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Recent headlines center on Apple’s EU-related changes and shifting app-store rules, plus ongoing reliability issues (Find My/iCloud reportedly down). Other prominent threads include leaked Apple hardware updates (AirPods with camera, new Apple TV 4K remote) and new Apple Home Hub/Apple Watch-like features.

CEO
Tim Cook
Founded
1976
Headquarters
Cupertino, California
Employees
164,000
Revenue
$109.4 billion
Ticker
NASDAQ: AAPL
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Key Takeaway Apple’s biggest near-term story is regulatory-driven EU App Store rule changes alongside reports of Find My/iCloud outages.
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It’s no secret that Apple adopting a particular technology typically leads other manufacturers to follow suit. So we shouldn’t be surprised if some popular OEMs reveal earbuds featuring a similar camera arrangement over the next couple of years. This also means we can’t rule out major brands like Samsung releasing a pair of Galaxy Buds with built-in cameras sometime in the future.

Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods just leaked, and now we know what they’ll actually do
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Blindly looking at numbers and for connected products doesn't help much in this case. There's not much to go on here, but we can make some assumptions. First, we know that the A3456 and A3457 are bookended by World Travel Adapter Kits (A3455 and A3458). It's not entirely a bad idea to assume Apple would put some form of accessory into that gap, or that it belongs to unreported variants of that kit. The long ranges of identifiers also point to variants of a product, which is typical of Apple to do. For the longer set from A3436 to A3441, one side extends to become the 15-inch MacBook Air, but t

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