News & Reviews:   Apple

When it comes to AR/VR headsets, most people won't get one because of the lack of content. It's why many companies are shifting to developing these headsets to offer utility in our daily lives. For the Apple headset, this could include payment authentication.

A Brazilian court has fined Apple BRL100 million or ~RM89 million in “social damages” for its continued practice of selling iPhones without a charger in the country. The tech giant was slapped with the fine by a Sao Paulo state court, which stressed that Apple must offer battery chargers with iPhones that are sold in Brazil.

Apple has been shifting production of its products away from China recently amidst frustrations over supply disruption and restrictive Covid-19 regulations in the country. According to a new report, the tech giant is now planning to shift manufacturing of its MacBook lineup to Thailand, making the country the main non-China production site for the product category.

It is quite common knowledge that global PC sales have been decreasing for quite some time now, though you’d be quite surprised at its current state of decline. Get this, worldwide PC shipments have seen the steepest decline since analyst firm Gartner began tracking the market in the mid-1990s with the decline in the third quarter of 2022 representing the fourth consecutive quarter of the year-over-year decline worldwide.

Not only saving lives, but the Apple Watch is also detecting lives. According to a Reddit post, a woman discovered she was pregnant with the help of the mentioned tech gadget even before clinical tests.

Apple is currently in the midst of rolling out the iOS 16.0.3 update to supported iPhones today which will fix several known issues with the previous version of iOS. These include bug fixes for mail app crashes and notifications as well as an improved camera experience for the iPhone 14 Pro lineup.

Previously, we reported that Apple is delaying the release of iPadOS 16 to iron out several new iPad features, including ‘Stage Manager’. The new OS didn’t roll out together with iOS 16 last month and iPad users can anticipate getting an update straight to iPadOS 16.1 by the end of October.

Apple is reportedly in the midst of manufacturing the fourth-generation iPhone SE and it may not be as compact as its predecessors. According to a new insight by Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young, the iPhone SE 4 is likely to feature a 6.1-inch display with a notch.

Apple is reportedly planning to adopt USB Type-C more widely within its portfolio, including on the AirPods lineup as well as Mac accessories. This is according to reliable tipster on everything Apple, Mark Gurman.

One of the new features found on the iPhone 14 series is crash detection, whereby the smartphone will automatically call emergency services should it detect you being in a car accident. However, it looks like Apple may need to iron out the feature a bit more as many users are reporting that their iPhone 14 series are triggering crash detection while on a roller coaster ride.