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After its first season of Time to Walk workouts ended in April, Apple today announced that new audio episodes will start again beginning June 28. Time to Walk is part of Apple Fitness+, Apple’s fitness workout subscription service. Time to Walk encourages users to take a half-hour outdoor walk with their Watch, guided by uplifting and inspiring narration from famous celebrities. The first Time to Walk host for the second season is Gina Rodriguez, American television actress who starred in the television series Jane the Virgin....

According to a report from The Oregonian, power amplifier specialists TriQuint Semiconductor is facing a “challenging” quarter due to a temporary drop in revenues from its biggest customer, Apple. The report noted the company’s CEO Ralph Quinsey did not mention Apple by name, but that Foxconn was responsible for 35 percent of TriQuint’s revenue during 2011: We know from teardowns that Apple included TriQuint chips in many generations of the iPhone and iPad, including the most recent iPhone 4S and third-generation iPad....

Funding data published by the Federal Elections Commission reveals that the largest donors to Bernie Sanders’ election campaign PACs were employees of tech companies. Employees of Google parent company Alphabet donated the most, at a little over a quarter of a million dollars, while Apple employees collectively donated $85k. Under federal law, all Political Action Committees receiving individual contributions of more than $200 must ask the donor’s occupation and employer. Donors are not obliged to answer, but if they do, the information must be disclosed....

Update: Apple appears to have now disabled external testing in iTunes Connect again after briefly enabling it this afternoon. [tweet https://twitter.com/amitnkalra/status/631992910771130368 align=’center’] When Apple updated the TestFlight app for iOS 9 compatiblity earlier this month, it came with the caveat that developers could only submit iOS 9 betas to members of their own teams. Today, however, the company has enabled external testing, allowing developers to start pushing iOS 9-ready betas to any users....

Apple has announced its latest quarter results including $52.9b in revenue with $11.03b profit from 50.7m iPhones, 8.92m iPads, and 4.19m Macs sold. In terms of new products, the quarter includes launch day sales for the cheaper $329 iPad and Product RED iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. FY17 Q2 results compare to the previous quarter’s $78.4 billion in revenue, $17.89 billion in profit, 78.3 million iPhones, 13 million iPads, and 5....

With WWDC coming up next week, Apple has started preparing for the big day. Following the launch of the Apple TV channel for the keynote stream yesterday, the company has started decorating Moscone West with Apple logos and banners. As spotted by MacStories and followed up by images from our own Tom Maxwell, the first bits of a large Apple logo on one side of the building have already been put up....

Tonight Apple announced via TechCrunch that the original HomePod has been discontinued. The company will shift its focus to the HomePod mini introduced in October. The original HomePod will continue to be available at Apple and other resellers until supply runs out. Apple also notes that the HomePod will continue to get software updates and support from Apple Care. Apple’s official statement to TechCrunch’s Matt Panzarino reads: We reported yesterday that the space gray HomePod had become unavailable on Apple....

Apple today officially confirmed Apple TV+ pricing and availability, saying the service will launch on November 1 for $4.99. Apple is also offering a free year of Apple TV+ with hardware purchases. Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed today that when you buy an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV, you’ll get one year free of Apple TV+. Without a hardware purchase, you’ll get a seven-day free trial of Apple TV+:...

Apple shares are up 2% in pre-market following an earnings beat that included better-than-expected iPhone sales. Whereas most analysts predicted Apple’s holiday quarter revenue would hit somewhere in the $88 billion range, the company reported $91.8 billion in a quarter that spanned October 1 through December 31, or 92 days. That means Apple (almost) averaged $1 billion in revenue per day. Last year, Apple reported revenue of $84.3 billion as iPhone sales declined....

According to a new report from The San Jose Mercury News, Apple is further increasing its presence in Santa Clara, California. The report, citing public records, says that Apple has leased a 62,000-square-foot building and is heavily renovating the space… The new property is located near the corner of Bowers and Walsh Avenues, and real estate experts in the area say it’s the latest instance of Apple displaying its affection for Santa Clara:...

