Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of January 6-10.
° Apple has launched a Shazam Fast Forward 2025 website that spotlights 50 music artists who are predicted to have a breakthrough year.
° India’s government reportedly plans to offer at least US$2.7 billion in support for local manufacturing, which could reduce iPhone production expenses in the country.
° In an interesting article at Tom’s Guide, Philip Michaels says Apple should scoop up the rights to “Sesame Street.” I think he’s right.
° Apple has released iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1 with various bug fixes.
° Apple led the global smartphone market in terms of revenues and recorded its highest-ever shipments, revenues and average selling price for a third quarter in quarter three.
° Apple is working on an update for Apple Intelligence designed to address the numerous complaints about inaccurate summaries of news headlines, Apple told BBC News.
° Apple plans to add new countries to its Apple News service beyond the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
° Apple has been granted a patent that shows it’s working on “Apple Glasses” — a VR/AR device more akin in design to regular eyeglasses than the Vision Pro.
° Apple has announced that its next Swift Student Challenge will begin taking admissions on February 3.
° The Apple Vision Pro will soon support NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform.
° Alfonso Cuarón, director of Apple TV+’s limited series, “Disclaimer,” is nominated for best director in the “Movies for Television and Limited Series” category of the annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards.
° Apple has signed the largest new lease in the Seattle office market since 2019, taking 193,000 square feet at Arbor Blocks, West, reports Colliers.
° Apple still can’t sell its iPhone 16 in Indonesia despite striking a deal to build a local production facility there, as it has not met domestic content rules, the country’s industry minister said.
° Apple reportedly fired around 50 employees at its headquarters in Cupertino, California after finding that these employees indulged in monetary fraud.
° Apple TV+ shows have been nominated for four Screen Actor Guild (SAG) awards.
° Apple CEO Tim Cook says Apple will donate to the firefighting efforts in the Los Angeles area.
° Apple and Google have been fined R$19 million (about US$3.1 million) in Brazil after a judge ruled that the companies contributed to allowing the controversial photo editor FaceApp to improperly collect data from its users.
° Apple sold 22.9 million Macs in 2024 for annual worldwide growth of 4.5%.
° Eight Apple TV+ shows (and one commercial) have been nominated for the 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards.
