Senator Elizabeth Warren has tweeted a somewhat bizarre one-minute video in which she says that green texts are “ruining relationships” and that this is “just one of the dirty tactics that ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/19/elizabeth-warren-on-green-texts/
Apple has pledged to buy US-made chips once TSMC’s Arizona plants come online, but the company may have to pay more for them. TSMC’s chief exec has said that it plans to charge customers ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/us-made-chips-cost-apple-more/
Apple has an ambitious goal to create a fully carbon neutral value chain for its products by 2030, and every year it charts its progress in its annual Environmental Progress Report. The 2024 repo...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/apple-2024-environmental-report/
Almost 100,000 iPhones which Apple paid a contractor to scrap were instead stolen and shipped off to China , according to an in-depth report. Apple sued the company concerned, but now appears...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/100000-iphones-stolen-instead-of-scrapped/
We’re expecting 2024 to be the year Apple builds generative AI features into iOS 18 , and the company has announced a $250M investment to support ongoing work in this field. The Apple Singapo...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/apple-singapore-campus-ai-work/
Tim Cook made a diplomatic comment about the possibility of Apple manufacturing in Indonesia, after the country’s president pressed him on the issue. The country is an important market for Ap...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/17/apple-manufacturing-in-indonesia/
We’ve today received an update on Apple’s 2030 environmental goals, one of which is for the company’s entire supply-chain to be carbon neutral by that date. The company says more than 3...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/17/apple-2030-environmental-goals-update/
Phil Schiller has told a court in an antitrust case that he doesn’t know for sure whether the App Store is profitable, and never considered the return on investment when launching it. He’...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/17/app-store-is-profitable-apple-notes/
Canada is introducing a new digital services tax starting this year, which will see foreign tech giants like Apple and Google receive tax demands for income earned in Canada but not currently t...
Apple trade-ins aren’t known for their generosity, but they do make for a very painless experience when upgrading to new devices – and the company will accept any older electronic devices fo...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/16/apple-trade-ins-and-recycling-promoted-with-homepage-banner/
Apple’s ad transparency tools aren’t sufficient to investigate issues like paid influence, says a new report, which also scored the effectiveness of 11 other tech companies’ tools. Five ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/16/apple-accepting-political-ads/
A UK court has ruled that a near billion dollar developer lawsuit against Apple will be allowed to proceed, after the iPhone maker attempted to get it dismissed. The £785M ($979M) antitrust ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/billion-dollar-developer-lawsuit/
Apple announced big changes to its repair policy today, saying that select iPhone repairs can be completed with used genuine parts for the first time. One controversial repair practice that rema...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/11/apple-iphone-parts-pairing-john-ternus/
The judge due to hear the Apple antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice has recused himself, meaning that he will no longer preside over the case. Judge Michael E. Farbiarz yes...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/11/judge-in-apple-antitrust-case/
One of the changes Apple had to make to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) was to present customers with a list of iPhone web browsers during setup, and to choose the one they wan...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/10/alternative-iphone-web-browsers/
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 ci...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/09/apple-to-expand-presence-florida-miami-office/
An Apple research paper describes how the company has been developing Ferret-UI, a generative AI system specifically designed to be able to make sense of app screens. The paper is somewhat va...
The European Union is investigating Apple’s response to a Spotify complaint, to determine whether the anti-steering changes made by the Cupertino company are sufficient to comply. Update: G...
Tesla is set to go to court next week as part of a long-running lawsuit over the safety of its Autopilot driver assistance technology. As part of its defense, Tesla is hoping that Apple can prove...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/05/tesla-autopilot-crash-iphone-gaming/
Apple chip production is largely back on track following the major earthquake in Taiwan, thanks in part due to “world-class seismic mitigation measures” in TSMC’s plants. Some plants we...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/05/apple-chip-production-earthquake/
Apple is laying off more than 700 employees as the company has just canceled its Apple Car project and is also reconsidering the project to develop in-house Micro-LED displays. The layoffs became...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/04/apple-layoffs-700-workers-car-microled/
Apple has just announced that it will release its earnings report for the second quarter of fiscal 2024 on Thursday, May 2. As usual, the company will release its Q2 2024 earnings report and then...
With Apple now having dragged its decade-long car project to the trash can , the company is reportedly now working on another skunk-works project: an Apple Robot . Both self-driving cars and h...
Apple turned Jetsons-style video calling into reality with FaceTime. Now the company sees personal robotics as an area worth exploration, reports Mark Gurman for Bloomberg . Is Rosey the Robot th...
