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• Apple Cinemas may come to regret their name as lawyers step in

  Apple has filed a lawsuit against the movie theater Apple Cinemas over what it says is a deliberate attempt to capitalize on its name.
  
  

  
  An Apple Cinema displaying the company's logo — image credit; Apple

  
  It's not usually a surprise when a corporation sues to protect its name or trademarks, and usually it's more unexpected when they fail. But Apple Cinemas opened its first theater in 2013, and it was founded in 2010, yet Apple seemingly left it alone until now.
  
  That's because up until recently, Apple Cinemas was a small chain based in Massachusetts. But in the course of an initially quite slow expansion, it opened a theater in San Fransisco in July 2025, and apparently that was too close to home for Apple.
  
  
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• Newton's August 1993 launch set the stage for what would become the iPad and iPhone

  Apple's Newton handheld computer was both the company's biggest failure and its greatest peek into the future. More than thirty years after its launch, AppleInsider reminisces about what Newton was, what it meant, and where it went wrong.
  
  

  
  Back in 1993, Apple's press officers did the rounds of every technology magazine there was. When they reached one in London, they had the speech down pat. In particular, they knew how to fend off criticisms by asking questions first.
  
  "What do you think it should have next?" they asked, subtly telling us more versions were coming and buttering up our egos. "Backlighting or color?" Without exception, the ten or so journalists in that office all said "backlighting" in unison.
  
  It wasn't a bad choice. Newton never would get color but it did get backlighting with the MessagePad 130 in 1996.
  
  
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• US fears iPhone supplier BOE is a Chinese military company

  An extra measure has been added to the proposed US defense budget that would see iPhone screen supplier BOE being investigated as a firm that potentially aids China's military.
  
  

  
  BOE is an iPhone display supplier

  
  BOE is the firm that despite once losing all its Apple orders over making unauthorized manufacturing changes, has become a significant supplier of iPhone displays and is expanding its facilities in the hopes of growing still further. It's also facing a potential ban from the US International Trade Commission (ITC), and could now be the subject of a defense investigation.
  
  According to Reuters, the investigation has been added to the US defense budget currently under review. The budget is a bipartisan $852 billion defense spending plan for 2026, and has so far been passed by key committees in both houses of Congress.
  
  
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• All hands on deck: Tim Cook, Craig Federighi address Apple employees on AI, Siri

  On Friday afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook and senior vice president Craig Federighi addressed Apple Park employees, discussing the scope and scale of artificial intelligence, Siri, and the road forward for Apple.
  
  

  
  Craig Federighi and Tim Cook at WWDC

  
  Less than a day after Apple blew away Wall Street's expectations for the quarter, Tim Cook and Craig Federighi held a all-hands meeting with Apple on Friday. The topics were wide-ranging, with a focus on the Apple Intelligence efforts that have come under fire from analysts, and other talking heads.
  
  "Apple must do this. Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab," Cook said about artificial intelligence during the meeting, according to Bloomberg's accounting on Friday. "We will make the investment to do it."
  
  
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• This Japanese band used 40 iPhones to make a music video

  There's a new music video out that uses about $40,000 in iPhones that doubles as a practical Shot on iPhone demo.
  
  

  
  Kroi uses 40 iPhones to film new music video

  
  Kroi, a Japanese multi-genre band based out of Tokyo, has used 40 iPhone 16 Pros to shoot the music video for their newest song, "Method."
  
  As a treat for fans, they also created a short video showcasing how the band set up the devices to make it happen. Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Greg "Joz" Joswiak, shared the behind-the-scenes video via X.
  
  
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• Blood oxygen sensing shows no sign of returning to Apple Watch any time soon

  Apple removed blood oxygen monitoring from the Apple Watch in early 2024. Somebody has to blink for it to return, and it looks like neither Masimo nor Apple are going to budge.
  
  

  
  Blood oxygen monitoring, sometimes seen as pulse oximetry, is a non-invasive way of measuring the oxygen saturation level (SpO2) in your blood. Apple added it to Apple Watch with the Apple Watch Series 6.
  
  This is what we know so far.
  
  

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• Weekend sale: M4 Mac mini with 24GB RAM drops to $699

  The weekend Mac mini deal delivers a $100 price drop on the current M4 model with a bump up to 24GB of unified memory.
  
  

  
  Get Apple's latest M4 Mac mini with 24GB RAM for $699.

  
  The current Mac mini with Apple's 10-core M4 chip is on sale for $699 at Apple Authorized Reseller B&H Photo this weekend thanks to a $100 instant rebate.
  
  Buy M4 Mac mini 24GB/256GB for $699
  
  
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• Slim battery leak is really for the iPhone 17 Pro [u]

  A new series of leaked images that was claimed to show the battery for the expected iPhone 17 Air, is now instead to be one of two battery versions for the iPhone 17 Pro.
  
  

  
  iPhone 16 Pro teardown [YouTube/iFixit]

  
  The iPhone 17 Air is expected to achieve its slim profile both through redesigned components, and a compromise on the battery life of the device. Leaker Majin Bu claimed to have images of the battery, and to also know its capacity.
  
  

  iPhone 17 Air New Battery Design Revealed
  
  Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible
  
  
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• Apple didn't need AI -- but it did need China -- to beat analysts' doom and gloom

  Apple has reported record revenues and done so with success in three key areas, none of which required Apple Intelligence, which analysts insisted the company needed to concentrate on. Here's how the quarter compares.
  
  

  
  As ever, it was the iPhone's success that really drove Apple's earnings.

  
  Tim Cook has previously said that after an earnings call, he talks a walk across Apple Park to decompress. This time, it's possible he skipped, because Apple reported earning $94 billion when analysts predicted a possible high of $92.1 billion, but also a possible low of $86.9 billion.
  
  Perhaps those analysts all then went out for a drink together to discuss how they went so wrong. But they're very rarely perfectly right, and every analysts' report seen by AppleInsider since the results has had a "yeah, but" tone.
  
  
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• iPhone 17 out in public, blockbuster earnings, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

  Apple defied Wall Street with earnings, and almost in parallel, the company intentionally released the iOS 26 public beta and inadvertently showed us an iPhone 17. We talk about it all, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
  
  

  
  Inset: an iPhone 17 seen in the wild

  
  If you ever doubted the rumors of the iPhone 17 range getting a camera bar — and originally, it did seem doubtful — then you have to accept now since one has been seen in the wild. It was spotted in just enough of a shaky long-distance shot that it's spawned conspiracy theories, but it's an iPhone with a camera bar.
  
  And this week so many iPhones are going to have got the new iOS 26 for the first time as Apple released the public beta of it, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and more. Don't do it to yourself, though: wait until it's all officially released around September.
  
  
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