04-23-24 -

iPhone Sales Drop 19% in China
Apple's iPhone sales dropped sharply in China in the first quarter of this year as the company saw strong competition from domestic brand Huawei, according to a new report from market research firm Counterpoint Research. CNBC: Apple saw sales of i...

04-23-24 -

Apple Cuts Vision Pro Shipments As Demand Falls 'Sharply Beyond Expectations'
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple has dropped the number of Vision Pro units that it plans to ship in 2024, going from an expected 700 to 800k units to just 400k to 450k units, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Orders have been sca...

04-22-24 -

Apple Acquires Datakalab, a French Startup Behind AI and Computer Vision Tech
According to French business magazine Challenges, Apple has acquired Datakalab -- a Paris-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer vision technology. 9to5Mac reports: Datakalab described itself as "expert...

04-22-24 -

Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories
Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories, according to reliable Apple leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami." From a report: In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Kosutami explained that Apple has stopped production...

04-19-24 -

Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads and Telegram From China App Store
China ordered Apple to remove some of the world's most popular chat messaging apps from its app store in the country, the latest example of censorship demands on the iPhone seller in the company's second-biggest market. WSJ: Meta's WhatsApp and Th...

04-18-24 -

Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac?
Apple is doubling down on 8GB of RAM for many of its entry-level Macs, claiming that it's "suitable for many tasks," including browsing, video streaming and even "light" video and image editing. As of this writing, all MacBook ...

04-17-24 -

AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU
AltStore PAL has become one of the first alternative app marketplaces to launch in the European Union. Developed by Riley Testut, AltStore PAL is marketed as an open-source project designed to distribute apps from independent developers. MacRumors...

04-17-24 -

Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, has accused tech giants Google and Apple of threatening to censor content on smartphones [YouTube link]. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Durov claimed that these companies told Telegram to c...

04-16-24 -

Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's initial set of AI-related features in iOS 18 "will work entirely on device," and won't connect to cloud services. AppleInsider reports: In practice, these AI features would be able to functio...

04-16-24 -

Apple Opens Web Distribution Option for iOS Devs Targeting EU
Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps targeting users in the European Union starting Tuesday. Developers who opt in -- and who meet Apple's criteria, including app notarization requirements -- will be able to offer iPhone apps for dire...

04-15-24 -

iOS App Store's First Game Boy Emulator Taken Down Just Days Later
An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the weekend, developer Mattia La Spina launched iGBA as one of the first retro game emulators legitimately available on the iOS App Store following Apple's rules change regarding such emulators earlier thi...

04-15-24 -

Apple Loses Mantle as World's Biggest Phone Seller To Samsung as China Sales ...
Apple has lost its spot as the world's biggest mobile phone seller after a steep sales drop as South Korean rival Samsung retook the lead in the global market share. From a report: Samsung had been the biggest seller of mobile phones for 12 years ...

04-12-24 -

Apple Loses Bid To Throw Out UK Lawsuit Over App Store Fees
Apple on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at just under $1 billion, brought in London on behalf of more than 1,500 app developers over its App Store fees. Reuters: The case, worth up to 785 million pounds ($979 million) and one...

04-12-24 -

Apple To Expand Presence In Florida With New Miami Office
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Following moves of other tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft, Apple is reportedly set to open a new office space in a Miami suburb. This won't be the first corporate space for Apple in the city, ...

04-11-24 -

Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips
Apple, aiming to boost sluggish computer sales, is preparing to overhaul its entire Mac line with a new family of in-house processors designed to highlight AI. Bloomberg News: The company, which released its first Macs with M3 chips five months ag...

04-11-24 -

Apple Will Open the iPhone To Repair With Used Parts
Apple is finally making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts. From a report: In an update on Thursday, the company announced that this fall, owners of "select" iPhone models will be able to repair their devices wit...

04-11-24 -

Apple Alerts Users in 92 Nations To Mercenary Spyware Attacks
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. From a report: The company said it sent the alerts to individuals in 92 nations at 12pm Pacific Ti...

