Deals: Sam's Club Offering $300 Gift Card With Purchase and Activation of iPhone XS, XS Max, and X

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Sam's Club this week is offering a $300 gift card if you purchase and activate an iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, or iPhone X on AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. Sam's Club is calling this its biggest gift card offer outside of major holidays and Black Friday, and it's a solid deal for shoppers who frequent the retailer and are interested in purchasing an iPhone.

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This offer will last through March 22, and is available in stores and online. For online shoppers, you'll only be able to activate the smartphone with AT&T, but if you visit a Sam's Club location you can choose from Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T. After purchasing and activating the smartphone, you'll get a $300 Sam's Club gift card that you can spend in stores or online.

Sam's Club doesn't appear to be limiting the offer to specific sizes and colors of the iPhones, and it should apply to any model of the iPhone XS, XS Max, and X. You can also gain a $300 gift card if you buy and activate a Samsung Galaxy GS10+, GS9+, GS10, GS10E, GS9, and Note 9. Additionally, newer iPhone 11 models come with a $150 Sam's Club gift card offer.

You'll need to have a membership to Sam's Club to take advantage of this offer, and make any purchase on the website or in stores. There are two levels to the company's membership program, including the basic "club" level at $45 per year offering various savings in stores and at Sam's Club fuel locations and in the tire center. "Plus" offers all of this as well as cash rewards, free shipping, earlier shopping hours, and more for $100 per year.

Our full Deals Roundup has more information on the latest Apple-related sales and bargains.

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DigiTimes Continues to Suggest New Version of AirPods Pro Are Forthcoming

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Taiwanese publication DigiTimes provides its paying subscribers with a daily preview of stories that it plans to publish, and in today's edition, it continues to suggest that Apple is planning a new version of AirPods Pro.

The story preview reads as follows:

USI likely to enter supply chain of AirPods Pro, sources say
Taiwan-based Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a unit of ASE Technology, is likely to obtain system-in-package (SiP) orders for the upcoming AirPods Pro, according to industry sources.

Presumably, these "upcoming" AirPods Pro are the same model as the "AirPods Pro Lite" that the publication referred to earlier this month.


The earlier report claimed that "AirPods Pro Lite" will be an "entry-level version" of the AirPods Pro, but no features or specifications have been shared. The report added that production is unlikely to begin until at least the end of the second quarter of 2020 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in China.

All in all, details are slim right now. "AirPods Pro Lite" is somewhat of an oxymoron, as "Pro Lite" just sounds like regular AirPods, but it has been speculated that perhaps Apple will release a less expensive version of the AirPods Pro with the same design and sound quality but without noise cancellation.

Of course, it is worth noting that DigiTimes has a rather infamous reputation. While the industry publication has connections within Apple's supply chain, it has a mixed track record in relation to the company's exact plans and timing. For this reason, it is possible that the "AirPods Pro Lite" will simply be a third generation of regular AirPods or that the report is entirely inaccurate.

We'll update this post if there are any additional details shared in the full report, which should be published by tomorrow.

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Microsoft Defender ATP Security Platform Coming to iOS and Android

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Microsoft today announced that it plans to bring a version of its Defender ATP security platform to iOS and Android.


Defender ATP provides "preventive protection, post-breach detection, and automated investigation and response" for Windows and macOS, but it is unclear what the platform will offer on iOS given it is a sandboxed operating system. Existing "antivirus" apps for the iPhone typically only offer features such as identity theft and phishing prevention, website and phone call blocking, and VPN access.

Microsoft plans to share more details about Defender ATP for iOS and Android next week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

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Spotify May Be Allowed to Stream Directly on HomePod and Set as Default Music App in iOS 14

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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today reported that Apple is working to allow third-party music services like Spotify and Pandora to be streamed directly on the HomePod with Siri in a future software update, as is possible with Apple Music. Spotify currently can only be streamed on the HomePod via AirPlay.


The report adds that Apple is also considering allowing third-party music services to be set as default in iOS 14, which would let users ask Siri to stream music from the likes of Spotify without specifying "with Spotify" at the end of the command. Siri currently defaults to Apple Music for these requests.

In early 2019, Spotify announced that it had filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission over unfair ‌App Store‌ practices. At the time, Spotify took issue with Siri's lack of Spotify support on both iOS devices — which has since changed to a limited extent — and the HomePod.

An excerpt from its "Time to Play Fair" website — the wording has since been tweaked:

Apple ignores users' preferred choice of music service and instead steers them to use Apple Music exclusively. So can you ask Siri to play your favorite playlist from Spotify? No, not even if you actively want Spotify to be your default streaming service. Or can you listen to Spotify through your Apple HomePod? Sorry, no luck with that either. And by the way, Spotify is available on pretty much every other speaker device out there.

Apple has faced increasing scrutiny as of late over the way it runs its ‌App Store‌, beyond Spotify's complaint. Allowing third-party apps to be set as default would certainly help alleviate some of those concerns.

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