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The Most-Hyped Edition Monday, October 7, 2024

Apple Slowly Moves Away From Its Annual Product Release Strategy, by Mark Gurman, Bloomberg

Apple eyes Nov. 1 as date for its next product release, with more devices following in early 2025. Now that the iPhone 16 is shipping, Apple is turning its attention to other hardware products, including a new low-end iPhone, updated iPads and M4 Macs.

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The company has been clear that Apple Intelligence will be arriving in October as part of the iOS 18.1 operating system. But now I can provide a little more detail on when in the month it’s supposed to arrive: Monday, Oct. 28. That means new iPhone buyers will have to wait a few more weeks to get the most hyped component of their devices. I’m told that Apple is taking its time with the rollout to ensure that major bugs are eliminated and it can support all the new traffic on its AI cloud servers.

Apple Watch Users Report Vitals App Detecting Illness Before Symptoms Appear, by Tim Hardwick, MacRumors

The Apple Watch app, which analyzes key health metrics measured during sleep over the last seven days, appears to be providing early warnings of impending sickness for at least some Apple Watch wearers ahead of time.

A Year Later, Apple Has Failed At USB-C (Just Like Everyone Else), by Robert Triggs, Android Authority

Between feature disparity and opaque capabilities, iPhone consumers are virtually in the dark about what features their phone supports over USB-C without conducting a painstaking amount of research.

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I only have one device that can do Apple Intelligence this Oct 28.

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