December 2024

Apple’s new year is about to begin, and 2025 will be an especially big one for rarely-updated products. Here are six new products coming that will have waited about three years (or more) between hardware updates. more…

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Jimmy Carter, the 30th president of the United States, died on Sunday at 100. Apple has now updated its homepage to pay tribute to President Carter, the longest-living president in American history. more…

CNET’s headline reference to “a rare look inside Apple’s secret iPhone 16 camera labs” is somewhat hyperbolic, since there’s nothing secret about them: we’ve seen one of them a couple of times before. But the piece does, all the same, provide an interesting look at some of the testing processes used during the development of

After several days of teasers, Apple TV+ today confirmed that the streaming service will be free for all this weekend. Between January 4 and January 5, customers can stream all Apple Originals with no subscription required. This free weekend promotion will help garner awareness for the service as we embark on the new year, with

A recent software update resulted in a significant number of bricked Meta Quest headsets, with Meta initially shrugging and saying that for out-of-warranty Quest 2/3/3S models it wouldn’t be fixing the problem … more…

A developer has noted that Apple’s Photos app shares your iPhone photos with Apple by default, for an iOS 18 feature known as Enhanced Visual Search. This is an expansion of the older Visual Look Up feature, which can recognize objects within your photos, but a privacy note in the Settings app implies that it

A full half of the jobs created by the first TSMC Arizona chip plant have been filled by workers from Taiwan, despite the company receiving up to $11.6B worth of grants intended in large part to generate US jobs. The original headline news of Apple chips being made in the US by American workers has

Display analyst Ross Young said back in September that the entire iPhone 17 line-up would be getting ProMotion displays, a feature currently exclusive to the two Pro models. This is now backed by a new supply-chain report over the weekend. The latest report is a little less specific, referring only to “a high refresh rate,”

Macworld When Apple launched the iPhone 16 in September, it continued to sell the 14, 15, and SE 3 models at lower prices. As usual, this gave customers on more limited budgets the flexibility to pick between five main iterations (counting the Plus variants) with three different sizes and a mixed assortment of technical specifications.