On September 12th Apple introduced the economical iPhone XR with a next-gen LCD display that Apple is marketing as the "Liquid Retina." In the last week Apple has filed for the 'Liquid Retina' trademark in both the U.S. and China (Hong Kong). Apple filed their trademark under international class 09 for hardware with a couple of interesting descriptors.

For the first time since Bloomberg published a highly controversial story suggesting Chinese spies planted microchips in Supermicro server motherboards Apple used in its iCloud facilities, Apple CEO Tim Cook has gone on the record to vehemently deny the claims.

In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Cook said there is "no truth" to the story about Apple, before making the unprecedented move of calling on Bloomberg to publish a retraction.

Since the report went live earlier this month, Apple has refuted Bloomberg's claims in multiple clearly worded statements denying such an incident ever took place. Apple maintains that the...

This morning the Financial Times has posted a report on Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive who talks about Steve Jobs, the $5bn new campus — and why the unforeseen consequences of tech keep him awake.

Apple's design chief Jony Ive sat down for an interview over lunch with Financial Times reporter Nicholas Foulkes earlier this month, discussing a wide range of topics, including the Apple Watch, Apple Park, and prospects of an Apple Car.

Jony Ive portrait via Financial Times

Questioned on why Apple's design team was among the last to move into the company's new Apple Park headquarters, Ive said that was the plan all along, adding that relocating some 9,000 people takes time:It wasn't late, it was always scheduled to be then. When you're moving 9,000 people, you don't do it in one day. We're one of the last groups. It's a loaded and significant event because it meant leaving a studio that...

While the U.S. media is looking for any sign of weak sales of Apple's iPhone, the fact is that Samsung is experiencing a major slowdown with little coverage of that news in the U.S. A new Korean report today states that "Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have decided to buy back used smartphones and implement other promotion programs to boost the sluggish sales of their latest communications devices.

Apple's upcoming iPad Pro models will feature a USB-C port instead of a traditional Lightning port, according to information gathered from accessory makers at the Global Source Mobile Electronics Trade Fair by Japanese site Mac Otakara.

The trade fair kicked off today and Mac Otakara heard "talk" from manufacturers attending the event about a switch to USB-C.

iPad Pro mockup by Álvaro Pabesio

This isn't the first time we've heard of Apple's plans to adopt USB-C instead of Lightning on its new iPad Pro models, which would further bridge the gap between mobile device and computer.

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who often accurately predicts Apple's plans, said in...

A week ago we reported that TSMC was expected to be the sole supplier of Apple's 2019 A13 processor based on 7nm with EUV technology beating out Samsung. Last summer we posted a report titled "Apple will test out Samsung's 7nm Processor with Extreme Ultraviolet Technology."
Today we're learning that Samsung will start wafer production of the 7-nanometer Low Power Plus with extreme ultraviolet lithography technology well ahead of TSMC

On Tuesday Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Won 59 Patents Today Covering Millimeter Wave Yagi Antennas for 5G Ready iDevices & Gesturing on Apple Watch." A new report today informs us that as a new connectivity era dawns, reliance on high-bandwidth mmWave (Millimeter Wave) spectrum will increase, bringing new wireless experiences like ultra-high-definition 4K video streaming, Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), mobile screen casting and fixed wireless mesh backhaul, all while providing high power efficiency to significantly extend battery life.

Apple announced earlier today that it will hold a press event on Oct. 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. It's where the tech giant is expected to unveil its latest iPads and Macs. The event will take place two days before Apple holds it's financial Results for fiscal Q4 2018. The iPad without it's dated Home Button will really refresh the design and likely stimulate upgrades

Apple in iOS 12 introduced a new Siri Shortcuts feature that's designed to let users create multi-step automations using first and third-party apps.

Since iOS 12's release, app developers have been adding Siri Shortcuts support to their apps, and today, Apple highlighted several apps that have launched useful Siri Shortcut options.

Tile, for example, has added a Shortcut designed to let you find an item attached to a Tile device, like your keys, by asking Siri. Apps like CARROT and Dark Sky offer up weather details with Siri commands like "rain report" or "UV index," while Citymapper lets you get commute information in seconds.

