Pixel C team promises multitasking and optimized tablet apps are coming

When the Pixel C reviews came in earlier this week there was an almost unanimous reaction that the tablet's hardware was great but the lack of multitasking or tablet-speciifc apps dampened reviewer's excitement for the device's future.

The Pixel C team hosted a Reddit AMA where they promised a series of updates will bring many requested features including multitasking and the ability to apps optimized for the landscape tablet form factor. Seems the Pixel C was originally a ChromeOS device but quickly shelved and repurposed to run Android. The brief time-to-market made it impossible to integrate the desired or necessary software tweaks to make the Pixel C more compelling.

“We’re working hard on a range of enhancements for Android in this form-factor – there are many things, like multi-window, that we’ve been spending a lot of time on – hopefully we can share more about this soon," Pixel C Team on Reddit AMA.

Bloomberg's Professional App now takes full advantage of iPad Pro

Optimizing apps to take full advantage of the iPad Pro's size and features is something most developers should consider taking care of. Bloomberg shows them the way with the new Bloomberg Professional app, which has split screen and picture-in-picture support plus subscribers of the service and app can use the Apple Pencil to annotate charts, notes and research. The app requires a Bloomberg Anywhere subscription to work.

Source: 9to5Mac

The Apple Beat: Focusing on accessories

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

As far as accessories go, these are very subjective things. The colour, look and feel may not be right  for everyone, but the whole point is that now consumers have more choice including ones that are consciously made for their product by Apple.

2015 has seen an unprecedented release of products from Apple. Not only has it covered the requisite updates in most of its major categories such as MacBooks, iMacs, iPhones and iPads. We've had a deluge of new products. The 12-inch Retina MacBook, new Retina iMacs, Apple TV, the iPad Pro, as well as various accessory categories. We've also seen a new Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad as well as Magic Mouse peripherals.

In the past month alone, we've seen the Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil for the iPad Pro, which are both necessary adjuncts to complete the creative and content creation aspect the iPad Pro promises. We've also seen an elegant charging dock for the Apple Watch, which maximizes its Nighstand Mode feature, plus Apple's very first Smart Battery Case for the iPhone 6S. Apple, it seems, is making more products and devices than ever before.

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Watch: The first trailer of X-Men: Apocalypse is out

Shot mostly in Montreal, Canada, Bryan Singer's latest joint, X-Men: Apocalypse, gets its first trailer and it is a doozy. We start with Sophie Turner as Jean Grey having a premonition of death and then a rundown of the new X-Men as well as the new supervillain Apocalypse, an ancient mutant with various fearsome powers and an extinction agenda for the world.

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