Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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Apple Daily Report: Apple now selling a new Beddit sleep monitor (and more news)

Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out. 

Apple has started selling a new Beddit sleep monitor on its online store. It costs $149.95. Apple bought Beddit, a sleep tracking hardware/software company, last year.

iPhone assembler Pegatron has chosen Indonesia for its first diversification of manufacturing away from China due to a fear of tariff wars between Washington and Beijing, reports Nikkei Asian Review. The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer is preparing to shift production of non-iPhone products hit by U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports to a rented factory on Indonesia’s Batam Island within the next six months.



The Australia parliament has passed a set of new cybersecurity measures that compels technology companies to furnish law enforcement agencies access to encrypted customer messages, a law opposed by Apple and other tech firms, notes AppleInsider.

According to PCMag, T-Mobile is preparing an eSIM app, which looks like it lets you connect a new prepaid T-Mobile line without going into a store or having a physical SIM card shipped to you. The app would allow you to sign up on your new iPhone with just a few clicks.

Chinese mobile app companies pose the same national security risk to the US as telecom giants like Huawei and ZTE, Sen. Mark Warner told BuzzFeed News.

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.