Apple supplier Wistron is preparing to expand its India-based iPhone manufacturing, with production geared towards the next-generation iPhone SE, according to local sources (via Focus Taiwan). Apple is hoping to build its share of the Indian smartphone market by giving Wistron the majority of the orders for the new iPhone SE, which is said to ship in the first quarter of 2018.
I think Spring 2018 is the make-or-break it spot for the SE. I have trouble seeing Apple letting it go longer than two years without an update — if it’s going to be updated at all.
When I was done with the project, I realized I had a problem. After moving into my at-home studio, I just didn’t have space for all 13 of the iMacs.
I was torn on what to do. I could have sold some of them, but I knew that having the whole set was something special. I didn’t want to stick them in storage and have them slowly rot away, either.
I reached out to Kristen Gallerneaux, the Curator of Communications and Information Technology at The Henry Ford Museum. I interviewed her in 2016 for the Apple I’s 40th anniversary, and we really hit it off. I sent her a note, hoping The Henry Ford would be interested in the set.
Turns out, they were, and several months ago, the iMacs were packed up and sent on their way to Dearborn.
I miss having the iMacs in my office, but I am thrilled to have them in the Museum’s collection. All 13 will remain together in the Museum’s permanent collection.
To those of you who sent me your iMacs, thank you. The project was incredibly fun, and your desire to have your machines enjoy a good home is truer now than ever.
“This is a huge bet,” he said, describing how once or twice a year he gathered the top 100 people at the company—“not the top 100 in the org chart but if you were going to have 100 people on a rowboat with you, who would you want?”—to figure out big strategic issues. The previous year, he said, he had opened the meeting with a speech: “Our revenues have doubled in the last two years,” he told his team. “And our stock price is high and our shareholders are happy. We have a lot of momentum. And a lot of people think, ‘It’s really great, we’ve got a lot to lose, let’s play it safe.’ That’s the most dangerous thing we can do. We have to get bolder, because we have world class competitors now and we just can’t stand still.” The bold move was the Nano, replacing the wildly popular iPod mini with an even tinier, full-featured, color-screened successor. “We call this a heart transplant—stop one production line, start another. It’s amazing, and the team has done brilliantly and pulled it off.”
“With revenue up 7 percent year-over-year, we’re happy to report our third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth and an all-time quarterly record for Services revenue,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We hosted an incredibly successful Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and we’re very excited about the advances in iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS coming this fall.”
Here are some details from the results and the call:
International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarter’s revenue. 75% of Apple Pay transactions take place outside of the U.S.
Revenue in China slipped 10%, continuing a slowing in that market.
This marks the first year-over-year growth the iPad has seen since Q1 2013/Q1 2014. Over 1 million units were sold to educational institutions this quarter.
This is the biggest quarter for Apple’s “Services” division, while “Other Products” keeps chugging along. Q4 will be the first quarter without iPod shuffle and iPod nano revenue. I expect to see no change in the number, lol/crying.
Speaking of “Other,” Apple Watch sales are “up 50%,” but no concrete numbers were given.
Apple still struggling to catch up with AirPod demand, but devices have “98% customer satisfaction.”
ARKit was praised by Tim Cook, who thinks it’ll make a difference across education, entertainment, the enterprise and more. iOS 11 will make iOS the world’s “largest AR platform.”
Apple Pay continuing to roll out to new countries this year.
After going over some last-minute eclipse planning notes, Stephen and Jason start a new series looking at NASA’s pre-shuttle crewed missions, starting with testing for Project Mercury and America’s first astronauts.
I’m really excited about this series walking through Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
Well, this is very interesting. Apple software wizard Steve Troughton-Smith spent some time digging though a firmware download for HomePod. In it is some information about Face ID, a rumored feature of the next iPhone:
I can confirm reports that HomePod’s firmware reveals the existence of upcoming iPhone’s infra-red face unlock in BiometricKit and elsewhere pic.twitter.com/yLsgCx7OTZ
Balance is a powerful menubar app for your money built by a team from Apple, Stripe and Ethereum. It was featured in the U.S. Mac App Store when it launched in February.
Securely connect to your accounts
Balance uses Plaid.com, the best API for securely accessing your financial data. It gives the app a read-only token to access your account history.
Quickly check your balances
With one click or keyboard shortcut you can pop open Balance and check all of your accounts. Lock the app with a password or TouchID.
Speedily search through your transactions
As a native app with local data storage, Balance is super fast. Quickly search through all of your downloaded transactions with powerful filters.
Powerful notification engine
Balance is Hazel for money. You can create rules to trigger useful notifications to help you stay on top of your finances.
One subscription, coming to all of Apple’s platforms
The basic plan starts at $4.99 / month. Balance is launching on iOS and watchOS later this year, and is also building a full windowed app for macOS. Early customers will get access to betas for all of these.
My thanks to FlightLogger for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week.
With FlightLogger, you can get real-time flight tracking for updates on departure and arrival times, delays, cancellations, gate and baggage claim information.
Add your flights on your iPhone and your flight information will be automatically synced to your iPad and Apple Watch all with an easy-to-use and clutter-free interface.
