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Apple’s rumored ‘iPhone 17 Air’ may sport A19 Pro chip with 12GB of RAM
The iPhone 17 Air, a fresh addition to Apple’s lineup, stands out as this year’s most distinctive model. Initially thought to share many features with the base iPhone 17, new rumors suggest it’s much closer to the Pro models. The iPhone 17 Air may boast 12GB of RAM, matching the Pro models, while the standard iPhone 17 will likely remain at 8GB, giving the Air a Pro-level memory edge. The iPhone 17 Air may also sport Apple’s as-yet-unannounced A19 Pro Soc.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital has now corroborated the rumor: iPhone 17 Air will be getting Pro-level RAM.
In that same post, the leaker today says Apple’s upgrading the Air’s chip too.
Rather than the A19 chip previously expected, iPhone 17 Air could now get an A19 Pro chip with one less GPU core.
How much difference is there between an A19 and A19 Pro besides the GPU count? We don’t yet know. But it will be curious if Apple does indeed give its Air model a ‘Pro’-class chip.
MacDailyNews Take: “iPhone 17 Air” sounds more Pro than expected, but it’s the cameras and battery life that will set the iPhone 17 Pro models apart from the “Air.”
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Apple TV+ unveils teaser trailer for ‘The Morning Show’ season four
Apple TV+ on Wednesday debuted a teaser for season four of its award-winning drama, “The Morning Show,” starring and executive produced by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, alongside showrunner and executive producer Charlotte Stoudt, and director and executive producer Mimi Leder. The 10-episode fourth season will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 with the first episode, followed by one episode weekly until November 19, 2025.
Season four of “The Morning Show” opens in spring 2024, almost two years after the events of season three. With the UBA-NBN merger complete, the newsroom must grapple with newfound responsibility, hidden motives, and the elusive nature of truth in a polarized America. In a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories, and corporate cover-ups — who can you trust? And how can you know what’s actually real? Along with Witherspoon and Aniston, the star-studded season four ensemble cast includes Billy Crudup, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie, Nestor Carbonell, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Boyd Holbrook, and Jon Hamm.
The drama is showrun and executive produced by Stoudt, and directed and executive produced by Leder. The series is produced by the studio Media Res, and executive produced by Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer through Media Res, along with Stoudt and Leder. Aniston and Kristin Hahn executive produce through Echo Films, while Witherspoon executive produces alongside Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine. Zander Lehmann and Micah Schraft also executive produces.
Currently streaming globally on Apple TV+, the third season of “The Morning Show” received 16 Emmy Award nominations and earned a win for Crudup in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category for his performance as Cory Ellison. Crudup additionally won a Critics Choice Award for his portrayal of Ellison in the show’s third season. Season three was also honored by the American Film Institute (AFI) on its prestigious list of the 10 best television programs of 2023.
In season two, “The Morning Show” received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Witherspoon), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Crudup, who also won the award for season one), and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Marcia Gay Harden). In the series’ first season, Crudup earned an Emmy Award win in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, in addition to a Critics Choice Award. Aniston’s powerful performance as Alex Levy earned a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. Leder earned two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for helming the season one finale and the season three finale, which she also executive produced.
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 578 wins and 2,648 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”
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Steve Jobs never meant for Tim Cook to still be Apple’s CEO in 2025
Steve Jobs famously said of Tim Cook, “Tim is not a product person, per se.” That has turned out to be an understatement, especially with the fact that the Apple Watch, AirPods, and even the Vision Pro concept began under Jobs.
I’ve closely observed Apple for decades and I believe that Steve Jobs never meant for Tim Cook to be Apple’s CEO in 2025.
When Jobs handpicked Cook as his successor in 2011, many believed it was a strategic move to stabilize the company during a tumultuous transition following Jobs’ untimely death. However, I contend that Jobs intended Cook to serve as a short-term CEO, a 3-5 year placeholder to mollify investors, not to lead Apple for nearly a decade and a half, stagnating its innovative spirit, jettisoning innovative executives, while relying on financial engineering, mainly in the form of hundreds of billions of dollars in buybacks, to prop up the company’s success.
Jobs, a visionary known for his relentless pursuit of groundbreaking products, built Apple into a cultural and technological titan with the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. His genius lay in anticipating consumer needs before they did. Cook, hired from Compaq in 1998 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, was the operational mastermind behind Apple’s supply chain efficiency, going all-in on CCP-controlled China to maximize Apple’s profit margins.
Jobs clearly valued Cook’s logistical prowess, but I believe Jobs saw Cook as a caretaker, not a long-term visionary, expecting him to maintain stability for a few years until a product-focused, visionary successor emerged.