Evernote lets you get quick access to Shortcuts for sharing notes, creating audio notes, creating camera notes,...

Apple today sent out invites for an upcoming October 30th event set to be held in Brooklyn. Apple did something special for its invites this time around, and each one features unique artwork with a different Apple logo.

Apple also designed a new event page for the event, and each time you reload the page, you can see a new Apple logo that Apple created.

It's not clear how many different Apple logos Apple designed for the event, but it appears to be at least several dozen. You can see a selection of approximately 10 of them by refreshing the event page, but not all of the artwork that showed up on the invites appears to be on the page.

Apple's event, which will focus on the iPad Pro and its Mac lineup, is set to take place on Tuesday, October 30 in New...

Back in May Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple's Autonomous Shuttle Service will use Volkswagen Vans." This is where Apple's Project Titan is starting – with autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles. Today Apple's latest Project Titan invention relates to a new Converter Architecture that will ensure that customer's creature comforts like air conditioning, GPS and infotainment system keep on humming with enough power.

To celebrate The Big Draw Festival, a monthlong worldwide celebration of drawing held every October, eight Apple Stores are hosting special Today at Apple sessions related to the festival throughout the month.

A total of 108 sessions will be hosted by the end of the month at Apple Regent Street in London, Apple Piazza Liberty in Milan, Apple Dubai Mall in Dubai, Apple Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Apple SoHo and Apple Williamsburg in New York, Apple Orchard Road in Singapore, and Apple Union Square in San Francisco.

Apple CEO Tim Cook today tweeted about a session hosted by artist Marcy Smith, who helped customers learn how to draw and sketch with the...

There was a time when Apple was working hard on developing a travel app for iPhones and we covered three of their patent applications that were published by the US Patent & Trademark Office between 2010 and 2012. Today Apple's patent application provides a new round of patent claims which introduces a new angle, a new approach being applied to a future travel app.

Today Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released analysis of the results from its research on Apple for the fiscal quarter that ended September 29, 2018. Their report shows that Apple's iPhone 8 and 8Plus were the best selling iPhones for calendar Q3, 2018

On Monday Goldman Sachs pointed to 'rapidly slowing' iPhone demand in China and warned that earnings could fall short. Despite a top Apple analyst predicting that Apple's iPhone XR would be a smash hit in China, news directly from TSMC's earnings forecast has rattled some into believing Apple's iPhone sales are slower than expected. But is that true? While speculation...

Earlier today "Apple rolled out an online tool to users in the United States and several other countries to download, all the data that the iPhone maker has collected on them," reports Reuters. Apple also provides users with the ability to deactivate or delete their account for any reason.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company or TSMC is set to remain one of Apple's most important suppliers in the years to come, according to a note to investors shared today by reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.

TSMC manufactures the A-Series chips that are used in Apple's iPhones. The company has been Apple's sole supplier for iPhone chips for a few years, and will continue to be Apple's only supplier in 2019 and 2020 for the A13 and A14 chips Apple is expected to use in those devices.

According to Kuo, Apple will become increasingly dependent on TSMC in the years to come due to TSMC's "superior design and production capabilities" compared to its competitors and the fact that TSMC, unlike Samsung and other Apple suppliers, does not compete with Apple in other markets.

In the future, Kuo believes TSMC will manufacture Apple-designed ARM-based...

Apple today updated its privacy website to reflect the latest measures it has implemented in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave to protect customers.

For example, the new page reflects that all apps submitted or updated on the App Store now require a privacy policy, a requirement that went into effect October 3. Apple already required a privacy policy for apps that accessed personal information, but even basic apps that do not share data must have one now.

In iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, Apple's so-called Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature has been improved. Now, when third-party tracking sites attempt to create cookies or store data, they can do so only with your explicit consent.

In macOS Mojave, Apple has made it...

The latest Mac mini, introduced on October 16, 2014, is four years old as of this week. For emphasis, it has been 1,462 days since the portable desktop computer was last updated, according to the MacRumors Buyer's Guide.

The current lineup, still sold on Apple.com, features five-generation-old Intel dual-core Haswell processors with clock speeds up to 3.0GHz. Other tech specs include up to 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM, up to 1TB of flash storage, and the choice of Intel HD Graphics 5000 or Intel Iris integrated graphics. Prices start at $499.

