Follow iDrop News, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/idrop-news Sat, 25 Jun 2022 03:50:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtPah7A3XyqgoLb9ICM-PHur Apple has officially kicked off its annual Back to School Promotion. As predicted earlier this week, this year, the company has switched back to offering gift cards with eligible educational purchases rather than tossing in a set of Beats or AirPods. Of course, you can still use your Apple Gift card to buy Beats or […]
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Read More...]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:48:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtP5NnRDjiGTple5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtO9DG4gyOT0SX-fx8LWuXng In addition to plans to crack down on password sharing, Netflix is ramping up its efforts to bring advertising to the streaming platform to help draw in new subscribers. Company executives have been hinting at introducing an ad-supported subscription tier for a few months now. However, the timeline for this only came into focus a […]
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Read More...]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtO9DG4gyOT0Scqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtO9DG4gyOT0SSxhxzpi7FpJ This week Apple released a series of second developer betas for its major iOS updates. While watchOS 9 beta 2 isn’t quite as exciting as its iOS 16 counterpart, it introduces a small tweak that should interest users of older Apple Watch models. This year, watchOS 9 dropped support for the Apple Watch Series 3 — […]
Read More...]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:44:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtO9DG4gyOT0SSxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtO9DG4gyOT0STErtZyObPkc Welcome back for another exciting round of Best Apple Deals; we missed you! Don’t get too amped up for Mac deals, though – if you’re in the market for a new MacBook Pro, you can expect to pay full price (or even more). However, it’s not all doom and gloom! There are great deals on […]
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Read More...]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:37:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtNUY4m-_AmrmeifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtNUY4m-_AmrmUGb1Jh49AJn Almost right on its usual two-week schedule, Apple has released the second beta of iOS 16 to developers. While it’s still very early in the iOS 16 beta cycle, the second beta refines Apple’s next major iPhone software release and introduces many other small but exciting enhancements. Of course, the big tentpole features of iOS […]
Read More...]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtNUY4m-_AmrmUGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtOJzB6WI_l-TfdczOo_8W9B Last year Apple took us by surprise when it announced support for custom email domains in iOS 15. Now, it looks like it’s prepared to take that to the next level in iOS 16 by letting iCloud+ users purchase a new domain right from their iPhone or iPad. Custom email domain support was quietly introduced […]
Read More...]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtOJzB6WI_l-TfdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VtYNj_DEwtOJzB6WI_l-Te4sICfMfkNm T-Mobile is again taking top honors for its 5G service, but this time it’s not just the fastest 5G network out there — it’s also been crowned the best. This laudable distinction comes from PCMag’s Sascha Segan, who undertakes a comprehensive series of tests every year to determine which carrier has the fastest mobile network. […]
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