iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus Supply-chain analyst Ross Young posted on X this week that he’d heard that the iPhone 17 Plus will come with a smaller screen than the 6.7-inch display on the current-generation iPhone 15 Plus. Ian Sherr for CNET: ‎ It’s unclear why Apple would opt for a smaller-size screen for its iPhone 17 Plus, but MacRumors suggests the change could help further differentiate the Plus model from its more expensive Pro Max cousin. Though Apple is expected to increase the screen size of its upcoming iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max this fall, changing the screen size on the i ..read more

The author behind “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” Taffy Brodesser-Akner, will re-team with Susannah Grant and Sarah Timberman to develop “Long Island Compromise” for Apple TV+ with Richard Plepler also exec producing. Lesley Goldberg for The Hollywood Reporter: ‎ Following a multiple-platform bidding war, Apple has landed the rights to develop the dark family drama for television. As she did with Hulu’s Fleishman, Brodesser-Akner will adapt her novel (due July 9 from Random House) for Apple and exec produce alongside Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), Sarah Timberman, and former HBO chief Richard ..read more

The NBA’s exclusive negotiating window with incumbent media partners Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery will likely pass without a deal announcement, CNBC reports Friday citing “people familiar with the matter.” Apple, Amazon, NBCUniversal, Netflix, and YouTube TV have all expressed preliminary interest in talks with the NBA about potentially buying a package of games as a new partner, CNBC reported last year. Alex Sherman for CNBC: ‎ Beginning next week, the NBA will be able to work on agreements for new partners to show packages of games. Amazon, Apple, YouTube TV, Comcast’s NBCUniversal/Pe ..read more

As Apple and other global tech firms to look beyond China to secure their supply chains, cut costs, and open up new markets, Apple is planning to set up assembly factories with partners and buy more components from Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Anna Cooban for CNN: ‎ CEO Tim Cook made the pledge in a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi Tuesday, according to a statement by Vietnam’s government. Apple (AAPL) has already spent almost $16 billion through its supply chain in the country since 2019, the government quoted Cook as saying. And the company has created more ..read more

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) scaled back its outlook for a chip market expansion, cautioning that the smartphone and personal-computing markets remain weak. Jane Lanhee Lee for Bloomberg News : ‎ The world’s largest maker of advanced chips cut its expectations for 2024 semiconductor market growth — excluding memory chips — to about 10%, from above that figure. Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei also trimmed his growth forecast for the foundry sector, which TSMC leads. Meanwhile, the company maintained its estimates for spending at anywhere between $28 billion and $32 billion ..read more

Apple Music named record-breaking singer-songwriter Taylor Swift its Artist of the Year for 2023. Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department” meeting has officially been called into session and, surprise, it’s a 31-song mega double album. The Grammy-winner first released her highly anticipated 11th studio album on Friday, with the album appearing on Apple Music some time prior to its scheduled midnight release time. At 2 a.m EDT, Swift then surprise-released an additional 15-song album titled “TTPD: The Anthology.” Alli Rosenbloom for CNN: ‎ The initial 16-track “Tortured Poets Department” alb ..read more

Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms’ Threads and WhatsApp apps from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so by the Chinese government, which claimed national security concerns. Josh Ye and Mrinmay Dey for Reuters: ‎ The removal of the four apps suggests growing intolerance on the part of China’s central government towards at least some foreign online messaging services that fall outside of its control. It also signals less leeway for Apple in China. [O]ther Meta apps including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger remained available to download, according to Reuters ch ..read more

The Apple Vision Pro spatial computer Apple is touting its Vision Pro spatial computing headset, which was made available in the U.S. earlier this year, to businesses. Belle Lin for The Wall Street Journal: ‎ But it faces the same challenges as its predecessors—pitching a “face computer” experience that hasn’t yet clicked with a wide business audience. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company last week announced a crop of enterprise customers that have built “spatial” apps designed to take advantage of the platform’s ability to combine the physical and virtual worlds within a user’s field of view ..read more

The Daisy robot can disassemble up to 1.2 million phones each year, helping Apple recover more valuable materials for recycling. The company has offered to license the patents related to Daisy for researchers and other electronics manufacturers developing their own disassembly processes. Even if the iPhones looked good enough for resale, Apple’s contract with its recycler GEEP explicitly required that every product it sent be shredded and destroyed. Austin Carr for Bloomberg Businessweek: ‎ In Apple’s view, these devices, the kind usually disposed of at its stores or collected from trade-ins ..read more

“Delta” Nintendo emulator The “Delta” Nintendo game emulator launched Wednesday as one of the first officially approved iOS apps to emulate Nintendo consoles from the NES through the N64 and the Game Boy through the Nintendo DS. Kyle Orland for Ars technica: ‎ Delta is an outgrowth of developer Riley Testut’s earlier sideloadable GBA4iOS project, which recently had its own unauthorized clone removed from the App Store. Before Wednesday, iOS users could load Delta onto their devices only through AltStore, an iOS marketplace that used a Developer Mode workaround to sideload apps from a self-hos ..read more