The good news is that the long wait for an update may be coming to an end, as two reliable sources in Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and...

The top 10 iPhone apps globally and for the UK for September have been published

In September, Patently Apple posted a report titled "Samsung Officially opened a new AI Center in New York Today, their Second in the U.S and Sixth around the World." Today we're learning that Samsung Electronics is planning to open their seventh artificial intelligence research center, this time in Montreal.

Yesterday Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Granted a Second Patent for a Folding iPhone focused on a new Flexible Hinge and something very interesting." The report noted that "As smartphones continue to introduce larger and larger phablet sizes, there will come a point where introducing a folding smartphone will make sense, especially with mobile TV on 5G networks on the way." We're now learning that Lenovo is now thinking that they'll skip foldable smartphones and leap straight into delivering a foldable tablet in 2019.

In Unison, announcements rolled out yesterday from Apple (WebKit), Mozilla, Microsoft and Google stating that they will disable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 by March 2020 on their respective browsers Safari, Firefox, Edge and Chrome.

Last Thursday Patently Apple posted a report titled "China's Alipay Reports that Hackers have Taken Money from Accounts using Stolen Apple ID's." Ant Financial's Alipay, the operator of one of China's top two mobile payment apps, said hackers had taken an unknown amount of money from accounts using stolen Apple Inc IDs and the issue remained unresolved despite reaching out to Apple. Today we're learning that Apple officially apologized.

Apple this morning added a new "Skyline" collection of Beats Studio 3 Wireless Headphones to its online Apple Store, with a selection of new color options.

The Skyline Studio 3 Wireless Headphones come in Crystal Blue, Desert Sand, Midnight Black, and Shadow Grey. All of the colors feature gold accents with a gold beats logo and gold band.

Studio 3 Wireless Headphones feature Apple's Pure Adaptive Noise Canceling technology, designed to block external noise when listening. They are also equipped with an Apple W1 chip that's designed to make it easy to switch between devices when listening, and thanks to the efficiency of the chip, the Studio 3 Headphones last for 22 hours on one charge for all-day listening.

Like Apple's other Studio 3 Wireless Headphones,...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 59 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover Millimeter Wave Yagi Antennas that could be used in future 5G Ready iDevices and the 'raise gesture' for Apple Watch. Apple also won design patents for the iPhone ...

In January 2017 Patently Apple posted a report titled "The U.S. Fair Trade Commission Sues Qualcomm for Forcing Apple to use its Chips in iDevices." The ruling for that case was close at hand when Qualcomm and the FTC asked the judge to delay his ruling as the two parties try to find a settlement.

Apple was granted a patent covering a folding iPhone back in November 2016. Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark published Apple's second granted patent for Apple's folding iPhone. As smartphones continue to introduce larger and larger phablet sizes, there will come a point where introducing a folding smartphone will make sense, especially with mobile TV on 5G networks on the way.

In the last 24 hours we've read about Goldman Sachs pointing to iPhone sales in China "rapidly slowing down" and then Ming-Chi Kuo stating that the iPhone XR will be a smash hit and now Apple's supply chain is weighing in nervously about iPhone sales. It's difficult to know whether these iPhone jitters are real or politically motivated.

Apple's design chief Sir Jonathan Ive was interviewed at the Wired25 summit today by Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Condé Nast and longtime editor of Vogue, talked about everything from Apple's penchant for secrecy to the social and civic responsibilities of tech giants

Early this morning the news broke that Goldman Sachs was seeing a rapid slowdown in iPhone demand in China. Of course that was relating to Apple's higher end iPhone XS models. To counter that negative report, a top analyst over at Hong Kong's TF International Securities Group says that Apple's iPhone XR model, the lowest priced iPhone for 2018, that starts pre-orders on Friday will be a smash hit.

Although Samsung launched their Galaxy Note 9 in early August, word is already out that their 2019 Galaxy Note 10 will sport a 6.66" display; a numeric size that might spook some evangelicals. Our report also covers other features that might be on the way for the Note 10

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He met with Steve Wozniak for the first time in 2017.

