares rally after return to sales growth forecast
The tech giant announced $US110 billion in share buybacks and raised the quarterly dividend by 4 per cent.
- Updated
- Mark Gurman
- Opinion
- Apps
Apple banned this app for years. It’s now America’s No. 1 iPhone app
Delta is an app that lets you play old-fashioned video games on your iPhone – and Apple had refused to let it on the app store. Until a government crackdown.
- Shira Ovide
April
Why Apple has a $US300b ‘Made in China’ problem
Apple is gradually weaning itself off China as a longstanding and mutually-beneficial relationship between the corporate giant and the country begins to fray.
- James Titcomb
The right shortcuts can give your iPhone superpowers. Here’s how
A free app preinstalled on Apple handsets since 2019 is easy to overlook, since its name doesn’t tell you much, but it could make your life far easier.
- Chris Velazco
The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?
In his new book Jonathan Haidt claims phones are the cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness. And with that one tricky word, “cause,” he opens himself up to what’s likely to be a world of pain.
- Judith Warner
March
iPhone will be ‘degraded’ if Epic wins court case, Apple warns
New laws in Europe mean iPhone users there are already facing all manner of new threats to their safety.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Social media
I switched my phone off for the weekend. Here’s what happened
Having all the products of human civilisation at your fingertips can feel overwhelming.
- Jemima Kelly
What peanut butter has to do with what’s available in the App Store
Epic Games’ landmark lawsuit against Apple has heard that it’s impossible to tell how profitable the App Store is because of something named after the spread.
- John Davidson
Judge led through ‘sideloading’ Fortnite – and finds it all too hard
Justice Jonathan Beach hadn’t even got to the scary stuff yet, when he said he would have already given up trying to install an app on an Android phone without using Google’s Play Store.
- John Davidson
Toddlers spend three hours a day on screens, miss language learning
Spending more time on devices is depriving children of conversations that help them learn the language, a first-of-its-kind study has found.
- Jill Margo
February
- Opinion
- Digital Life
Why this new Samsung phone can help you be your best self
Samsung’s latest Galaxy S Ultra maintains its position as the most useful phone you can buy. So what if sometimes it gives you more than you bargained for?
- John Davidson
Apple is reportedly working on foldable iPhones
Reports suggest the tech titan is finally working on foldable iPhones, to rival those from Samsung, Google, Oppo and Motorola.
- Paul Smith
January
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
The new Samsung Galaxy could transform your phone calls
Most of the new features in the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S24 Ultra are software, so Samsung can keep working on them long after you buy it.
- John Davidson
Meet the man putting an end to the era of the app
With the introduction of the Galaxy S24 this week, Samsung believes it has kicked off a new era in smartphones, where an AI-powered user interface does everything you need.
- John Davidson
Will Samsung’s new feature make you ditch your iPhone?
The centrepiece of this year’s Galaxy S24 phones will be generative AI software called Circle to Search.
- John Davidson
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall from Alaska Air flight
Among the harrowing details of the blown-off fuselage panel that triggered a sudden decompression event, one revelation seemed to defy the laws of physics.
- Kate Duffy
December 2023
Apple to reach $US4 trillion value in 2024: Wedbush
Dan Ives calls the dispute involving the tech giant’s watches, which has dented the stock’s rise this week, a “headache issue” that will be resolved soon.
- Timothy Moore
