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TECHNOLOGY A23
Tuesday 22 September 2015
Review: Apple Watch improves with new software
ANICK JESDANUN nese apps, including the their iPhones and iPads during your runs. I’ve found the settings on the phone
AP Technology Writer popular WeChat, from its and get new versions from that to swing wildly on all to change that.
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple app store after third-party the app store once they sorts of fitness trackers, in- — The watch also tracks
Watch’s new software developers were tricked are available. cluding Apple Watch. Dur- mile-by-mile splits for the
brings useful enhance- into inserting malicious As for the watch update, ing my most recent mara- first time, matching what
ments, though it’s not the code into their apps. The first make sure your phone thon, my usually reliable many phone apps, the Fit-
same as getting a new bit Surge and the Microsoft
watch. In this March 9, 2015 file photo, attendees get a look at varieties of the new Apple Watch on Band offer. It’s not the same
That same watch can now as choosing your own splits
do more. For the first time, display in the demo room after an Apple event in San Francisco. Associated Press manually, such as after
non-Apple apps are able each lap on a track. But it’s
to display video and use malicious software isn’t be- has the latest software, iOS Garmin GPS had me going progress. The splits aren’t
the watch’s sensors and lieved to affect the watch’s 9. Then go to the Apple faster than two minutes a displayed on the watch,
controls. In addition, the functionality, though it Watch app on the phone, mile at one point — more though, but in the Activ-
watch now works with Wi- could collect data on the choose “General” and than three times as fast as ity app on the phone after
Fi, extending how far you tethered iPhone and send then “Software Update.” the winners. Average pace you sync your workout.
can go without a phone them to remote servers, Apple’s own fitness apps is more useful, as it factors in — The nagging remind-
with you. These enhance- according to security ex- are smarter with Monday’s the occasional errant read- ers that you need to stand
ments address many of my perts. Users should delete update: ings. The watch finally lets up if you’ve been sitting at
initial frustrations with the any Chinese apps they got — Before, the watch dis- you choose that instead, your desk for too long can
watch. or updated recently from played only current pace though you need to dig in be paused if you happen
But the hardware itself to be on a flight or a road
isn’t changing, apart for trip. And it’s clearer wheth-
some new color and band er you’ve already earned
choices. Promised battery credit for standing during a
life remains at 18 hours, given hour. A blinking blue
something Apple will need bar appears in the Activ-
to address in upcoming ity app on the watch if you
generations given that rival haven’t yet.
smartwatches are prom- You also have more choic-
ising more. For now, you es for watch faces: Choose
might need to buy a spare photos of your kids or friends
charger to give the watch to appear on the main
a power boost while you’re watch screen. Or choose
sitting at work. Even 15 min- time-lapse video from one
utes will help. of six cities. At 10 p.m. your
The watchOS 2 update for time, you see what Paris or
Apple Watch arrived Mon- Shanghai looks like at 10
day, delayed by nearly a p.m. local time. It’s cheap-
week as Apple fixed an un- er than a flight. When
specified bug. charging, the watch func-
The update comes as Ap- tions like an alarm clock on
ple Inc. pulled several Chi- a nightstand.q
Apple withdraws some China
apps after malware found
JOE McDONALD through a counterfeit ver- The creators of the mal-
AP Business Writer sion of Apple’s Xcode tools
BEIJING (AP) — Apple Inc. used to create apps for ware took advantage of
has removed some appli- its iPhones and iPads, ac-
cations from its App Store cording to the company. public frustration with Bei-
after developers in China It said the counterfeit tools
were tricked into using soft- spread when develop- jing’s Internet filters, which
ware tools that added ma- ers obtained them from
licious code in an unusual “untrusted sources” rath- hamper access to Apple
security breach. er than directly from the
Apple gave no details of company. and other foreign websites.
which companies were The malicious software
affected. But Tencent Ltd. collects information from That prompts some people
said its popular WeChat infected devices and up-
app was affected and the loads it to outside servers, to use copies of foreign
company released a new according to Palo Alto
version after spotting the Networks, a U.S.-based se- software or documents
malicious code. Chinese curity firm.
news reports said others af- It was first publicized last that are posted on web-
fected included banks, an week by security research-
airline and a popular music ers at Alibaba Group, the sites within China to speed In this Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 photo, a man uses his iPhone to
service. e-commerce giant, who
The malicious code spread dubbed it XcodeGhost. up access. take picture as people crowd at a newly-opened Apple Store
“Sometimes network in Nanjing in east China’s Jiangsu province.
speeds are very slow Associated Press
when downloading large sources or get copies from cording to the newspaper
files from Apple’s servers,” colleagues.” Yangcheng Evening News.
wrote Claud Xiao, a Palo Companies with apps that The incident is the only
Alto Networks researcher, were affected include taxi- the sixth time malicious
on its website. Due to the hailing service Didi Kuaidi, software is known to have
large size of the Xcode file, Citic Industrial Bank, China made it through Apple’s
“some Chinese develop- Southern Airlines and the screening process for prod-
ers choose to download music service of NetEase, ucts on its App Store, ac-
the package from other a popular Web portal, ac- cording to Xiao.q
