Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its online services include iCloud, iTunes Store, and App Store. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization.
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I used to restore backups from old iPhones to new ones each year. Not any more. I figured out some time ago that there’s actually a few benefits to setting up… Read more »