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Minecraft is a game we’ve seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new. You can start a new world on any surface you’d like—as you can see in the GIF above. Magical. Here’s the full demo. The amazing stuff starts at the…
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Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop. And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons. Apple has become a perennial hit maker, the company other companies copy. Apple really gets design. In the past 14…
Apple Watch pre-orders started with a bang and Apple’s initial inventory quickly sold out. Then US orders immediately fell, and have remained mostly flat since, according to analysis from Slice Intelligence, a company that tracks US consumer spending through e-commerce email receipts. Apple has taken orders for almost 2.5 million watches in the US through Monday, May 18, according to Slice’s projections,…
google+ [if lte IE 8]>< ![endif][if lte IE 7]>< ![endif][if lte IE 8]>< ![endif]begin:wrapper begin:image-block end:image-block Headlines about a computer’s pricetag beyond consumer imaginations have been rolling in this week. They’re calling it the Raspberry Pi killer. The crazy-cheap computer. The every-hacker’s dream toy. By now you may have seen the stories about this $9…
The Apple Watch hasn’t yet shipped, but already developers have created thousands of apps to run on it. And ahead of the device’s arrival at market tomorrow, Apple has crowned a handful of must-haves among the more than 3,000 that will become available when its App Store for the device goes live later today. The…
We have just had the latest version of our SeaNav US iOS app rejected by Apple because we support the Pebble Smartwatch and say so in the app description and meta-data (we also state in the review notes that “This application was approved for use with the Pebble MFI Accessory in the Product Plan xxxxxx-yyyy (Pebble Smartwatch)”. See copy of…
The ever-heated battle over mobile ecosystems left two wounded fanboys today: In Tulsa, Oklahoma, two roommates were hospitalized after a drunken fight about the relative benefits of Android and Apple phones. “When police arrived at the apartment complex, they learned that the roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones,” KTUL Tulsa reports….
If you’ve never heard of Nilay Patel then here’s what you need to know: He runs The Verge, a large, successful tech website where he last week posted a nearly 7,000-word review of the Apple Watch (for which he also shaved his forearm, for the video portion). You’d think he’d be a pretty secure man….
Begin: WordPress Article Content Sorry to disappoint you, recent Apple Watch buyers, but you’re not going to be able to use one of those brand new Apple Watch strap trading sites to get a whole new, extra watchband when your Apple Watch arrives. In case you missed it, a couple of Apple Watch band trading sites…