Sometime in the next several months, the company is poised to announce a mixed reality headset, its first major new device since 2015. If possible, Apple won’t want to make such a critical announcement at an online event. It wants employees, the media, its partners and developers in the room. Bloomberg.com Wenn Mark Gurman sichweiterlesen

Apple Inc. has shifted the strategy of its Apple Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some games in development while seeking other titles that it believes will better retain subscribers. […] On calls in mid-April, an Apple Arcade creative producer told some developers that their upcoming games didn’t have the level of “engagement” Apple is seeking,weiterlesen

This year’s successors to the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max will be joined by two lower-end models to replace the iPhone 11. At least the two high-end devices will have flat stainless steel edges instead of the current curved design as well as more sharply rounded corners like the iPad Pro introducedweiterlesen

Video-game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Nvidia Corp. But for the more than 1 billion users of Apple’s iPhone and iPad, the only real option is Arcade, the subscription service launchedweiterlesen

The technology giant is discussing whether to let users choose third-party web browser and mail applications as their default options on Apple’s mobile devices, replacing the company’s Safari browser and Mail app, according to people familiar with the matter. […] The Cupertino, California-based company also is considering loosening restrictions on third-party music apps, including itsweiterlesen

Phillip Shoemaker: So there was an actual fear inside Apples early days of the App Store that if they allowed these different Google services on the phone, the phone could basically become a Google phone. That was a real thing. […] Mark Gurman: Is that a reason why still to this day, and I believeweiterlesen

Spoilerwarnung: Mark Gurman veröffentlicht (s-)einen (umfangreichen) Katalog an uns bevorstehenden Neuerungen für iOS 13 (Codename „Yukon”), macOS 10.15 sowie watchOS 6. Aus allen dort genannten Features ließe sich schon jetzt problemlos eine ‚Top 10‘-Liste erstellen, die Apple auf der WWDC-Keynote dann als Highlights abarbeiten könnte. Unterrepräsentiert erscheint mir in der aktuellen Medienberichterstattung über den Bloomberg-Artikelweiterlesen

via Marques Brownlee There’ll be a new high-end iPhone, internally dubbed D33, with a display that measures about 6.5-inch diagonally, according to the people familiar with the matter. That would make it the largest iPhone by far and one of the biggest mainstream phones on the market. It will continue to have a glass backweiterlesen