Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of April 14-18.
° An iPhone theft victim named Michael Mathews has filed a legal case, saying Apple doesn’t do enough to help in recovery efforts when smartphones are stolen.
° The city of Cupertino, California has greenlit an US$12.1 million payment to Apple to pay back sales tax revenue the city had collected from the tech giant in the last two years,
° Apple achieved its best-ever first quarter smartphone sales in India in the first quarter of 2025, according to new data from Canalys.
° Will Apple change its pattern of naming macOS updates this year after a peace of naming them after famous California locations?
° It’s time for Apple to give us an iPad Pro that runs “iPadOS Pro.“
° No, we won’t see an iPhone 17e in late May.
° Mac sales grew 17% year-over-year in the first quarter thanks to M4-based MacBooks, according to Counterpoint Research.
° The National Advertising Division says Apple should discontinue or modify its availability claims for certain Apple Intelligence features.
° More Vision Pro team members are now working on Apple Intelligence and personalized Siri features, according to a Bloomberg report.
° The European Commission has fined Apple about $570 million for allegedly violating the Digital Markets Act.
° New data from CIRP shows that iPhone 16e sales accounted for 7% of US iPhone unit sales in the March quarter.
° Apple dominated the rankings of the “patent powerhouses”of 2024 in the Consumer Electronics category, reports IEEE Spectrum.
° Tandem panel shipments are expected to surge when Apple releases its first OLED-based MacBook Pros in 2026.
° Senior Vice President John Ternus assumes control of Apple’s robotics division, replacing John Giannandrea.
