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Apple announces new iPad Pro: OLED display, M4 chip, thinner redesigned chassis

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Apple today announced the new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro, as part of its ‘Let Loose’...
Apple today announced the new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro, as part of its ‘Let Loose’ special event. The new iPad Pro makes the leap to the M4 chip, the next-generation of Apple silicon, for improved performance. Apple touted its new Neural Engine to stress the artificial intelligence capabilities. The new tablets ...
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An inside look at General Motors' gamble in ditching CarPlay

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A little over a year ago, General Motors made what may well turn out to be...
A little over a year ago, General Motors made what may well turn out to be one of its biggest gambles in many years: dropping support for CarPlay for all future EVs. To most of us, the decision seemed insane, likely to result in a huge number of lost sales – but a new report suggests that the company felt it had lit...
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Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight....
There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening and forced to reset their password before logging back in… We received our first tip about ...
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Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments, now 'reviewing and adjusting' headset strategy

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Apple has slashed its shipping estimates for Vision Pro, according to a new Ming-Chi Kuo analyst...
Apple has slashed its shipping estimates for Vision Pro, according to a new Ming-Chi Kuo analyst report. Kuo says that Apple is now targeting shipments between 400,000 and 450,000 units for Vision Pro this year. This is down from the initial market consensus of between 7000,000 and 800,000 units. The changes have re...
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Apple acquires French startup behind AI and computer vision technology

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Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab, a Paris, France-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer...
Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab, a Paris, France-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer vision technology. According to French business magazine Challenges, the acquisition was finalized in December. Datakalab described itself as “experts in low power, runtime efficien...
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Schiller doesn't know whether the App Store is profitable; no notes

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Phil Schiller has told a court in an antitrust case that he doesn’t know for sure...
Phil Schiller has told a court in an antitrust case that he doesn’t know for sure whether the App Store is profitable, and never considered the return on investment when launching it. He’s also explained the reason that there are very few written records of decisions made around the launch of the store is because Ap...
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Elon Musk confirms that Twitter will charge new users a temporary fee

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A report last year revealed that Elon Musk had plans to introduce a new charge for...
A report last year revealed that Elon Musk had plans to introduce a new charge for users who have just registered on X (formerly Twitter) on the grounds that this would be the only way to make the platform free of bots. Now Musk himself has confirmed his intentions and revealed more details about this potential fee....
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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

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App Store guidelines now allow game emulators

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After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it’s not satisfied with the...
After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it’s not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple on Friday updated the App Store guidelines again. This time, the company is making it easier for music streaming apps to redirect users to an exte...
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Apple layoffs affecting 700 workers, including Apple Car and Micro-LED teams

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Apple is laying off more than 700 employees as the company has just canceled its Apple...
Apple is laying off more than 700 employees as the company has just canceled its Apple Car project and is also reconsidering the project to develop in-house Micro-LED displays. The layoffs became known after the company filed WARN notices in the state of California. As seen by 9to5Mac in the latest WARN report provi...
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App Store is currently down for many users around the world

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Key Safari designer departs Apple to join 'The Browser Company'

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One of Apple’s lead designers for Safari has departed the company to join The Browser Company....
One of Apple’s lead designers for Safari has departed the company to join The Browser Company. The news was announced today by Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company. The Browser Company is the company behind the increasingly popular Arc web browser, which claims to offer “a calmer, more personal” internet browsing...
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AltStore to offer iPhone apps backed by Patreon in the EU

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With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the EU, Apple was forced to allow developers to...
With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the EU, Apple was forced to allow developers to distribute their apps through alternative app stores (or App Marketplace) in member countries. However, these developers are required to pay Apple a Core Technology Fee after they reach a certain number of downloads. To make things...
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Apple AI researcher boast on-device model that 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4

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Siri has recently been attempting to describe images received in Messages when using CarPlay or the...
Siri has recently been attempting to describe images received in Messages when using CarPlay or the announce notifications feature. In typical Siri fashion, the feature is inconsistent and with mixed results. Nevertheless, Apple forges ahead with the promise of AI. In a newly published research paper, Apple’s AI gur...
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DOJ compares AAPL share buybacks with R&D as 'evidence' of lack of competition

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A new report highlights what probably amounts the most most absurd stretch in the DOJ’s antitrust...
A new report highlights what probably amounts the most most absurd stretch in the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit. A section notes that Apple last year spent half as much on research and development (R&D) as it did on AAPL share buybacks, presenting this as ‘evidence’ of the lack of competition faced by the company. It cont...
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EU rejects Apple's changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover

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The EU has today announced that it is not satisfied that Apple’s App Store changes comply...
The EU has today announced that it is not satisfied that Apple’s App Store changes comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the company is now officially under investigation for non-compliance. If that investigation confirms that Apple failed to comply with the antitrust law, then the iPhone maker could be fin...
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Unpatchable security flaw in Apple Silicon Macs breaks encryption

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Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android

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As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it...
As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it at one point considered creating an Apple Watch for Android. The company tells me that it spent three years working on bringing Apple Watch to Android before ultimately scrapping the idea. In its lawsuit, the Department of Justic...
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Apple to be sued by US Department of Justice for antitrust as soon as tomorrow

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Apple could be in trouble over security warnings, as well as Core Technology Fee

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It was already clear that Apple’s Core Technology Fee would come in for close scrutiny by...
It was already clear that Apple’s Core Technology Fee would come in for close scrutiny by the EU, but an interview with the bloc’s antitrust chief has revealed that the company could also be headed for trouble with its security warnings about alternative app stores. While Apple was not directly named, there was litt...
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Spotify accuses Apple of blocking its app updates in the EU

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Apple was recently fined 1.8 billion euros (about $2 billion USD) by the European Union commission,...
Apple was recently fined 1.8 billion euros (about $2 billion USD) by the European Union commission, which argues that the company abuses its dominant position to harm Apple Music competitors on iOS. Even so, it seems that the company still has unresolved issues with Spotify, its main competitor, which is now accusin...
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Walmart begins selling the Mac for the first time: M1 MacBook Air for $699

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Walmart is teaming up with Apple to sell the Mac for the first time. In a...
Walmart is teaming up with Apple to sell the Mac for the first time. In a press release today, the company said that it is now selling the base model M1 MacBook Air online and in select stores for $699. The move comes a week after Apple introduced the new M3 MacBook Air and stopped selling the M1 MacBook Air itself....
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Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account

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After a whirlwind of events, Epic Games says Apple has reinstated their App Store developer account....
After a whirlwind of events, Epic Games says Apple has reinstated their App Store developer account. The move clears the way for Epic to bring its Epic Games Store to the EU, avoiding the App Store structure altogether. The turnaround is somewhat unexpected as Apple seemed to stand by its decision to revoke Epic’s d...
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Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 for EU users

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Happy Digital Markets Act Day to those who celebrate. Apple has published a document titled “Apple’s...
Happy Digital Markets Act Day to those who celebrate. Apple has published a document titled “Apple’s Non-Confidential Summary of DMA Compliance Report” in which it outlines policy changes now in effect. In the new 12-page document, Apple outlines more future changes coming to EU users later this year and early next ...
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