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Some people find buying gifts easy. Without anguish or pause, they seem to intuitively know just what to get for everyone on their list. But most people aren't like that. […]

Apple's surprise February announcement of the next version of Mac OS--OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion--had developers across the Mac community perking up their ears, thanks in no small part to [...]

Your iPhone knows all your comings and goings. And that revelation has some iOS owners up in arms. But is location-data logging that big a deal? The brouhaha began in [...]

On March 24, 2001, the iMac was less than three years old, the iPod's debut was more than six months away, and Macs ran at astounding speeds of up to [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs usually leaves his company's quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts to other Apple executives. Yet, when Apple announced the results of its fiscal fourth quarter [...]

Apple unveiled a beta version of its revamped MobileMe Webmail interface that signifies a major shift in design. Instead of an interface based on Apple's Mail client for Mac OS [...]

Just prior to its most recent shareholder meeting, Apple issued its 2010 progress report on supplier responsibility. (You can download a PDF of the report from macworld.com/5903.) The timing was [...]

It would seem Hulu's not the only company that's reevaluating its strategies for making money on television content in the digital age. According to a report at All Things Digital, [...]

Since the iPhone's debut two years ago, Apple has regularly updated its software. But much of what made the iPhone such a revolutionary mobile device is more or less the [...]

There's been a lot of hubbub recently over reports that Verizon and Apple are talking about expanding the choice of carriers for iPhone users. Would this be a good thing? […]

Apple is no stranger to a missed deadline or two, nor is the company averse to pushing back a product's launch a few weeks or months when it needs more […]

IT'S BEEN A WHILE since Apple made any changes to its board of directors, but the company recently welcomed its newest member, financial executive Susan L. Wagner (go.macworld.com/wagner). A founding [...]

These days, the environment is both big news and big business. Last year, after an increasingly vocal war of words between Apple and environmental-activist groups such as Greenpeace, Steve Jobs […]

From October to December 2007, Apple sold more iPods than in any quarter since the introduction of the mobile music player six years earlier. Record quarterly sales of 22.1 million […]

Among technology companies, Apple is often perceived to have something that the likes of rivals Dell, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard lack: that indefinable element of cool. Apple has long been concerned […]

THE DEMISE OF THE iPad 2 (see page 34) isn't the only change Apple has made recently to its mobile product offerings. Some of Apple's international stores are now offering [...]

Are you worried that Sin i didn't get enough love in iOS 7? Apple is not done with the intelligent assistant just yet, if a recent acquisition yields any clues. [...]

Other topics addressed at the late-February gathering include innovation and cash on hand. Apple's annual shareholder meeting is one of its most un-Apple-like gatherings. Attendance is limited to company shareholders [...]

Combatting worries that Apple's days of innovation might be behind it, CEO Tim Cook recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal and reiterated that Apple isn't sitting on its hands. [...]

Despite all that it does well, the Apple TV has room for improvement, which is why I've been closely following the rumors of an Apple TV revision that have been [...]

Bid adios to stitched leather, friends who like to find other friends. Apple has released an update for the Find My Friends application, giving it an iOS 7--style makeover that [...]

Buying Apple products from your iPad just got much easier. More than three years after the company released an Apple Store app for the iPhone, an Apple Store app for [...]

Sometimes you're just ahead of the game. Take, for example, the makers of exotic sports cars--Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini. From year to year, how much do their high-end products actually change? [...]

For the first time since J.D. Power started rating customer satisfaction for tablets, Apple has slipped from the top spot. In the market research firm's 2013 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction Study, [...]

Sapphire--lt's not just for making jewelry anymore. In the past few years, Apple has Increased its use of the material in its products, and that trend seems to be on [...]

It looks like you've sent your last 100 percent cotton letterpress card. Apple has quietly discontinued Cards (go.macworld.com/cards), its iOS-based service for sending photo postcards via good ol' fashioned snail [...]

Staying on the cutting edge of smartphones just got a bit easier: In late August. Apple launched a nationwide program for customers who want to trade in their current iPhone [...]

In August, Apple snapped up Passif Semiconductor, a maker of low-energy computer chips. The deal underscores Apple's interest in controlling key technologies--such as wireless tech--that go into its products. Connectivity [...]

At a conference in May, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned that the company had already acquired nine companies in 2013: this summer, it acquired a few more. Locationary The Toronto-based [...]

In July, Apple launched its latest back-to-school promotion. When customers purchase a Mac for college, they'll receive a $100 App Store Gift Card, alongside the usual education pricing discounts (of [...]

On its website, Apple has detailed new features of its iOS 7 update for education and business users alike. App Store license management allows businesses and education institutions to provide [...]

In June, Apple announced that the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education had approved deploying iPads to students across the district. The deal, worth $30 million, will see [...]

If you're looking to keep a computer running smoothly, Apple is the one to turn to, says Consumer Reports. Recently the publication announced that Apple had once again topped a [...]

Apple has released three updates to its mobile operating system recently, each one adding minor improvements and enhancements to the iOS experience. iOS 6.1, released in late January, extends LTE [...]

The recent executive shuffle at Apple is the kind of drama that we in the tech press usually get only from watching Game of Thrones. But as interesting as that [...]

This summer, Apple added support for Hulu Plus to its Apple TV set-top box, bringing access to ad-supported TV episodes and movies for paid subscribers of that service ($8 a [...]

When you come to a fork in the road,' Yankees great Yogi Berra once remarked, 'take it.' That seems to be Apple's current plan for its two major platforms. While [...]

Apple answered the question on many analysts' and investors' minds--namely, what the company planned to do with its almost $100 billion in cash. Later this year, Apple will begin paying [...]

Apple has laid down the law to iOS developers: Manipulate your App Store rankings to get your app at the top of the sales chart, and you'll get the boot [...]

Like most of my colleagues--and, I'd guess, like many of you--I'm the go-to tech person for family and friends. As such, I'm regularly called on to help someone decide whether [...]

Eddy Cue, who previously served as Apple's vice president of Internet services, was promoted in September to senior vice president of Internet software and services. Cue has long been responsible [...]

Mac Trojan horses, beware: Apple's Security Update 2011-003 aims to protect Mac OS X 10.6 users from the nefarious Mac Defender Trojan horse, and it lays the groundwork to keep [...]

Apple announced in March that senior vice president of Mac software engineering Bertrand Serlet is leaving the company. Serlet said in a press release that he wants 'to focus less [...]

If the language Apple is using to promote this year's Worldwide Developer Conference in June in San Francisco is any indication, then the company is betting that the only thing [...]

If you're looking to see the kind of tricks you can make Safari perform with the new extensions feature introduced in Safari 5, look no further than the Safari Extensions [...]

Though we've been hearing about the exclusive deal between Apple and AT&T since the latter was still called Cingular, the exact terms of that deal have long been shrouded in [...]

Amidst the iPhone 4 hoopla in June was the release of Safari 5, Apple's Web browser. The new version adds a Safari Reader feature that presents Web pages in a [...]

In case you've been ignoring the insistent Software Update window for the past month or so, you should know that Apple recently released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the latest version [...]

The iPhone got off to a strong start in 2010, with Apple selling a record number of phones during its fiscal first quarter while also hitting a new milestone for [...]

A few years ago, I took my MacBook into an Apple Store to get it serviced. The two Geniuses there looked it over with the same critical eye that car [...]