Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of August 10-15.
° Apple is rumored to already be working on the third generation “iPhone Fold.”
° Future Apple Watches could see some considerable design changes.
° Apple will probably release refreshed iMacs and a new M6 MacBook Pro in October, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman says in his latest “Power On” newsletter.
° TrendForce’s latest smartphone industry research reveals that escalating component costs—led by memory—are expected to significantly raise production expenses for Apple’s iPhone 18 series.
° Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) have announced the September schedule for “Friday Night Baseball,” the weekly doubleheader streaming every Friday on Apple TV throughout the 2026 regular season.
° Apple is scaling back its hardware shipment plans in 2026 due to DRAM shortages, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says in an X post.
° Apple has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit.
° Apple is facing a class action lawsuit for “fraud” over its iCloud Private Relay glitch.
° New data from Surfshark Antivirus shows a striking gap in how malware targets Windows versus macOS users: Windows devices see nearly six times as many detections per user as macOS devices.
° Apple has again been denied a stay for fee calculations in its ongoing legal fight with Epic Games.
° Apple’s Jennifer Bailey is retiring and leaving the company in October.
° The iPhone’s popularity drives premium smartphone sales in the Middle East (excluding Turkey).
° Apple has hired American Airlines exec, Nate Gatten, a dedicated Republican, as its head of government affairs.
° Apple wants to make a deal with publishers for Siri AI access to news and info.
° iPhone demand in China declined significantly after the 618 shopping festival.
° Thanks to the Apple Watch, Apple now has 46% of the worldwide wearable band market.
°Apple has opened its new Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) in Houston.
