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There are always two sides to every story, and that definitely appears to be the case when it comes to how the iPhone market is doing. Earlier today, there was a report that Apple had cut iPhone XS and iPhone XR production by upwards of 10 percent for the firs quarter of 2019. And that comes after plenty of other analyst memos and separate reports that have suggested that Apple’s iPhone sales aren’t that great. Of course, it probably doesn’t help that Apple warned of a less-than-stellar first fiscal quarter coming up. Still, Apple is confident in the iPhone, and has said that the iPhone XR, specifically, is doing just fine . Here we are with another report out of China, though, painting a different picture. According to National Business Daily , Apple has informed Chinese vendors to cut the price of several different iPhone models. That includes the iPhone 8, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max. The report indicates that the majority of the models are seeing a di...

Word on the street is that Apple is planning on launching a brand new iPad mini at some point this year . And this may be our first look at it. Or it might just be an unreleased iPad mini shell that will never see the light of day. The tweet that accompanies the images shared today doesn’t actually provide any additional information, other than calling this unofficial device the “iPad mini 4s”, which is obviously not what Apple would call a new iPad mini, but here we are. The photos appear to show the smaller tablet with the Apple logo in a gold shade, which isn’t too surprising. But the minor design change comes in the antenna design for the cellular-equipped model. The current iPad mini 4 uses a plastic cover to provide network connectivity, rather than the defining antenna lines on other models. If these photos are of the real incoming iPad mini refresh, then it appears Apple will be adopting the antenna lines for the new model. Otherwise, this looks like a go...

The iPhone X wasn’t the first phone with a notch, but it was Apple’s design that brought the notch design to the masses, and, as such, a variety of different smartphone manufacturers out there quickly adopted it themselves. 2018 was the Year of the Notch, but, thankfully, it appears that trend is already starting to fade away — at least for Android manufacturers, anyway. Samsung, and many other companies, have already adopted another design choice that’s starting to catch fire: the hole punch design, which leaves a very small cutout in the corner of the display for the front-facing camera. It’s not as glaring as the notch design, but it certainly attracts the eye. For better or worse. There are rumors out there that Apple is going to ditch the notch , and that it may be as early as the 2019 iPhone lineup, but that’s not guaranteed at all. What’s more, no one knows what Apple may adopt instead of the notch. Will it be just a bezel-less design al...

Standard text messages aren’t great, but thankfully there’s technology out there that has improved the experience for the companies who actually support it. That technology is called Rich Communications Services or RCS. This is a significant upgrade to the standard text message, or SMS, and it has been in place for quite some time already. However, it’s still not a universal presence just yet. Google is rolling out plans to support it in a bigger way in the future, and the carriers out there, like Verizon and AT&T, have been pushing for support from smartphone manufacturers for awhile now. However, Apple hasn’t been one of the companies to adopt RCS. Why? iMessage. Basically, all of the cool stuff that RCS supports iMessage supports, so Apple hasn’t felt all that compelled to support it. iMessage is a huge boon for Apple and its ecosystem, basically as one of the reasons to jump on board. Carriers have been trying to get Apple to support RCS, just like...

It has been a bit of time since Apple released a battery case for its iPhone lineup, but the company may be alleviating that problem soon. A Reddit user by the name of Tom had to make some physical changes to the battery case he owns for the iPhone 7, shaving it down to fit on an iPhone X. It took some doing, but Tom was able to get the battery case to work on the iPhone X, which brought up a new battery case icon in the Batteries widget in iOS 12.1.2. This new battery widget looks a lot like the one we saw crop up late last year , with the vertical camera cutout on the back and drastically reduced chin on the front. While this may be a remnant of the iPhone X itself, the signs are clearly starting to show that Apple is indeed working on, and hopefully planning on releasing a battery case for the iPhone XS, XS Max, and the iPhone XR at some point in the future. Of course, nothing is guaranteed right now, but if you’re hoping for a new smart battery case, it certainly looks like t...