Apple has stopped selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the United States on its online store, just days before a ban related to a patent dispute takes effect.
The company also will no longer be able to repair watch models that are out of warranty, a potential headache for consumers.
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Customers who purchase watches before Dec 25 – the day the ban comes into place in the US – and models that are still under warranty are not affected by the replacement prohibition.
Apple today confirmed that it will be permanently closing its Infinite Loop retail store in Cupertino, California on January 20. Infinite Loop served as Apple's headquarters between 1997 and 2017, when its current Apple Park headquarters opened a few miles away.
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A wider collection of Apple-branded merchandise is available at the Apple Park Visitor Center, and the location also serves as a traditional Apple retail store. Other features at the Visitor Center include a Caffè Macs coffee bar, a rooftop seating area, and an AR model of the Apple Park campus that is temporarily closed.
Courier delivery will be used for these orders, and the option usually costs $9 in the United States. Courier deliveries are provided by companies like Uber and Postmates, and the shipping option is available on Apple products in metro areas in the United States and Canada. In Australia, free three-hour delivery is available.
The release introduces split view feature for editing two different parts of your document (great for translating, writing commentary, or comparing texts).
While there are plenty of photo and video organization apps out there, Globetrotter specifically focuses on categorizing images by their time and place of capture, making it especially useful for those who are constantly on the move (or who simply enjoy recollecting road trips, times abroad, and the like).
This approach has its downsides; for one thing, we’re looking at the TV, but since we still need to reach the trackpad and keyboard, the MacBook (and its camera) is usually on an ottoman in front of us. For another, neither the MacBook microphone nor camera are great, and it requires some awkward positioning to get everything framed up (and audible).
Offloading the call onto the Zoom app on the Apple TV while using my iPhone as the camera and mic seemed like it might simplify matters, but as so often happens with new technology, this is where things started to get sticky.
The Justice Department has taken interest in the case. Beeper Mini met with the department’s antitrust lawyers on Dec. 12, two people familiar with the meeting said. Eric Migicovsky, a co-founder of the app’s parent company, Beeper, declined to comment on the meeting, but the department is in the middle of a four-year-old investigation into Apple’s anticompetitive behavior.
The Federal Trade Commission said in a blog post on Thursday that it would scrutinize “dominant” players that “use privacy and security as a justification to disallow interoperability” between services. The post did not name any companies.
Did anyone over at Apple proposed the idea of spamming Beeper Mini users with iPhone advertisements… or something worse? Or is Apple not that evil?
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