The Core: Apple; TLDR (June 21)
A quiet weekend? Perhaps, but news of the first M6 Macs seems to be landing as we still try to come to terms with M5, while wider tech industry continues to grapple with AI-drive component price increases, which consumers now will pay for.
Apple plans M6 Macs this fall
Apple plans fall launch for first M6 Macs: MacBook Ultra and redesigned MacBook Pro. As the graph shows, Apple’s processors now gain more performance in a year than they once did in a decade, pre-Apple Silicon.
Tim Cook makes Barron’s top CEO’s
“Apple’s Tim Cook has kept hardware and services minting money while buying Siri time by partnering with OpenAI. He steps down Sept. 1, leaving hardware engineer John Ternus in charge.”
Flagship phone cancelled due to rising RAM costs
Nothing has cancelled its CMF Phone Pro 2 successor due to rising RAM costs. Component proice increases damage the industry.
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Perhaps they really are listening?
Apple has fixed a – complex, expensive – Beats Studio Buds flaw that let hackers listen to people’s conversations, though this likely only hit “high-value” targets.
Apple wins in China
The Shanghai High People’s Court dismissed Chinese AI firm Xiao-I (AIXI) in a long-running patent dispute with Apple over the Siri, firm will appeal.
Apple shuts shop
Close stores in Trumbull, Connecticut, Escondido, California, and Towson, Maryland.
We created iPhone
This eight-year-old video is doing the rounds again. An interview with the team who build the original iPhone twenty years ago.
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