Installing a third-party app store is now possible for iPhone owners in the EU – but it’s not exactly a quick-and-easy process. It seems a safe bet that this is a deliberate move on Apple...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/03/installing-a-third-party-app-store/
A remark by EU competition head Margrethe Vestager has suggested that Apple may be required to let iPhone owners delete the Photos app. While this possibility hasn’t previously been raise...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/02/eu-owners-delete-the-photos-app/
Jon Stewart interviewed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) head Lina Khan yesterday, saying that he’d wanted to do it while his show was hosted on Apple TV+ , but the company wouldn’t allow it. ...
One of Apple’s lead designers for Safari has departed the company to join The Browser Company. The news was announced today by Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company. The Browser Company is ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/01/safari-designer-apple-arc-browser/
A new supply-chain report suggests that Apple is seeking to be an early player in what some believe will be the next big thing in chip development: printed circuit boards (PCBs) made from glass ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/29/the-next-big-thing-glass-substrates/
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Andrew Aude, a former iOS Software Engineer, accusing him of leaking “information about more than a half-dozen different Apple policies and products.” The le...
The practice of parts pairing – which can prevent third-party repair shops from cannibalising broken devices for parts – has been outlawed by Oregon, taking effect for any product made after...
A new supply-chain report reiterates earlier reports that some engineers previously working on Vision Pro have been moved to working a folding iPhone or iPad project. It also claims that the ...
An antitrust lawsuit against Apple brought by Venmo has been dismissed, the judge finding that there was no evidence of anticompetitive behavior. The Paypal -owned app company has, however, ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/28/venmo-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple/
An iPad and iPhone fraudster who is estimated to have cost Apple more than $6M in replacement devices has been sentenced to 51 months in prison. His two co-defendants were sentenced to 41 mo...
A new report highlights what probably amounts the most most absurd stretch in the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit. A section notes that Apple last year spent half as much on research and development ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/27/aapl-share-buybacks-verses-rd-spend/
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the annual China Development Forum during his visit to the country, taking part in a climate change meeting during it. Cook has said that meeting environmental g...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/26/chinese-climate-change-meeting/
Over the weekend, Tim Cook confirmed that Apple Vision Pro will launch in China later this year. The Information now reports that Apple has reached a key deal with Tencent to make a number of C...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/26/china-apple-tv-plus-vision-pro-more/
It’s not just the US Department of Justice setting its sights on Apple this year . Since the DOJ announced its lawsuit last week , Apple has been hit with a wave of new lawsuits from consumers ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/apple-class-action-iphone-monopoly-lawsuits/
Chinese media is reporting that Apple is buying AI services from local tech giant Baidu. The WSJ had earlier reported that the iPhone maker had been in discussions with the company , to use it...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/apple-buying-ai-services-from-baidu/
One element of the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple addresses iMessage , and Apple’s decision to keep the app exclusive to iPhone. But it goes further than arguing that this is anti-compet...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-iphones-are-cool/
The EU has today announced that it is not satisfied that Apple’s App Store changes comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the company is now officially under investigation for non-comp...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/app-store-proposals-rejected/
One of the many bizarre claims throughout the Department of Justice’s 88-page lawsuit against Apple is that Apple somehow killed the Amazon Fire Phone. Also, Apple is apparently to blame for H...
After literally years of investigation, the DOJ antitrust lawsuit is finally official . Apple is accused of using a dominant market position to lock in customers, block competitors, profiteer, an...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/22/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-defence/
The US Department of Justice filed its antitrust lawsuit against Apple today, with the supposed goal of “freeing smartphone markets from Apple’s anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct and r...
The US Department of Justice officially filed its antitrust lawsuit against Apple today, after years of preparation. Apple has already voiced its opposition to the suit and vowed to “vigorously...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/21/doj-sues-apple-full-lawsuit-document-here/
Apple has responded to the Department of Justice lawsuit that has been expected for some time now. In the statement, Apple says the lawsuit threatens its identity and it will vigorously defend it...
A former United Parcel Service (UPS) worker has been accused of stealing $1.3 million worth of Apple products over the course of a decade. He has been charged with stealing the products from a...
A state-owned newspaper has cited Tim Cook praising China as a production hub, during the CEO’s visit to the country for a new store opening . Cook’s remarks were made after Apple repor...
There are more developments today in the ongoing battle between Apple and some of its biggest App Store opponents. First, in a new amicus briefed filed in the United States today, Meta, Microsoft...