04-09-24 -

The World Doesn't Need More Journal Apps
We're seeing a boom in journaling apps as safer, easier ways to ease us back into posting everything online. From a report: Last year, Apple released a journal app with iOS 17. Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just unveiled a photo app called Shine,...

04-09-24 -

Beeper Took On Apple's iMessage Dominance. Now It's Been Acquired
Late last year the messaging app Beeper raised the ire of Apple when it found a way to recreate Apple's infamous "blue bubble" messaging on Android. Apple later hobbled Beeper, but it's not an entirely unhappy ending: The startup has bee...

04-07-24 -

Retro Computing Enthusiast Tries Running Turbo Pascal On a 40-Year-Old Apple ...
Four months ago long-time Slashdot reader Shayde tried restoring a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer. But now he's gone even further back in time. Shayde writes: In 1984, Apple II's were at the top of their game in the 8 bit market. A company in New...

04-05-24 -

Apple Opens the App Store To Retro Game Emulators
In an update on Friday, Apple announced that game emulators can come to the App Store globally and offer downloadable games. "Apple says those games must comply with 'all applicable laws,' though -- an indication it will ban apps that provide...

04-05-24 -

Apple Lays Off More Than 700 Workers, Including Apple Car and MicroLED Teams
Apple is laying off more than 700 employees across the company, including its Micro-LED displays division and the recently shut down Apple Car project. 9to5Mac reports: As seen by 9to5Mac in the latest WARN report provided by the California Employ...

04-05-24 -

Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused
Matthew Connatser reports via The Register: A study has concluded that Apple's privacy practices aren't particularly effective, because default apps on the iPhone and Mac have limited privacy settings and confusing configuration options. The resea...

04-03-24 -

Apple Reportedly Exploring Personal Home Robots
As reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots following the shut down of its electric vehicle project. CNBC reports: Engineers at Apple have been looking into a robot that can follow users around ...

04-02-24 -

Jon Stewart Claims Apple Wouldn't Let Him Interview FTC Chair On His Podcast
Sara Fischer reports via Axios: Jon Stewart on Monday told Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan that Apple wouldn't let him interview her for a podcast. "I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it," "...

04-01-24 -

Apple AI Researchers Boast Useful On-Device Model That 'Substantially Outperf...
Zac Hall reports via 9to5Mac: In a newly published research paper (PDF), Apple's AI gurus describe a system in which Siri can do much more than try to recognize what's in an image. The best part? It thinks one of its models for doing this benchmar...

03-29-24 -

Apple Sues Former Employee For Leaking Journal App, Vision Pro Details
Apple has sued its former employee Andrew Aude for leaking information about more than a half-dozen Apple products and policies, including its then-unannounced Journal app and Vision Pro headset, product development policies, strategies for regula...

03-28-24 -

How Apple Plans To Update New iPhones Without Opening Them
An anonymous reader writes: What if you could update the device while it's still in the box? That's the latest plan cooked up by Apple, which is close to rolling out a system that will let Apple Stores wirelessly update new iPhones while they're s...

03-27-24 -

Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's ...

03-26-24 -

Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event For June 10
Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is set to take place June 10 through 14, 2024. It'll be an online event open to all developers at no cost. MacRumors reports: Apple will hold a WWDC 2024 keynote eve...

03-25-24 -

Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From Justice Department Lawsuit
Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last week. From a report: At l...

03-25-24 -

DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma'
FrankOVD shares a report: Here's a paragraph from the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple in full: "In addition to degrading the quality of third-party messaging apps, Apple affirmatively undermines the quality of rival smartphones. For exa...

03-25-24 -

EU Launches Probes Into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Digital Competition Law
The European Union has launched investigations into Apple, Meta and Google under its sweeping new digital-competition law, adding to the regulatory scrutiny large U.S. tech companies are facing worldwide. From a report: The suite of probes [Editor...

03-23-24 -

Apple Criticized For Changing the macOS version of cURL
"On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker," writes cURL lead developer Daniel Stenberg: The title stated of the problem in this case was quite clear: flag -cacert behavior isn't consistent between macOS ...

