Author: Rene Ritchie

Last weekend a rather bizarre article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, one that claimed Apple was seeing weak demand for the iPhone 5 based on a couple of guys telling the reporter that screen orders for Q2 had been cut in half, one that original …

With Apple’s recent freeze on App Store screenshot updates, developers now have to make sure they have usable artwork ready and set when they hit the submit button. No more week(s)-long review cycle and vague plans to fix it later. That can add to the…

Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and yours truly talk Apple TV, Mac Pro made in the USA, avoiding Apple Maps in rural Australia, and more. Subscribe or download: TWiT.tv

Procreate, one of the best art apps for the iPad, has been updated to version 1.7, which adds a ton of new features, including support for 4K Cinema canvas sizes, a new, full screen mode, and a bunch of new blend modes including: color, saturation, hu…

After successfully rebooting Batman under Christopher Nolan, Warner Brothers and DC Comics are trying to do the same to Superman, with Nolan serving as producer, and Zack Snyder of Watchmen and 300 as director. So, Dark Knight, here’s your Man of Stee…

Amazon has updated their ebook reading app for iPhone and iPad to Kindle version 3.5, and added their fancy new X-Ray feature to it, along with some improvements to manga rendering. Amazon says X-Ray lets you get “to the bones of the book” (yeah… ou…

In case you’ve been living in a drab black-and-white world and missed the preview last month, our own Ally Kazmucha has teamed up with The Pod Drop and is now providing a fancy new color service for the iPhone and iPad. It’s called AnoStyle and it’s a…

I’ve had to record a lot of audio at trade shows like Macworld and CES using the iPhone as a microphone, and while it was okay, it was never ideal. The Mikey by Blue Microphones brings it much closer to ideal. The Mikey connects to your iPhone or iPod…

Andy Ihnatko takes the big chair this week, as Leo Laporte is still cruising down under, and talks iMultitouch on MacOS, how iCloud is working out, how committed we are to Mac, and more, with Chris Breen, Tonya Engst, and yours truly. My pick of the w…

Apple has just released two new TV commercials for the iPhone 5 5 called Turkey and Orchestra. As you might imagine, Turkey focuses on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, and starts off with… a turkey and all the fixings! Apple then shows the Photo app, …

The definitive guide to great Apple gifts for Black Friday and the holidays! We’re entering what is, for many, the biggest shopping and gift-giving season of the year, and by virtue of their range, cachet, utility, and joyfulness, Apple gifts are alwa…

Sarah Lane once again fills in the cruising Leo Laporte, and talks iPhone 5S rumors, the future of the iOS Home screen (Springboard), HTC and Apple’s patent deal, and more, with Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and yours truly. My pick of the week was Clear…

Hey, we have an all-new podcast! It’s called Debug. I’m co-hosting it with Guy English of Kicking Bear. It focuses on development, especially iPhone, iPad, Mac, and game development, but we’ll be covering other platforms as well. Where Iterate is all …

HTC is showing off the Verizon Droid DNA today at the special event in New York City, and the big news — the HUGE news — is the size and density of their display: a 5-inch fully 1920x1080p at a positively pornographic 440ppi. HTC has always loved pu…

Now that Apple’s on an iOS-like yearly update schedule for the Mac’s OS X operating system, it’d be big news if we didn’t start to see traces of the next version, OS X 10.9, start appearing in server logs sometime that is soonish. Well, no cause for c…

Nokia and AT&T have announced that the new Lumia 820 and the Lumia 920 will be available for $49 and $99 respectively when they launch this Friday. That puts the more modest Lumia 820 smack in the middle of the free iPhone 4 and $99 iPhone 4S, and…