The UK is prepared to cut a tax that targets Silicon Valley, and other countries may follow suit.
The two companies are being probed over compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act and are expected to face modest penalties for violations, taking the “geopolitical climate” into consideration. EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera previously said she would issue her ruling in March but now says that “decisions could be adopted in the coming weeks” as the EU focuses on tariff negotiations with the US.
Apple’s “short-term” solution to Trump’s tariffs may be upping its iPhone exports from India, where the 26 percent tariff is about half of China’s. The company is on track to make 25 million phones there this year, with 10 million for the local market, but might redirect more to the US.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple sees the situation as “too uncertain” to alter its manufacturing plans just yet though.
Here’s a look at a Severance-themed “evening of sanctioned merriment” that Apple hosted this weekend at the New Jersey Bell Works building. The Apple TV Plus show’s cast and crew were able to “share their experience and connect with fans,” as 9to5Mac writes.
“Apple Immersive Video Utility” is available now for Macs and Vision Pros, though only in US English, as MacRumors notes. With the Mac version, you can “import, organize, package, and review Apple Immersive Video,” Apple’s immersive video format. You can stream the videos, synchronized, to one or more headsets with the visionOS version installed.
That could make it easier to share in-person experiences. If you can find another Vision Pro owner, that is.
Apple has won its first legal battle over the UK’s demand for a backdoor to encrypted data: the right to tell everyone it’s happening. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled on whether Apple’s claim should be kept secret on national security grounds, and Apple won.
That doesn’t bring it any closer to restoring ADP encryption in the UK, nor does it mean hearings will be public, but this open secret is a little more open.
[investigatorypowerstribunal.org.uk]
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insisted in a Face the Nation appearance today that President Trump’s tariffs will “stay in place” and will result in things like “the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” coming to the US.
He acknowledged that “it’s gonna be automated,” which is just one of the reasons more manufacturing may not mean more jobs.
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Apple a letter “telling the company it should follow President Donald Trump’s executive order” extending ByteDance’s deadline to sell TikTok by 75 more days, reports Bloomberg. The outlet had reported a similar letter sent to both Google and Apple prior to their decision to restore the app to their online marketplaces in February, too.
