Citi Research analyst Atif Malik late Thursday initiated coverage of Apple stock with a “Buy” rating and a $240 price target. Emily Bary for MarketWatch: “We believe the Street is underestimating continued gross margin expansion,” he wrote in his note to clients, which was titled: “A Hardware Company That Thinks Like a Software Company.” Malik is upbeat about Apple’s AAPL ability to expand margins by continuing to drive consumers toward more expensive devices and configurations. Plus, Apple boasts “resilient market share,” with gains against Android devices, and it’s poised to lower its own costs thanks to a move to design its own custom chips. “Moreover, growing higher-margin services sales mix should help expand the overall corporate gross margins,” Malik continued,…

Doing laundry will be made simpler using iOS 17, as the Photos app will gain the ability to recognize and provide explanations for laundry symbols. Here's how to use it.Visual Look Up expands to include laundry careApple has steadily been approving its Visual Look Up functionality in the Photos app. It's a feature introduced by Apple in iOS 15 and later versions. Read more...

Macworld When Apple launched iOS 15 back in 2021, the updated software included a new feature in Photos called Visual Look Up. This neat AI-powered tool can recognize animals, plants, and landmarks in your photos, and provide information about them when tapped. Here’s how it works: When you open a picture of some greenery in Photos, for example, you’ll notice a couple of small stars next to the information icon in the bottom bar, which means iOS has spotted something it recognizes. Tap the icon and you’ll quickly be told that the nearest tree is probably a European ash. Very handy, albeit within a relatively small number of spheres. Foundry But two years on, Apple is expanding the usefulness of…

Macworld When Apple launched iOS 15 back in 2021, the updated software included a new feature in Photos called Visual Look Up. This neat AI-powered tool can recognize animals, plants, and landmarks in your photos, and provide information about them when tapped. Here’s how it works: When you open a picture of some greenery in Photos, for example, you’ll notice a couple of small stars next to the information icon in the bottom bar, which means iOS has spotted something it recognizes. Tap the icon and you’ll quickly be told that the nearest tree is probably a European ash. Very handy, albeit within a relatively small number of spheres. Foundry But two years on, Apple is expanding the usefulness of…

The European Union is to hear Apple's argument on Friday, against an anti-steering accusation that was initiated by Spotify, and could lead to an almost $40 billion fine.Spotify's App Store icon (left), Apple Music (right)Back in 2019, Spotify complained to the EU that Apple was abusing its monopoly by forcing developers to use the App Store's payment system. At the same time, the music streamer claimed that Apple was also unfairly denying it the ability to inform users of lower prices on its website. Read more...

Hulu users are growing increasingly frustrated with a long-running bug affecting the ability to watch content in full-screen on iPhone. Hulu says that it has been investigating this bug for over a month, but a fix hasn’t been released, but there is a temporary workaround available. more… The post Hulu for iPhone full-screen mode has been broken for nearly a month, many users say appeared first on 9to5Mac.