Some will be amused by this, and I suppose some will even be outraged. But there is just something special about the new iPad Air.
Premium

BY Paul Thurrott with 58 Comments
Some will be amused by this, and I suppose some will even be outraged. But there is just something special about the new iPad Air.
BY Paul Thurrott with 104 Comments
I’ve often said that Apple’s ecosystem is a one-way, dead-end street, and now that theory has been proven true by the company’s own executives.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
Apple announced today that it is expanding its “Find My” services to third parties, starting with Belkin, Chipolo, and VanMoof next week.
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
What a difference a pandemic makes: With our vaccinations scheduled, we’ve started plotting some long-delayed travel.
BY Paul Thurrott with 11 Comments
Apple announced today that it is expanding the available games in Apple Arcade by adding older App Store games to the subscription.
BY Paul Thurrott with 4 Comments
Adobe today announced its Design Mobile Bundle, a collection of its best iPad apps for photo editing, graphic design, art, and social media.
BY Paul Thurrott with 3 Comments
Apple announced today that WWDC21, the coming rendition of its annual developer conference, will be all-virtual for the second year in a row.
BY Paul Thurrott with 10 Comments
Today, Corel announced the immediate availability of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2021, which adds native M1 support and many new collaboration features.
BY Paul Thurrott with 40 Comments
It’s getting harder to keep track of all the regulatory bodies around the globe that are investigating Apple for antitrust violations now. But we can add the UK to the list.
BY Paul Thurrott with 13 Comments
Microsoft has quietly ported its unified Office app to the iPad, one year to the week after it was released for the iPhone. What took so long?
BY Paul Thurrott with 21 Comments
With Apple implementing a privacy disclosure for apps in its iOS App Store, Google has dragged its feet coming clean about how much it tracks its users.
BY Paul Thurrott with 13 Comments
Microsoft is making sweeping updates to its productivity apps on mobile, including Outlook, Teams, the previously-announced Microsoft Lens.
BY Paul Thurrott with 28 Comments
One of the key benefits of Apple moving the Mac to its M1 chipset is that users will be able to run iPhone and iPad apps natively.
BY Paul Thurrott with 77 Comments
Apple didn’t just post record revenues in the most recent quarter, it outperformed Microsoft by an over 2-to-1 margin. What the heck is going on here?
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
Apple’s well-trained customer base showed up as expected in the wake of Christmas 2020, spending $1.8 billion on App Store purchases that week alone.
BY Paul Thurrott with 7 Comments
Following in the footsteps of Amazon Luna, Google Stadia is now available on iPhone and iPad in Progressive Web App (PWA) form.
BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
Apple originally announced that its Fitness+ subscription service would launch by the end of 2020, and today it revealed that it will make good on that promise.
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
NVIDIA is using a web-based client to bypass Apple’s terrible app store policies for its GeForce NOW game streaming service.
BY Paul Thurrott with 65 Comments
With multiple threats of antitrust action looming against it, Apple has finally bowed to common sense and is lowering its App Store fees for developers.
BY Paul Thurrott with 19 Comments
Apple has released iOS 14.2, iPadOS 14.2, tvOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1, and HomePod 14.2, delivering many fixes and a few new features.
BY Paul Thurrott with 16 Comments
Apple’s new family of subscription services bundles, called Apple One, is now available, though Fitness+ won’t arrive until December.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
Apple brought trackpad and mouse support to iPad way back in March, but Microsoft is only now bringing support for this functionality to Office.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
As expected, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that Apple can ban Fortnite from its App Store. But it can’t retaliate against the Unreal Engine.
BY Paul Thurrott with 29 Comments
Apple infamously decided to block Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming on iPhones and iPads. But Microsoft has a plan to work around that.
BY Paul Thurrott with 89 Comments
Microsoft is hoping to set a positive example for Apple, Google, and others that run their own app stores to follow.
BY Paul Thurrott with 32 Comments
Microsoft says that its News service has 550 million monthly users and has generated $1 billion in “sustainable” revenue for the industry.
BY Paul Thurrott with 42 Comments
Here is a quick summary of the arguments made against Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, and the recommended solutions.