Author: Rene Ritchie

Over the weakened rumors ran rampant that popular cross-platform messaging service WhatsApp was in Google’s cross-hairs, and that a buyout might be imminent. Not so, says WhatsApp’s head of business development, Neeraj Arora. According to Liz Gannes o…

Ron Johnson, who helped Apple and Steve Jobs establish their retail presence and make Apple Stores among the most successful commercial venues of the modern era, has been unceremoniously dumped as CEO of JC Penny. Johnson, who left Apple in 2011, had …

Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Mike Elgan, and I talk about wether or not there will there be an iPhone 5S coming in June, Google Now stuck in App Store, and more. I was also fortunate enough to join Tom Merrit, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Will Harris on…

The Game Developers Conference — GDC — got off to a slow if dignified start yesterday. The show floor doesn’t open until later in the week but the workshops are well underway, and everyone from first time developers to seasoned producers are getting…

Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and I discuss whether or not Apple lost the war of words with Samsung, a new iPhone web ad campaign, OS X 10.8.3, and more. Download or subscribe: TWiT.tv

How do you type on the iPhone: Portrait or landscape? Last night we asked you how you grip the iPhone while typing, and tonight we’re continuing our typing series by asking you about your orientation — portrait or landscape? Apple says they designed …

Apple, given their history, is acutely aware of the pain that can result when their destiny depends on companies outside their control. Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Hollywood, AT&T, Nuance, and the list goes on. In yet another thoughtful piece on his…

Android Central’s Alex Dobie has posted his definitive HTC One review. While he bewilderingly managed to misspell aluminium, Dobie otherwise did a fantastic job looking at the almost Apple-class unibody hardware, stunning 1080p LCD display, and the in…

With rumors of an Apple iWatch swirling, speculation over potential feature sets and use cases are swirling with them. Designer Neven Mrgan has an interesting one: Today it occurred to me that it could have an interesting use: acting as a gestural, a…

Adobe’s CTO, Kevin Lynch, is leaving the Photoshop and Flash maker to join Apple. CNBC’s Jon Fortt got the statement from Adobe: Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, is leaving the company effective March 22 to take a position at Apple. We will not be replacing t…

The true costs associated with free apps isn’t limited to free-to-play-games, or the consequences to just our wallets. Michael Jurewitz, who up until last year worked as a developer evangelist at Apple, has outlined another profound cost on his blog, …

Marc Edwards of Bjango, Guy English of Kicking Bear, Loren Brichter of Atebits, Sebastiaan de With of DoubleTwist, and Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations talk human interfaces of the future, including Siri, Google Now, Kinect, Leap, MYO, Project Glass, iW…

TWiT is back from the holidays, Leo Laporte and I are back from CES, and so it’s break time once again! This week Leo, Andy Ihnatko, Adam Engst, and I talk about Apple’s tumbling stock price, iPhone sales, Tim Cook meeting with the Chinese government,…

Apple’s vice president of retail, Jerry McDougal, has left the company in order to spend more time with his family. McDougal previously reported to Ron Johnson, before Johnson left for JC Penny, and most recently, John Browett, before Browett was let …

Facebook held their special media event today, and while everything from Facebook Messenger for iPad to a Facebook phone was rumored, what we got instead was Social Graph Search. Unlike Google, which indexes websites and web content, Facebook is inde…

More on the dumbassery — or manipulation — that was the Wall Street Journal story this past weekend alleging Apple was cutting iPhone 5 orders in the face of weak demand — namely the questions the WSJ should have asked, and the logic they should ha…