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- Flurry: Top-Nine US Phone Activations on Christmas Were iPhones

- Apple’s App Store Takes Over Two-Thirds of Christmas Day App Spend

- Bloomberg: Lots of Mobile Downloads for HBO Max and Disney+ Over Christmas

- Amazon, Apple, and Tesla Supplier Accused of Using Forced Uighur Labor

- Corellium Prevails Against Apple Copyright Claim

- Apple Quietly Launching Launch@Apple College Mentorship Program

- Apple Japan Running Two-Day New Year Shopping Event

- Today at Apple Sessions Restarting in Australia, Japan, and Singapore

- Apple Sets “Ring in the New Year” Activity Challenge

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- Apple Hits iCloud Activation Issues on Christmas and Boxing Day

- ATT Notifications Showing Up in Beta for iOS 14.4 (and Earlier?)

- Apple Hearing Study Accidentally Collects Extra 30-Days of Data

- Report: Apple Pulled 94,000 Games from China’s App Store in 2020

- Apple Sends Out Developer Small Business Program Acceptance Notifications

- Ming-Chi Kuo Sees Apple Car in 2025 at Earliest

- After Mocking Apple, Xiaomi Not Including Chargers with Mi 11

- Apple Saving BLM Street Art Outside Oregon Store for Donation

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- Cowen & Co: iPhone Shipments to Grow 38% in Q1 2021

- iPhones Going Out to Apple Security Research Device Program Participants

- Evercore Analyst Doesn’t See an Apple Car Coming

- Tesla CEO Puts Himself in the Apple Car Story

- Apple Stores Actively Promoting Fitness+

- Apple Pay Support Added to Japan’s LINE Pay

- Cult of Mac Contemplates Apple Buying MGM Studios

- Producer: “Ted Lasso” is a Three Season Show

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- Reuters: Apple Looking to Roll Out a Car in 2024

- Morgan Stanley: Yeah, yeah. We Assumed an Apple Car

- Counterpoint Research: iPhone 12/12 Pro Top 5G Smartphones in October

- Goldman Sachs: Good 2020 for Mac Sets Up Tough Compare in 2021

- Report: Saudi Arabia and UAE Used NSO Group Software to Spy on Journalists’ iPhones

- Troubleshooting “Pairing Cancelled” in Fitness+

- Epic and Samsung Send “Free Fortnite” Kit to Influencers

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- California Apple Stores Closed Through the Holidays

- Apple Puts Wistron on Probation as Indian Investigation Continues

- Indian Government Finds Fault with Wistron Around Riots

- Wistron Apologizes to Employees in India and Fires the Person in Charge

- Facebook Keeps Hitting Apple Over ATT

- EFF Calls Facebook ATT Arguments “Laughable”

- Apple Manual Covers Device & Data Access When Personal Safety is At Risk

- COVID Test That Stopped “The Morning Show” Deemed False Positive

- President Obama Puts “Boys State” on 2020 Top-10 Movies List

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- Morgan Staley “Increasingly Bullish” on iPhone in China

- Wedbush Bull Case Puts iPhone Sales at 250 Million Units in FY21

- Indian Trade Union: Local Government Going Soft on Wistron Post-Riot

- Apple Must: iOS 14 Adoption Numbers are “Amazing”

- Public Beta Testers Get First macOS Big Sur 11.2 Beta

- Public Beta Testers Get First iOS/iPadOS 14.4 Betas

- Apple Nixes Standalone Updaters in Big Sur

- Four More U.S. Cities Added to Look Around in Apple Maps

- Cook and Federighi to Testify in Fortnite Fight

- Facebook Sides with Epic in Case Against Apple

- Variety: “Mythic Quest” a Tale of Two Sets

- Olivia Cooke and Johnathan Price Join Apple TV+ Series “Slow Horses”

- Samuel L. Jackson to Lead Limited Apple TV+ Series

- Third Season Ordered for “Servant” Ahead of Second Season Premier

- “The Snoopy Show” Starts 5 February 2021

- Apple Outs Trailer for Billie Eilish Doc

- Justin Timberlake’s Palmer To Hit End of January

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- Wednesday: Facebook Runs Attack Ads Against Apple

