Looking at this week’s news and titles from Apple, including iPhone 17 folding leaks, M4 MacBook Air Launch, iPad Air Upgrade, Brazil Sideoading iOS Apps, Gemini AI, Apple Apels Encryption Sunding, and spring colors are here.
Apple Loop is here to remind you of some of the many discussions about Apple in the last seven days. You can also read my weekly Android news Digest here in Forbes.
Apple MacBook Air M4
M4 MacBook Air feels known
The long -awaited update on the MacBook Air took place this week. Now by sporting the latest M4 apple silicon, the air has teased the community, but the list of features looks somewhat known to those who read MacBook Pro:
“Highlights include the aforementioned M4 chips, doubled RAM in all models to 16 GB, supporting the two exterior screens, and a price drop in $ 999 input models and $ 1,199 per 15-inch. While the Apple will welcome these features, it is not all available in current Mac.”
(Forbes).
IPad makes a small step forward
Also launched in the consumer space are improvements in IPAD and IPAD Air. The tables were two generations behind the silicon IPAD Pro Apple. While they do not have to jump as high as M4 on the MacBook Air, they have grown. Forbes contributor David Phelan take a closer look:
“The main update here is the presentation of a much more powerful processor, with the Apple M2 chip updated in Apple M3 for a faster experience with Apple Intelligence. Apple says the new chip will bring advanced graphic architecture to the iPad Air for the first time, something even better for games, for example.
(Forbes).
iPhone 17 fold adjusts the concept with flaws
$ 2000 for a folding phone. Specifically a folding iPhone. And one that promises Apple will lift the issues of a wrinkle on the screen over the hinges? Apple Ming-Chi Kuo’s observed analyst believes Tim Cook and his team are ready to join the folding world.
“Without wrinkles, you notice. This is the sacred makeup for folding phones, or at least, it has not happened yet, although there have been improvements. It will be made of stainless steel and titanium alloy, with the tyranium layer.
(Forbes).
IOS apps set for Brazilian debut
Apple has fought in Brazilian courts against a movement to open iOS to apply installations outside the closed App Store model. Apple is now given 90 days to do so, with a ruling in Europe cited as supporting evidence that it would not harm the company:
“Judge Pablo Zuniga has ordered that Apple will have to implement the changes required in Brazil within the next three months. The judge states that despite Apple’s claims, the company” has already respected similar obligations in other countries, without demonstrating a significant impact or irreparable damage to its business model. “
(9to5Mac).
Gemini increases iPhone he
While the Apple Intelligence Flounders to get a foundation in the generation world of him, Google has increased the ability to use him on the iPhone, with the start of six new widges that bring Gemini functionality to your phone’s beginner screen.
“The company seems to be making a very deliberate effort to seduce iPhone and iPad users away from Siri-or at least to get people using Gemini instead of Openai chatgt whenever they want to interact with a large language model. Google has also recently advertised Gemini at Apple technology podcast.”
(Verge).
Apple appeals request to the UK in the UK
Following the supposed legal order from the UK government in Apple to allow access to the coded copies of individual users, Tim Bradshaw and Lucy Fisher are reporting to Apple’s appeal to extinguish the order:
“The legal challenge of the Silicon Valley company is believed to be the first time the provisions in the 2016 Investigation Law allowing authorities in the UK to break the encryption of encryption have been tested before the court. The Court of Investigative Powers will consider whether the UK’s announcement was legitimate and if not, it could order it.”
(Ft.com).
And finally …
Just at the time for the hours to move forward for spring, Apple has updated its cases and accessories with a new wave of bright and fiery colors. Cases, viewing straps, are all for a refreshing:
“The classic case of Silicon Apple with Magsafe for the iPhone 16 line now has four other coloring: Aquamarine, Peony, Periwinkle and Tangerine. Cases in these new colors do not fit the iPhone 16e but can accommodate iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max …
“New silicone sports are available in mandates, periwinkle and aquamarine; periwinkle and sage for sports nylon loop gangs; new solo loops relaxed in Peony, Periwinkles, and Northern Lights;
(ZDNET).
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