Now you can buy an Apple Watch in-store!

Apple Watch is now available at your local Apple Store! Or any others, of course. Walk on in and choose one for yourself right now, schedule a try-on, or if the Apple genius attention is too much pressure for you, choose one online and make a reservation for in-store pick up.

Go! Shiny Apple goodness is waiting!

 
Remember: Apple Watch requires iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6 or 6 Plus, and iOS 8.2 or later.

Watch a Gold Edition Apple Watch get SMUSHED

Hands up who thinks putting an 38mm 18k yellow gold Apple Watch Edition between 2 powerful neodymium magnets equaling 650 pounds of force?

The guys from Techrax did.

Perhaps a little nauseating to think of the $10,000 that just got smushed, but somehow we can’t stop watching the impact. Watch it for yourself below!

The world is a funny ol’ place, isn’t it.

APP OF THE WEEK!

There are so many good movies out right now! Can anyone say Super Summer of blockbusters? We LOVE that feeling of sitting in the dark movie theater with a bunch of friends or that special someone, suppin on a 44 oz Coke, munching on some delish corn, just about to watch some thrills and bangs…

BUT

That feeling only lasts as long as the coke does in your body. Wanna know when to go pee in a movie? We got you!

This app will save your blockbuster seein’ a**  this summer! It will tell you the best times to relieve yourself in any of the movies the day they’re released to theaters – and includes a rundown of the bits you missed whilst said relieving is being done!

Sweet. Download it here. It’s FREE!

Apple’s celebration of it’s App Store!

If you missed last week’s WWDC keynote, then you missed Apple’s self-congratulatory dialogue about the App Store and all of the life-changing Apps that exist within it. The App store has grown from 500 apps to well over a million in just 7 years, and, yes, we do love ourselves some apps. Life changing ones, procrastination ones, fun ones, sexy ones, educational ones, stupid ones…. we love apps. Apps, Apps, Apps.

Watch the video to see just how much we love Apps!

Deal of the day!

So, normally we here at iPhone Antidote bring you all kinds of tech, gadget and electronics deals, but today, we have a deal that we’d like to share with you that is none of those – it’s just a really, really cool deal. We couldn’t NOT pass it on.

You guys have plans for the 4th of July? BBQ, Friends, drinks, fireworks, family, that kind of thing? Well, those plans sound awesome, but how would you like to spend it with 5 of your closest friends  flying to one of this country’s amazing cities in your own private jet?

Ummm… yes please?

For the second year in a row, JetSuite is offering – for any one of us – to grab ourselves an entire private jet ride for FOUR DOLLARS. $4.

The flights will be on the 4th of July, and will only be one way (what are they, a charity?).  Recent flights include Teterboro to Palm Beach and Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

The flights won’t be posted online until the 3rd of July, so keep your crazy spontaneous spirit in check until then! Register here for their Suitedeals so you can be notified via text message or e-mail of this and any SuiteDeal posted out of your desired airport(s)!

P.S Why, yes, we believe we are one of your closest friends, we’d love to spend 4th of July with you on your four dollar Private Jet Ride!

Watch the mock WWDC backstage video!

To celebrate WWDC and show what all-round-knock-about-funny guys they are, today Apple shared their mock “Backstage” video starring Bill Hader as WWDC’s director, doing a run through of a very different WWDC kickoff to the one we saw.

It’s funny. Watch it!

WWDC runs through the 12th, with developers just like the ones in the video learning all they can to develop the apps of the future!

Wanna be cool like Drake?

If you caught the keynote speech at WWDC on Monday, you will have seen Drake onstage, Drakin’ out and speaking about Apple Music. Whilst everything he said was great, what really caught a number of eyes around the world was his AWESOME A** Apple varsity jacket. We’re talking a vintage, black jacket WITH TAN SLEEVES AND POCKET COVERS.

Holy Hipsters, you guys.

Internet sleuths took to their stations and discovered that Drake got himself that sweet jacket from eBay for just under $1100. People are a very very excited about this jacket. And why not? Be cool as drake and wear some old Apple stuff WITH TAN SLEEVES?

The eBay seller who sold Drake the original jacket has another, and has this one listed for, uh, a little bit more monies… Right now the starting bid is at $3,999, with a buy it now price of $9,999, although there has been no bids so far and there’s only about 18 hours left on the auction, so maybe people aren’t that excited.

Just look at this collar though, yo –

Maybe not worth a cool ten thousand clams…. but it’s pretty sweet.

WWDC!

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off this morning with CEO Tim Cook’s keynote speech which revealed a rather unsurprising list of updates and new services being rolled out.

As unsurprising as that list was, it should make Apple customers happy with solid OS updates, including that of the Apple Watch, as well as the introduction of a very strong competitor into the music streaming industry with Apple Music.

Click on the links below to get a detailed look at what we’ve got coming from Apple in the next couple of months.

iOS 9

OS X 10.11 – El Capitan

Watch OS 2

Apple Music & Beats 1 Live Radio Station.