Under Cook, Apple’s market capitalization soared from $376 billion in 2011 to over $3.9 trillion in early 2025 making it the world’s most valuable company (it has since shed some $800 billion over the year, falling to third place behind Nvidia and rival Microsoft). Yet, much of this growth stems from financial engineering, service expansions like iCloud and Apple Music, and a steady stream of annual incremental product updates, rather than revolutionary Jobsian innovation.
The Apple Watch, AirPods, and Vision Pro were initiated under Jobs’ tenure, with their completion coming during Cook’s tenure. The Apple Car project, also conceived by Jobs, was abandoned after a long, chaotic, and costly period under Cook.
It’s clear that Cook lacks the disruptive, charismatic spark Steve Jobs infused throughout Apple. Basically, all of Apple’s successes under Cook are iterations of Steve Jobs’ products and services.
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Cook’s lack of hands-on product involvement has slowed innovation, with half-baked products like the Vision Pro being launched to consumers too early and, unsurprisingly, failing to sell. Apple clearly missed the generative AI (GenAI) paradigm shift under Cook and has been struggling to catch up ever since. Steve Jobs likely would not have released the Vision Pro and visionOS in the condition they were launched under Tim Cook. Jobs very likely would have not neglected Siri (which he purchased) for over a decade and a half and would almost certainly have foreseen GenAI early. Very likely, Jobs focus on Siri would have led him and Apple to GenAI first. Visionary Jobs’ main focus was about creating “insanely great” products; Cook’s seems to be about iteration and other, side pursuits.
If Jobs intended Cook as a relatively short-term placeholder, the question remains: who was meant to follow? Speculation points to figures like former software chief Scott Forstall — who Cook rather quickly forced out of the company, ostensibly over the botched Maps launch (which way okayed by Cook, by the way) – and head product designer Jony Ive, who left Apple after years of feeling unchallenged under Cook. Jobs highly valued both executives, even granting Ive more operational power than Cook at the time of his death. Today, Ive is collaborating with OpenAI on a potentially revolutionary AI product, not working for Apple. The departure of these executives, whether explicit or tacit, conveniently solidified Cook’s long-term hold on the CEO role.
While Cook’s canned-video tenure has been financially stellar overall, Apple has for many years coasted and thrived on Jobs’ lingering momentum, propped up by Cook’s beige operational savvy and financial engineering. After Cook’s tenure finally, blessedly ends, only time will reveal if Apple can rediscover its Jobsian revolutionary edge.
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Apple bids for Formula One broadcast rights in America on heels of Brad Pitt blockbuster
Apple is negotiating to secure US broadcasting rights for Formula One, aiming to build on the success of its popular movie tied to the racing series and expand its live sports offerings. The tech giant is competing with Disney’s ESPN, the current US broadcaster for Formula One, as the contract opens up next year, Financial Times reports citing “two people familiar with the discussions.”
Samuel Agini and Michael Acton for Financial Times:
The interest comes as F1 starring Brad Pitt becomes the company’s first big box office success since moving into the business of making original content for its Apple TV+ streaming service.
F1 has generated roughly $300mn at the box office making it Apple’s highest-grossing film, while representing a pivot into producing mainstream blockbusters after commercial disappointments with Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon.
Apple has previously made moves into the live sports streaming, striking a deal with Major League Baseball in 2022 to broadcast games on Friday nights, as well as a broader deal with North America’s Major League Soccer.
The race car series makes in the region of $85mn a year from its existing broadcast partner ESPN. F1 also streams live races on its own streaming service in the US, charging fans directly.
Analysts at Citi have previously estimated that F1’s next US broadcast deal could be worth $121mn a year, although that was before the release of the F1 film. Its total global media rights revenue grew almost 8 per cent to about $1.1bn in 2024.
F1 is yet to make a decision on its future broadcasting arrangements and ESPN may yet retain the rights, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
MacDailyNews Take: If Apple really wants broadcast rights to Formula 1 in America, Apple will have broadcast rights to Formula 1 in America.
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Apple names insider Sabih Khan as Chief Operating Officer; Jeff Williams to retire
Apple today announced Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations as part of a long-planned succession. Williams will continue reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook and overseeing Apple’s world class design team and Apple Watch alongside the company’s Health initiatives. Apple’s design team will then transition to reporting directly to Cook after Williams retires late in the year.
“Jeff and I have worked alongside each other for as long as I can remember, and Apple wouldn’t be what it is without him. He’s helped to create one of the most respected global supply chains in the world; launched Apple Watch and overseen its development; architected Apple’s health strategy; and led our world class team of designers with great wisdom, heart, and dedication,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “I am and will always be beyond grateful for his numerous contributions to Apple over the years and his loyal friendship. Jeff’s true legacy can be seen in the amazing team he’s created and, while he’ll be greatly missed, he leaves the work of the future in incredible hands.”
