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Apple releases watchOS 6.1.3, watchOS 5.3.5 updates, chases down irregular heart rhythm notification bug for Icelandic users

It’s generally never a bad idea to snag an operating system update. If you live in Iceland and own a recent model Apple Watch, you’ll want this one. Apple on Tuesday released its watchOS 6.1.3 update, which includes bug fixes, improvements, and a critical fix for an issue that prevented the irregular heart rhythm notification […]

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Apple announces that it will miss quarterly guidance, iPhone sales estimates, due to coronavirus outbreak

Even a giant can be temporarily hobbled by sickness. Apple has revised its quarterly guidance downward not just a as a result of lowered sales in China because of the coronavirus, but also because of production problems in the country that are just now starting to be overcome. The company issued the following statement on […]

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Apple said to be designing 5G iPhone antenna component for 2020 model iPhones after passing on Qualcomm’s version

When in doubt, build it yourself. Apple is said to be designing the antenna that will be used in ints 5G iPhones in-house after being unhappy with a version designed by Qualcomm. Apple reportedly “balked” at the design of the QTM 525 5G millimeter-wave antenna moduleoffered by Qualcomm because it “doesn’t fit into the sleek industrial […]

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Coronavirus continues to impact Foxconn’s Zhengzhou iPhone manufacturing plant, only 10 percent of workers estimated to have returned

It only takes a viral outbreak to throw things pretty far out of whack. More than a week after shutting down all stores and offices in China as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Apple supplier Foxconn was approved to resume production at its Zhengzhou manufacturing plant. According to an anonymous source with direct knowledge, […]

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Foxconn staff ordered to stay away from Shenzhen factory due to Coronavirus outbreak

Apple, like other companies, is feeling the effect of the coronavirus outbreak. To this point, key iPhone assembler Foxconn has told its workers to stay away from its Shenzhen factory. The moratorium referents a noted effort by Apple’s chief supplier to curb the efforts of the outbreak, which has paralyzed much of China’s manufacturing. Shenzhen […]