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In this issue, you'll find:

• Apple Reports Record Q3 2024 Earnings—Guess What Fueled the Comeback!
• Apple Intelligence Rolls Out with iOS 18.1 Beta!
• The iPhone 16 color lineup looks like the best in years
• Apple devices will be unlocked with only your heart
• Wallpapers of the week
• & more...

💰Apple Reports Record Q3 2024 Earnings—Guess What Fueled the Comeback!

On Thursday, Apple reported an impressive 5 percent year-over-year growth with a quarterly revenue of $85.8 billion.
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Apple broke a string a weak quarters by announcing a 5% year-over-year increase in revenue for the June quarter Thursday, setting a new record for the quarter. iPad had an especially strong quarter, up 24%, and company’s services sector also grew by double digits.
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​iPad Sales​
Apple saw a sharp increase in ‌iPad‌ sales thanks to the launch of the M4 iPad Pro and the M2 iPad Air during the quarter. ‌iPad‌ revenue was at $7.2 billion, up 24 percent from $5.8 billion in the year-ago quarter.
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​Apple Services​
Apple saw a steep increase in services revenue at $24.2 billion, up from $21.2 billion a year ago and a new all-time revenue record. Paid subscriptions hit an all-time high, and Apple has more than one billion paid subscriptions across services. Apple set new records in advertising, cloud, and payment services.
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​Other Product Revenue​
iPhone revenue dropped one percent ($39.3B), Mac revenue was up two percent ($7B), and Home, Accessories, and Wearables fell two percent ($8.1B).
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Apple's Q3 2024 earnings by product category:

• iPhone: $39.30 billion
• Mac: $7.01 billion
• iPad: $7.16 billion
• Wearables, Home, and Accessories: $8.10 billion
• Services: $24.21 billion

💰Apple Intelligence Rolls Out with iOS 18.1 Beta!

Apple just released new betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 for developers, introducing the first Apple Intelligence features.
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Here are all of the Apple Intelligence features in the iOS 18.1 Developer Beta:
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​Writing Tools: Easily refine your text with options for a Friendly, Professional, or Concise tone. Summarize text, create lists, or tables, and access these features on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Here is in-depth article on how to use Apple Intelligence writing tools.
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​Siri: A new visual glow indicates when Siri is listening. On Mac, Siri can be moved around the screen, and you can now use Type to Siri for text-based requests. Siri can remember context and understand interruptions in conversation, and it can assist with device settings and features.
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​Mail: Summarize emails with a new button and see brief summaries in your inbox. Time-sensitive messages are prioritized, and Smart Reply offers contextual quick responses. Multiple email notifications are summarized on your Lock Screen.
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Messages Lock Screen notifications for Messages are now summarized for a quick overview.
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​Photos: Create Memory Movies with simple descriptions and automatically selected photos and music. Enhance your memories with specific scenes and use natural language search to find images and moments.
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​Transcription: Record audio in Notes and other apps to receive both a transcript and a summary, ideal for lectures and meetings.
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​Focus Modes: New Intelligent Breakthrough and Silencing features in Focus Modes allow important notifications through while muting less critical ones, with customizable app and contact settings.
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​Phone: iOS 18.1 introduces call recording. A record button lets you start recording with notifications to all participants.
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​Safari: Reader Mode now includes a summary option for articles using Apple Intelligence.
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Apple Intelligence Report: Access and export your Apple Intelligence data from the Privacy and Security settings, with Face ID required for this feature.
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Take a look at all the AI features in action in this video.

🔥The iPhone 16 color lineup looks like the best in years

1The debut of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro is now little more than a month away and recent leaks have even given us a glimpse into the color options Apple's preparing. And it looks like some of the best colors iPhone buyers going to have in years.
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The iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max will arrive in a brand new rose option. Reports have indicated it won't resemble the rose gold of iPhones in the past, but rather sport a new look.
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The new rose color has even been referred to as 'bronze,' giving us a hint of what the titanium-infused pink hue might look like.
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The addition of rose joins some other changes to the Pro color options, which are expected to be: Grey, Rose, Space Black, and White.
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The more affordable iPhone 16 and 16 Plus will get colors that are way bolder than last year’s iPhone 15 models, as seen with the dummy models above shared by Sonny Dickson.
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Here’s the full iPhone 16 and 16 Plus color lineup: Black, Blue, Green, Pink, and White.
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​🤔What colors are you most excited about this year? Hit the reply button and let us know in the comments.

💓 Apple devices will be unlocked with only your heart

Passwords, Touch ID, and Face ID could all be a thing of the past, as Apple is working on a future where unlocking your devices is as easy as just holding a future iPhone or letting your Apple Watch sense your unique heart rhythm.
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Everyone's heart has a unique rhythm, which the Apple Watch monitors through the ECG app. In a recently granted patent, Apple describes a technique for identifying users based on their unique cardiovascular measurements.
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With this technology, you can unlock all your devices if you keep wearing your Apple Watch. Verifying your heart patterns instead of a password or a fingerprint scan increases security and speeds up your identification.
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Currently, for example, you need to unlock your Apple Watch with a passcode to use it to unlock your Mac. Putting on your Watch and taking an ECG reading would allow you to unlock your Mac without entering a password or passcode. If you leave your watch on your wrist, you'll be authenticated to unlock your other devices.

🛜 iPhone 16 Pro Models Expected to Support Wi-Fi 7

iPhone 15 Pro models gained support for Wi-Fi 6E, while all iPhone 11 through iPhone 14 models support standard Wi-Fi 6. And rumors suggest that iPhone 16 Pro models expected to support Wi-Fi 7. It was also previously rumored by supply chain analyst Jeff Pu.
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Wi-Fi 7 support would enable the devices to send and receive data over the 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands simultaneously, resulting in faster Wi-Fi speeds, lower latency, and more reliable connectivity.
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Wi-Fi 7 is expected to offer peak theoretical data transfer speeds of over 40 Gbps, a 4× increase over Wi-Fi 6E.

🧐 Apple Vision Pro has been controlled by a brain computer interface

Synchron has successfully implanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) into the brain of Mark, a 64-year-old man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). With this BCI, Mark is able to control an Apple Vision Pro — something he couldn't do before due to the loss of function in his arms and hands.
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There's a reason Synchron has chosen the Apple Vision Pro — it blends reality with digital content. This means that while wearing the headset, users do not feel cut off from the real world.
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Mark uses the BCI to move a cursor around a screen while he plays solitaire, to pick videos to watch in a theater-like experience, and to send text messages.
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Once implanted, the BCI can detect motor intent, like when a user thinks about tapping their foot, to control elements of the interface that normally rely on gestures.
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The system is designed to be easy to use and could improve the quality of life for millions of people with paralysis.
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In November 2022, the company had begun clinical trials of the same implant which allowed users to control their iPad or iPhone with their thoughts.

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