“Sabih is a brilliant strategist who has been one of the central architects of Apple’s supply chain,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “While overseeing Apple’s supply chain, he has helped pioneer new technologies in advanced manufacturing, overseen the expansion of Apple’s manufacturing footprint in the United States, and helped ensure that Apple can be nimble in response to global challenges. He has advanced our ambitious efforts in environmental sustainability, helping reduce Apple’s carbon footprint by more than 60 percent. Above all, Sabih leads with his heart and his values, and I know he will make an exceptional chief operating officer.”
Khan has been at Apple for 30 years and joined the executive team as senior vice president of Operations in 2019. He has been in charge of Apple’s global supply chain for the past six years, ensuring product quality and overseeing planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and product fulfillment functions, as well as Apple’s supplier responsibility programs that protect and educate workers at production facilities around the world. The team also supports Apple’s environmental initiatives by partnering with suppliers to propel green manufacturing, helping conserve resources and protect the planet.
During his career with Apple, Williams built out a supply chain that has supported Apple’s growth and customers around the world with expansion, including China, India, Japan, across Southeast Asia, and the United States. He led Apple’s supplier responsibility efforts which has helped raise the bar for workers around the world, offering critical training and important education programs. Williams played a key role in the introduction of iPod and iPhone programs. He led the effort on Apple Watch over a decade ago and architected the company’s health strategy, helping customers live healthier lives, learn more about their health, and receive lifesaving care. For the past several years, Williams has also overseen Apple’s industry-leading design team.
“I have a deep love for Apple. Working with all of the amazing people at this company has been a privilege of a lifetime, and I can’t thank Tim enough for the opportunity, his inspirational leadership, and our friendship over the years,” said Williams in a statement. “June marked my 27th anniversary with Apple, and my 40th in the industry. Beginning next year, I plan to spend more time with friends and family, including five grandchildren and counting. I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Sabih for 27 years and I think he’s the most talented operations executive on the planet. I have tremendous confidence in Apple’s future under his leadership in this role.”
Before joining Apple’s procurement group in 1995, Khan worked as an applications development engineer and key account technical leader at GE Plastics. He earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and mechanical engineering from Tufts University and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
MacDailyNews Take: Congratulations to both Williams and Khan!
MacDailyNews Note: Retiring this year, Jeff Williams was born in 1963. Tim Cook was born in 1960. On November 1st, Cook will turn 65. (Hint, hint.)
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Apple Watch Series 10 hits a record-low price
As of July 8, 2025, you can snag the Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS, 42mm) for $279.99, down from $399 — a 30% discount, saving you $119.01. Prime Day has kicked off, and this is an Apple highlight among the first wave of deals on Amazon.
It’s a great day for tech lovers to grab those must-have gadgets you’ve been eyeing but couldn’t quite justify. The Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS, 42mm) is one of our top picks this Prime Day. At $279.99, it’s a steal, hitting a record-low price on Amazon with that 30% off.
The Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS, 42mm) works with iPhone Xs or later, including the iPhone SE (2nd generation or later), running iOS 18 or higher. It offers all-day battery life, depending on how you use it, and is swimproof up to 50 meters. Packed with health and fitness features, it tracks heart rate, sleep, and a wide range of activities. You can even take an ECG anytime or measure workout intensity. It’s like having a personal trainer on your wrist. Plus, you get all the connectivity you’d expect from an Apple device, like call and text notifications, and access to music, podcasts, and Siri.
MacDailyNews Take: This is a limited time deal. Don’t miss out on the Apple Watch Series 10 at its lowest price ever — $279.99, a massive 30% off.
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Apple TV+ announces seventh season for acclaimed series ‘Slow Horses,’ starring Gary Oldman
Apple TV+ on Tuesday announced a new, six-episode seventh season for the widely hailed, darkly comedic spy drama “Slow Horses.” The Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning series stars Academy Award winner Sir Gary Oldman, who has been honored with Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA Award nominations for his outstanding performance as the beloved, irascible Jackson Lamb. The complete first four seasons of “Slow Horses” are now streaming on Apple TV+, with the premiere of season five slated for September 24, 2025. Season six was announced last year.
Academy Award winner Gary Oldman returns for the fifth season of “Slow Horses” on September 24th.
“‘Slow Horses’ has won fans all over the world with its unique mix of self-deprecating British humor and high-octane action. I’m delighted viewers will have another season to enjoy Gary’s magnificent performance as Jackson Lamb alongside the Slow Horses’ slightly inept spycraft,” said Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, Apple TV+, in a statement.
