But it will be the company’s wearables business — including the upcoming Vision Pro, AirPods and Apple Watch — that take center stage. The Vision Pro marks a new category for Apple, while the earbuds and smartwatch are poised to get some of their biggest upgrades ever.
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Apple is readying a major software-based development: hearing aid functionality. The company plans to release that feature later next year, and it could be the start of something big. Apple believes its take on the hearing aid has the potential to upend a multibillion-dollar industry.
With iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, and tvOS 17.2, Apple removed the option to purchase TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store apps, redirecting customers to the Apple TV app instead. Unfortunately, Apple's move to consolidate purchasing and viewing in the Apple TV app has done away with wishlists, and customers who used the feature got no warning about their elimination.
Last week, we reported that a marketing company called Cox Media Group Local Solutions claimed they could listen to users’ conversations through phones and other devices and sold that information to others. Apple has contacted iMore to clarify that this would be a “clear violation’ of its App Store guidelines.
As we said in our original report, Apple is known to take its privacy very seriously but CMG didn't make it clear how it gleams data and what from, other than nebulously stating it comes from 'smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices'
Following mounting pressure from regulators in the UK and EU, Adobe and Figma announced on Monday that both companies are mutually terminating their merger agreement, which would have seen Adobe acquire the Figma product design platform for $20 billion.
Disney is both an emblem of term extension and its erosion of the public domain, and one of the strongest use-cases in favor of the maintenance of a rich public domain. Mickey is the symbol of both tendencies. Ironies abound. It may not be exactly the same as an oil company relying on solar power to run its rigs, but it is definitely in the same “massive irony” zip code. All of this makes the year when copyright finally expires over Mickey Mouse highly symbolic. The love triangle between Mickey, Disney, and the public domain is about to evolve, and perhaps even resolve, in real time.
In the year 2024, I suspect the release of Vision Pro is going to eclipse everything else that Apple does. All the resources in Apple has probably been devoted mostly to the headset, and maybe, as rumormongered by Bloomberg, the other platforms -- phones and Macs -- will be relatively 'minor'?
But, then, all the iPads has not been updated at all this year. New iPads will definitely be arriving next year, and they will be impressive upgrades, right?
That's my expectation for now, and I am planning my wallet accordingly. Nowadays, I mostly use iPads for watching television, so it is not a must-upgrade for me. But then, AirPods -- they'll run out of battery eventually don't they? :-)
(Also: still not buying iCars.)
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