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Apple wants to make it easier for customers in its fastest-growing market to get their hands on software, which is why it started accepting Chinese yuan for App Store downloads on Friday. The change is designed to curtail piracy and grow Apple’s software ecosystem. Read More »

An app that just arrived on the Mac App Store on Thursday could help improve your initial iTunes Match experience, thanks to a host of features it includes for cleaning up your iTunes library. It’s called TuneUp, and it’ll scrub your messy collection clean. Read More »

 
 

Apple sees its highest share of desktop and laptop shipments in 15 years. But growth is coming not only in the consumer space, where it grew 24.6 percent compared to overall PC market’s 5.3 percent, but in the enterprise market too. Read More »

On Thursday, Nielsen released figures indicating holiday desire for Apple’s mobile products knows no age limits; six- to 12-year-olds cited the iPad as their most desired consumer electronics product for this holiday shopping season, with the iPod touch and iPhone coming in second and third. Read More »

Apple seems poised for a strong holiday season, at least according to two new surveys. Both those doing the shopping and those writing up their own personal wish lists seem to be in sync about one thing: Apple’s iPad and iPhone are in high demand. Read More »

We’ve heard about and been excited by the possibility of iMessage coming to the OS X desktop, but there are hints that the Mac’s iChat application could jump the other way and become part of Apple’s Messages app on iOS devices. Read More »

For our inaugural edition of our weekly holiday gift ideas, we’ll be looking at an essential for iPhone, iPad and Mac owners alike: headphones. Mostly, we’ll be talking about stereo headsets that also feature mics and remote controls, which work with recent Macs and iOS devices. Read More »

A quarterly survey by iPass released Wednesday says iPhone market share has overtaken BlackBerry’s in the workplace. iPhones’ popularity for mobile workers isn’t just a result of taking share from RIM, however. The overall market is expanding, too. Read More »

Google has re-introduced its native iOS Gmail app to the App Store, with a new version number and instructions to delete the old version if you managed to grab it before it was pulled prior to installing this one. Besides bug fixes, little has changed. Read More »

A never-before-seen interview with Steve Jobs debuts Wednesday night in 17 theaters. Taped in 1995, before Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to the company he founded, this interview stands as a historical snapshot of Jobs between the two defining periods of his life at Apple. Read More »

AT&T isn’t seeing its network subscribers jumping the fence for greener pastures in the wake of rivals Sprint and Verizon getting the Apple iPhone, an AT&T executive said in an interview with MarketWatch on Wednesday. Instead, it hasn’t seen subscriber loss rates change at all. Read More »

Few things impress people about the Apple TV in demonstration more than AirPlay mirroring, which is available on both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. And that’s exactly why developers should focus on delivering unique and creative AirPlay solutions to help their apps stand out. Read More »

More Must Reads

Apple has come under fire in recent months for the environmental impact of its key component suppliers in China. Now, reports say it will look into its supplier operations, in order to see if accusations they are in violation of environmental regulations are accurate. Read More »

Apple today announced that Arthur D. Levinson, member of Apple’s board since 2005, will be the successor to Steve Jobs as Apple’s non-executive chairman. In addition, Apple has appointed Robert Iger, CEO and President of The Walt Disney Company to the board of directors. Read More »

Apple is nowhere near relaxing its strict rules for carrier partners, according to Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo. Negotiations to bring the the iPhone to Japan’s largest cellular network operator have hit an impasse since Apple won’t back down on a rule against pre-installing software on devices. Read More »

Apple’s iPad is a mobile device, but “mobile” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s being used while on the go. New research from McKinsey found most iPads never leave the home, and are used most in the living room, for things like watching video or browsing the web. Read More »

Apple officially launched iTunes Match on Monday. I managed to sign up, and take the service for a test ride using a small iTunes library to see how it would handle iTunes purchases, ripped tracks and anything else I could think to throw at it. Read More »

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