By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Northern Ireland-based Apple Store, Apple Victoria Square, is moving to a new location in Belfast’s central shopping district.Image Credit: AppleApple Victoria Square will close on October 15 and reopen on Corn Market on October 18 at 9:00 am local time. The old location will be permanently closed.The new Apple Store is located at 70 Victoria Square, Belfast, making it a one-minute walk from the previous location. The new location will be in the Keep on Castle Lane, which is a new retail and leisure development. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Amazon is making room for Oura Ring 4 inventory by issuing blowout deals on Gen 3 models, delivering the lowest prices of the season ahead of Fall Prime Day.Oura Ring Gen 3 prices have been slashed. [Oura]Prices start at $299 for the closeout Gen 3 models on Amazon during the early Prime Day sale. Amazon only recently began carrying the Oura Ring line, making it an easy way for Prime members to get their order quickly and efficiently.On sale from $299 Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple makes it harder to make an external boot drive for your Mac than it has in the past, but sometimes you still need to do it. Here’s how to do it in macOS Sequoia.All of these drives can get Sequoia. Here’s how.Apple Silicon and macOS may be excellent, but when a Mac won’t start up, having the option to boot from an external drive is key. It will help with diagnosing the problem, and at worst it can mean your being able to carry on working after just a few minutes.Being able to boot up any Mac from an external drive you happen to have with you is a potential security risk, though, and Apple is not having that. You now have to make a deliberate, positive choice to disable an element of macOS security in order to even start. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) Apple’s rumored iPhone 17 Air may get the title of the thinnest iPhone ever, thanks to Novatek’s cutting-edge display technology.Render of iPhone 17 SlimTaiwan’s leading display driver IC manufacturer, Novatek, is set to begin mass production of OLED TDDI (Touch and Display Driver Integration) technology in the second quarter of 2025. OLED TDDI integrates touch and display functionality into a single chip, allowing for slimmer and more efficient screens.Apple is anticipated to be one of the earliest adopters of this technology for its future iPhone models, potentially starting with the rumored iPhone 17 Air. The technology could lead to thinner, more energy-efficient OLED displays, giving Apple a competitive edge in display technology. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) TSMC is expanding the capabilities of its chip plant in Arizona by partnering with the US-based Amkor Technology to add advanced packaging and test capabilities. The move will result in more US-based Apple chip production in the future.Amkor headquarters in Arizona [Amkor]TSMC’s Arizona plant is just getting started with its operations after four years of construction, with the production of A16 chips at the facility in September. However, while manufacturing the chips is one thing, it still needs to be packaged.Chip packaging is one of the last steps in producing a usable chip that can be used in Apple’s hardware. While TSMC makes the chip itself, chip packaging refers to the protective elements around the chip, which are also used to interface with a board. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) After initially adding Gemini AI-based searches to Google Workspace Gmail on Android, it’s now being brought to iOS, as Google continues to build its lead on Apple Intelligence.In August, Google added a feature that allowed Google Workspace accounts to take advantage of the tech giant’s Gemini AI services in Gmail. Now, that functionality is being made available on devices like the iPhone and iPad.Available on Google Workspace accounts, Gmail Q&A will let users make queries about the contents of their inbox, with Gemini answering prompts. The Google Workspace blog explains this can include things like viewing all unread emails or messages from a specific sender.Gemini can also summarize emails about topics brought up in the inbox, along with other more complex queries. Users could also use Gemini to answer other more general queries, without needing to navigate to their browser. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Now we have the iPhone 16 range in our hands, opinion is split over whether this is a boring or a useful upgrade, but at least it’s certain that the cameras are better and so is battery life.It’s true that the new iPhone 16 range has improved battery lifeThis does seem to be a year when the most marked changes to the iPhone range have been in the regular iPhones instead of the iPhone 16 Pro. But host Wesley Hilliard disagrees vehemently with the “boring” criticism and William Gallagher is finding enough changes to be happy that he spent all that money.Key to both of your hosts, in rather different ways, is how the new iPhones work with still and video photography. Again, the regular iPhones have seen some long-awaited updates in this area, but the iPhone 16 Pro Max is still the best. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple’s home city of Cupertino has been granted a win in a dispute with California over its tax dealings with the iPhone maker, but it’s only for the short term.Apple Park in Cupertino (Source: Apple)In 2023, California state argued that Cupertino was profiting unfairly from how Apple paid tax there. Specifically, any sale of any kind in California was attributed to Cupertino, entirely leaving out other counties and jurisdictions.As well as the clear benefit to Cupertino of getting the value of state-wide taxation, there was an advantage to Apple. Apple would pay 7.25% state sales tax, of which 1% would go to Cupertino — and then Cupertino would pass over a third of that income right back to Apple. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Chip Loder) The macOS Dock displays apps you add to it or that you run. Here’s how to make it display only apps that are currently running on your Mac.The DockThe macOS Dock app originated in macOS’s early OS precursor NeXTStep and OpenStep, which were created at Steve Jobs’ other company, NeXT Computer. In 1997 Apple bought NeXT and acquired the NeXT technology along with it.NeXTStep was modified by Apple and in 2000 Apple re-released it as Mac OS X – which merges most of the core of NeXTStep (which became Darwin in macOS) with features and filesystems from Apple’s older Mac OS 9. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple is reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for 2024 on October 31, Halloween. Here’s what happened in the quarter, and what to expect from the results.Apple CEO Tim CookApple has confirmed it will be holding its quarterly results on October 31. The release will be accompanied by the usual investor and analyst conference call, which will occur at 5 PM eastern time.The call usually helmed by CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri. As Maestri is stepping down from his role at the end of 2024, this will be his last conference call as CFO, with replacement Kevan Parekh taking over in 2025. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
