Apple TV+ has emerged as a prominent force in the streaming wars, captivating audiences with its high-quality original programming. The service has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal following, attracting subscribers worldwide. In recent years, Apple TV+ has significantly expanded its original programming slate and broadened its global reach, solidifying its position as a leading streaming platform. (more…)

Apple's Coconut Point store in Florida, one of the smallest Apple Store locations, has closed for renovations — and possibly an expansion.Coconut Point Apple Store renovations [left, Jacob Eberhart], and Apple's store listing photo [right]The Coconut Point Apple Store is one of the smallest of Apple's outlets in the world. However, it may lose that claim in the future, depending on how Apple renovates the storefront. Read more...

With the iPhone 14 last fall, Apple unveiled its new Emergency SOS via satellite feature that allows users to contact emergency services and send short text messages without a cellular connection. Apple is working with Globalstar on its satellite technology, and in a new FCC filing, Globalstar hints at an expansion of iPhone satellite features. more… The post Apple partner hints at potential satellite internet features for iPhone appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Apple's Mac Pro isn't the only Mac in the lineup that can use PCIe expansion cards. Here are the best PCIe chassis expansion enclosures you can use to expand nearly every Mac made in the last seven years.PCIe cardWith Apple launching the brand new Mac Pro with not only the M2 Ultra processor under the hood, but also PCIe expansion built right in, there's refreshed attention being put on PCIe cards. Read more...

More than two years after Apple announced plans to invest over $1 billion in North Carolina with over half of that investment going towards a new engineering and research center in the Research Triangle area of Raleigh and Durham, the company has finally filed development plans for the first phase with local authorities. Assemblage of seven properties in Research Triangle Park owned by Apple As shared by the Triangle Business Journal, the 41-acre initial phase at Research Triangle Park will include six buildings and a parking garage totaling 700,000 square feet of office space, 190,000 square feet of accessory space, and almost 3,000 parking spaces. Among the structures in the first phase are three office buildings with the largest coming…

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,…