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Apple's new moves
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Morgan Stanley is optimistic about Apple: Siri 2.0 and a number of AI achievements will boost iPhone 16 series sales
On January 9, it was reported that investment bank Morgan Stanley (Morgan Stanley) recently issued an investment memorandum, believing that Apple is accelerating the implementation of AI achievements and will announce Siri 2.0 at the WWDC 2024 developer conference, which will boost iPhone 16 series sales.
The 2024 annual meeting is a pivotal year for Apple to achieve "Edge AI", with a focus on Siri 2.0 powered by large language models (LLMs), as well as a variety of generative AI-powered AI capabilities and features (which may be unveiled at WWDC this June) to drive the iPhone upgrade cycle.
From the results of our recent inspections, Apple's supply chain is mixed, which indicates that product demand remains uneven in the early part of fiscal 2024, but overall Apple user demand is recovering. (News source: IT House)
Can it curb 4 consecutive quarters of decline? Apple announced its FY24Q1 earnings report on February 1
On January 9, Apple announced a press release, announcing that it would announce its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 (Q4 2023) on February 1, and planned to hold an earnings call at 6 a.m. Beijing time on February 2.
Apple has seen four consecutive quarters of revenue declines, and on November 2 last year, Apple announced its fourth-quarter fiscal 2023 results for the year ending September 30.
According to the financial report, Apple's sales fell 0.7% year-on-year to $89.498 billion during the reporting period, the fourth consecutive quarter of decline, and net profit was $22.956 billion, an increase of 11% year-on-year.
Among them, Apple's revenue in Greater China in the fourth fiscal quarter was US$15.08 billion, down 2.5% year-on-year, while the market estimate was US$17.01 billion, lower than the forecast of nearly US$2 billion. Currently, the market has had a lackluster response to Apple's newly released iPhone 15 series. (News source: IT House)
In an effort to reduce the impact of the Digital Markets Act, Apple claims to operate five app stores in Europe
On January 9, according to the recently disclosed documents, Apple challenged the EU's "Digital Markets Act" in November last year, saying that the European Commission had misunderstood the concept, and Apple is currently operating not 1 App Store, but 5.
Citing Reuters, the disclosure documents show that Apple believes that the European Commission has made a "material factual error" in the definition of the app store, arguing that it has launched five different app stores for five products: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch, each serving a specific platform and device.
According to the European Union's Digital Markets Act, Apple must open third-party app stores on its hardware, which will inevitably affect Apple's future earnings.
Reuters believes that Apple lobbied to reduce the number of users in each app store by insisting that each app store is independent, reducing the impact of the Digital Markets Act on app stores. (News source: IT House)
Apple announced the opening of the Apple Store Hongdae in Seoul, South Korea, on January 20, and the official closure of two stores in the United States
On January 9, Apple announced that it will open a new Apple Store at 10 a.m. on January 20 in the Hongdae area of Seoul, South Korea, located at No. 140, Yanghua Road, Mapo District, Seoul, with the theme of "Creative Street Culture".
It is worth mentioning that Apple also announced that it will permanently close its Apple Infinite Loop store in the United States (located in Apple's early headquarters "Infinite Loop") and Royal Hawaiian store (located in the Royal Hawaiian Center in Honolulu) on January 20 this year.
To celebrate the opening of the new store, Apple has released a commemorative wallpaper of the Apple Store Hongdae, with the words "홍대 (Hongdae)" hidden in the logo, which can be downloaded for free by iPhone, iPad and Mac users. (News source: IT House)
A new $95 million class action lawsuit on refurbished devices, Apple begins paying a second settlement
On January 9, it was reported that Apple agreed to pay a $95 million settlement in October 2021 to settle a class action lawsuit accusing Apple of violating the law by providing refurbished replacement devices to customers.
After more than two years of waiting, Apple recently notified eligible litigation users that it will begin issuing the second tranche of litigation damages on January 9 this year.
