Apple's Everyone Can Code program is designed to help students become proficient in Swift, the tech giant's programming language for building iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. Students in the city of Chicago will soon be learning to code. Apple has ... ( read original story ...)
GymKit for Apple Watch Now Available in the United States
At WWDC this year, Apple announced watchOS 4 for the Apple Watch with GymKit framework which allowed the smartwatch to talk to compatible gym equipments. Now, with the release of watchOS 4.1, Apple has finally released GymKit to the public but for now ... ( read original story ...)
Apple’s pushing into gyms with GymKit: What you need to know
Apple just made connecting to treadmills and ellipticals as easy as tapping your Apple Watch on a piece of gym equipment. GymKit, a feature built into WatchOS 4.1, enables seamless tap-to-connect tech. It's like CarPlay, but for fitness machines. ( read original story ...)
Apple’s GymKit for syncing your Watch to your fitness machines is now live
Back in June, Apple talked up GymKit for Apple Watch, a feature that would let you sync performance data from exercise machines with your wearable. With the release of watchOS 4.1 today, it’s now available for users to play with. With the latest version ... ( read original story ...)
Apple just brought the worst thing about the game industry to the App Store
Taking a page from the video game industry, Apple has now opened app pre-orders to all developers on iOS, macOS and tv OS. You might remember last year when Super Mario Run appeared on the App Store weeks before its launch with an option to remind ... ( read original story ...)
Challengers to iPad and MacBook Still Falling Short
... of the first iPad last year and the iPad 2 earlier this year. And on the lightweight notebook front, the company’s MacBook Air continues to be the benchmark by which all other products are judged. Apple is simply the gold standard for how to be ... ( read original story ...)
You can now preorder iPhone, iPad apps
Can't wait to get a hot new app? Apple now will let you preorder it in the App Store. The new feature, which Apple detailed for developers Monday, only works for new apps that haven't been published on the App Store before. They have to hit the store ... ( read original story ...)