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Report: Apple Cuts Vision Pro Production Amid Declining Sales
October 23, 2024

The days of Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset could either be numbered or counting down to a version 2.0. Citing unnamed sources involved with building the Vision Pro headset’s components, a Reuters report Wednesday (Oct. 23) said that production has been significantly reduced. A...

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Apple Rolls Out Ambitious AI Features in Latest iOS Beta
October 23, 2024

Apple unveiled the first developer beta of iOS 18.2 Wednesday (Oct. 23), marking an expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities with new features, including image generation and ChatGPT integration. The update represents Apple’s second wave of AI features, branded Apple Intelligence. It introduces tools that...

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Apple Pay’s 10-Year Journey and Its Next Decade of Decisions
October 22, 2024

PYMNTS Intelligence published its annual report on the usage and adoption of Apple Pay yesterday (October 21). That report marked the ten-year milestone of Apple Pay’s launch, which was the mobile wallet shot heard round the world. Apple Pay wasn’t the world’s first digital wallet...

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Apple Enthusiasm Among Teens Dips Despite AI Rollout
October 14, 2024

Have America’s teenagers soured on Apple’s flagship device? Not quite. But enthusiasm about the iPhone among young people appears to have dipped slightly, Seeking Alpha reported Sunday (Oct. 13), citing a survey by investment firm Piper Sandler. The survey of 13,500 teenagers found that 22%...

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Apple Officially Ends Driverless Car Project With Permit Cancellation
October 13, 2024

Months after announcing it was canceling its self-driving car, Apple has made it official. According to a recent report by the website macReports, the tech giant contacted the California Department of Motor Vehicles last month to cancel its Autonomous Vehicles Program Manufacturer’s Testing Permit, which...

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Apple Faces ‘Chicken-or-Egg Problem’ as Vision Pro Interest Flags
October 13, 2024

Apple is reportedly struggling to land major software makers to build apps for its Vision Pro. It’s a difficulty that threatens to hold back new advances the mixed reality headset, Apple’s biggest new device in several years, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (Oct....

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Apple TV+ to Join Amazon Prime Video’s Add-On Subscription Options
October 11, 2024

The addition of Apple TV+ to Amazon Prime Video’s collection of add-on subscription options in the United States will grow Prime Video’s offering and expand Apple TV+’s audience, executives of the two companies said. This new collaboration will make Apple TV+ available to Prime members via Prime Video in...

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Scammers Duped Apple Into Replacing $2.5 Million Worth of iPhones 
October 06, 2024

Two Chinese nationals have been jailed for tricking Apple into replacing counterfeit iPhones with authentic ones. Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, both Chinese citizens living in Maryland, had been convicted last year in a scam in which they — along with the co-conspirators — submitted...

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Report: Apple to Introduce New Smart Home Device in Spring
September 27, 2024

Apple reportedly aims to introduce a new smart home device in spring 2025 that brings together the capabilities of an iPad, Apple TV and HomePod. Codenamed J490 and dubbed “HomeAccessory,” though it may be given a new marketing name, the device will be powered by...