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Apple was the number two smartphone vendor in the world during the 2018 holiday quarter with an estimated 68.4 million iPhones shipped, according to new data shared today by IDC. IDC’s new iPhone shipment estimates come one day after Apple’s Q1 2019 earnings call, which corresponds to the fourth calendar quarter of 2018. Apple no longer provides unit sales of iPhone, iPad, and Mac, leaving it to analysts to guess just how…

New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Andrew Cuomo are investigating the FaceTime eavesdropping bug on iOS devices that allowed a person to FaceTime another person and hear conversations and see videos even when the call was not answered. According to Bloomberg, the New York officials will be focusing on Apple’s failure to warn consumers about the bug and its slow response. How the FaceTime eavesdropping bug worked The FaceTime eavesdropping…

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Apple is working on an updated version of the $329 6th-generation iPad and a new, cheaper iPad mini, Bloomberg today confirmed in an extensive report on Apple’s future product plans. The new version of the iPad will feature a “roughly 10-inch screen,” which would be slightly larger than the 9.7-inch model that is currently available. The device is also expected to have a faster processor and a Lightning port instead of a…

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Apple’s iOS 13 operating system, which will likely be previewed this summer at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, will include a number of major updates that iOS users have been desiring for years. According to Bloomberg, iOS 13 will include a dark mode to match the dark mode that was first introduced on macOS with macOS Mojave. It will allow for “easier nighttime viewing.” Improvements to the CarPlay interface are expected, and…

Apple is already facing its first lawsuit over the FaceTime eavesdropping bug that was discovered just last night, reports Bloomberg. Houston lawyer Larry Williams II today filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that his iPhone allowed an unknown person to listen in on sworn testimony during a client deposition. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. He is suing Apple for unspecified punitive damages for negligence, product liability, misrepresentation, and…

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Apple in August 2018 forced Facebook to remove its Onavo VPN app from the App Store, because Facebook was using it to track user activity and data across multiple apps, something that violate’s Apple’s App Store policies. As it turns out, Facebook has found an underhanded way to skirt Apple’s rules and get people to continue installing its VPN — paying them. TechCrunch this afternoon exposed Facebook’s “Project Atlas” program, in which…

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Apple shipped an estimated 65.9 million iPhones during the first fiscal quarter of 2019 (aka the fourth calendar quarter of 2018) according to new data shared today by Strategy Analytics. As of this quarter, Apple is no longer providing a breakdown of unit sales of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so we will not have concrete data on how well the iPhone is selling going forward. Apple in Q1 2018 sold 77.3…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook today commented on the opportunities Apple sees in the video market, though he declined to provide details on the company’s specific plans. Cook said that Apple sees “huge changes” taking place in customer behavior, which the company expects to “accelerate as the year goes by.” Specifically, Cook said that Apple is expecting an acceleration of the breakdown of the cable bundle. “I think it’ll likely take place at…

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Apple appears to have disabled Group FaceTime on its server side as a temporary workaround for a major bug discovered today that allowed anyone who places a FaceTime call to listen to audio from the recipient without them answering the call. The bug even extended to video in some circumstances. As spotted by Mark Gurman, Apple’s system status page now says “Group FaceTime is temporarily unavailable” as of 7:16 p.m. Pacific Time….

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Apple is aiming to have its video streaming service ready for launch in mid-April, reports The Information. The tidbit about Apple’s service was shared in a wider piece on Amazon’s plans for Amazon Prime Video. According to the report, Apple has been telling entertainment companies who will have content available through the service to be ready for a launch in mid-April. A release date is said to be planned within a few…