It was already clear that Apple’s Core Technology Fee would come in for close scrutiny by the EU, but an interview with the bloc’s antitrust chief has revealed that the company could also b...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/20/core-technology-fee-and-security-warnings/
On Sunday night, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks with Google about licensing its Gemini technology to power some AI features coming to the iPhone. A new report from The New York Times...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/19/apple-google-ai-partnership-ios-18/
A new rumor today says that Apple has invested billions in a new coating technology for future iPhone displays. This technology would allegedly make future iPhone displays “more scratch-resista...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/19/iphone-17-anti-reflective-display/
A new Product Security Verified (PSV) label will in future be used to identify smart home devices which meet new industry standards designed to protect against hacking and data breaches. It’...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/19/apple-backed-product-security-verified/
With iOS 17.4 this month, Apple debuted a number of new features as part of its efforts to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the EU. These efforts include alternative app marketplaces , new ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/18/apple-iphone-digital-markets-act-compliance/
In a new paper published this month, Apple researchers reveal that they have developed new methods for training large language models using both text and visual information. According to Apple�...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/18/apple-ai-llm-technology-models/
Apple has acquired DarwinAI, an artificial intelligence startup focused on making AI systems smaller and faster, according to a new report from Bloomberg . Apple has added dozens of DarwinAI empl...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/14/apple-acquires-darwinai-startup-ahead-of-ios-18s-ai-push/
Apple today announced that it is expanding its Restore Fund, a project that it first launched in 2021 with a $200 million investment. Through the Restore Fund, Apple backs new financially-viabl...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/13/apple-expands-restore-fund-with-new-investments-from-tsmc-and-murata/
One change Apple made in iOS 17.4 has resulted in a notable increase in the number of iPhone owners choosing to install the Brave Browser app to use in place of Safari . The EU’s Digital ...
The bulk of Apple’s new product development work takes place in Cupertino, but the company has a number of research labs around the world. Locations include China , France , Israel , Japan...
Last week, Apple released iOS 17.4 with big changes to the iPhone and App Store ecosystem to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the European Union. This includes things like support for alt...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/12/iphone-app-store-changes-web-distribution-more/
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has argued that for age-restricted apps, age verification should be Apple’s job. He’s now been joined in this view by the new head of trust and safety at Match, th...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/11/age-verification-should-be-apples-job/
It was claimed earlier this week that Apple is actively working on a folding MacBook , and that plans for this are further advanced than those for a folding iPhone or iPad. The term ‘folding ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/folding-macbook-what-to-expect/
Apple has teased the opening of a new retail store in China , Apple Jing’an. No date has been specified, but the company says it is “opening soon.” The announcement is accompanied by an...
Apple appeared to threaten Epic Games , when the company cancelled its developer account for the second time , and cited the developer’s public criticisms of the iPhone maker as one of the re...
Many in the entertainment business have questioned the wisdom of the huge spends on Apple TV+ blockbuster movies, suggesting that the company is prioritizing vanity over commercial sense. But...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/07/apple-tv-blockbuster-movies-profits/
Apple’s Epic ban – which saw the iPhone maker again terminate a developer account used by the games company – is being questioned by EU antitrust regulators. More details also emerged o...
As you may be familiar with by now, Apple has officially canceled its project to build an electric car . The project never saw the light of day and wasn’t even confirmed by Apple, but the compa...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/06/apple-car-mercedes-ford-tesla/
Apple’s Entrepreneur Camp was first launched back in 2018 , focusing then on app-driven business owned or led by women. The latest edition is geared to developers from Indigenous backgrounds ....
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/06/apple-entrepreneur-camp-stories/
Campaign groups say that if the EU lets Apple get away with its response to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), then the law will be rendered toothless. Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta have all tak...
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images, screenshots, and other clutter from your device. Download it no...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/apple-stock-falls-march-year/
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images, screenshots, and other clutter from your device. Download it no...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/iphone-sales-ride-high-in-japan/
We noted yesterday that Spotify welcomed Apple being fined $2B for antitrust offences relating to streaming music services. The tone of the company’s response, however, strongly suggests th...
Another day, another case of Apple stoking the growth fire on Wall Street with the magical two letters: AI. Tim Cook’s shareholder meeting comments about Apple breaking new ground for AI this...
