Apple opens iPhone Duo preorders on October 16 at $1,999 for the 256 GB model, with deliveries starting October 23. 9to5Mac says 5 AM Eastern, but Apple's store page, quoted by MacRumors, says 5:00 a.m. Pacific, a three-hour gap.
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Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Apple and Meta get Muse Spark Open running on two to four Mac Studios
Apple says four Mac Studios run Meta's Muse Spark Open at over 36 tokens per second, Computerworld reports. The speed is Apple's own measurement, and the cost case is the columnist's inference from the price of four machines.
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Apple's CEO argues Siri can lean on what your iPhone already holds
Apple CEO John Ternus argued in a TIME interview that Siri does not need to win the AI intelligence race, Tom's Guide reported. The new US Siri draws on Google's Gemini technology, so Apple's bet rests on what the phone already holds.
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Apple closed above a $5 trillion market value for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so. Its 0.5% gain came on a day most big tech fell, and the reports do not show why buyers chose it.
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Apple will launch its first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pros on or around October 27, according to Bloomberg. For teams due a MacBook refresh, that puts a three-week hold on the table for a machine whose price and ship date are still unknown.
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Apple has asked suppliers to cut October component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max by about 15%, according to a Nikkei Asia report. Nikkei blames soaring memory costs and price rises but also points to a changed launch calendar, and device teams need to know which of the two they are planning around.
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Apple set an October 13 'Welcome home' launch in New York, where it is expected to show a 6-inch smart home hub, a new Apple TV and a HomePod mini. MacRumors puts the hub near $350 each and says Apple pictures several per home, so a buyer's bill is per household.
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Apple says the Duo's outer and inner displays share one aspect ratio, which spares app teams the reflow pass other foldables demand. The same phone has no Face ID, so the unlock prompt is where users meet the change.
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Tim Cook says he handed Apple's CEO job to John Ternus days before the iPhone Duo unveiling so Ternus would have 'wind at his back.' By Cook's own account the phone is still a few weeks from buyers, so Ternus gets the launch attention now and will answer for the results later.
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Apple named Steve Smith to run mergers and acquisitions and put the deal team back under finance chief Kevan Parekh, replacing Adrian Perica. Parekh ended Apple's net-cash-neutral policy in May, a change analysts read as room to buy.
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Apple added $100 to the price of every iPhone it carried into the new lineup, and the storage configurations that corporate fleets actually order went up by several times that.
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Apple says the ongoing memory shortage is why every iPhone now costs $100 more, and MacBooks and iPads were repriced on the same grounds earlier. For fleet buyers, the component cycle has reached the price list.
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AI labs bought tens of thousands of Macs before Apple built a team to sell them
Apple pulled a Mac mini and Mac Studio refresh forward to August 25 to meet buyers that, according to The Information, no engineering, developer relations or enterprise AI function inside the company was assigned to serve.
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Apple reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on November 2 against its own forecast of 9% to 11% revenue growth, in John Ternus's first call as CEO. Hardware buyers should listen for what he and CFO Kevan Parekh say about memory pricing and supply.
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Green Dot will cut off Apple Cash reloads for unverified users on Nov. 9
Green Dot Bank will bar unverified Apple Cash users from reloading balances starting Nov. 9 and is keeping its 2024 ban on crypto transactions. Any crypto opening in Apple's wallet would have to come through its bank partners, and the banks behind both Apple Cash and Apple Card are changing.
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Apple plans three smart home devices for October, all built around Siri AI, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. That puts a Siri that BGR says needed Google's Gemini models to ship between every household and the home integrations it uses.
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Apple's first touchscreen, tandem-OLED MacBook Pro is due by the end of November with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. For fleet buyers, the decision depends on who carries the laptop every day and whose work can wait for the next chip generation.
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John Ternus makes himself the final decision maker on Apple design
Apple CEO John Ternus works hands-on in the design studio several times a week, Bloomberg reports, against Tim Cook's roughly monthly visits. With no chief design officer search underway, Apple's former hardware chief now has the final say on its software interfaces too.
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Apple shares rise 2.2% on a reported home hub that recognizes each user by face or voice
Apple plans to unveil a smart home hub on Oct. 13 that answers each user from their own data, Bloomberg reported. Shares rose 2.2% before any price emerged, though price will show whether Apple wants volume against Amazon and Google.
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