Apple pay also got a couple of updates: The ability to support rewards and loyalty cards, compatibility with Discover cards, a massive launch in the UK and Square is launching a special reader that will allow small businesses to accept Apple Pay.

You can watch the whole keynote yourself here when it’s uploaded shortly.

Say hello to your new friend: iOS 9

iOS 9 will be coming at your phone this Fall, and with it comes an array of improvements designed to make your life better! Here’s what you need to know:

For the iPad exclusively, iOS 9 brings a function called Slide-over, which will let you open apps without leaving the one that you’re in,  a brand-new QuickType keyboard, and a picture-in-picture feature that allows you to watch video from another app while you do something else.

There’s also a multi-tasking function called ‘Split view’ which lets users use 2 apps at the same time, on the same screen. This is a yay moment for iPad users everywhere – except it’ll only be available on the iPad Air 2… Bummer. Kudos to you iPad Air 2 owners.

For both iPhones and iPads, we get a better looking and more helpful Siri, a brand new Search window, which offers commonly used apps or contacts, one-tap links to nearby locations and breaking news, and – finally- transit directions in Maps and integrated with Siri.

*Siri will now react to context, which is a little scary – offering to play music when headphones are plugged in, or searching email when an unknown phone number calls and displaying it if found.

*There’s a new ‘News’ app for reading news stories, sourced from (so far) ESPN, Politico, the New York Times, Conde Nast publications and local news.

*A new optional iCloud Drive app on iOS that will let users access files stored in iCloud Drive.

* Passbook has been renamed Wallet.

*Notes has a bunch of shiny updates and additions, including new formatting options,the ability to add links, maps, and photos directly into the app, checklists, and sketching tools.

* iOS 9 brings us the ability to browse through images quickly using the new scrubber for iOS Photos.

* Find My Friends and Find My iPhone are both default apps in iOS 9 and come installed automatically.

*When setting a Passcode in iOS 9, you’ll be required to enter six digits instead of four for increased security.

* Exciting video stuff! .With iOS 9 you’ll have way more options-  720p HD at 30 fps, 1080p HD at 30 fps and 1080p HD at 60 fps for standard video and 720p HD at 120 fps or 720p HD at 240 fps for Slo-mo.

* THIS ONE IS REALLY EXCITING TO US but may not be for others… with iOS 9 you’ll have the ability to add email attachments to messages in the Mail app, which sources documents from iCloud Drive. SWEET! BECAUSE WE LOVE ATTACHING THINGS TO MAIL.

*Extended battery life. 1 hour additional battery life for the iPhone 6, PLUS a Low Power mode that will extend battery life for 3 hours. The time it takes to download its latest software updates is reduced and AWESOMELY  and ABOUT TIMELY, downloading iOS 9 will only require 1.3 Gb of spare space on your device.

*In order to save battery power, if your iPhone is facedown on a table, it will not turn the screen on, even when a Notification is received.

To sum things up-  a pretty solid if unexciting update to the iPhone and iPad operating system. Sign up here if you’re interesting in testing out the public beta which will be available in July, however we’d recommend waiting until after the public release of the more stable version in the Fall.

iOS 9 will be available for iPhone 4S and up, as well as iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 2/3.

Salute El Capitan! OS X 10.11

After last year’s OS X Mavericks named after the beach break south of the Bay, Apple introduced us all today to OS X El Capitan, named, of course, after the stunning, big a** rock found in Yosemite.

El Capitan brings with it a few cool things that will probably make your life easier.

* Split view! Work in two apps at the same time on the same screen!

*Less exciting, but still useful – when you lose your curser, shake your finger back and forth on the trackpad or give your mouse a shake, and the cursor gets bigger so it’s easy to spot.
*A new pinned feature in Safari lets users keep websites listed at the top of the window, similar to a bookmarks bar. There will also be a mute feature that will function even with several tabs open.

* The Notes app gets the same updates as in iOS 9, with checklist ability, and ways to add a photo, video, URL, or map location to a note. All your notes are kept up to date across all your devices on the cloud.

* The new Mail app features enhancements to its full-screen mode, tabs in the compose window, the ability to hide in-progress messages and go back to the main Inbox. There are also new gestures built into Mail for archiving and deleting — simply swipe on the trackpad.

* The Photos app will come with support for third-party editing extensions and tools that will be available from the Mac App Store and accessible right in the Photos app.

* Spotlight search goes deeper into our souls with a higher level of understanding, contextually aware search results from a greater number of sources.

* Metal for Mac has arrived, with 50% improvements in rendering with 40% less CPU processing power required for graphics. Metal on OS X El Capitan offers better battery life and improved graphics performance for both games and professional apps. It will also make it up to 1.4 times faster to launch an app, up to 2 times faster to switch in-between apps, up to 2 times faster to display email addresses and up to 4 times faster to open a PDF in preview.

OS X 10.11 El Capitan is available to registered developers today. For the rest of us, it will be available in public beta in July and will publicly launch in the fall. For FREE! Yessir!