Source: Macrumors

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Apple pulls more Apple Watch competitors from its retail stores

With the Apple Watch set to launch soon, it wouldn't make sense for Apple to continue selling competing devices in its own retail stores. That's why the company has removed...

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Android and iOS account for 96.3% of smartphones shipments

It's hard to say that BlackBerry and Windows Phone "compete" against Android and iOS when you consider the fact that the latter two accounted for 96.3% of all smartphone shipments last quarter....

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Apple has seeded the second iOS 8.3 beta to developers

Developers have been seeded the second beta of iOS 8.3 from Apple today, just a couple of weeks after the company seeded the first beta. This is actually kind of surprising...

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Apple is warning users that it’s about to kill off Aperture

Apple announced that it would be killing off Aperture and iPhoto a few months ago but it wasn't until just recently that we were given a date. The company has updated...

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Apple accounted for 93% of last quarter’s mobile profits

Further highlighting the insane amount of dominance that Apple and Samsung have over the mobile market a new report states that Apple accounted for around 93% of the fourth quarter...

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Apple may be about to hit Google where it really hurts: web searching

Apple and Google may be rivals in the mobile device market but the two were actually somewhat amicable until a couple of years ago. Ever since Apple dropped Google Maps from...

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Apple may be working on its own Google Street View competitor

Apple has already chosen to take on Google Maps with a service of its own but now it looks like the company is going to take things a step further...

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Not even five months in and iOS 8 has a 72% adoption rate

Remember yesterday when we reported that the latest version of Google's mobile operating system hasn't even reached 2% adoption after three months? Well lets compare that to today's report which...

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Hundreds of field-testing Apple Watches are being spotted in the wild

We're only a few months away from the highly-anticipated release of the Apple Watch and the closer we get, the more of the smartwatches we see out in the wild...

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Yahoo really wants to be Safari’s default search engine

Yahoo's recent deal with Mozilla to become Firefox's defualt search engine turned out to be a major success and actually took quite a chunk out of Google. Now the company...

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Apple was responsible for 50% of phone activations in the United States

The release of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last fall were enough to maintain Apple's dominance in the US market, so much so, in fact, that half of...

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Intel’s CEO refutes rumors that Apple will be dropping Intel processors

Yesterday we brought word that Apple was expected to drop Intel in favor of its own ARM-based processors for its Mac line within the next couple of years. Intel CEO Brian...

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