October 2024

Macworld If you are wondering if MacBooks are on sale for Prime Day you will be glad to learn that yes, you can get money off MacBooks at Amazon. Lots of money, in fact! Sales on MacBooks are normal for most of the year, but the best deals tend to happen during Amazon’s big sales […]

Meta’s Threads app may be seeking to further push into the territory occupied by the app formerly known as Twitter, taking on one of Elon Musk’s favorite features. The feature is known as Loop, and one developer who spotted the reference said that it might be similar to the Communities feature on X, or subreddits

The legal status of the free music streaming app Musi has long been unclear – but the matter may now be settled, thanks to a lawsuit the developer has filed against Apple. Musi sourced its music from YouTube using a method it claims was perfectly legal, while parent company Google disagreed. When the two sides

Macworld Apple’s Messages app may have lost the global messaging wars, but in many countries–including the U.S.–it’s still an incredibly popular way of communicating. That’s why Apple keeps upgrading it. This fall’s Messages updates are some of the biggest ever, with the addition of RCS messaging, true emoji and sticker tapbacks, styled and animated text,

Followed apparent photos of an M4 MacBook Pro box and a subsequent unboxing video, the unreleased model has now been offered for sale on a Russian classified ads site – at a highly inflated price, naturally. Multiple units were advertised before the listings were removed, and it does now seem increasingly likely that the leaks

A new market intelligence report indicates that global Mac shipments fell by 17.5% year-on-year in the previous quarter. That’s against a backdrop of roughly flat sales across all laptops and desktops. Technically Q3 saw the global PC market achieve a fourth consecutive quarter of growth, as total shipments were up year-on-year, though just barely …

Macworld If you’re in the market for a new Mac, the good news is, yes, there is another Amazon Prime Day this Tuesday and Wednesday! This time the Amazon sale is dubbed Prime Big Deal Days and it will run from just after midnight Tuesday, October 8 to midnight Wednesday, October 9. In our experience

With the iPhone 16, Apple has made a lot of improvements when it comes to making devices more repairable. This includes a new method that uses low-voltage electric current to loosen and remove the battery. And for those working on repairing iPhones, iFixit has now launched a tool designed to help them remove the iPhone

We reported in August that the social network X was banned in Brazil following a dispute between Elon Musk and the Brazilian Supreme Court. More than a month later, the Musk-owned company has backtracked and decided to comply with the Brazilian court, which has just ruled that X can be unblocked in the country. more…

Customers have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to streaming platforms, and Apple TV+ is one of them. But how does TV+ compare to its competitors? A new JustWatch report first seen by 9to5Mac reveals just that. more…