“Slow Horses” has been celebrated as “undoubtedly the best spy series on television,” a “truly epic espionage thriller” that is “utterly brilliant” and just “so damn good.” All four seasons of “Slow Horses” hold a Certified Fresh score, with two seasons receiving a rare, perfect 100% critics’ score and season four hailed as the number one series of 2024 on Rotten Tomatoes.
The globally acclaimed third season earned nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with a win for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, as the series continues to receive global accolades from critics and fans alike.
In season seven, Lamb and his Slow Horses are on the hunt to find and neutralize a mole at the heart of British Government before they can bring down the state.
“Slow Horses” is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but cantankerous leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
The series is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films, with Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Dan Hassid, Mick Herron, Gail Mutrux, Douglas Urbanski and Oldman serving as executive producers. Season seven is adapted for television and executive produced by Ben Vanstone, with Robert McKillop set to direct. See-Saw Films is part of the Mediawan group.
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 578 wins and 2,648 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”
MacDailyNews Take: Slow Horses is so good. If you haven’t seen it, yet, we highly recommend it!
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Apple TV+ unveils trailer for fourth and final season of ‘Acapulco’
Apple TV+ on Tuesday debuted the trailer for the final chapter of its beloved, hit comedy, “Acapulco.” The 10-episode fourth and final season will make its global debut with two episodes on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, followed by one new episode every Wednesday through September 17.
In season four, present-day Máximo (Eugenio Derbez) works tirelessly to restore Las Colinas to its former glory before the grand reopening. In 1986, when a competitor claims the number one spot in the annual ranking of Acapulco’s “Best Hotels,” young Máximo (Enrique Arrizon) will do whatever it takes to get back on top and secure Las Colinas’ future.
The ensemble cast of “Acapulco” also includes Fernando Carsa, Rafael Cebrián, Vanessa Bauche, Camila Perez, Carlos Corona, Chord Overstreet, Regina Reynoso, Jessica Collin,s and Regina Orozco. In addition to returning favorites Damián Alcázar, Jaime Camil, Cristo Fernández, and Carolina Moreno, Keyla Monterroso Mejia and Omar Chaparro join the new season as recurring guest stars, and Jack McBrayer makes a special appearance.
Hailing from Lionsgate Television, “Acapulco” is inspired by 3Pas Studios and Pantelion Films’ box office hit “How to Be A Latin Lover,” and is produced for Apple by Lionsgate Television, 3Pas Studios, Zihuatanejo Productions and The Tannenbaum Company. In addition to starring in the series, Derbez serves as executive producer alongside Ben Odell. The series is created by Austin Winsberg, Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman. Winsberg also executive produces with Sam Laybourne, who serves as showrunner. Additional executive producers include Kim and Eric Tannenbaum, as well as Jason Wang on behalf of The Tannenbaum Company. Jaime Eliezer Karas also executive produces and directs, and Sonia Gambaro co-executive produces for 3Pas Studios.
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 578 wins and 2,648 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Acapulco” is an Apple TV+ series that we watch, like, and recommend. Sad to see it wind up, but it’s nice that it will have a bona fide ending. We look forward to its final season. The series will live on in “reruns” in Apple TV+’s ever-growing library of hit series.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.
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Apple Arcade launches four new games in August
This week, Apple Arcade is adding four exclusive games to its diverse catalog of more than 200 fun games for players to enjoy, all free from ads and in-app purchases. Players can dive into Play-Doh World, where they’ll craft unique Play-Doh characters that come to life; Worms Across Worlds, an exciting addition to the long-running, cult-favorite Worms franchise; Let’s Go Mightycat!, a whimsical 3D puzzler; and Everybody Shogi, a vibrant strategy game based on the traditional Japanese board game.
Play-Doh World by Scary Beasties
Play-Doh brings its magic to the digital space with Play-Doh World, allowing players to craft their own characters and watch them spring to life. From inventing wild zoo animals to styling outrageous salon hairdos, every corner of this colorful universe responds to the player’s creative whim. With dozens of interactive zones, collectible special Play-Doh, and regular content updates, Play-Doh World offers creative activities and open-ended, imagination-led play — all in a safe, ad-free environment.
Worms Across Worlds by StoryToys and Behaviour Interactive
Worms Across Worlds is the next evolution of the award-winning series. When Professor Worminkle’s experiments threaten reality, the beloved invertebrate warriors find themselves hurtling through five wildly different dimensions. Players will chase the mad scientist across worlds in this strategic turn-based action game. Whether battling solo or organizing epic four-team multiplayer mayhem, every challenge and dimension brings players closer to stopping the professor’s path of destruction.
Let’s Go Mightycat! by PONOS Corporation
An everyday feline becomes an unlikely galactic hero when an all-powerful being transforms it into the universe’s most adorable conqueror. In this spinoff of hit tower defense game The Battle Cats, players can customize their heroic cat with stylish capes, rescue interstellar friends, and launch Mightycat through colorful planetary stages. With a variety of challenging puzzle stages, every tap brings players closer to the ultimate goal: bringing every planet in the cosmos under the Cat Empire’s adorable yet mighty paw.