03-22-24 -

New 'GoFetch' Apple CPU Attack Exposes Crypto Keys
"There is a new side channel attack against Apple 'M' series CPUs that does not appear to be fixable without a major performance hit," writes Slashdot reader EncryptedSoldier. SecurityWeek reports: A team of researchers representing seve...

03-22-24 -

DOJ Blames Apple For Failure of Amazon Fire Phone, Windows Phone and HTC
DOJ, in the court filing (PDF): Many prominent, well-financed companies have tried and failed to successfully enter the relevant markets because of these entry barriers. Past failures include Amazon (which released its Fire mobile phone in 2014 bu...

03-22-24 -

DOJ Lawsuit Against Apple is Headline Grabber But Poses Limited Near-Term Impact
An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Apple Thursday, accusing the company led by CEO Tim Cook of engaging in anti-competitive business practices. The allegations include claims that Apple prev...

03-22-24 -

Apple Held Talks With China's Baidu Over AI for Its Devices
Apple has held preliminary talks with Baidu about using the Chinese company's generative AI technology in its devices in China, the latest example of the iPhone maker's efforts to widen its AI capabilities. From a report: The U.S. tech giant has b...

03-21-24 -

Apple Launches All-In-One 'Manuals, Specs, and Downloads' Website
Apple has launched a new "Documentation" page to its website that provides links to user guides, repair manuals, tech specs, software downloads, and more for a variety of its products. MacRumors reports: Some of this information was prev...

03-21-24 -

Epic, Spotify, Others Back DOJ Lawsuit Against Apple
The Coalition for App Fairness, an industry body that represents Epic, Spotify, Match Group and Proton among others, issued the following statement following the U.S. announcing it had sued Apple: "With today's announcement, the Department of...

03-21-24 -

Unpatchable Vulnerability in Apple Chip Leaks Secret Encryption Keys
A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple's M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys from Macs when they perform widely used cryptographic operations, academic researchers have revealed in a paper published Thursday. From ...

03-21-24 -

US Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly
The Justice Department sued Apple on Thursday, alleging the tech giant blocked software developers and mobile gaming companies from offering better options on the iPhone, resulting in higher prices for consumers. WSJ: The government's antitrust co...

03-21-24 -

Justice Department To Sue Apple For Antitrust Violations
The Justice Department is poised to sue Apple as soon as Thursday, accusing the world's second most valuable tech company of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features of its iPhone. From a report: Th...

03-20-24 -

macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive'
The macOS Sonoma 14.4 update introduces a bug affecting iCloud Drive's versioning system, where users with "Optimize Mac Storage" enabled can lose all previous versions of a file removed from local storage. MacRumors reports: Versions ar...

03-20-24 -

EU's Vestager Warns About Apple, Meta Fees, Disparaging Rival Products
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned Apple and Meta on their new fees for their services, saying that this may hinder users from enjoying the benefits of the Digital Markets Act which aims to give them more choices. From a repor...

03-19-24 -

Apple Working on Solution for App Store Fee That Could Bankrupt Viral Apps
Joe_Dragon shares a report: Since Apple announced plans for the 0.50 euro Core Technology Fee that apps distributed using the new EU App Store business terms must pay, there have been ongoing concerns about what that fee might mean for a developer...

03-18-24 -

Apple Is in Talks To Let Google's Gemini Power iPhone Generative AI Features
Apple is in talks to build Google's Gemini AI engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry. From the report: Th...

03-15-24 -

Apple Acquires Startup DarwinAI As AI Efforts Ramp Up
According to Bloomberg, Apple has acquired Canada-based AI startup DarwinAI for an undisclosed sum. Macworld reports: Apple has reportedly folded the DarwinAI staff into its own AI team, including DarwinAI co-founder Alexander Wong, an AI research...

03-15-24 -

Walmart Begins Selling the Mac For the First Time
Walmart is teaming up with Apple to sell the Mac for the first time. From a report: 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 A...

03-15-24 -

Apple, Investors Reach $490 Million Settlement in Fraud Case
Apple reached a $490 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of investors who accused Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook of misleading them in 2018 about the company's sales prospects. From a report: Cook made false statement...