Taylor Swift’s new album “reputation” will not be available on streaming music services like Apple Music for at least a week after it launches, reports Bloomberg. Swift’s representatives began notifying streaming music services about the upcoming limitation this week. The album reportedly will not be available for streaming during the first week of sales, and companies are still negotiating to determine when exactly it might be made available. “reputation” will be available…

Case reviews aren’t often something that we do here at MacRumors because for the last several years, there’s been little variation in case design since there’s been little variation in iPhone design. With the iPhone X, Apple introduced its first major design overhaul in years, so I thought I’d take a look at a wide range of cases from different manufacturers to see what’s out there. Given that the iPhone X features…

Apple’s new iPhone X costs $357.50 to make, according to estimates sourced from TechInsights and shared today by Reuters. At an estimated $357.50 to produce with a price tag of $999, the iPhone X has a gross margin of 64 percent, higher than the iPhone 8’s gross margin of 59 percent. Several of the components in the iPhone X are more expensive than their iPhone 8 counterparts, according to TechInsights. The 5.8-inch…

Travel photographer Austin Mann often goes hands-on with new iPhone models to test their camera performance in real world situations, and with the iPhone X, he went to Guatemala to evaluate its new features and its capabilities compared to previous iPhone cameras. Mann loved the size of the iPhone X as a photography device. Previous Plus models, he says, have been “a bit unwieldy” and tough to operate with one hand, a…

New rumors surfaced this weekend suggesting Blizzard’s first-person shooter Overwatch could be launching soon on Mac. A Reddit user on r/macgaming (via MacGamerHQ) managed to download an unlisted installer for Overwatch on Mac — titled “Overwatch-Setup.zip” — by apparently altering the download link for the PC version of the game available on the official Battle.net website. The installer is properly signed by Blizzard and launches Battle.net — an app that centralizes all…

Most iPhone X owners have had barely 48 hours to get to grips with Apple’s new home bar-based user interface which does away with traditional home button functions, but the general consensus is that it becomes extremely intuitive to use after just a few hours. In this article, we’ve gathered some neat tips and gestural tricks for using iOS 11 on iPhone X that you may not have come across. Some of…

There’s a strange bug with the Apple Watch today that’s causing resprings whenever Siri is questioned about the weather. Asking Siri something like “What’s the temperature?” or “What’s the weather?” or “Is it raining?” causes the Apple Watch to crash. The issue has been documented in several threads on the MacRumors forums and on reddit, and we’ve also been able to replicate it on our own devices. Complaints about the problem appear…

An animated cat, fox, pig, and chicken singing Bohemian Rhapsody is the epitome of a new social media phenomenon dubbed Animoji Karaoke. Over the past week, both reviewers and customers lucky enough to have the device in their hands have shared fun, humorous videos of Animoji in action, ranging from goofy voiceovers to full-out music videos. Animoji, for those unaware, are custom animated characters that use your voice and mirror your facial…