Everybody Shogi by AltPlus Inc.
Everybody Shogi is a beautifully reimagined take on the traditional Japanese strategy board game. Blending colorful visuals, intuitive controls, and engaging puzzle-style stages, the game introduces shogi in a casual yet strategic way. Players can enjoy daily challenges, unlock unique piece designs, and build custom decks. With real-time matches against players worldwide and seamless crossplay across devices, Everybody Shogi invites everyone to explore the depth of shogi through fast-paced gameplay in a bright and friendly world.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple Arcade is available for $6.99 per month with a one-month free trial. Customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV receive three months of Apple Arcade for free. Apple Arcade is part of Apple One’s Individual ($19.95), Family ($25.95), and Premier ($37.95) monthly plans, with a one-month free trial. Arcade Originals are playable across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. App Store Greats are available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. An Apple Arcade subscription gives a family of up to six unlimited access to all the games in its catalog.
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Apple, Masimo fight over Apple Watch import ban in U.S. appeals court
On Monday, Apple urged a U.S. appeals court to reverse a trade tribunal’s ruling that required the removal of blood-oxygen monitoring technology from its Apple Watches to prevent a ban on U.S. smartwatch imports.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard arguments from the tech giant, medical monitoring technology company Masimo, and the U.S. International Trade Commission over the ITC’s 2023 ruling that Apple Watches violated Masimo’s patent rights in pulse oximetry technology.
Apple attorney Joseph Mueller of WilmerHale told the court on Monday that the decision had wrongly “deprived millions of Apple Watch users” of Apple’s blood-oxygen feature. A lawyer for Masimo, Joseph Re of Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, countered that Apple was trying to “rewrite the law” with its arguments.
The judges questioned whether Masimo’s development of a competing smartwatch justified the ITC’s ruling. Apple has told the appeals court that the ban was improper because a Masimo wearable device covered by the patents was “purely hypothetical” when Masimo filed its ITC complaint in 2021.
Irvine, California-based Masimo has accused Apple of hiring its employees and stealing its pulse oximetry technology after discussing a potential collaboration.
MacDailyNews Take: The saga continues.
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President Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro blasts Apple CEO Tim Cook over China production
In a sharp critique, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro accused Apple CEO Tim Cook of dragging his feet on shifting production out for CCP-controlled China, labeling the prolonged delay “the longest running soap opera in Silicon Valley.” This comes as President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on Apple to bolster domestic manufacturing, spotlighting the company’s slow progress in relocating its production lines.
“Going back to the first Trump term, Tim Cook has continually asked for more time in order to move his factories out of China,” Navarro said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “I mean it’s the longest-running soap opera in Silicon Valley.”
President Donald Trump has in recent months ramped up demands for Apple to move production of its iconic iPhone to the U.S. from overseas. Apple’s flagship phone is produced primarily in China, but the company has increasingly boosted production in India, partly to avoid the higher cost of Trump’s tariffs.
Trump in May warned Apple would have to pay a tariff of 25% or more for iPhones made outside the U.S. In separate remarks, Trump said he told Cook, “I don’t want you building in India.”
Navarro said Cook isn’t shifting production out of China quickly enough.
“With all these new advanced manufacturing techniques and the way things are moving with AI and things like that, it’s inconceivable to me that Tim Cook could not produce his iPhones elsewhere around the world and in this country,” Navarro said.
MacDailyNews Take: China has been an issue, for Apple and everyone else, for many years. Decades, even. But, when you’re a one-trick pony like Tim Cook and China is/was your one-trick, the going is bound to be slower than frozen molasses.
The time to accelerate plans to move production out of China was November 9th 2016, but, hey, six years late is better than never! – MacDailyNews, December 4, 2022
See also:
• How Tim Cook’s Apple may have undermined America’s lead in technological innovation and even its national security – June 17, 2025
• Apple’s China detox is long overdue – May 13, 2025
• Inside Apple’s belated attempt to free itself from China – April 5, 2023
• Tim Cook and Apple bet everything on China. Oops. – March 2, 2020
In order to responsibly mitigate risk, Apple needs to break its China addiction. – MacDailyNews, March 2, 2020
Imagine if Apple had over the past several years invested some of the $400 billion they’ve spent on buybacks on diversifying production, you know, in case of trade issues, natural disasters, health emergencies, foreign government actions, etcetera. — MacDailyNews, February 27, 2020
In 2016, Apple’s “Operations Genius,” Tim Cook, secretly signed a secret agreement with the human rights-abusing Chinese Communist Party estimated to be worth more than $275 billion. Cook promised that Apple would do its part to develop China’s economy and technological prowess via infrastructure investments, business deals, and worker training in exchange for the CCP quashing its surge of what promised to be crippling regulatory actions against Apple, The Information reported last December.