A new rumor today claims that Apple will announce new products this week via press releases. This comes after Bloomberg reported this morning that Apple isn’t planning to hold a dedicated event...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/03/apple-new-ipad-mac-launch-press-release-rumor/
In January 2021, Apple reshuffled its hardware engineering team by Dan Riccio shifting from Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering to a “new role focusing on a new project.” John Tern...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/03/apple-dan-riccio-retirement-soon/
While Apple has new iPad and Mac hardware coming as soon as this month, the company is not planning a special event to launch these products. Instead, a new report today says Apple will announce...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/03/apple-march-event-new-ipad-online/
Ahead of iOS 17.4 being released in March, MacPaw has announced its plans to offer an alternative app marketplace in the EU. According to the company, it will launch a beta version of Setapp M...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/29/setapp-mobile-app-store-iphone-eu/
A new report today says that there is increasing evidence of steep iPhone discounts being used in China in an attempt to counter weak demand. It gives the example of the iPhone 15 Pro Max be...
The news doesn’t get any better for FineWoven cases. After being solidly panned by 9to5Mac readers , editors , and major retail chains , a series of polls on social media sites saw the majorit...
It’s not the first time we’ve heard it reported that the Apple Car is cancelled, but yesterday’s Bloomberg report does seem definitive – with two very senior Apple execs said to have ma...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/28/apple-car-is-cancelled-reaction/
Apple lawyers reportedly met with the Department of Justice last week, to make a last-minute plea for the agency not to file a US antitrust suit against the company. Neither Apple nor the DOJ...
Tomorrow is the date of Apple’s annual shareholder meeting , and the company this year faces five shareholder proposals – and recommends voting against all of them. The company went as far...
We first spotted signs of Apple blocking web apps in iOS 17.4 within Europe, a move which was later confirmed and explained by the company . But while Apple argues that it made the move in ord...
Apple Arcade is being criticized by developers for lack of transparency around payments, falling payouts, and cancelled projects. There is, though, hope that Netflix’s move into gaming may ...
In September, Bloomberg reported that Apple had held exploratory talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing as recently as 2020. In newly unsealed court filings this week, more details about the ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/24/microsoft-sell-bing-to-apple/
A limited number of Apple support staff are reportedly using an internal AI tool to help answer customer questions. The tool is reportedly known as Apple Ask. The ChatGPT-style tool lets advi...
US iPhone market share continued to rise last month, despite a continued decline in all smartphone sales, according to a new market intelligence report. The report shows that US smartphone sal...
When Apple announced its own approach to CSAM scanning, many of us warned that the process used to check for child sexual abuse materials would ultimately be abused by repressive governments t...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/22/csam-scanning-apple-australia/
A new ranking of the top ten best selling phones in the world has found that, for the first time, Apple has taken the top seven slots. The latest ranking is for 2023 as a whole. It’s not unt...
Apple’s new app store terms have come under fire for what many are describing as ‘malicious compliance’ with the EU’s Digital Markets Act – that is, technically complying with the ant...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/21/meta-and-microsoft-new-app-store-terms/
Two people have been found guilty of a “sophisticated scheme to defraud Apple out of millions of dollars’ worth of iPhones,” according to the United States Department of Justice. The sca...
Although the iPhone is Apple’s flagship product, accessories such as AirPods have become extremely important to the company in recent years. And as Apple works on new products in this segment, ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/20/apple-leadership-audio-team-airpods/
It’s been over a decade since VirnetX – known as a patent troll – started a number of lawsuits against Apple. Now after 13 years, it appears the battle between the two companies is over as ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/20/supreme-court-sides-with-apple-in-virnetx-lawsuit/
Apple’s chief operating officer Jeff Williams is in Taiwan as a guest of honor for Foxconn’s 50th anniversary celebrations. He’s reportedly joined by his deputy, Sabih Khan. The rare ...
Samsung smartphone sales in Europe fell by 12% in the final quarter of last year, while iPhones managed to outperform the market. The result was that Apple overtook Samsung smartphone shipment...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/20/apple-overtook-samsung-in-europe/
A sketchy report claims that development of an Apple smart ring is accelerating, following a teaser by Samsung of its own upcoming Galaxy Ring (shown above). The Korean report is light on deta...
Jason Snell has published his excellent Six Colors report card , recapping and scoring Apple’s performance through 2023. Jason was kind enough to ask me, along with my colleagues Benjamin Mayo ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/19/six-colors-apple-report-card-2023/
In November, Apple surprised us all when it announced that RCS support would come to the iPhone sometime this year. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent way too much time since ...
Apple has had to make some big changes to accommodate Europe’s Digital Markets Act – even if those changes seem exceedingly unlikely to have gone far enough. But for now, at least, the com...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/16/antitrust-legislation-in-korea-stalled/
A report by a Chinese blogger with 1.7M followers says that Apple folding screen prototypes failed to pass tests set by the company. They go on to claim that “the project has been temporari...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/16/apple-folding-screen-prototypes-tests/