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Apple urges the Supreme Court to throw the case out, arguing that it's not selling anything but only operating a marketplace.
NBC News
We didn't see this coming!
Mashable
Apple has cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhone models launched in September, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.
Reuters
Dialog Semiconductor said on Wednesday it was not seeing a hit to demand from its main customer, Apple, after some suppliers issued profit warnings due to weakness in iPhone sales.
Reuters
An earlier 5G-only modem, the XMM 8060, "is becoming a development platform" rather than a commercial product, said an Intel spokeswoman. Thus Intel "will miss the 2019 5G launches, but it is targeting large-scale rollouts from customers such as Apple and [partner] Spreadtrum," said Malik Saadi, vice president of strategic technologies for market watcher ABI Research.
EE Times
Shares in iPhone parts supplier Lumentum plunged after the maker of optical devices on Monday cut its fiscal second-quarter revenue guidance by roughly 17% and its profit outlook by 25%. The slashed guidance sent down shares in presumed customer Apple.
Investor's Business Daily
Apple has signaled disappointing demand for the new iPhone XR, telling its top smartphone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron to halt plans for additional production lines dedicated to the relatively cost-effective model that hit shelves in late October, sources say.
Nikkei Asian Review
A report from Fast Company says that Apple will go ahead with using Intel modems for the first 5G iPhone, set to launch in 2020.
Digital Trends
The iPhone XR might have been dubbed the best value iPhone in years, but shoppers weren't giving it the usual show of love.
CNET
Italian investigation found software updates 'significantly reduced performance', hastening new purchases
The Guardian
Shares in AMS fell as much as 31.5 percent Tuesday, the steepest intraday decline since January 11, 2008.
Bloomberg
Apple is beginning to talk with programmers about what it's willing to pay to carry shows and movies, sources told The Information. As expected, original Apple shows should be free, but people will be able to pay for subscriptions to third-party networks. Content should vary from country to country, reflecting the complicated licensing landscape - HBO for example licenses it shows to services like Sky in the U.K.
Apple Insider
It's the latest and strongest of denials from Apple in response to the October story in Bloomberg Businessweek.
CNBC
Apple will recruit TSMC to manufacture chips for its upcoming Apple Car starting in 2023 to 2025, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.
Mac Rumors
Shares in Dialog surged more than 30pc on Thursday morning, as investors welcomed the clarity the deal provides over the company's future.
The Telegraph
Apple quietly spent approximately $30 million to purchase Spektral, a startup that uses machine learning to eliminate backgrounds from videos in real time on smartphones.
Venturebeat
One of China's biggest smartphone makers has never sold a handset in the country. Yet thousands of miles away, it dominates markets across Africa.
CNN
Tim Cook has a pretty simple explanation for why Apple removed most of the podcasts and an app from Infowars founder and hatemonger Alex Jones from its directories, setting in motion a chain of events that ended in the conspiracy theorist being fully or partially banned from virtually every major web platform: Everyone can agree Jones is terrible.
Gizmodo
That pricing is for the 256GB model, which retails for $1,249 off contract and therefore gives Apple around $800 of profit margin to play with. This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company.
PCMAG.com
The filing is the latest salvo in that dispute, designed to put pressure on Apple to settle.
CNBC
"Well well well, looks like Tim Cook's glad-handing has paid off."
Mashable
The company's stock price took a 7 percent hit after Apple unveiled its new health-focused and feature-packed Watch Series 4 Wednesday during the company's annual fall showcase.
BGR
The ban is being considered thanks to a patent-infringement claim by a company called KAIST, which claims that it has patented FinFET, a processor technology used by Apple in its A-series processors.
BGR
Shares of Apple suppliers fell across Asia on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that the tech giant should make products in the United States if it wanted to avoid tariffs on Chinese imports.
Reuters
The European Union approved Apple's planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam on Thursday.
Reuters
Apple has acquired a startup focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions to make a wearable device that would superimpose digital information on the real world.
Reuters
Japan is aiming to force wireless carriers to cut their monthly fees and stop bundling the cost of smartphones with wireless services, a senior telecoms ministry source said on Tuesday, in a move that is likely to hit Apple Inc.
Reuters
Apple has a team exploring a custom processor that can make better sense of health information coming off sensors from deep inside its devices, job listings show.
CNBC
CFO suggests average iPhone sales price won't see another leap.
Bloomberg
Apple this morning released a new supplemental update to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, which is designed to address a bug that caused the new eighth-generation quad-core and 6-core Intel processors in the 2018 MacBook Pro models to throttle inappropriately.
Mac Rumors
Apple finally brought fast charging to the iPhone last fall, but with this year's refresh, one big change could ruin it. Recent reports have claimed Apple will ship 18W fast charging adapters with all 2018 devices, which would be terrific - but if yours breaks or disappears, don't think about replacing it with a cheaper model from another manufacturer.
Cult of Mac
Dozens of Singaporean iTunes customers have been forced to seek assistance from their banks after their credit and debit cards were used for iTunes purchases, Channel News Asia reports. Apple has denied responsibility for the mass of unauthorized charges, but is "looking into" the issue.
Venturebeat
BOE Technology's plants already make display screens for Apple's iPads and MacBook computers. Now it is seeking to supply Apple with advanced OLED smartphone screens.
Wall Street Journal
An internal Apple document distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers and obtained by MacG矇n矇ration and MacRumors confirms that there's a membrane under the keyboard to "prevent debris from entering the butterfly mechanism". This is the first time Apple acknowledges that the third generation butterfly keyboard tries to fix unreliability issues.
TechCrunch
Last week, Apple announced new versions of its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar. Perhaps most notable is the new power that is now available with the 15-inch, including the Intel Core i9 processor. A new video, however, raises concerns about whether or not the MacBook Pro can handle the heat of the i9 processor.
9to5Mac.com
Last month, Apple initiated a Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro, after determining that a "small percentage" of the keyboards in 2015-2017 MacBook and 2016-2017 MacBook Pro models may experience keys that feel "sticky," repeat, or do not respond in a consistent manner.
Mac Rumors
Apple quietly fixed a bug in iOS 11 that caused some devices to crash when the word "Taiwan" was entered in a text field or the Taiwan emoji was used, according to a security researcher.
Mac Rumors
Uncle Sam has another beef with Silicon Valley. Months after hauling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington for questioning related to the company's data-sharing practices, Congress has told the heads of Google parent Alphabet and Apple that they need to provide answers about their privacy practices.
New York Post
Chinese retailer and cloud infrastructure provider Alibaba is the latest company to think up its own design for processors that can run artificial intelligence software. It joins a crowded roster of companies already working on similar custom designs, including Alphabet, Facebook and Apple.
CNBC
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