Apple is still marketing Apple Intelligence as a selling point for iPhone 16, but it’s also started emphasizing other features more frequently. That continues in the company’s latest video, which highlights iPhone 16’s Ceramic Shield for protecting against cracked screens.
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Apple was yesterday fined €500M ($570M) by the EU for its App Store policies. Apple has now responded, stating that it is being unfairly targeted, with the White House also weighing in to describe fines levied against Apple and Meta as “extortion.”
Update: While there had earlier appeared some softenting in position on both sides of the antitrust dispute, Apple has now told us that it will appeal the ruling – see the end of the piece …
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Benjamin and Chance reflect on the history of the Apple Watch on its ten year anniversary. Also, the EU slaps Apple with its first ever fines under the DMA. Rockwell is said to already be making waves with big Siri leadership changes, and Chance appreciates the flexibility of modern Photographic Styles.
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Fountain of Youth is the next big Apple TV+ movie that will debut directly on streaming. Apple just released a new trailer for the Indiana Jones-inspired film, and it looks great.
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This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: iPhone 17 Pro in Sky Blue, iOS and iPadOS 19 productivity upgrades, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors.
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Apple is reportedly preparing to give the iPhone a “Stage Manager-like interface” when connected to an external display via USB-C. But this niche iOS 19 addition is likely just setting the groundwork for a bigger update next year: true multitasking on the iPhone Fold.
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Apple is preparing another leadership shakeup, this time for its secretive robotics team. Bloomberg reports that Apple is shifting its robotics team from AI chief John Giannandrea to John Ternus, its Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering.
This move comes just a month after Apple removed Siri from Giannandrea’s oversight after Tim Cook “lost confidence in the ability” of the former Google executive to “execute on product development.” Siri is now led by Mike Rockwell, the creator of Apple Vision Pro, who reports to software boss Craig Federighi.
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In the wake of the recent tariffs debacle, both Bloomberg and The Financial Times are reporting that Apple aims to manufacture import almost all of its iPhones sold in the United States from India, rather than China, by the end of next year.
This means Apple would need India to make more than 60 million phones a year, in order to satisfy its domestic sales. Overall India iPhone assembly would have to approximately double to meet this target, to about 80 million per year.
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iPadOS 19 will be unveiled right about six weeks from now, not too far off at all. And one rumored addition, a Mac-style menu bar, is set to upgrade iPad productivity in several ways—including one that I’m especially excited about.
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