Components for the hinge: Good news from Apple’s iPhone Fold supply chain

Components for the hinge: Good news from Apple's iPhone Fold supply chain

Apple has apparently made an important breakthrough in the components for its first iPhone foldable, expected in the fall of 2026. According to a X-Posting velvet Investor Report of the usually well-informed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the manufacturing price per unit could therefore be “significantly cheaper”. However, it is still unclear whether Apple will pass this … Read more

AI summary reactivates: further strange news snippets from Apple

AI summary reactivates: further strange news snippets from Apple

With iOS 26 Developer Beta 4 (or Public Beta 1), Apple has reactivated a controversial Apple Intelligence function. The so-called notification summaries, which are supposed to summarize content from notifications using artificial intelligence and Apple’s in-house voice model, had caused false information and some laughs if they fed out of news apps. The iPhone group … Read more

iPhone rumors: News on series 17, 18, 19 and foldable conversion

iPhone rumors: News on series 17, 18, 19 and foldable conversion

What’s next for the iPhones? Apple is apparently planning a number of changes for this and the next two years in both the devices themselves and in its marketing strategy. This reports the IT-Newsdienst The Informationthat appears in Silicon Valley. The iPhone manufacturer supposedly wants to make the standard models available at different times than … Read more

AVIF in Apple's news app: bad support for popular image format

AVIF in Apple's news app: bad support for popular image format

AVIF is actually a common image format: it has been since 2019 Open specification Finalized to press pictures or image sequences with AV1 into a Heif container. For example, the competitor to Heic is supported by over 90 percent of all web browsers and has been part of the Apple operating systems since iOS 16 … Read more