Apple has announced today that it is expanding the availability of contactless student IDs in Apple Wallet to several new universities. This comes just in time for the start of the 2019 school year, with Apple touting that the expansion means over 100,000 students will be able to access their ID from iPhone and Apple Watch. Here are all of the new universities adding support for accessing student IDs via Apple Wallet:...

Just one week after the launch of the iPhone XS and Apple Watch Series 4, Apple is set to move or reopen two of its stores across the United States. Both openings will happen on Saturday, September 29th at 10:00 A.M. local time and closely trail the planned September 21st move of Apple Eastview in Victor, New York to an expanded storefront. Friday will also be marked by the completion of Apple Suzhou, the company’s 505th retail store....

Apple is now faced with yet another class action lawsuit claiming that the company failed to properly educate or warn users over the potential for iOS 9’s Wi-Fi Assist to use substantial amounts of cellular data. The lawsuit arose after users complained that Wi-Fi Assist resulted in significant overages after going over their data allowance… The suit — first uncovered by AI and filed in San Jose — states that because some users don’t understand how the feature works, it caused them to use more data than they were expecting....

Apple today has officially shown off its upgraded TV application. The TV app now integrates with third-party subscriptions, allowing users to sign up for services directly through Apple. Peter Stern, Apple’s VP of Services, showed off the app on-stage. The Apple TV Channels feature is being touted as perfect for those who don’t want a full bundle of channels. Apple is partnering with the likes of Showtime, HBO, Epix, CBS All Access, and more....

Apple has announced its Best of 2017 apps and games, this year utilizing the Today cards in the iOS 11 App Store to feature the winners. Apple says its app of the year for iPhone is Calm, a meditation and sleep app, and Splitter Critters is 2017’s iPhone game of the year. Apple says the title “radiates imagination and originality”. For iPad, Apple has chosen Affinity Photo, the desktop-class photo editor, and the game The Witness....

Alongside iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and more today, Apple has announced tvOS 15 with new features and improvements, including SharePlay, a new “Shared with You” section on the TV app, and more. This continues work that started last year with tvOS 14, which introduced the “Home view” to control smart home accessories, audio sharing, support for multiple users, game controllers, and more. Here are the new features announced for tvOS:...

We’ve been patiently waiting for Apple hardware upgrades since October and heard tale of an iPad 5 launch as early as April but obviously that didn’t happen. So, last night, Tim Cook might have left some hope for iOS hardware at WWDC alongside iOS 7 in less than 2 weeks when he told Walt and Kara: There is some room for interpretation in there that there could be an iOS device launched at WWDC....

– Full access to iPod library – Multi-tasking: you can run djay in Automix mode and listen to a continuous, seamless mix running in the background while you surf the web, play games, etc. – AirPlay: you can wirelessly stream your mix to your Apple TV or AirPort Express station in real-time. – Fully leverages accelerated CPU extensions (SSE-like) for high-quality audio processing and analysis – Very low latency (< 3 msec) – Background audio playback (multi-tasking support) – Pre-Cueing (via mono/stereo adapter)...

App Store scams have recently resurfaced as a developer exposed several scam apps in the App Store making millions of dollars per year. Most of these apps exploit fake ratings and reviews to show up in search results and look legit, but trick users into getting subscriptions at irrationally high prices. It looks like Apple has started to crack down on scam attempts by rejecting apps that look like they have subscriptions or other in-app purchases with prices that don’t seem reasonable to the App Review team....

Called before the European Parliament’s tax committee yesterday to explain its tax arrangements, Apple’s VP of European operations denied that the company received illegal state aid, reports Bloomberg. Kearney also denied suggestions that the special tax deal with the Irish company was the reason it had chosen the country as its European HQ … “We feel that we’ve paid every cent of tax that is due in Ireland,” Cathy Kearney said at the European Parliament in Brussels....