- Apple Responds to Wednesday’s Attack Ad by Facebook

- Thursday: Facebook Runs Attack Ads Against Apple

- Mozilla Sides with Apple on ATT

- Newspaper Publishing Group Joins Coalition for App Fairness

- Epic Wants Cue and Federighi Under Oath

- JP Morgan Apple Note Seems Both Somber and Upbeat

- Apple Outs First Developer Betas of iOS/iPadOS 14.4

- Apple Outs First Developer Beta of tvOS 14.4

- Apple Outs First Developer Beta of watchOS 7.3

- Some AirPods Max Stopped Over Hazmat Irregularities

- AirPods Max Neither Water Proof nor Water Resistant

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- Nikkei Says Apple Upping iPhone Orders ~30% in First Half of 2021

- Nikkei Report Supports Wedbush Assertion Says Wedbush

- DigiTimes: Wistron Downplays Damage Caused by Riot in India

- India Cellular and Electronics Association Apologizes to Wistron for Riot

- EU Proposes Big Changes for Big Tech

- Facebook Hopes EU Rules Will Curb Apple

- iPad and iPhone Apps Get Bigger with Big Sur Update

- Apple Video Creation Apps Change Steps for Sharing

- HomePod/HomePod Mini Software Updates to v14.3

- Siri Can Play Noises at You!

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- Evercore Analyst Sees iPhone 12 Smoking the Competition in China

- Goldman’s Apple Analyst is Definitely a “Glass Half Empty” Guy

- UBS Analyst: Demand for iPhone 12 Pro High in China, Softening in States

- Apple Investigating Riot at India iPhone Factory

- AirPods Max In the Wild Today

- Apple Updates OSes for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV

- watchOS 7.2 Adds Low Cardio Fitness Notification Option

- Updates Help Older Apple Machines Fight the Spread of COVID-19

- Fitness+ Workouts Work on iPhone/iPad - No Apple Watch Required

- No AirPlay for Apple Fitness+

- Fitness App Not Making It Onto Some iPads

- Some Apple Watch Buyers Not Seeing Free Three Months for Fitness+

- Apple’s App Store Privacy “Nutrition Labels” Go Live

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- JP Morgan Weighs Wait Times for iPhone 12 Line

- TF International Sees Continued Strength for iPhone Demand

- Reports of Riots in India’s iPhone Supply Chain

- Cydia Accuses Apple of Maintaining Illegal iOS App Monopoly

- Apple and Google Kicking X-Mode Location Trackers from App Stores

- Amtrak Turns on Apple Pay for App and Website

- Apple Maps Officially Updated for Canada

- Apple Pay Headed to Mexico “in 2021”

- Apple Discontinuing Music Memos App

- COVID-19 Stops “Mythic Quest” Production

- Apple TV+ Outs Trailer for “Dickinson” Season-Two

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- Morgan Stanley Sees “Record Holiday Quarter” for Apple

- Wedbush Ups Apple Target to $160

- Apple Confirms Internal Work on Cellular Modems

- Apple Releases Public and Developer Betas for iOS/iPadOS 14.3

- Apple Releases Public and Developer Betas for macOS 11.1

- Apple Music Getting Animated Album Covers with Upcoming Updates

- Apple TV+ Lands Julia Roberts for Limited Series

- Apple Drops Trailer for Season Two of “Servant”

- Animated Feature ‘Wolfwalkers’ Now on Apple TV+

- Cook: Most Corporate Workers Out of Office Until Mid-2021

- Cook to Address U.N. Climate Ambition Summit

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- Goldman Sachs Sticks with “Sell” and $75 on Apple

- CounterPoint: Apple Watch Saw Serious Growth in Q32020

- Apple Includes New ECG Algorithm in Upcoming OS Updates

- ECG Goes Live for Apple Watch in Taiwan Next Tuesday

- Apple Watch Cellular Land in Portugal

- Federighi Makes ATT Case to European Regulators

- WhatsApp: WhatsUp with App Store Privacy Labels?

