Macworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too. Life after the iPhone Last week a new CIRP report indicated a trend that will be worrying for Apple: the company’s customers are holding on to their iPhones for longer. From 2021 to 2022 the average age of replaced iPhones dropped, but that figure is now heading back towards the peak recorded in March 2021. It would seem that the…

The number of Apple service outages lately seems to have risen to the point where they’ve become almost routine. This isn’t great for any tech giant, but when the ecosystem is such a huge part of the appeal of Apple products, it becomes a far bigger deal … more… The post Apple service outages are at unacceptable level given the importance of the ecosystem appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Macworld Major technological advancements and a new version of macOS are in the not-too-distant future from Apple, and we might get all the details at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. We talk about the Mac and what could happen at WWDC, all in this episode of the Macworld Podcast! This is episode 840 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola. Listen to episode 840 on Apple Podcasts Listen to episode 840 on Spotify Get info  Click on the links below for more information.  Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air: coming soon New Mac Pro: Everything we know so far macOS 14: Everything you need to know before the big WWDC reveal  Subscribe to the Macworld Podcast You can subscribe to the Macworld…

2023 marks eleventh consecutive year of Apple increasing its dividend to shareholders. Though AAPL’s dividend yield is low, its dividend payment will likely continue to grow annually for the foreseeable future. Daniel Sparks for The Motley Fool: While Apple’s financial performance for the period was impressive (particularly considering the macroeconomic headwinds the company is facing) there’s another facet of the update worth exploring: Yet another dividend increase from the tech giant. The dividend hike meant Apple added to its growing streak of increasing its dividend every year. Apple will increase its quarterly dividend by 4%, management revealed in its earnings report on May 4. This new quarterly dividend comes out to $0.24, which equals $0.96 of dividends on an annual…

It looks increasingly likely that major Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will proceed with a factory in Germany. Adding a third continent would make the world’s biggest chipmaker a truly global enterprise, Tim Culpan writes for Bloomberg News. Tim Culpan for Bloomberg News: A site near Dresden in Germany’s northeast is the leading contender as TSMC negotiates with clients, car manufacturers and governments over incentives and costs. A possible venture with NXP Semiconductors NV, Robert Bosch GmbH and Infineon Technologies AG includes state subsidies and would have a budget of at least €7 billion ($7.7 billion), though presumed to be closer to €11 billion, Bloomberg News reported last week. The Hsinchu-based company said it is still assessing the…

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