Many years before that, some two decades ago, it was Cook who spearheaded Apple’s move to make products “Designed in California,” but “Assembled in China.”
Since Cook, 62, made his $275 billion secret deal with the CCP five years ago, and as he now nears retirement age, Apple has made precious little headway in diversifying its production away from capricious, authoritarian China.
Why?
If the $275 billion wasn’t to buy Apple half a decade to free itself by diversifying its production away from China, mitigating risk, what was it for?
Longtime Apple analyst Gene Munster on Tuesday estimated that it would take as long as a decade for Apple to reduce its current near-total reliance on China to meaningful levels…
Tim Cook painted Apple into this corner. It worked marvelously well, until it didn’t.
A publicly traded company CEO’s job is to act in the best interest of its shareholders.
But, Apple’s operations don’t scream “genius” today. They scream “RISK!” But, you know, the market just loooves risk…
Apple shareholders and, in turn, Apple’s rubber-stamping Board of Lackeys, should hold one person responsible if this spiraling China dilemma continues deteriorate: Timothy D. Cook.
So, what’s Cook’s plan for getting the company out of this boxed-in predicament into which he placed it? Certainly Apple shareholders have a right to know. Hopefully, Cook has a better plan than simply cashing out and dumping this nightmarish quandary into the lap of Apple’s next CEO.
It’s smart for both Apple and Foxconn to diversify assembly outside of China. There’s no sense having all of your eggs in one basket. — MacDailyNews, April 2, 2019
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Apple loses top AI models exec to Meta’s multi-million-dollar hiring spree
Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and head of Apple’s foundation AI models team, is departing the company to join Meta Platforms, lured by a compensation package reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars annually, according to sources familiar with the matter. Pang’s exit may signal further turnover within Apple’s AI-focused AFM group, as several engineers have indicated to colleagues their intentions to leave for Meta or other opportunities in the near future, the sources added.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
To secure Pang, Meta offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars per year, the people said. Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has been on a hiring spree, bringing on major AI leaders including Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang, startup founder Daniel Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman with high compensation.
Meta on Monday also hired Yuanzhi Li, a researcher from OpenAI, and Anton Bakhtin, who worked on Claude at Anthropic PBC, according to other people with knowledge of the matter. Last month, it hired a slew of other OpenAI researchers.
At Meta, Zuckerberg has made AI the company’s top priority as it races to keep pace with rivals like OpenAI and Google. Zuckerberg has been heavily involved in recruiting for the company’s AI division, hosting potential hires at his homes in Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe, and often reaching out personally to potential recruits.
At Apple, Pang had been running a roughly 100-person team responsible for the company’s large language models, which underpin Apple Intelligence and other AI features on the company’s devices…
Pang’s departure could be the start of a string of exits from the AFM group, with several engineers telling colleagues they are planning to leave in the near future to Meta or elsewhere, the people said. Tom Gunter, a top deputy to Pang, left Apple last month, Bloomberg reported at the time.
MacDailyNews Take: Unfortunately, with Apple’s current “leadership” chasing their tails, now looking outside for AI saviors after missing the biggest paradigm shift since the internet by blindly focusing on a failed EV project and non-selling $3500 AR/VR goggles that should’ve been released as a DevKit, that was a no-brainer job change if there ever was one.
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Major Apple assembler Foxconn smashes Q2 revenue record
Foxconn Technology reported a record second-quarter revenue of NT$1.797 trillion, reflecting a 16% year-on-year increase and a 9% quarter-on-quarter rise. Hon Hai Precision attributed the growth to robust demand for AI products, boosting its Cloud and Networking Products segment, alongside strong performance in Components and Other Products.
Expressed in U.S. dollars, revenue climbed roughly 18.6% from a year earlier and rose about 14.1% sequentially. The figures surpassed company expectations for annual comparisons and matched forecasts on a quarterly basis.
Looking ahead to the third quarter, the Apple supplier expects both quarter‑on‑quarter and year‑on‑year growth as information‑and‑communication‑technology products enter peak season. It noted, however, that geopolitical tensions and exchange‑rate fluctuations will require close monitoring.
In June alone, Foxconn’s revenue reached NT$540.24 billion, the highest on record for the month, despite a 12% drop from May. The company’s six‑month cumulative revenue of NT$3.44 trillion marked a new first‑half high.
MacDailyNews Take: Strong start to a year that now moves into the next-gen iPhone 17 ramp up and production while still riding the AI wave.
