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[24 Aug 2015 | No Comment | 0 views]

You’re happy with your iPhone, but your wireless carrier occupies five of the nine circles of hell? Time to BYOD on another carrier. To find out if your Apple smartphone or, for that matter, cellular iPad is compatible, you will …

Deals, iPhone »

[18 Aug 2015 | No Comment | 28 views]

Regular Fairer Platform readers know I am a huge fan of refurbished Mac, iPad and, though harder to find, refurbished iPhone. Though I’m fully kitted up, I never get tired of digging for fresh deals and here is a full …

iPad, iPhone, Tech »

[3 Aug 2015 | No Comment | 2 views]

Apple Vietnam is one of the company’s fastest growing sales units with iPhone sales there doubling over the last year. While the company’s direct presence there is muted, Apple Vietnam is doing a roaring business through a growing network authorized …

iPhone, Mobile »

[30 Jul 2015 | No Comment | 1 views]

T-Mobile CEO John Legere made quite a splash with iPhone owners by offering free Apple Music streaming and a free iPhone 6s upgrade for iPhone 6s owners. Now, rival Sprint is firing back with a family plan that offers more …

Deals, iPhone, Mac »

[29 Jul 2015 | No Comment | 0 views]

Here at the Fairer Platform we love refurbished mobile gear. These days there are more places than just the Apple Store where you can find great prices on refurbished iPhones, iPad, iPods and, of course, Macs.
• Refurbished Droid Razr Maxx …

iPad, iPhone, iPod, Reviews, how to »

[21 Jul 2015 | No Comment | 442 views]

The other day, I came to obvious conclusion that running iOS 9 beta on my iPad Air, one of my daily drivers, was a bad idea. As I had a pre-iOS 9 iPad backup in iTunes, I chose to restore …

iPhone, Mobile »

[13 Jul 2015 | No Comment | 50 views]

A few years ago, Apple and Samsung evenly split industry-wide smartphone profit. Now, Apple claims 92 percent of smartphone profit with Samsung clinging to 15 percent. Wait, 107 percent? Yes, because pretty much every other smartphone is either breaking or, …

Deals, iPhone »

[9 Jul 2015 | No Comment | 54 views]

Some deals are good and some deals are great. I liked the iPhone 5 + 1-Yr Unlimited Talk-and-Text on FreedomPop for $299.99 so much I bought one for myself — bye bye, Verizon, I won’t miss you! That said, while …

Books, iPad, iPhone, iPod »

[7 Jul 2015 | One Comment | 42 views]

Worry not intrepid iOS 8.4 fans, this post is spoiler free — we won’t tell how Apple’s new iOS 8.4 User Guides end! We can tell you, however, that everything new in iOS 8.4 is encapsulated in these riveting digital-only …

Games, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod »

[3 Jul 2015 | No Comment | 47 views]

It is a long, long way to Grandma’s house and, quite frankly, the eating and fireworks aside, not much is happening there! So, tuck into another plate of po’ sal’ and the July 4th iOS game sale and save up …

Apple luv, iPhone, Mobile, Tech »

[26 Jun 2015 | 3 Comments | 34 views]

And, our Android friends definitely skew toward cheeseburgers, wings and fries. What does you choice of smartphone say about your dietary habits? Maybe nothing at all. Regardless, the good people at NPD Group have surveyed iPhone owners and Android users …

Apple luv, iPhone, Mac, Mobile, Tech »

[23 Jun 2015 | No Comment | 36 views]

Tale as old as time… It is widely known that rich people love their iPhones. Additionally, given that Mac owners are are said to better educated and better paid, it will surprise no one that Mac shoppers spend more when …

Deals, iPhone »

[22 Jun 2015 | No Comment | 39 views]

Are you a disciplined iPhone user, but short of cash? This deal — iPhone 5 with unlimited talk and text, plus 500MB LTE data per month for a one-time, all-inclusive charge of $299.99 — just might be for you. Yes, …

iPad, iPhone, Mac, Reviews, how to »

[17 Jun 2015 | No Comment | 16 views]

As the great majority of you, I very much like Apple’s new Photos for Mac as it overcomes the great majority of iPhoto’s numerous shortcomings. There is one issue — that Photos launches by default whenever I connect an iThing …

iPad, iPhone, Mac »

[10 Jun 2015 | No Comment | 72 views]

If you are a registered ($99) Apple developer, you probably already are already running iOS 9 (brilliant) and/or OS X El Capitan. For the rest of us, we can experience these shiny new things vicariously via the iOS 9 and …