Apparently detoothing a U.S. Commerce Department ban, President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American companies can do business with China’s Huawei.

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Each week we see many new products launch and it can be hard to keep track. Here in ICYMI we round up the best new hardware products that launched during the past week, some of which we’ve covered, and others we haven’t. Here are this week’s favorites.

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The news that Jony Ive is leaving his Chief Design Officer position at Apple has fueled predictable handwringing. But while Ive’s three decades of work at Apple put him at the top of a short list of “the world’s most famous product designers,” the company isn’t facing a “crisis of design,” but rather an opportunity.

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Apple may never have been under as much pressure as it was in the months between unveiling the iPhone and shipping it to customers on June 29, 2007, exactly twelve years ago today.

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Japan Display Inc. on Friday said a consortium led by China’s Harvest Group is on board to invest up to 80 billion yen ($743 million) on a bailout of the embattled smartphone screen manufacturer, $100 million of which will reportedly come from Apple.

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An iOS developer on Friday lodged a class action complaint against Apple over alleged antitrust violations, claiming the company abuses its monopoly power of the iOS market to set price minimums, charge app makers a $99 annual developer fee and levy an effective 30% tax on sales.

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Apple is reportedly working to refine the structure of Apple News+ after a slower than expected launch, with some publishing executives complaining that the bundled subscription service is generating less revenue than promised.

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The Trump administration are looking into the possibility of banning encryption techniques that cannot be broken by law enforcement, a proposal that would weaken encryption as a whole for users and businesses, and could make messaging clients like Apple’s iMessage stop using end-to-end encryption.

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New weekend markdowns have gone live at Amazon and Best Buy, with savings of up to $250 off Apple’s latest iPad Pros. These fresh price cuts deliver some of the lowest prices ever on the current Apple products ahead of Prime Day 2019.

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Jony Ive led the team that built the iPhone, but he also personally designed and built some of Apple’s greatest products — and it’s through those that we can see the man behind the designer.

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