“This update provides important bug fixes, security updates, and addresses a rare issue that prevents wireless CarPlay connection in certain vehicles,” according to Apple’s patch notes. Apple’s website also highlights two security issues the company addressed.
We’re getting started with day three of Meta’s antitrust trial with some controversy. A Snap attorney complains to Judge Boasberg that Meta released slides with inadvertently flawed redactions. He also accuses Meta’s lead attorney of openly referencing Snap’s competitive assessments that should have been private.
An Apple attorney echoes Snap’s charges of “egregious” disclosures, saying Apple can’t be confident that Meta will protect its internal information moving forward. Google’s attorney says its data has been jeopardized by Meta, too.
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Following Apple’s other headphone brand expanding into smartphone cases last September, Beats has launched a collection of reinforced charging cables featuring a woven design to help minimize tangling. They’re available in five-foot or eight-inch lengths in USB-C to USB-C, USB-C to USB-A, and USB-C to Lightning configurations.
Color options include bolt black, surge stone, nitro navy, and rapid red while pricing is $18.99 for a single cable (either length) or $34.99 for a two-pack.
The company has rebranded its Search Ads team to Apple Ads, 9to5Mac reports. “Our ad offerings have grown beyond search,” Apple says in a post. “So we’ve decided to change our name.”
Apple has ads in many parts of the App Store, including the Today tab.
The company is working on two follow-ups to the Vision Pro, according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. The goal for one is a cheaper Vision Pro. The other would tether to Macs for use as a wired display or for “high-end enterprise applications.”
That’s different from its canceled transparent-lens AR glasses that would have worked the same way, Gurman writes.
They were removed earlier this year, and now they’ve returned, according to a post from Retail Archive on X (via 9to5Mac). Hopefully Apple shares a good look at them during WWDC 2025, which kicks off on June 9th.
Is “bar” even the right word to describe it? If this actually is what the iPhone 17 Pro looks like, I guess we’ll see what Apple calls it.
Three excellent pieces by Mark Gurman, John Gruber, and Ben Thompson recently published that explain why Apple can’t move iPhone production back to the USA. There is no tariff percentage that will result in a US-based “army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones.” As Steve Jobs told President Obama back in 2011, “those jobs aren’t coming back.”
