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Apple Explains the Pro XDR Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Apple launched its Pro Display XDR in June 2019 (Apple Pro Display XDR has 6K and HDR) and drew quite a few comments for the price of its stand ($999!), but there was relatively …

Tags:Apple| Colour Critical Monitors| LCD Backlights| MiniLED| Optics

Apple Fined…Again, and how Manufacturers use Dynamic Operation to Pass Tests

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has been find €10 million in Italy for overstating its claims about waterproofing products. The company made claims about the depth and time that products would work, but these were …

Tags:Apple| Consumer Electronics Industry| Litigation| Testing

Yoeri Geutskens Updates HDR Tracker Dolby Vision based on HLG?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yoeri Geutskens has published the latest update to his very useful HDR Ecosystem Tracker. In the article he explained that although Apple said that the iPhone 12 can capture HDR in …

Tags:Apple| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range

Apple VR headset may use fluid-filled lenses to counter a user’s bad eyesight.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AppleInsider reported on a patent from Apple for an optical system for a VR headset that uses fluid-filled lenses to accomodate the eyesight of different users. In the patent titled “Electronic …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Apple wants to push on with its own processors and is developing new chips that are intended to significantly outperform high end Intel-based systems. The new chips, expected …

Tags:Apple| Arm| CPUs| GPUs

Analyst Points to Big MiniLED Push by Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that as part of Apple’s miniLED push, the company will release a pair of new MacBook Pro models in 2021 with the technology — and a …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Notebooks

Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are some links for the week that might be interesting, but do not need much of a comment Global semiconductor sales grow in October, says SIA Smartphone OLED prices to drop from oversupply: …

Warranty Week on High Tech

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week did its annual round-up of warranty provision and finance in the US high-tech industries. The blog highlights the differences between 2020 and the pattern in 2008/9 and comes to …

Tags:Apple| warranty

Future MacBook Pros could add Force Touch to the Touch Bar

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TechRadar reported, based on information from Patently Apple, that Apple has a new patent that covers adding Force Touch to the Touch Bar used on the Mac Book Pro. The force-sensing …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks| Touch Interfaces

M1 MacBook Teardowns: Something Old, Something New

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit tore down the new MacBooks based on the in-house M1 processor and found the design is very similar to previous models (especially the Pro), with the main change being in …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks

Apple, Xiaomi, and OPPO Outperformed the Smartphone Market in Western Europe in Q3 2020, Say IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The smartphone market in Western Europe continued to be impacted by lockdowns in the third quarter of 2020, as shipments declined 6.5% year over year to 28.8 million units, according to data from International …