Chinese tech giant Tencent has agreed to make some of its most important apps available on Apple’s Vision Pro headset ahead of its launch in the country later this year, The Information reports. Tencent is one of the biggest multimedia companies in the world and its apps and services are ubiquitous in China. It owns […]
Read MoreApple is actively building prototypes of at least two foldable iPhones following over five years of research and development, The Information reports. Citing individuals with “direct knowledge” of the project, the two iPhone prototypes reportedly fold widthwise like a clamshell. The devices are in early development and do not feature in the company’s mass production […]
Read MoreApple pays British chip architect Arm less than 30 cents per chip in royalties, The Information reports. Apple licenses the underlying technology used in the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and HomePod from Arm. Despite being one of its biggest and most important customers, Apple represents less than five percent of Arm’s annual […]
Read MoreApple has explored using its Vision Pro headset to diagnose and treat mental health problems, among other health monitoring capabilities, The Information‘s Wayne Ma reports. Citing sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Ma explains that Apple has experimented with using the Vision Pro to track a user’s facial expressions to detect depression, anxiety, stress, […]
Read MoreApple etches iPhone displays with small QR codes that let it precisely track the number of defective screens that are thrown out by suppliers, according to a new report from The Information. One barcode is the size of a grain of sand and can be viewed only with special equipment, while the other is on […]
Read MoreApple is considering switching production of micro-OLED displays for future versions of the Vision Pro headset from Sony to Chinese manufacturers like BOE and SeeYa amid supply chain challenges, The Information reports. Sony, the current supplier of micro-OLED displays for Vision Pro, has apparently shown reservations about expanding its production capabilities for the components amid […]
Read MoreChip supplier TSMC has taken the unusual step of not charging Apple for defective 3nm chips ahead of the introduction of the iPhone 15 Pro and the A17 Bionic chip, The Information reports. The iPhone 15 Pro is widely rumored to feature the A17 Bionic chip – Apple’s first chip manufactured with a 3nm fabrication […]
Read MoreChip supplier TSMC has taken the unusual step of not charging Apple for defective 3nm chips ahead of the introduction of the iPhone 15 Pro and the A17 Bionic chip, The Information reports. The iPhone 15 Pro is widely rumored to feature the A17 Bionic chip – Apple’s first chip manufactured with a 3nm fabrication […]
Read MoreApple is running into difficulties with iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max display manufacturing, which could lead to a limited number of devices being available at launch in September. Rumors have suggested that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will have slimmer bezels than the iPhone 14 Pro models, and […]
Read MoreThe Information‘s Wayne Ma today reiterated several features that Apple apparently developed but did not announce for the Vision Pro at WWDC earlier this month, including various fitness and wellness apps, full-body tracking, and more. Ma said some of the features could remain in development, while others may have been abandoned. Apple is not releasing […]
Read MoreApple’s mixed-reality headset will reportedly be the most complicated hardware product ever made by the company, sporting an unusual design that has proven to be an unprecedented challenging to manufacture, The Information reports. The headset apparently features an “unconventional curved design, thinness, and ultralight weight.” Several renders seen by The Information “show a piece of […]
Read MoreMicrosoft is planning to launch a privacy-focused version of ChatGPT amid Apple’s apparent lack of grip on emerging AI technologies, The Information reports. Microsoft’s Azure cloud server unit plans to offer a version of ChatGPT that runs on dedicated cloud servers where the data is kept separate from that of other customers later this quarter. […]
Read MoreSiri has been severely held back by organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple employees who spoke to The Information‘s Wayne Ma. The paywalled report explains that former Apple employees who worked in the company’s AI and machine learning groups believe that a lack of ambition and organizational dysfunction have held back Siri […]
Read MoreApple has heavily invested in developing its own MicroLED technology for almost a decade to break away from Samsung as a supplier, The Information reports. The iPhone X’s flexible OLED display supplied by Samsung Apple’s MicroLED displays have reportedly taken much longer to develop than expected, forcing it to deepen its ties with Samsung until […]
Read MoreApple is working on new software tools that will allow both developers and customers to create augmented reality apps for its widely-rumored AR/VR headset, according to a paywalled report today from The Information‘s Wayne Ma. Interestingly, the report claims that customers will be able to create and release AR apps for the headset via Siri, […]
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