Apple is known for playing hardball when it comes to negotiations, but it seems the Indonesian government is capable of giving as good as it gets.
The country banned the sale of the iPhone 16, saying the Cupertino company hadn’t invested enough in the local economy. Apple responded by offering to increase its manufacturing spend from $10M to $100M, but Indonesia now says it expects a billion dollars – and it wants the investment agreed within a week …
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Apple Podcasts has just named its Show of the Year for 2024, and it’s a limited-run series called Hysterical that tells a fascinating story. Here are the full details.
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Apple TV+ has announced a new show in the works for future release—it’s called Lucky, and it has some big names behind it including Anya Taylor-Joy.
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The Touch Bar was a controversial Apple creation, to say the least. But the now-discontinued MacBook Pro feature is being revised, in a way, through a new Kickstarter campaign for a more versatile standalone product: the Flexbar.
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The Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have all but completely disappeared, but there are still a couple notable hangover offers joining some fresh price drops we spotted this morning. Apple Watch Series 10 is starting at the $329 all-time low with $80 in savings across the lineup while AirPods 4 remain at the best price we have tracked on Amazon. We also spotted the OG Apple Watch Ultra at $429 off the original price, some deals on Apple Watch Milanese Loops, Anker’s latest Find My card, and even some handy discounted Uber gift cards you can use to score on deal on your holiday trips and food deliveries. Everything else awaits below.
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Apple has released visionOS 2.2 beta 4 for developers. The new software version brings us closer to the expected RC and wide launch soon. Here’s what to expect from the latest beta.
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Large language model AI has been a leap forward for me in how I use technology. So naturally, ChatGPT is something that my 7 and 11 year old kids are already familiar with, but there isn’t an AI that they interact with regularly. Enter , a fun and affordable AI bot that’s designed to create a safe and engaging environment for kids. The AI component is LLM powered so the bot is naturally conversational, and Miko has a host of content partners including Disney, Nickelodeon, and iHeartRadio. Read on for our impressions.
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Simply Piano has long been a hit app in my household. My daughter never really showed interest in learning to play our keyboard until she came across Simply Piano on her iPad. I think it’s the first annual subscription I ever bought for her based on how much she was getting from it.
Now Simply Piano has brought the experience from the iPhone and iPad to augmented reality on Apple Vision Pro. The best part? You can play using Simply Piano with a virtual piano in your real environment without a for the first time.
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As reported by CNBC, Apple’s senior director of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Benoit Dupin, made a surprise appearance at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today.
Dupin used the opportunity to explain that Apple uses custom artificial intelligence chips from Amazon Web Services for many of its cloud services. Apple is also evaluating using Amazon’s newest AI chip to pre-train its Apple Intelligence models.
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Next year’s iPhone 17 Air will get a lot of attention for its ultra-thin form factor. But there’s another strong contender for what could ultimately become the device’s best feature: the 17 Air’s unique display.
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