Orders for iPhone displays are declining year over year AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission for purchases made through links on our site. An Apple supply chain shipping report shows that iPhone 14 display orders fell sharply over the same period compared to the iPhone 13. The iPhone 14 release cycle has seen … Read more
Two bits of mobile gaming news caught my eye this morning. The first was an interview Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, gave to the Financial Times. The annual Game Developer Conference started today and Spencer wants developers to know that Microsoft plans to publish games on mobile devices: We want to be able to … Read more
Exterior of Apple Fifth Avenue AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission for purchases made through links on our site. Walking down New York’s Fifth Avenue, you can’t miss the glass Apple Store that highlights the company’s core values from the inside. AppleInsider checks it. Apple didn’t originally want to build on Fifth Ave … Read more
Apple, unlike many others, does not want to resort to layoffs large technology companies, which are downsizing since around the turn of 2023. The tech giant is so desperate not to become another Google, Microsoftor Meta (which thought 11,000 Meta staff layoffs were so nice that it did it twice) that it has halted some … Read more
If Netflix’s subscription tiers were all branches on a tree, the newly nascent ad-based subscription tier started life last year as the thinnest and weakest of the tree’s many branches. However, new data shows that Netflix’s Basic With Ads tier is coming into its own and growing into an industry that can finally hold its … Read more
Illustration: Phonlamai photo (Shutterstock) The prominent model of information access and retrieval before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant information – was interactive, personalized, transparent and authoritative. Search engines are the primary way most people access information these days, but it’s not ideal to enter a few … Read more
New York CNN — You can ask in a few months a virtual assistant to transcribe meeting notes during a work call, summarize long email threads to quickly compose suggested replies, quickly create a specific chart in Excel, and turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation in seconds. And that’s only on Microsoft’s 365 … Read more
Apple’s computational photography strives for realism AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission for purchases made through links on our site. A controversy involving Samsung’s phone cameras has revived the conversation around computational photography, highlighting the difference between this and Apple’s approach in iOS. It’s no big secret that Apple relies on advanced algorithms … Read more
GOP-led House could shift priorities AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission for purchases made through links on our site. Despite some pending bipartisan legislation, Republicans in Congress could pass potential antitrust lawsuits to Apple in 2023 to focus on other technical issues. Apple has been dealing with various antitrust investigations for years, around … Read more
Microsoft has confirmed that a critical vulnerability in Outlook, with a score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10, is known to have already been exploited in the wild. If you think that sounds bad, it gets even worse: the exploit is triggered upon receipt of a malicious email, so it runs before that … Read more