Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world’s most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
The latest iPad Mini and iPad Pro are getting cheaper by the day, but the basic models offer the best value.
Every model in Apple’s current lineup, from the entry-level SE to the Ultra 2, is receiving some sort of discount right now.
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A UK court has ordered it to pay patent troll Optis $502m — just a little up from the $56m set in 2023, before Optis appealed. Apple will appeal too, of course, but already paid the same company $300m in a related case in Texas.
It’s been a rough week in a rough year for Apple, with a legal blow to its App Store income and a $900m tariff bill to boot.
“Spotify will move quickly to submit an app update to Apple, enhancing the experience for our consumers across the United States,” spokesperson Jeanne Moran tells The Verge following today’s major ruling in Epic Games v. Apple.
Now that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has issued an order preventing Apple from charging a commission on sales made outside the App Store, the company has confirmed that it will appeal. Here’s the company’s statement, sent by senior director of corporate communications, Olivia Dalton:
We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court’s order and we will appeal.
Dutch right-wing activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek reported receiving a message from Apple, saying the company “detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone.” The message adds, “This attack is likely targeting you specifically because of who you are or what you do.”
Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino reported receiving a similar message that indicated Apple had sent warnings to victims in 100 countries, as reported by TechCrunch. Apple last warned users about a spyware attack in July 2024.
In a press release about TSMC breaking ground on a new Arizona chip fab, the Commerce Department quotes Cook:
“We’re proud to support the high-skilled American jobs of tomorrow. As TSMC Arizona’s first and largest customer, we’re excited for the future of American innovation and the incredible opportunities it will create.”
At the site yesterday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC Apple is supposedly waiting for “the robot arms” to build iPhones in the US.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he asked CEO Tim Cook about how to make US-built iPhones happen (despite Cook’s explanations for why they won’t), per an interview with CNBC:
LUTNICK: He said, “I need to have the robotic arms ... do it at a scale and at a precision that I can bring it here. And the day I see that available, it’s coming here, because I don’t like to employ all these people foreign.”
015 years ago today, Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” railing on Adobe’s platform for being bad for batteries, apps, and the web. Still a good read!
If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
Also, don’t miss our friend Walt Mossberg grilling Jobs about Flash at the D8 Conference.
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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.