Apple has launched a news subscription service, a TV service and a credit card with no fees at an event held in California overnight, with the news subscription, to more than 300 publications, to cost US$9.99 per month.
Apple has launched new MacBook Air, Mac mini and iPad Pro models in Brooklyn overnight, with the most notable feature for all three being elevated prices.
Other smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S8 may have introduced facial recognition well before Apple, but Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller says all such systems "stink".
Apple may have had its moment of glory (well 60 minutes) at its launch today but Phil Schiller, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, was simply rude and insulting about the opposition products – not good form, nor very PC (politically correct).
Although the world is still waiting for Tim Cook to explain XCodeGhost, Phil Schiller has exclusively spoken to Chinese site Sina.
It is a bold prediction to make but the humble MacBook may be on its way to being consigned to the dustbin of history at Cupertino thanks to the glimpses of the current management’s vision of the future we were treated to this morning.
Coming in July is Apple's new Mac OS X, numbered 10.7, codenamed Lion and, unlike the 'will it be late, Windows 8', Lion nicely blends OS X and iOS, and will cost just US $29.99 or AUD $31.99.
Ah, thinness. It's not just for supermodels, but superphones too, and while the white iPhone 4 has suffered claims of being thicker than its black brother from the same crunchy mother, one of its fathers says nuh-uh.