By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) A Japanese chipmaker you’ve probably never heard of wants to power Apple’s future artificial intelligence server farms.Manufacturing for AppleRapidus, Japan’s ambitious semiconductor startup, is moving quickly toward becoming a key supplier for advanced AI chips. The company has reportedly initiated talks with Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft.The supplier is aiming to secure agreements for mass-producing cutting-edge 2-nanometer chips by 2027. Although it trails behind TSMC, Rapidus CEO Atsuyoshi Koike believes the company can close that gap with more advanced manufacturing techniques. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) President Trump has pushed back TikTok’s ban date again, saying that his administration has made “tremendous progress” on a deal to “save TikTok.”Image Credit: lechenie-narkomanii on PixabayWhen Trump took office on January 20, he gave TikTok two and a half months to sell to an American company or face a nationwide ban. The ban was initially set to go into effect on April 5, but once again, Trump has pushed it back with an executive order, setting the new deadline to June 18.”My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” President Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. “The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Marko Zivkovic) Apple’s iconic iPhone may soon cost you about double what it costs now, as analysts predict a 43% price increase in response to U.S. tariffs on imports from China and elsewhere in the world.The iPhone 16 Pro Max could reach a price point of around $2300.On April 2, or “Liberation Day” as President Trump called it, a new assortment of “reciprocal” tariffs was applied against every foreign country in the Apple supply chain. While there’s a minimum 10% tariff on all goods coming into the United States, imports from China were hit with a 54% tariff.Unsurprisingly, Apple’s stock price suffered, as it took a dive of more than 9% in the period immediately following the announcement of Trump’s tariffs. The iPhone maker was previously able to negotiate a tariff exemption during President Trump’s first term in office, but it looks like that won’t happen this time around. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele) Investment bank Morgan Stanley has told investors that while Apple may have brought forward some iPhone 16 production ahead of Trump’s new tariffs, there is little more it can do to mitigate a $33 billion cost increase it is about to incur.Apple reportedly stepped up importing iPhones ahead of the tariff announcementPresident Trump did not expect China to retaliate against his tariffs, and Morgan Stanley says its analysts didn’t even contemplate tariffs being this high. But reportedly, Apple did at least expect that it would fail to get exemptions this time around.According to a Morgan Stanley note to investors seen by AppleInsider, the company’s analysts claim to know that “Apple has pulled forward some iPhone builds.” There are no further details, but depending on the quantity of iPhones already completed and imported into the US, Apple could hold off price increases for a time. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) One of Apple’s most controversial stores never opened, but a virtual tour that can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro brings the dream back to life.Apple’s Federation Square building render. Credit: Filip ChudzinskiApple’s plan to build a flagship store in Melbourne’s Federation Square sparked immediate backlash — and was ultimately canceled. Now, a virtual recreation offers a glimpse of what could have been.In 2017, Apple announced its intention to open a global flagship in the heart of Melbourne, marking its first in the Southern Hemisphere. Designed in partnership with Foster + Partners, the multilevel glass pavilion would have anchored the southeast corner of Federation Square. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele) President Trump’s announcement of tariffs and retaliatory measures by China has seen Apple’s shares drop to their lowest point since June 2024, as investors predict rising iPhone prices and falling sales.Tim Cook at the White House — image credit: AppleThe sweeping tariffs introduced by Trump will affect every single one of the every single one”>very many countries Apple relies on for its manufacturing. Consequently, as with all technology firms, the company’s share price took an immediate battering — but now it’s getting worse.In response to the purportedly reciprocal Trump tariffs, China has announced its own retaliatory ones. Trump is levying a 54% import tax on China, now Chinese firms importing goods from the US will face a 34% tariff. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Windows users who have an Apple Music subscription can now enjoy immersive, three-dimensional audio thanks to newly added support for Dolby Atmos on the Apple Music app.Dolby Atmos support rolls out for Apple Music on WindowsApple Music first came to Windows 11 in January 2023, and then showed up on the nearly ubiquitous Windows 10 just over a year later.However, it didn’t include support for Dolby Atmos — even though Apple users had it since June 2021. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) Now that iOS 18.4 is out, we’re looking to the future with iOS 18.5, a rumored AI update to Apple Health, and the first rumors about the M6 processor, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.The original iPad with the original Apple logo —- image credit: AppleThe iPad is now 15 years old — and Apple is 49. It’s hard to say which seems more unbelievable, but what’s much easier to say is that today’s iPad and today’s Apple may be very different from their origins, yet they are still so clearly the same product from the same company.But if we must stop to acknowledge these anniversaries, and also acknowledge just how important the iPad and Apple itself have become to us all, there is still much more to come. We’ve just had the public release of iOS 18.4, but already the beta test versions of iOS 18.5 are out, and of course we are mere moments away from WWDC and the announcement of iOS 19. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) CarPlay in the newly updated iOS 18.4 is causing problems for an unknown number of users, who report it disconnecting and reconnecting.Apple’s CarPlayAppleInsider readers have long reported that CarPlay has various disconnection problems before, but this new update appears to have brought a series of issues. The main problem appears to be specifically that wireless CarPlay will disconnect and reconnect, but some users are no longer seeing the “Now Playing” information on their car screen.Really unhappy with iOS 18.4.. #Carplay is driving me crazy. Think I will upgrade to the betas. So annoying that were on .4 and the quality is still bunk :/ #apple #ios184 #ios185— ceadd (@ceaddl) April 2, 2025 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Five years after it gave up on its iBooks Author app, Apple is now removing the ability for Pages to send books straight to the Apple Books store.Pages for Mac still has the menu option for publishing to Apple Books, but now it just means export to ePubInitially, Apple made a big deal of its original iBooks Author app in 2012, and how it let users create richly formatted books they could then immediately sell on its then iBooks Store. Only, iBooks Author had bugs, and Apple retired it in June 2020, when it also subsumed the app’s publishing features into Pages.As ever with the Book Store or publishing apps, there then followed silence from Apple, until Thursday. Apple emailed publishers with the news that Pages would no longer support publishing to the Apple Book Store. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
