Tag: Apple

WatchOS 2 is here, and improves significantly upon the Apple Watch, a wearable that if not necessarily a smash hit, at least gets the idea of a smartwatch mostly right. There's a lot to like with WatchOS 2, especially native apps, and I'll have more soon after I've spent...

Apple users upgrade their phone software faster. But many suggest that Android's so-called fragmentation actually works in Google's favor.

This is a bit of a surprise announcement (though, we were tipped last week by an inadvertent reveal by Huawei). Google has announced today that Android Wear -- its smartwatch operating system -- will now work on the iPhone. Previously, to pair a Wear-based smartwatch you needed to have...

The problem with cards on Android Wear is that once you dismiss them they're gone forever. Google should look to Apple glances to give users persistent, on-demand access to information on their smartwatches.

Extending smartphone functionality to your wrist is not creating the magical new market opportunity many were predicting.

I think the answer is no. It's not worth upgrading your smartphone in 2015. Especially if the phone you own is less than two years old. Recent handset releases from Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony and Motorola are proving to be incremental. Long gone, it seems, are the days when a new model...

Could combining the best of Apple Watch with the best of Android Wear result in the perfect wearable? Android Wear has come a long way since its somewhat shaky start in early 2014. The UI is streamlined, battery life is (marginally) improved, and wi-fi is a neat trick that allows...

The Apple Watch is here, and the response has been mixed. Some love its power, simple outward appearance, and variety of gesture and button controls. And, others, well... others are not so enamored with it for those very same reasons. I've spent some time with one recently (38mm - my...

Apple announced a lot today at its annual developer conference here in San Francisco. As expected, there's an updated version of its core OS X operating system dubbed "El Capitan" which arrives in the fall (dev beta available today), a broadening of Apple Pay (to UK, and now with support for loyalty cards),...

For the first time in its history, Apple releases a product that's not immediately intuitive. Will consumers be patient enough long-term to fall head over heals for the Apple Watch?