By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) MacStadium’s new Orka Cluster 3.2 now makes it faster and easier to deploy virtual machines on its platform, with Scheduled Caching helping to prepare ahead and cut down deployment time.MacStadium OrkaLaunched on Tuesday, the Orka Cluster 3.2 is MacStadium’s attempt to reduce the amount of time its clients spend deploying virtual machines to its Mac cloud infrastructure. MacStadium offers cloud-based infrastructure using Macs, as well as on-demand virtual machines of macOS, for use by developers and engineers.The long periods of time spinning the VMs up can be potentially costly to a company, especially in high quantities. Reducing the time or uncertainty of how long it takes, or even shifting elements to out-of-hours periods, could be beneficial to some teams. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Picture safety goggles where instead of glass, you slide an iPhone over your eyes. That was Apple’s first idea for the Apple Vision Pro and it will not let it go.Detail from the patent showing an iPhone being slotted into a headsetAfter the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, Apple admitted almost conspiratorially that for years it had filed hundreds of headset patents in plain sight. But there’s one it keeps coming back to, and it was originally about the earliest, while it now also looks like the cheapest.All the way back in 2010, Apple applied for a patent called “Head-Mounted Display Apparatus for Retaining a Portable Electronic Device with Display.” It was then granted the patent in 2015. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams have headed out to China once again, including a visit to promote using the iPhone and iPad for agriculture.Tim Cook and Jeff Williams in China – Image credit: Tim Cook/WeiboAs the CEO and COO, Tim Cook and Jeff Williams frequently pay visits to various corners of the world, conducting business deals and promoting Apple’s produce. The official visit this time has the pair in China.In posts to Weibo, Cook has commented about his travel through the country. This includes meeting with students from the China Agricultural University and Zhejiang University, to discuss how Apple hardware like the iPhone and iPad is used for sustainable agricultural work. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) If you’re planning to steal 60 presidential campaign yard signs, don’t just check out the potential penalty, look for an AirTag too.Yet again, an AirTag makes you wonder what we did before themAirTags have found stolen cars, stolen mail, and unfortunately also been used to track car thief victims. But now one has been used in Springfield, MO, it track down someone stealing yard signs.No formal charges have been filed yet, and police investigation is still continuing, so it’s not fully clear what happened. But it is known that Laura McCaskill and her partner John included an AirTag with their Harris/Walz yard sign, and that was tracked to a car that had around 60 such signs in the trunk. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple’s John Ternus is enthused about the iPhone 17 and beyond, with him saying in a leaked memo that the company is working on most ambitious lineup the company has ever worked on. Here’s why.Render of a possible future — and slimmer — iPhoneEven Tim Cook has noticed he’s over used the line, “this is the best iPhone we’ve ever made,” and seems to have dialled that back. But Apple executives do still tend to lean on their hyperbole API, and now it seems they do so even in internal memos.As spotted by Bloomberg, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, John Ternus, has been stirring up the troops. The planned next iPhones are, he said, the “most ambitious in the product’s history.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) TSMC has advised the U.S. that there was an attempt by Huawei to violate sanctions against China restricting the export of AI chips to China, as the probe that could affect Apple chip production rolls on.Dies on wafers – Image credit: TSMCThe United States introduced controls in 2022 that severely restricts any exports of AI chips to China. Two years later, TSMC is warning that there was an attempt to break those rules.TSMC told the US Commerce Department that a customer had placed an order for chips that seemingly breached the sanctions, reports Reuters. The customer attempted to order a chip that was similar in design to the Ascend 910B, a processor designed by Huawei. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) The first reviews for the new iPad mini are out, and the general consensus is that it’s a relatively safe update that depends on Apple Intelligence to be worthwhile.iPad mini 7 with A17 ProApple’s update to the iPad mini introduces relatively few changes to the form. It is practically the definition of a spec-bump update, with the main change being the A17 Pro chip, while everything else remains static.This is certainly a play to make it a device consumers could buy to use Apple Intelligence on a tablet. At least, without buying a Pro. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) The upcoming update to iOS 18.1 will fix a random crashing issue for owners of the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.iPhone 16 ProFollowing the release of the iPhone 16, owners of the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max took to the Apple Support Communities and other social platforms to report a problem. Their smartphones were locking up and restarting during typical everyday use.Part of Monday’s collection of release candidates, the build of iOS 18.1 reveals that Apple will be fixing the problem with the full public release of that OS update. Elements of a release candidate are intended for the final release, and will carry over to it unless Apple finds an issue. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) A consortium of publishers and ad companies in France have written to Tim Cook to ask him to ditch Distraction Control, undaunted by how he ignored them last time.Distraction Control lets users wipe away website elements they don’t want to seeIt was in May 2024 when members of French organizations including Alliance Digitale, and press organization Alliance de la Presse d’Information Generale, read AppleInsider and went wide-eyed. For AppleInsider had exclusively revealed Apple’s Web Eraser, which would later be renamed on release as Distraction Control.At the time, Web Eraser was expected to let Safari users remove any part of a website from view, and naturally target number one would be ads. So the consortium wrote to Tim Cook, asking that Apple abandon it. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple has let cameras in to its usually secret audio testing facility, revealing a spherical 50-speaker array that was used in creating the hearing test in AirPods Pro 2.AirPods Pro 2Early reviewers of the hearing test in the AirPods Pro 2 have unanimously called it impressive, and it will be coming to users by the end of October 2024. Ahead of that launch, Apple let ABC show “Good Morning America” into its testing facility known as Fantasia Lab.”We don’t let cameras in this place normally,” John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple told ABC. “And so it’s a little bit of an out-of-body experience for everybody.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
