Macworld If you’re hoping to get a discount on the MacBook Air, you’ve come to the right place. We follow all the Apple resellers all year round so we know the best prices resellers have sold Apple products for – and we know when they have a really good deal and not just an ok deal. Check out the best deals we are seeing right now below. If you are after the new M2 MacBook Air, we’ve got our eyes on where to buy one and where to get the best deal. Despite the arrival of the new M2 MacBook Air, Apple continues to sell the $999/£999 M1 MacBook Air and we continue to see some great deals on that…

Apple, set to close out Big Tech earnings Thursday after the market closes, looks to extend Big Tech’s largely positive winning streak. Connor Smith for MarketWatch: Shares of Apple have soared nearly 31% in 2023, though the stock is up just 2.4% over the past 12 months. The S&P 500 is up 7.7% this year and down 3.9% in the past 12 months. So far, Big Tech earnings have been fairly positive. Reports from Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms were mostly well received by Wall Street. Amazon.com ‘s results topped estimates but a weak outlook around the cloud sent shares falling. Apple investors are hoping the firm follows in Microsoft’s footsteps, and not Amazon’s. “With Big Tech showing impressive resiliency…

The Verge Making sense of Apple’s messy MagSafe charging ecosystem, where the first-party options are far from the best ones. Wireless charging is inefficient in many ways. It charges your phone more slowly than using a cable, uses more energy, and requires near-perfect alignment on a charging pad to even work. But inefficiencies aside, it’s just so dang convenient. So when Apple added a ring of magnets to the iPhone 12 and dubbed it “MagSafe,” things got much more interesting. Not only do the magnets guarantee perfect alignment every time but also, with a MagSafe-certified charger, your iPhone can charge at up to 15W — double the 7.5W they get with other wireless chargers. And the magnets also allow for…

WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will allow users to transfer their chat history to another iPhone without using iCloud. Currently, WhatsApp only lets ‌iPhone‌ users migrate their chat history and media to ‌‌another ‌iPhone‌ if they have created a Chat Backup which is uploaded to ‌iCloud‌. With the new feature, called "Transfer Chats to ‌iPhone‌," users need only download WhatsApp on their new phone, register with the same number, and then use their old ‌iPhone‌ to scan a QR code shown on the new device to automatically transfer their chat history. As noted by WaBetaInfo, the new built-in service offers a significant advantage to users limited to ‌iCloud‌'s 5GB of free storage who do not have the…

Macworld Apple has issued firmware updates for eight different devices today, and you can’t even really take care of it yourself. Multiple AirPods and Beats models are getting firmware updates, along with, oddly enough, the official Apple MagSafe charger. The full list of products and their new firmware numbers are as follows: AirPods 2nd-gen: 5E135AirPods 3rd-gen: 5E135AirPods Pro 1st-gen: 5E135AirPods Pro 2nd-gen: 5E135AirPods Max: 5E135PowerBeats Pro: 5B66Beats Fit Pro: 5B66MagSafe Charger: 258.0.0.0 What do these firmware updates do? Nobody really knows! Apple never says. The company maintains a support document for AirPods firmware updates but every update only says it provides “Bug fixes and other improvements,” with very few exceptions. What’s worse, it’s not possible to actually update the firmware yourself.…