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Apple acquires two firms to improve Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro
Apple has quietly acquired two additional companies, gaining technology and talent likely contributing to Apple Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence. While Apple regularly acquires firms, typically making several purchases annually, its recent focus has been on AI companies. As first reported by MacGeneration, these latest acquisitions further bolster Apple’s AI capabilities.
William Gallagher for AppleInsider:
One of them is TrueMeeting, which lets users scan their faces with their iPhones and produce an AI avatar image. The company’s official site has been removed, but TrueMeeting claimed to make a “hyper-realistic digital twin” of the user.
TrueMeeting is most likely to have been officially acquired during late 2024 — and by June 2025, visionOS 26 was showing a much more natural Persona in the Apple Vision Pro headset. Apple’s Personas feature was already being improved, so it can’t be proved that TrueMeeting has had an influence yet, but it appears so.
Around the same time, Apple also bought WhyLabs, which is concerned with monitoring AI large language models and, ultimately, preventing hallucinations.
Beyond that, it aims to offer blocking of security issues such as malicious misuse of generative AI such as Apple Intelligence. In a promo video, it gives the example of a customer service chatbot disclosing a user’s delivery address, for instance, and how with WhyLabs that data would be redacted.
MacDailyNews Take: As per allowing users to scan their faces with their iPhones to produce an AI avatars:
Why can’t #Apple use the iPhone's front camera + Machine Learning to just automatically make the best #Memoji possible? Seems like an obvious feature we should have by now. pic.twitter.com/x8EpoaRhlc
— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) October 8, 2021
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‘F1’ surpasses ‘Napoleon’ as Apple’s highest-grossing film with $293 million and counting
“F1” has earned $293 million globally at the box office in just 10 days, surpassing the total theatrical earnings of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” ($158 million) and Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” ($221 million), making it Apple’s top-grossing film to date.
That’s not a particularly difficult benchmark to break, since Apple has only released five films theatrically and two of them, “Fly Me to the Moon” ($42 million) and “Argylle” ($96 million), were outright flops.
Yet the ticket sales for “F1” are at least a step in the right direction for the fledgling studio’s theatrical ambitions. After Apple siphoned off a string of commercial misfires (with budgets at or above $200 million, neither “Killers of the Flower Moon” nor “Napoleon” were in danger of turning a theatrical profit), “F1” was considered an inflection point for the tech giant. There was a growing internal sense that if a crowd-pleaser like “F1” didn’t work on the big screen, Apple would be better off abandoning the movie business in favor of television. After all, the company has fielded plenty of small screen successes on Apple TV+ including “Severance” and “Ted Lasso.”
Positive word-of-mouth should contribute to the movie’s staying power, even as “F1” endures strong headwinds from “Jurassic World Rebirth” and upcoming blockbuster hopefuls like “Superman” and “Fantastic Four: The First Steps.” Outside of the United States and Canada, where “F1” has revved to $109.5 million, top-earning territories include China ($22 million), the United Kingdom ($17.3 million), Mexico ($12.3 million), France ($11.5 million) and Australia ($9.8 million).
MacDailyNews Take: Apple Studios finally has a box office hit!
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Apple supplier Lens Technology said to price $607 million Hong Kong listing
Apple supplier Lens Technology Co. has raised HK$4.8 billion (US$607 million) after pricing its Hong Kong listing at the top of the marketed range, Bloomberg News reports citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Julia Fioretti and Dave Sebastian for Bloomberg News:
The Shenzhen-listed company has sold 262.3 million shares at HK$18.18 each, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Lens Technology had offered the shares at HK$17.38 to HK$18.18 apiece.
The HK$18.18 price reflects a discount of 30% to Lens Technology’s closing price of 23.74 yuan on Friday.
The company, which makes mobile-phone-glass covers and other components for consumer electronics, joins the growing wave of China-listed companies seeking to go public in Hong Kong. Lens Technology expects the shares to start trading in the city on Wednesday.
MacDailyNews Note: Lens Technology Co. supplies glass components to Apple Inc., including cover glass for iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches, as well as glass for touch panels and other related components. The company is a key supplier for Apple’s display and touch-screen technology, notably providing ultra-thin glass (UTG) for foldable iPhone prototypes expected in 2026. Additionally, Lens Technology has been involved in producing glass screens for Apple’s devices since the early iPhone models, starting in 2007.
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New iPhone 17 Pro renders spotlight aluminum design, repositioned Apple logo
A leaked image from Apple insider Majin Bu showcases the repositioned Apple logo on the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro. The image clarifies a key design detail: the logo, while still centered, aligns with the glass panel rather than the phone’s overall center, appearing less unconventional than initially speculated.
