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In an interview with Japan-based Kyoto NP, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima revealed that Super Mario Run (page 26) is just the start of a new strategy for mobile gaming. The company plans to release two or three new games next year, and continue that pattern beyond 2017, he said. Previously it was reported that popular titles Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing were on tap for a mobile release. He offered no information on whether future games will release simultaneously in the App Store and Play Store, but Nintendo has already said it is working on bringing Super Mario Run to Android phones. The iPhone-exclusive side-runner has amassed some 50 million downloads in its first week, making it the fastest-downloaded app in Apple’s history. However, the game’s £7.99 price tag and…

Apple Music continues to amass new paid subscribers, but Apple is not done growing the service just yet. The firm recently confirmed that Apple Music now has 20 million paid subscribers, up from 17 million in September. More than half of Apple Music’s subscribers reside outside the US, according to Apple. But Apple’s senior VP of Internet software and services Eddy Cue told Billboard magazine that there’s still room to grow. “Of course we want more [subscribers] and we want it to go faster – we’re hungry,” Cue said. “We can’t forget that, as an industry, we still have very few music subscribers. There are billions of people listening to music and we haven’t even hit 100 million subscribers. There’s a lot of growth opportunity.” Spotify, the leading player in…

As the new year begins, it’s only natural to look ahead to what might the upcoming year have in store for us, and our favourite technologies companies? There’s plenty of speculation about what areas might attract Apple’s attention in the year ahead, but looking at the current state of affairs, it’s not hard to point to a handful of technologies that already seem to have piqued the interest of the folks in Cupertino. Some of them are things the company is already working on, and some of them are just now getting traction. Of course, it’s entirely possible that none of these things will ever see the light of day, much less appear in 2017. But it’s not as if the company isn’t going to release any products in the…

People are still lining up to snag a brand new iPhone 7, but that won’t stop anyone from speculating about next year’s iPhone. Why so early? Well, 2017 marks the iPhone’s tenth birthday, so Apple is reportedly gearing up to make its anniversary edition extra special. If you passed on the iPhone 7 to wait for the iPhone 8 – or whatever name Apple decides to use – it sounds like next year’s phone could be the design refresh you were waiting for. Just don’t expect the headphone jack to return. What’s the latest? The rumour: Apple’s revolutionary new iPhone 8 will sport a plastic OLED display that “curves all over,” according to a report published in the Korea Herald and picked up by 9to5Mac. The report corroborates the rumour…

The release of Super Mario Run was really just the cherry on top of a very sweet year for iOS gaming. All year long, we had compelling and captivating releases for iPhone and iPad, from juggernaut franchises like Mario and Pokémon to plenty of innovative indie games. These are our 20 top iOS selections for the year, spanning games large and small – and free and premium – alike, and you’re sure to find something wonderful in this bunch. 1. Reigns Price: £2.29 Given how utterly exhausting and demoralizing the entire president election season was, regardless of your affiliations, now might not be the time to play a game about a ruler of people. On the other hand, Reigns is so light and clever that it might be the perfect…

Pokémon Go for Apple Watch (free) has finally been released into the wild. A companion to the popular mobile game, this watchOS app will send players notifications about nearby Pokémon and track your distance towards hatching Pokémon eggs and receiving candy for your Buddy Pokémon. It will also send players notifications when a PokéStop is nearby, as well as let them know when their eggs have hatched or when they’ve been awarded a medal. The watchOS app also highlights the game’s fitness component. Each Pokémon Go play session will be logged as a workout, so your gameplay will count towards fulfilling your personal Activity rings for the day. So now, Pokémon Go can help you achieve your New Year’s fitness resolution. One thing you can’t do, however, is catch Pokémon.…

£159 inc VAT • apple.com/uk When Apple removed the headphone jack off the iPhone 7, it also unveiled a new set of wireless earbuds called AirPods, and claimed they were so great, users wouldn’t mind the missing headphone jack. The AirPods didn’t come out for nearly three months after the new iPhone’s release, but now that they’re here, they’ve solved every problem an iPhone 7-using music lover could have, right? Oh, heavens no. Like so many Apple products before them, the AirPods bring with them as many problems as they solve. With no onboard buttons, the AirPods require users to ask Siri to do everything, from changing a track to adjusting the volume. What’s more, Siri doesn’t have the same abilities in all music apps – an arbitrary restriction set…

