That’s what the chairman of one of Apple’s major manufacturers says the US risks within two months, suggesting stores “might resemble those in third-world countries.” Pegatron’s T.H. Tung told Reuters that US importers are still “waiting and seeing” in the hopes that even the 10 percent tariff on goods from outside China will be lifted, leaving short-term supplies under threat.
Despite rumors that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro smartphones would feature an anti-glare display similar to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra / S25 Ultra, MacRumors is now pouring cold water on the possibility. Juli Clover reports that Apple has faced difficulties “scaling up the display coating process.” As a result, we’re not going to see this option for the iPhones 17 Pro.
With flagship phones all offering vibrant, bright screens nowadays, it would’ve been a nice differentiator.
Shortly after we published this story about an unofficial Blue Prince iOS app on the App Store, the app was removed. I’ve updated the story.
You should play the game on the platforms it’s actually available on, by the way: Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox.
After bringing back its Pill portable Bluetooth speaker last year, Beats is today adding two new colors to the existing red, black, and gold selection. Navy blue will be exclusively sold by Walmart, while blush pink (pictured) is coming to Target. Both sell for the same $149.99 as before and are available starting today.
That’s what The Financial Times’ sources are saying, with the goal of producing “the entirety of the more than 60mn iPhones sold annually in the US by the end of 2026.” But the real goal is to avoid the worst of Trump’s tariffs and to continue the diversification of Apple’s supply chain to places outside China.
So I guess “the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” won’t be from the US? Shocking.
Just weeks after Apple replaced AI chief John Giannandrea as the head of Siri, Bloomberg reports that the company now plans on placing its robotics team under the leadership of John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering.
The change will allow Giannandrea’s AI team to “focus on underlying artificial intelligence technology,” Bloomberg reports.
Sources tell leaker Majin Bu that iPadOS 19 could add a menu bar to the top of the iPad when it’s connected to a Magic Keyboard, as spotted by MacRumors. That tracks with Bloomberg Mark Gurman’s report that Apple is planning to bring more multitasking and windowing features to its tablets.
Additionally, Majin Bu says Apple may add external display support to iPhones with USB-C, which could offer an experience similar to Stage Manager.
That’s a momentous milestone. Apple isn’t doing a huge thing today — it’s just launched Global Close Your Rings day and you can pick up a physical pin in store if you do. That said, today’s a fun day for a blast from the past and re-reading The Verge’s very first Apple Watch review. (And if you’re so inclined, a little retrospective I wrote just before the Series 10 launch in September.)
MIT Technology Review visited the eerie tree farms Apple and other companies rely on to try to cancel out their carbon emissions. Are they really helping to fight climate change? Or are they making problems worse? It’s complicated, and controversial, and a good read.
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That’s what White House National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes branded the EU’s first ever DMA fines, levied against Apple and Meta:
“The European Union has fined Meta and Apple – two major American tech companies – hundreds of millions of euros under their discriminatory Digital Markets Act. This novel form of economic extortion will not be tolerated by the United States. Extraterritorial regulations that specifically target and undermine American companies, stifle innovation, and enable censorship will be recognized as barriers to trade and a direct threat to free civil society. The EU’s malicious targeting of American companies and consumers must stop. End the EU’s regulatory death spiral!”