Do you like the new Apple logo position on iPhone 17 Pro? pic.twitter.com/9ucRrNcjWO
— Majin Bu (@MajinBuOfficial) July 6, 2025
Michael Burkhardt for 9to5Mac:
One of the less talked about design elements of the new iPhone 17 Pro design is the fact that Apple will be shifting to a two-tone design of sorts, with an all aluminum frame and camera bump. However, for wireless charging, MagSafe, and wireless passthrough – there’ll still be a piece of glass.
It’s certainly still an odd design choice, and it’ll take time to get used to. However, reputable leaker Sonny Dickson backed up the claim shortly after Majin Bu shared it initially – so it seems quite likely that it’ll pan out.
MacDailyNews Take: What do you think?
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3 reasons to load up on Apple stock
Apple’s stable earnings, prolific cash flow, and brand dominance make it compelling — the company has returned nearly $1 trillion to shareholders since 2012, its high-margin services business keeps growing, and Apple’s valuation is compelling. The Motley Fool’s Josh Cable writes that these are three reasons to buy Apple stock like there’s no tomorrow.
Josh Cable for The Motley Fool:
While Apple stock may have temporarily lost some of its shine, Apple the company is still printing money — and sitting on a mountain of cash. That’s the first reason to buy Apple like there’s no tomorrow.
In its fiscal 2025 second quarter, which ended March 29, Apple reported $95.4 billion in revenue, up 5% from the year-ago period. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) increased 8% to $1.65, a record high for Apple’s January through March quarter…
And rewarding shareholders is where Apple really shines. Since fiscal 2012, Apple has returned nearly $1 trillion to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends — likely more than any company in history. In Q2 2025, Apple’s board rubber-stamped another $100 billion in stock buybacks.
The second reason to pile into Apple stock is its services business, which includes Apple Pay, Apple TV+, iCloud, and Apple Fitness+. In Q2, revenue from services jumped 12% to $26.6 billion, a record high for the company. While that was less than half the revenue from iPhone sales, services is Apple’s most profitable segment, with a gross margin of nearly 76% in the second quarter — double the gross margin for hardware.
The third reason to buy Apple stock is its valuation, which stacks up favorably against other members of the Magnificent Seven. On a forward basis, Apple is trading at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 29.7, which is lower than that of Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, and Amazon…
MacDailyNews Take: Currently, the average price target on Apple stock is $228.60, which we consider low, yet its still a nice jump from the current price.
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Chinese sales of foreign phone makers, including Apple, drop 9.7% in May
Sales of foreign-branded mobile phones in China, including Apple, dropped 9.7% year-on-year in May, according to data from a government-affiliated research firm released on Friday.
Reuters:
Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that May shipments of foreign-branded phones in China fell to 4.54 million handsets from the same month last year.
As the largest foreign mobile phone maker in China’s smartphone-dominated market, Apple’s performance plays a significant role in the overall data on foreign-branded phone sales in the country… The CAICT data did not give specific figures for Apple.
Shipments of phones within China were down 21.8% year-on-year to 23.72 million handsets for the month, the data showed.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s iPhone sales in China increased by 8% in Q2, marking the first growth since Q2 2023, which includes the month of May, per Counterpoint Research. More info here.
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Apple appeals ‘unprecedented’ $580 million EU fine
Apple appealed to Europe’s second-highest court on Monday, challenging a 500 million euro ($587 million) fine imposed by EU regulators earlier this year for violating Digital Market Act regulations. The European Commission in a decision in April said Apple’s technical and commercial restrictions that prevent app developers from steering users to cheaper deals outside the App Store breached the Digital Markets Act.
Reuters:
Apple, which had previously said it would seek legal redress, filed its lawsuit on Monday, the deadline for doing so.
“Today we filed our appeal because we believe the European Commission’s decision – and their unprecedented fine – go far beyond what the law requires,” the company said in a statement.
“As our appeal will show, the EC is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users. We implemented this to avoid punitive daily fines and will share the facts with the court.”
Last month, Apple overhauled its App Store rules to comply with the EU order to scrap its technical and commercial curbs on app developers in order to avoid daily fines of 5% of its average daily worldwide revenue or about 50 million euros per day.
MacDailyNews Take: The day the EU is entitled to 5% of Apple’s average daily worldwide revenue – ludicrous – is the day Europeans can further handicap themselves with inferior Android dreck forevermore.
The U.S. has leverage and recourse. We expect both to be used.
Trump administration has been warning the EU against excessive regulation of American technology firms. On February 21st, President Trump issued a directive, “Defending American Companies and Innovators From Overseas Extortion and Unfair Fines and Penalties,” threatening to impose tariffs on Europe to combat what he called “overseas extortion” of American tech companies through digital services taxes, fines, practices, and policies.
See also: President Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook called to complain about EU’s $17 billion in fines – October 17, 2024
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