The symbiotic relationship between Apple and TSMC is expected to continue for at least five years, with chips from the foundry expected to pop up in Macs no later than 2021, and in Apple’s long-awaited car effort between 2023 and 2025, if Ming-Chi Kuo is correct.
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An Austrian repairman who possesses a large number of Apple computers is looking for a new owner for his approximately 1,100-strong collection of old Macs, one which faces the prospect of being thrown away if it cannot be rehomed.
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Analysts and commentators who spent the first half of 2018 insisting that Apple’s $999 iPhone X was suffering from “disappointing” sales because of its premium price, a supposed “lack of innovation,” and controversial design choices that included a camera “notch” are now telling us that Chinese companies that struggled to profit from high volumes of cheap phones will now successfully sell expensive models with an imitative notch.
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As reports elaborate on details of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing in Turkey, the Apple Watch keeps getting brought up, despite the odds being against it having been used as the recorder. Manipulation of the contentious reports has spread, even involving a previous report by AppleInsider being altered and hosted elsewhere intended to influence social media, and Google search results.
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Ember, the maker of smartmugs can that automatically regulate temperature, has added support for Apple’s HealthKit platform as a way of monitoring caffeine intake.
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Apple launched a refreshed privacy website on Wednesday, updating the minisite to better educate its customers on how the company works to protect the user’s personal data across all of its products and services, as well as opening up a system for US users to request all of their data from Apple.
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Skydio, the maker of the R1 camera drone, is on Wednesday launching an update to its iPhone app that lets Apple Watch owners fly the drone from their wrist.
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An investor has launched a lawsuit against Google’s parent company, Alphabet, arguing that the company deceived fellow investors by failing to reveal a Google+ bug that could have exposed profile information people didn’t set to public.
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Apple has announced that it will start selling the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR in countries beyond the launch territories, with new sales starting on Oct. 26 and Nov. 2.
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Facebook’s recently launched Portal video calling devices could help the social network target advertising towards its users, it has been revealed, with data collected by the hardware potentially combined with other information for marketing purposes.
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