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Panasonic Adds Apple TV to 2017-21 Sets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatPanelsHD reported that Panasonic has added support for Apple TV+ on 2017-2021 OLED and LCD TVs that have the ‘My Home Screen’ platform in Europe. What We Think It’s unusual to …

Tags:Apple| Panasonic| Streaming Video| SVOD

Apple Planning Five New Macs?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said in his Power On newsletter that Apple will have a new iPad Pro with wireless charging, as well as updates to the iPad Air and entry-level iPad. …

Tags:Apple| iPad

Apple reportedly warns of slowing demand for iPhones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that Apple has told suppliers that it is seeing weaker demand for the iPhone 13 range. As they have got hard to get because of supply chain shortages, consumers …

Tags:Apple| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market| Supply Chain

Standalone Apple AR headset to launch in late 2022 claims analyst

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacRumors & 9to5Mac have seen a report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that suggests that the much rumoured Apple AR headset will be launched in a year’s time in Q4 2022 and …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| MiniLED| Virtual Reality

Creating color from blue miniLEDs. Investigating the inner workings of Apple’s new iPad and MacBook Pro

by Peter Palomaki

With miniLEDs now squarely in the passing lane as the next big display revolution, it’s important to consider how these miniLEDs are currently being implemented in LCD technology. More specifically, how they are creating …

Tags:Apple| Phosphors| Quantum Dots| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Apple Open to User Repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We have been following the Apple repair topic and now the firm has said that it will have a ‘Self Service Repair’ programme that will allow some repairs to devices at …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair

Links Week Commencing 15th November 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. One UI 4 Update Delivers an Elevated …

Apple said to be developing next-gen ‘privacy glasses’ and new Face ID for 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Patently Apple noted that Apple has applied for a patent for glasses that can detect the identity of the user and automatically correct for vision defects associated with the user. The …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Privacy

Apple Says It Will Fix Face ID Failure on Third-Party Screen Repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported recently on problems for third party repairers after failures with Face ID after the change of displays (iFixit confirms iPhone 13 disables Face ID after third-party screen repair). However …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair| Smartphones| warranty

iFixit confirms iPhone 13 disables Face ID after third-party screen repair

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit reports that the iPhone13 ‘completely disables’ its flagship Face ID functionality when you replace its screen. The tests have been duplicated by other repairers. The blog said “The iPhone 13 …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Right to Repair| warranty

Meta to Retail Headsets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times reported that Meta has discussed possibly opening retail stores (probably to be called Meta Store) globally to promote its VR and, later, AR hardware. Work on the …

Tags:Apple| Facebook/Meta| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Apple’s Extended Warranty Programme Gets Even Bigger

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week estimated that “the world’s largest extended warranty program(me)” run by Apple has reached a level of around $8.5 billion upo 20% in 2021. Despite the growth in its warranty …

Tags:Apple| warranty