Jonny Evans

London

Publisher, Editor and Owner at applemust.com

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It’s in the national interest for Apple to design its own silicon – Computerworld - Business And America

5 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Jonny Evans

Apple arguably has the best silicon development team in the world — at least, outside Arm. The chips used in iPhones and Macs lead the industry, generating performance per watt that no one out there can match. It’s a strategic advantage for Apple, which in itself can be seen as an advantage for the US on a national basis. A US company owns those designs, which seals one aspect of digital dominance. With that in mind, it’s inevitable that Apple will want to maintain its focus on processor design.
It’s in the national interest for Apple to design its own silicon

5 days ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

In a surprise to nobody, Apple is developing even more processors for use in its devices. It makes total sense. In case you hadn’t noticed, silicon is becoming a national and international strategic priority to governments everywhere that have identified, correctly, that computer chips are as essential as energy if you want to enter a new age of AI-driven digital efficiency.
Apple plans a life after Google

6 days ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

Google could lose a third of its business if the courts force it to relinquish its default search deal for Apple’s Safari. It could lose the same thing if Apple voluntarily switches to AI-driven search services from other parties, including Apple itself. There is no doubt that Google will be the biggest casualty if US courts force it to stop paying Apple roughly $20b a year to be included as the default search engine in Safari.
That $168M fine isn't enough to stop NSO spies

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

Should Apple have abandoned its lawsuit against Israeli mercenary spyware vendor NSO Group — the company it once described as, “21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.” Perhaps not, but it’s still heart-warming to learn NSO has been slammed with a huge $168 million fine for spying on WhatsApp.
Apple may add AI search to Safari, Eddy Cue tells courts

1 week ago | applemust.com | Jonny Evans

Apple VP Eddy Cue told the US courts that Apple is “actively looking” at putting AI search tools inside Safari, even as he confirmed that Safari searches declined in April. Is Apple going on an AI Safari? This big new follows years in which the company has had its own search bot trawling the web to inform Apple’s existing built-in Spotlight search tool.
Apple miserait sur Claude d'Anthropic pour développer des applications

1 week ago | lemondeinformatique.fr | Jonny Evans

De plus en plus de développeurs se tournent vers les assistants de codage à base d’IA pour créer des applications. Apple veut s’engager dans cette voie pour accompagner les programmeurs dans la création d’applications mobiles. Pour cela, la firme de Cupertino a sondé le marché et selon Bloomberg, elle aurait arrêté son choix sur Anthropic pour construire ses outils de codage.
Should your company follow Apple to India?

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

In case you skipped the memo, India is engaged in a widespread digital transformation across the country and its economy — and Apple’s investments locally are examples of this broad change. It’s reasonably evident if you stop to consider what’s going on. Apple and its supply chain are investing billions in creating new manufacturing centers across India, and those investments drive further spending on infrastructure – roads, accommodation, and growth in service industries feeding them all.
Apple Arcade says five new games are coming

1 week ago | applemust.com | Jonny Evans

Apple has unveiled the next five game titles preparing to make the jump to Apple Arcade in the coming months, these include card, racing, adventure, arcade and spatial reality games. Though they sadly don’t yet include an immersive MMORG on par with Diablo Immortal, which still looks like a missed opportunity to this commentator.
Apple taps Anthropic's Claude for AI app development

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Jonny Evans

In the latest act of the Apple-does-AI drama, the company is allegedly working with Google/Amazon-backed start-up Anthropic PBC to build AI-powered coding tools for developers, Bloomberg reports. The move leans into this year’s fastest-emerging AI buzz-word, “vibe-coding” and means developers will be able to get AI-equipped dev tools to write, edit, and test code on their behalf. It relies on AI agents to generate code.
For iPhone, Apple is about to compete with itself

1 week ago | applemust.com | Jonny Evans

Not for the first time, Apple is about to compete with itself as it moves to widen and diversify the iPhone. As part of this attempt, Apple is preparing to leave the annual iPhone upgrade season behind, replacing it with two iPhone upgrade seasons instead. That’s the news according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, and I think it reflects a new mind-set on the part of the company, one in which it presents a more diversified iPhone line-up, to some extent competing with itself.