- Apple Says Its Apps Will Have Privacy “Nutrition Labels,” Too

- Cook Blasts Silicon Valley Giants for “Lack of Responsibility”

- Law May Require 30% of Apple TV+ in EU to Be “European Work”

- Apple Gives Series Order to “Extrapolations”

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- Apple Announces $549 AirPods Max

- AirPods Max Deliveries Slip Quickly into 2021

- Apple Launches “Journey Into Sound” Promo Video for AirPods Max

- Out of Warranty Battery Replacement $79 on AirPods Max

- Fitness+ Launches Monday 14 December

- Apple Seeds Non-Mac OS Release Candidates to Developers

- Bell Mobility First to Launch Apple Watch Family Setup in Canada

- Apple Seeks to Have Epic Games Case in Australia Dismissed

- Report: Apple AI Lead John Giannandrea Now Leading Apple Car Project

- Rumor Has Carol Burnett Bio-Pic Headed to Apple TV+

- Apple Gives “For All Mankind” Early Season Three Renewal

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- What Today May or May Not Bring

- Apple/Google Powered Contact Tracing App Going Live in CA Thursday

- JP Morgan: Wait for iPhone 12 Keeps Getting Longer

- UBS: Wait for iPhone 12 Pro Max Getting (Unpleasantly?) Shorter

- Bloomberg: Mac’s Intel to Apple Silicon Transition Going Swimmingly

- HomePod Software Updated to v14.2.1

- Apple Music Rolls Out to Google Smart Speakers in Some Regions

- Samsung Not Including Power Adapters with Future Phones

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- Morgan Stanley: COVID and iPhone 12 Drive Up Apple Services

- EU May Change How Apple Can Promote Its Services on Its Platforms

- Dutch Competition Authorities Eye Apple Pay

- Apple Launches Repair Program for Faulty iPhone 11 Displays

- Apple TV+ Promo Highlights First Year of Apple Originals

- Exec: Work Underway on “Tehran” Season 2 (Which Apple Has Not Ordered)

- Apple Announces World Surf League Docuseries

- A Charlie Brown/Mariah Carey Christmas Hits Apple TV+

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- Report Suggests Something New from Apple Next Tuesday

- FTC Warns of Scammy Apple and Amazon Robocalls

- Reports of 5G and LTE Signal Loss for iPhone 12

- Enrollment Open for App Store Small Business Program

- Apple Turns on Option for Family Sharing for Subscriptions

- Evercore Sees Stronger Than Expected Services Growth for Apple

- Apple Updates Accessibility Features Page

- Apple TV+ Gives Green Light to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Docuseries

- “Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special” Hits Apple TV+

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- Apple Stores Reopen in England, Restarting iPhone Upgrade Program

- IDC: Apple Wearables Growth Beats Wider Wearables Market

- Apple Pay Support Likely Imminent for Mexico

- Sao Paulo Requires Power Bricks Included with New iPhones

- Listener Feedback: iPhone Water Resistance Claims Don’t Hold (Out) Water

- Julianna Margulies Joins Season Two of “The Morning Show”

- Apple Podcasts’ Steve Wilson Takes Position at Qcode

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- Apple Lists “Order By” Dates for Delivery by Christmas

- Apple’s MagSafe Duo Charger Up for Sale

- Let It Snow in the Apple Store App

- CNET (Unscientifically) Tests iPhone 12 Water Resistance

- Report: M1 Mac mini Makes Apple Japan’s Top Desktop Maker

- Apple Sued in Europe Over Years Old iPhone Throttling Issue

- Apple Announces Half-Hour Bilingual Comedy Series “Acapulco”

- Siri Architect Brian Pinkerton Leaves Apple for Roku

- FaceTime HD Enabled for iPhone 8 and Later

- First 5K iMacs Declared “Vintage” by Apple

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- Nearly Half of US Apple Stores Have Gone “Express”

- How Hard is a HomePod mini to Get?

- A Slightly Bungled “Apple One” Premier

- UK Committee Calls Out Apple for “Tsunami” of Electronic Waste

- France Moves to Tax International Tech Locally

- Report: Apple Unsure About France’s “Tech for Good Call”

- Italy Fines Apple $12M for Claims It Says Don’t Hold Water

- Apple Hires Former VC to Work on App Store Discovery

- Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star in “Surface” for Apple TV+

- Another Working Apple-1 Going Up for Auction

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