Top Apple-related stories April 28-May 2

Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of April 28-May 2.

° Apple is reportedly proceeding full steam ahead on two new successors to the Vision Pro.

° Apple shows no sign of restoring its blood-oxygen feature to US watches, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says in his latest “Power On” newsletter.

° Apple TV+ scores BAFTA Television Craft Award wins for “Slow Horses,” “Bad Sisters,” and “The Velveteen Rabbit.”

° Apple reports that a new study finds App Store ecosystem in India facilitated ₹44,447 crore in billings and sales in 2024.

° A newly granted Apple patent shows that Apple Vision Pro users may be able to share info and collaborate. 

° Researchers have revealed a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it.

° Apple is shuffling the management of its global affairs and music divisions in separate moves, extending a series of recent changes.

° A new plant making iPhones in southern India has started production and another will begin shipments in May.

° Apple sold 55 million iPhones in the first quarter of 2025 for 19% global smartphone market share.

° The fight is on: Meta, Spotify, and the Match Group have teamed up for a lobbying coalition to fight Apple and Google.

° Google hopes to enter an agreement with Apple by the middle of this year to include its Gemini AI technology on new Apple devices.

° With 29% year-over-year growth in India, Apple recorded its highest-ever first quarter shipments of iPhones in the first quarter of 2025.

° Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction designed to stop the company’s anticompetitive App Store practices.

° A new petition is asking for Apple to resume updates for its discontinued AirPort routers. Hey, I wish Apple would go even further and revive the line.

° Apple has been ordered to pay more than US $700 million to the Texas-based cellular technology company Optis in a UK patent ruling.

° The 2025 Peabody Awards have announced this year’s winners. Apple TV+’s “Bread & Roses” won in the Documentary category.

° Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 second quarter. The company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion, up 5% year-over-year.