Apple;TLDR news July 13

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Apple is playing a hand it has spent years putting together: Widening its Mac performance advantage, scooping up smartphone share, and setting the scene to deploy AI across its vast ecosystem, even as it lays the smack down against OpenAI.
Apple plans M7 Ultra for 2027, M5 Ultra this year
May support up to 1.5TB of RAM in M7 Ultra, will ship M6 MacBook Por but skip M6 Pro/Max in favor of M7 series.
Apple acquires SigScalr
Move will likely boost telematic monitoring and app debugging across Apple ecosystem.
Apple is disrupting Open AI with litigation
Apple’s suit against OpenAI may disrupt the latter’s hardware plans.
Apple grabs 20% smartphone share – Omdia
Apple delivered its best second-quarter performance ever, capturing a record-high 20% market share during what traditionally is its slowest quarter of the year.
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