As the settlement administrator for the matter, we are sending you this courtesy email to inform you that after January 9, 2024, you will receive a payment notification email with a link to request payment electronically. Once you receive the email, you will need to request payment by May 15, 2024. (News source: IT House)
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Tech events
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Huawei Enjoy 70 Pro mobile phone on the shelves: Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chip, 108MP main camera, side fingerprint, starting from 1449 yuan
On January 8th, Huawei launched the Changxiang 70 Pro mobile phone on JD.com today, which features "100 million pixel image, 40W Turbo fast charging + 5000 mAh battery, HarmonyOS 4", with "Fei Leng Cui", "Yao Jin Black", "Snow White", which is currently in the pre-sale stage.
According to the official product page, the back of the Huawei Enjoy 70 Pro mobile phone adopts the "Star Ring Design", the overall matte body is used, the side fingerprint is equipped, and it is equipped with a 6.7-inch FHD+ (1080 x 2388 resolution) LCD screen, and the 100-million-pixel main camera supports low-light shooting, fast snapshot, beauty selfie and other photo modes.
In terms of battery life, the device comes with a 5000mAh battery that supports 40W Huawei Super Fast Charging Turbo, which can charge to 62% in 30 minutes. (News source: IT House)
5999 元起，OPPO Find X7 Ultra 手机发布：首发双潜望四主摄，可选卫星通信版
On January 8, it was reported that at the new product launch conference this afternoon, the OPPO Find X7 Ultra mobile phone was released, with a price starting at 5999 yuan.
The OPPO Find X7 Ultra is available in the Vast Sky and Desert Moon, Pine Shadow and Ink Rhyme color, and is designed with glass and plain leather stitching.
The biggest highlight of the OPPO Find X7 Ultra is the world's first dual periscope quad main camera, and the first Sony LYT-900 one-inch outsole main camera. (News source: IT House)
Nvidia RTX 40 SUPER series graphics card released: increase and reduce price, starting at 4899 yuan
On January 8, it was reported that Nvidia officially released the RTX 40 SUPER series graphics cards at CES 2024 in the early hours of this morning, with RTX 4080 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and RTX 4070 SUPER available, with specific specifications and prices consistent with those previously exposed.
The RTX 4080 SUPER is equipped with 10240 CUDA cores and 16GB 23Gbps 256bit GDDR6X video memory, with a TGP of 320W, claiming to only need about 246W when playing and only 15W when idle, and the performance is 2 times that of the RTX 3080 Ti, which will be released on January 31 at a price of $999 (about 7153 yuan) and 8099 yuan for the Bank of China. (News source: IT House)
Xiaomi's mysterious new phone has appeared in the IMEI database, which is expected to be released in March 2025
On January 8, @数码闲聊站 previously said that Xiaomi MIX 5 has canceled its plan to be launched this year, but Xiaomi will launch another new product this year to "inherit the mantle".
GSMChina has found a new device in the IMEI database, model number 2503AVP01C, which means that Xiaomi's internal expectations for the release of the device are March 2025, and they believe that this new device is the Xiaomi Mi MIX 5, which is scheduled to be released next year.
At present, we have not seen any revelations about the parameters of this new machine, after all, it is still more than a year away from the release, which is completely enough for Xiaomi to try a variety of solutions. (News source: IT House)
Liu Zuohu: OPPO does not make chips, but retains the original architecture team of Zheku
News on January 8th, OPPO Find X7 / Ultra was officially released this afternoon, and the new machine brought OPPO's self-developed tidal architecture. Liu Zuohu, chief product officer of OPPO, said that the architecture came from the previous Zheku team.
According to the Financial Associated Press, Liu Zuohu revealed that OPPO's previous Zheku company currently retains the architecture team, and the task is to communicate with companies such as MediaTek and Qualcomm to start from the bottom and open up the channel between terminal requirements and SoC capabilities, such as the self-developed tidal architecture released this time, which is the result of the work of this architecture team. However, Liu Zuohu also emphasized: "OPPO does not make chips. (Source: IT House)
Source: Official media/online news