By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple has reported the fiscal results for the second quarter of 2025, with the financials revealing Apple may have benefited from consumer tariff fears, earning $95.4 billion in the quarter.Apple CEO Tim Cook [left], CFO Kevan Parekh [right]Following the blockbuster Q1 quarter and the benefits of holiday sales to Apple’s bottom line, Q2 is usually a fair bit lower in comparison. However, at Apple’s scale, the figures are still very important to the company.In the second quarter, Apple’s revenue of $95.4billion is up 5% year-on-year from the $90.75 billion reported in Q2 2024. This is also upfrom the Wall Street Consensus, which believed Apple would haul in $94.42 billion as an average. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) AirPods, Apple Watch, Macs, iPads, and accessories are all on sale, with Mother’s Day deals knocking up to 43% off popular gift ideas.Save up to $600 on Apple products for Mother’s Day. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Following Apple’s sanctioning for violating an injunction to remove anti-steering measures, Epic Games is launching Webshops to make it easier for third-party developers to handle out-of-app purchases for iOS apps.The Epic Games Store is available in the EU. Epic is seemingly having a very good Thursday, with Apple smarting from a ruling by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers that it didn’t do enough to meet the terms of an injunction issued in 2021. Capitalizing on the ruling, Epic says it will help iOS developers introduce alternative purchase methods to apps, without needing to pay Apple’s 27% commission fee.In a post to the Epic Games Store, Epic Games says that it is making two changes that affects developers in June. The first is the introduction of Epic Games Store Webshops, a way for developers to launch their own webshops hosted by the Epic Games Stores. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) SanDisk’s Extreme Pro SSD has been recently updated, adding USB4 connectivity. It’s a good, but expensive, external option for Mac owners assuming you never need to connect it to Windows.SanDisk Extreme Pro with USB 4It’s safe to say that content creators and others who work in video are very familiar with SanDisk’s range of external drives. The SanDisk Extreme range is well known, in part for having its built-in lanyard attachment point in the corner for hooking to a carabiner or a keychain.The range also includes a Pro line, which offered a very similar concept, but with considerably faster storage — just not really for Mac. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is once again accusing Apple of shutting out competition, framing open-source AI as the latest move in a long-running fight over who controls the future of mobile platforms.Meta CEO Mark ZuckerbergPolicies enacted by Apple for iPhone have long banned embedded app frameworks from third parties, affecting companies like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Apple says these restrictions are necessary to protect user privacy and system integrity.In a new interview with Stratechery, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed those iOS policies stifled Facebook’s early platform vision. He said Apple blocked the company’s mobile platform plans over a decade ago, killing a key part of its business. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) The UK’s Court of Appeal has declared Apple’s payment to patent troll Optis Cellular for standard-essential 4G payment royalties is too low, with the iPhone maker now on the hook for $502 million.4G patents have been expensive for AppleIn 2022, the UK’s High Court determined that Apple had infringed on standard essential patents concerning 4G technology, and therefore had to pay Optis royalties. While there was the prospect of Apple paying out billions in royalties to Optis, the High Court decided on a much lower charge of $56.43 million, plus interest.Based on a challenge on the amount from Optis, the Court of Appeal agreed that it was too low, and Apple should pay more. According to Reuters, Apple has to pay Optis $502 million for the use of the 4G patents in iPhones and other cellular devices. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Following the ruling that Apple has willfully violated the anti-steering aspect of the Epic vs Apple trial, the company must make specific changes to the App Store. Here’s what it must immediately do, and what this all means for Apple, developers, and users.App Store icon on an iPhoneApple won the trial against Epic Games, which was started by the games company intentionally violating its App Store agreements. But Apple did lose on one count regarding how developers can and can’t direct users away from the App Store.Epic Games pressed on this point and has now won a victory with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agreeing that Apple violated an anti-steering injunction. Describing Apple’s subsequent actions as “gross insubordination,” Judge Rogers not only repeated the anti-steering injunction, but specified steps in particular detail to prevent Apple being able to do anything but comply. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) Apple gained significant market share in early 2025, growing 13 percent while the global smartphone market remained essentially flat.Pro iPhone modelsApple outpaced the broader smartphone market in Q1 2025, shipping 55 million iPhone units and increasing its global share to 19 percent, up from 16 percent a year earlier, according to Canalys Research’s April report.The overall smartphone market grew just 0.2 percent year over year, reaching 296.9 million units. Apple’s 13 percent growth stood out, driven by strong demand for the budget-focused iPhone 16e and sales momentum in the United States and emerging Asia Pacific markets. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that an Apple executive willfully lied to the court and attorneys did not correct those lies about Apple’s 27% commission fee in the company’s high-profile legal fight against Epic Games.The Fortnite battle continues to roll on for Apple – Image Credit: Epic GamesApple has taken a battering in the continuing legal battle with Epic Games over App Store rules. While Apple was found to have violated a 2021 injunction to remove anti-steering barriers, one of its executives has also been called out for lying under oath.During the trial, Apple VP of Finance Alex Roman “outright lied” to the court, the filing from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declared on Wednesday, reports CNBC. Rogers wrote that Roman had lied to maintain the belief that evidence of internal discussions about a 27% commission fee on some purchases linked to the App Store was real, when it was not. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) The Satechi Mac Mini M4 Hub & Stand is an elegant and compact way to expand a Mac mini’s ports and storage, but there are three major problems with it.Satechi Mac Mini M4 Hub & StandAs far as connectivity options, the Mac mini has a decent amount available, but users can always add more. This is usually in the form of a hub that simply brings more ports and connections to the table.Expanding a Mac’s utility, be it by using a hub to add ports or an external drive for storage capacity, also means more desk space is used up. This is not great, especially if users don’t want to see extra enclosures littering their desk’s surface and spoiling an otherwise tidy or minimal workspace. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
