MacRumors reports today on a new story from Digitimes that says that Apple is insisting that Samsung lowers its pricing for the OLED displays that Apple will be ordering for forthcoming iPhone X models. According to the sources of the Digitimes report, Apple has asked Samsung to reduce its...

According to a new supply chain report from Rosenblatt Securities’ Jun Zhang, via AppleInsider, production of this year’s iPhone line-up will start in August, with the LCD model expected to cost around $200 less than the OLED models. According to Zhang, the line-up will feature a 5.8-inch and a...

9to5 Mac reports today that according to a new report from Digitimes, one of Apple’s main partners, TSMC, is set to experience record profits this year, thanks in large part to its manufacturing of Apple’s forthcoming A12 system-on-a-chip for the 2018 iPhone line-up. Apple’s iPhone X and iPhone...

MacRumors reports that Apple has already begun its annual preparations for Earth Day, which takes place on Sunday this year. Apple usually likes to do something special for the day, and this year is no exception, with logos on some of its retail stores around the world already getting green...

The iPhone SE, along with the iPhone 6s, is one of the only two iPhones still on sale that still has a headphone jack, but now, according to Japanese blog Macotakara, via 9to5 Mac, Apple might have finally removed the headphone jack from the forthcoming iPhone SE 2. It’s possible that the...

According to a story from The Wall Street Journal today, via AppleInsider, Apple’s bid to bring another OLED display supplier on board aside from Samsung may have run into an obstacle thanks to LG “struggling” with the quality of its OLED panel production. The WSJ says that due to its...

MacRumors reports today on an interview that Apple CEO Tim Cook gave to The Sydney Morning Herald recently in which he talked about why Apple will never merge iPad and Mac for a unified software and hardware platform. “We don’t believe in sort of watering down one for the other,” Cook told The...

AppleInsider reports today on a new note to investors from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, in which he says that one version of Apple’s rumoured forthcoming LCD iPhone could be dual-SIM dual standby (DSDS) capable, with two physical SIM card slots and no eSIM support. A second LCD model...

AppleInsider reports today that according to new figures from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, Samsung is still beating Apple in terms of smartphone activations in the last quarter, with Samsung having 39% of activations, 8% more than Apple, which had 31%. LG came in a long behind the...

Business Insider reports today that according to car insurance company Everquote, Apple’s new ‘Do Not Disturb While Driving’ feature has led to those drivers who have the feature on their phone using their phones 8% less than previously. That might not sound like a lot, but with Everquote’s app...

AppleInsider reports today that a filing issued by a European regulatory agency have given the strongest hint yet that Apple is about to release the iPhone SE 2. The filing from the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), a body that authorises devices for several countries, including Russia and...

According to a new report from CNBC, via 9to5 Mac, new research from Counterpoint shows that in Q4 2017, while the premium smartphone market did not achieve as much growth as expected, Apple was still the most profitable brand, with 86% of the smartphone market profits. Breaking down those...

According to a new report on Bloomberg today, Apple is about to launch a new premium news subscription service, having acquired magazine app Texture last month. Bloomberg’s source says that Apple has plans to integrate Texture technology, along with some of its employees, into the Apple News...

According to a new report from Economic Daily News, via MacRumors, Samsung will begin production of OLED displays for this year’s iPhone X as well as the new iPhone X Plus in May. If everything goes to plan, once production lines are rolling in May, Samsung will double its production capacity in...

MacRumors reports today that according to documents that were filed with the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Apple was at some point working on a gold iPhone X colour option. The news was revealed in a document that Apple sent to the FCC about the iPhone X back in...

AppleInsider reports that Apple has launched a new program that offers free, out-of-warranty repairs for Apple Watch Series 2 battery issues. The news came via a note that was sent to Apple stores and Authorised Repair Providers via Apple’s internal GSX portal. The document refers to the fact...

Apple has issued a memo to its employees in which it warns them about leaking confidential information to the media, writes Bloomberg, via AppleInsider. The leaked memo also says that Apple is still trying to find all the people who are leaking within its organisation. The memo, which was...

Engadget reports today that following on from this week’s earlier news story about iOS 11.3 affecting displays of iPhones that have been repaired at third-party shops, third-party repairers are now reporting that when they install genuine Apple replacement display units into an iPhone 8, iPhone...

According to a new report from Bloomberg Technology today, Apple’s HomePod has not sold anything like as well as Apple would have hoped. HomePod arrived in stores in January 2018, but by late March, Bloomberg’s sources say, Apple had already lowered sales forecasts and cut its orders with...

TechCrunch reports that in the light of its recent article about Instagram’s lack of anything similar to Facebook’s Download Your Information tool, an Instagram spokesperson has told TechCrunch that “We are building a new data portability tool. You’ll soon be able to download a copy of what...