In July Patently Apple posted a report titled "Adobe confirms that Creatives will be able to run Photoshop on Apple's iPad Pro in the Not-Too-Distant Future." At the time Adobe's Belsky added that "Newer versions of the iPad Pro are now powerful enough to support Adobe's apps." Today at Adobe MAX, their biggest event of the year, Adobe previewed Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) on iPad, Project Aero, a tool that enables creators to design AR experiences and more.

Google's newest flagship smartphones, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, are officially launching later this week. With their high-quality cameras, fast processors, and other improvements, the new devices are direct competitors to Apple's newly released iPhone XS models.

We were able to get our hands on the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL ahead of their debut, and in our latest YouTube video, we compared the Google Pixel 3 XL camera to Apple's iPhone XS Max camera to see which one reigns supreme.

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Both the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL are equipped with a single-lens 12-megapixel rear camera system, while the iPhone XS Max uses a dual-lens camera system that features a 12-megapixel wide-angle lens and a 12-megapixel telephoto lens.

The two camera system allows the...

TCL is a company that started out in China and sold more than 20 million TVs worldwide last year. The company is now entering the US smartphone market under the 'PALM' brand that it acquired from HP. Well, technically, it's an Android smartphone accessory. It's a phone but not a phone. Our report explains with it is exactly. For sure Apple will be keeping an eye on the success of this all-new phone accessory that just might catch on in certain circles.

Apple design chief Jony Ive sat down with Vogue's Anna Wintour this morning for an interview at WIRED's 25th anniversary event, where he talked about secrecy at Apple, his future with the company, and more.

WIRED didn't stream the event, but CNET's Shara Tibken and Washington Post's Geoffrey Fowler were on hand and shared details on what Ive had to say on Twitter.

Image via Shara Tibken

On the topic of iPhone addiction, Ive said that it's good to be connected, but the "real issue" is what's done with that connection. According to Ive, when it comes to innovating, it's impossible to predict all of the consequences. "In my experience, there have been surprising consequences," he said. "Some fabulous and some less so."

Apple introduces new features like Screen Time...

Demand for the iPhone XR will be higher than demand for the iPhone 8 last year, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reiterated in a note to investors this morning.

Kuo is predicting better than expected replacement demand for iPhone XR along with improved supply starting in October, leading him to revise his predicted shipment estimates.

Apple is now expected to ship 36 to 38 million iPhone XR units in the fourth quarter of 2018, up 10 percent from an original estimate of 33 to 35 million units.

As he said last week in a note about the XR driving upgrades in China, Kuo is expecting the iPhone XR to outsell the iPhone 8 because of its larger display, longer battery life, dual-SIM support, and new form...

Late on Friday, CNBC had posted a report that Tesla's CEO Elon Musk had filed for the "Teslaquila" trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While it had started off as an April Fool's joke, it looks like Musk may be seriously thinking about it as Tesla's trademark filing for a brand of tequila has surfaced

Zimmer Biomet, a company that develops joint replacement products, today announced that it is working with Apple to improve patient experience with Apple Watch and iPhone following knee and hip replacements.

A new Zimmer Biomet mymobility app uses the Apple Watch to "facilitate a new level of connection" between patients and their doctors as they recover from major joint replacement surgery. Through the app, patients will be provided with "support and guidance" while preparing for and recovering from surgery, with surgeons able to use the data to "optimize care."

In addition to collecting activity data and allowing surgeons to see recovery progress, the app can be used to send education and therapy reminders directly to patients.

Zimmer Biomet is launching a clinical study to...

Goldman Sachs is telling clients that Apple's earnings results may end up disappointing investors thanks to a marked deterioration in Chinese demand for iPhones. "There are multiple signs of rapidly slowing consumer demand in China ...

AI is a key area of technology Apple is expanding into and today we're learning that Apple has acquired music analytics start-up Asaii. The three principles of the company have all joined Apple as their LinkedIn profiles prove out.

Unboxed Therapy, like Marques Brownlee, covers all-things-Android in order to stay viable. By reviewing all brands of Android phones they're both able to review the iPhone with a more honest view because they're not beholden to Apple like some Apple blogs are. Today Lewis Hilsenteger reviews the iPhone XS Max. Will he be fair?