A series of leaked images show what could be dummy units of Apple’s upcoming 6.5-inch “iPhone X Plus” and mid-tier 6.1-inch LCD iPhone. Benjamin Geskin has leaked the pictures, as he has in the past, only a few months ahead of Apple’s usual fall iPhone launch. Dummy units are usually based on chassis design schematics […]
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Straight from the depths of Rumorville, Chinese site Chongdiantou has photos of what it claims is an engineering sample of Apple’s new 18W USB-C power adapter. The site claims the pictures emerged from somewhere within Apple’s supply chain and that the USB-C power adapter will ship with the 2018 model iPhones.
The next-gen iPhone may ship a bit later than usual. A new rumor has it that the upcoming handset will likely be available to pre-order in September, but deliveries of the 5.8-inch model will not begin until “several weeks later” according to longtime Apple analyst Brian White. White issued the following comments in his research […]
The position that Apple CEO Tim Cook once held has been filled. On December 17th, Apple announced that Jeff Williams was named the new Chief Operating Officer. Williams joined Apple in 1998 as head of worldwide procurement and in 2004 he was named vice president of Operations. Since 2010 he has overseen Apple’s entire supply […]
The current guesstimate is that Apple has sold almost 7 million Apple Watch units since the device’s launch in late April, thereby trouncing competing smartwatch products from firms like Pebble, Samsung and Motorola. This figure comes from analyst Daniel Matte of Canalys, who said that “After experiencing significant supply chain constraints early on, Apple managed […]