By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple’s largest iPhone manufacturer has reported almost a fifth higher revenue for April 2024 compared to the same month in 2023, in part because of diversification.Workers in a Foxconn factoryIn March 2024, Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai Precision Industry Co reported a 10% revenue drop in Q1, specifically because of slowing demand over the iPhone. Now despite coming in what it describes as traditionally a transition month between old and new products, the company is reporting a record high revenue for April 2024.According to Bloomberg, the company says it earned 19% more year over year. Its monthly sales for April 2024 were $15.8 billion, compared to $13.3 billion in April 2023. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) An Apple analyst believes that a foldable iPhone and an all-screen MacBook Pro are coming far sooner than expected, but there are reasons to be cautious about the latest rumor.The ‘iPhone Fold’ is expected to take design cues from existing Apple productsIn a note to investors seen by AppleInsider, Jeff Pu from Hatton International Securities has laid out a timetable for Apple’s foldable lineup. This includes the long-rumored “iPhone Fold” and a more recent revelation, an all-screen folding MacBook Pro.Pu believes that the MacBook Pro will arrive first in late 2025. He believes the folding iPhone will hit the market a year later alongside or as the iPhone 18, in 2026. Rumor Score: 🙄 Unlikely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple has changed its “Let Loose” event logo to include the ability to erase it by dragging a mouse — or presumably a forthcoming Apple Pencil — across it.Users can now “erase” the Apple event logoThe “Let Loose” event already had a series of artwork logos, with the primary one including the image of a hand holding an Apple Pencil. Now that same primary image has an added facet in that first it appears as a line-art sketch as if being worked out in rough by an artist.Then as before, it animates in to full color, including a moving hand sweeping in with the Apple Pencil to take center stage in the logo. Now, though, dragging a cursor over the logo erases it. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) A flash price drop on Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro chip is in effect today only, driving the price down to $1,649 during B&H’s 24-hour Deal Zone.Save $350 on this MacBook Pro today only.B&H’s latest Deal Zone consists of a blowout bargain on Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro chip, 16GB RAM and 512GB of storage. Now on sale for $1,649 in Space Gray, this flash deal represents a $350 markdown off the original MSRP.Buy for $1,649 Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Apple’s earbuds are $50 off and the current M3 iMac is $150 off at Amazon today, just in time for Mother’s Day gift-giving.Amazon drops AirPods 2 to $79.99.Amazon’s fresh AirPods price cut applies to AirPods 2 with a Lightning Charging Case, with the budget-friendly earbuds dropping to $79.99, which is the best price we’ve seen in 2024.AirPods for $79.99 Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Charles Martin) Under-screen Face ID always seems to be a year away, and the latest rumor now pins it to the 2026 iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models.iPhone 15 always-on displayWriting on X/Twitter in April, Young’s original roadmap claimed that an under-screen Face ID iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, would replace the existing camera notch with only pinhole front-facing cameras.However, Young has tweaked that a bit. He says he has heard that under-screen Face ID is being pushed back a year to 2026. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Famed investor Warren Buffett cut his firm’s Apple holdings by 13% in the first quarter of 2023, as analyst consensus was that the iPhone was seeing declining demand.Warren Buffett [Berkshire Hathaway]Buffett is not a long-term investor in Apple — his Berkshire Hathaway firm only started buying Apple stock in 2016 — but it became a particularly significant shareholder. Warren Buffett also taught both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook about the value of a company buying back its own shares, which it did again after its latest earnings report.As first spotted by CNBC, however, Berkshire Hathaway’s own Q1 earnings report reveal that it has cut its stake in Apple by 13% over the period. Apple remains Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest holding, worth around $135.4 billion. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Both M2 and M3 MacBook Air models are heavily discounted heading into the weekend, resulting in deals as low as $849.Save up to $400 on MacBook Air models.Apple resellers, including Amazon, Best Buy and B&H, have dropped the M2 MacBook Air 13-inch to $849, matching the previous record low price seen in March for the standard model that features an 8-core GPU, 8GB of memory, and 256GB of storage.Buy for $849 Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Chip Loder) Whisky allows you to install Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit on your Mac. Here’s how to use it to run Steam games.The Whisky appWe previously covered how to use the Whisky app to install the Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK) and WINE to run older Microsoft Windows Win32-based games on your Mac.Win32 is an older 32-bit API from the 1990s based on the C++ and C programming languages. It is no longer officially supported by Microsoft because most computer architectures transitioned to 64-bit computing long ago. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) After years of promises and nothing to show for it, a new leak suggests that Spotify may actually be close to launching lossless audio on its service. Maybe.Spotify logoLossless audio is a music streaming feature that purportedly offers extremely high fidelity audio via sky-high bitrates. It’s a big draw for audiophiles, but not every major streaming service offers it.Following two weeks after a leak that Spotify HiFi may finally be on the way, another collection of leaks offer more details. According to another Reddit leak spotted by The Verge, one change is a rebranding away from “HiFi” and to the generally used term “Lossless.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
