So despite the slowing market, I am still waiting to see what new features—health or otherwise—will be announced at this year’s WWDC, and later on this year. “I would never count Apple out in terms of what they’re able to do,” said Naranjo. “They’ve proven time and time again that they can create a new category and make that category grow.”
I can be patient and wait in Apple’s sticky ecosystem biding time until blood glucose monitoring shows up. Ten years ago, we all asked if we could even find a use for Jony Ive’s piece of glittery, buzzing jewelry; not even Apple knew the future success that it had on its hands (or its wrists). The Apple Watch is ubiquitous, and we’re still waiting for more.
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European Publishers Council executive director Angela Mills said: “What’s important for us is not the fine but the changes that Apple will need to make within two months to comply with the DMA. Apple has long frustrated greater competition in app distribution and in payment solutions via a combination of friction and excessive fees.
“The European Commission has rightly used its new powers under the Digital Markets Act to challenge these anti-competitive behaviours that majorly impact publishers’ ability to deliver professional editorial media to Europe’s consumers.”
Apple plans to relocate the robotics team from John Giannandrea’s AI organisation to the hardware division later this month, according to people with knowledge of the move. That will place it under Senior Vice President John Ternus, who oversees hardware engineering, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the change isn’t public.
The pending shift will mark the second major project to be removed from Giannandrea in the past month: The company stripped the flailing Siri voice assistant from his purview in March. The changes are part of a broader effort to catch up in artificial intelligence, a field where Apple has fallen behind tech peers such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and OpenAI.
I wonder how many of the gold Apple Watches are still in use today.
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