There was a time when the iPhone wish list was miles long. In the early days of the smartphone, there were so many clear gaps that it wasn’t a question of what features needed to be added, but in what order. But as the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the iPhone nears, the wish list has dwindled. The gaps have been filled in. The smartphone is amazing, essential, and a bit boring. Still, we can dream, can’t we? And so here’s a list – both mundane and fantastical – of the iPhone features we’re dreaming of for 2017. More camera improvements Phone cameras can always get better, so we’d like to see Apple keep the ball rolling in 2017 when it comes to iPhone camera updates. As a fan…

iPhones can do a lot of impressive things. They organise our lives, take beautiful photographs, and with HomeKit they can now even control devices around our living spaces. Another cool thing to add to the list is that of holographic projector, albeit with a little help from a DIY plastic pyramid. So if you want to watch ghostly figures (well, teapots in this case) gently levitate above your display all you need is a little spare time and an old CD case. What you’ll need To create your own hologram pyramid you’ll need some paper, a pen, ruler, a sharp crafting or Stanley knife, an old CD case, and some Sellotape. This project does involve a fair amount of cutting plastic so we’d also advise some kind of tough surface…

An international patent dispute has broken out between Apple and Nokia over the Finnish mobile network vendor’s licensing terms for the widely used H.264 video codec and other technologies. Nokia has started legal action against Apple in Germany and in the US, alleging that the smartphone giant has infringed 32 of its patents. Its five lawsuits follow an Apple suit filed in California last month. The US tech giant accused Nokia of working with patent assertion firms Acacia Research and Conversant Intellectual Property Management to “extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly and anticompetitively” from Apple and other smartphone makers. Nokia was not named as one of eight defendants in the Apple lawsuit. Nokia’s patent infringement lawsuits, filed with the Regional Courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich in Germany and the…

Apple has filed its appeal of a European Commission decision that it owes Ireland billions in back taxes, while the country’s Department of Finance has revealed details of its own appeal. European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said on 30 August that Apple must pay up to €13 billion (£11.1bn) in back taxes, plus interest, because opinions given by the Irish tax authorities in 1991 and 2007 constituted illegal state aid. Her decision concluded a twoyear investigation of the company’s tax affairs stretching back to 2003. Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed Vestager’s ruling as “total political crap” in an interview with the Irish Independent newspaper on 2 September, and announced the company’s intention to appeal. Apple is now ready to file that appeal with the General Court, the EU’s second…

£7.99 inc VAT • supermariorun.com/en-gb Super Mario Run is easily one of the most anticipated iPhone and iPad games to date. Nintendo’s game takes the full-fledged Super Mario side-scrolling experience that we’ve seen for the past 30-plus years and streamlines it for touchscreens and one-handed play. Modes The game is nominally split into three modes, although the first, World Tour, is sure to dominate your play time, at least at first. World Tour is Mario as it would ordinarily be understood: a series of worlds, each divided up into three conventional levels and a Bowzer’s castle boss level to finish up. (In this simple structure SMR harks back to the very earliest Mario games.) The second mode, Toad Rally, is a bit more unconventional and social: it involves trying to…

The AirPods are here. After a couple months of delays, Apple is taking orders for the £159 AirPods. But even though they’re technically on sale, the AirPods will be scarce for a while – the Apple online store is estimating six weeks’ delivery time, but you might be able to track down a pair at an Apple retail store. Maybe call ahead first. How to pair AirPods to an iPhone and Apple Watch Pairing your AirPods to an iPhone or iPad for the first time is ridiculously easy. If your device is running iOS 10, all you have to do is flip open the lid of the AirPods’ charging case, and you’ll see a message on your nearby iPhone asking if you want to connect. (If your phone is locked,…

The 12.9in iPad Pro arrived a little over a year ago, and I’ve been using it as my primary iPad ever since. And while I love it–and also appreciate its little buddy, the 9.7in iPad Pro–there’s no doubt that there are ways it could be improved. With the exception of the introduction of the 9.7in iPad Pro in the spring, this has been a pretty quiet year for the iPad. But I am optimistic about the future of the product line. I think 2017 could be a pretty great year for the iPad. So here’s my iPad wish list for 2017. Sync up the iPad Pro models One of the weirdest things about the 12.9- and 9.7in iPad Pros is that they feel like they come from parallel universes. Neither…

Did Father Christmas bring you a new iPhone? Man, that jolly old elf is solid. Faced with literally more than a million apps and games on the App Store to choose from, however, how can you possibly pick the best things to add to your luscious new slab of technology? Why – coincidentally – by continuing to read this article. The apps below are some of the very best that exist for the iPhone and iPod touch, whether that’s because they do something better than the built-in apps, really help show of your device’s abilities, or are just flat-out awesome. Sky Guide Price: £2.29 This venerable app is still one that can elicit coos of admiration. Sky Guide is a reasonably simple idea – using your iPhone’s sensors to allow…