Second Apple Vision Pro OS update arrives, just days before shipment
One week after the last update, Apple has made visionOS 1.0.2 available as a day-one update for Apple Vision Pro owners to fix a WebKit exploit.
After a mis-spent youth in the '80s as a service tech and salesperson at a now-closed Apple dealership, AppleInsider's Mike Wuerthele spent nearly a decade in the US Navy through the '90s as a submarine reactor chemist, where he routinely had to suffer through two Captains on the USS Hyman G Rickover (SSN-709) "borrowing" his MacWeek magazines before he got a chance to read them.
During his time in the Navy as a nuclear reactor water chemist, Mike was also instrumental in migrating the submarine fleet into the computer age, and assisted the US Army with its PowerMac G3 program. At the tail-end of his Navy service, he proposed a variant of the PowerMac G3 server program for the assorted military shipyards.
After his exit from the Navy, Mike spent 11 years in federal service as a commercial tech analyst, worked in an assortment of independent dealers, and supported a large swathe of Apple customers in the Washington DC area.
In 2012, he parlayed his experience discussing Apple and other tech companies with the federal government into a gig at MacNN and its sister site Electronista in 2012. Following the closure of those publications in July 2016, Mike moved over to AppleInsider as a content contributor. He is now the Managing Editor of AppleInsider.
One week after the last update, Apple has made visionOS 1.0.2 available as a day-one update for Apple Vision Pro owners to fix a WebKit exploit.
After restarting the beta process a week ago, and in parallel with the public beta, Apple has an update for the first beta of iOS 17.4 with so-far undisclosed fixes.
"Death Stranding: Directors Cut" is now rolling out worldwide on iPad, Mac, and iPhone 15 Pro, and is on sale for a limited time.
Apple has made it clear that no matter how a developer chooses to sell or distribute an app in the European Union, the TestFlight beta distribution system will remain available.
On top of everything else Apple announced on Thursday about European Union Digital Markets Act compliance, the company is also expanding what it provides to users that request a copy of their data, and will provide an export tool for it as well.
There are three major limitations on Apple's App Store concessions in the European Union that limit what third parties can offer for App Stores, and what consumers can load. Here's what they are.
The App Store policy changes that are coming in iOS 17.4 aren't enough for Epic's Tim Sweeney, with him firing back at Apple for implementing an "anticompetitive scheme rife with junk fees."
In addition to allowing low-cost side loading of apps in the European Union, Apple will also implement the ability for developers to use the iPhone near-field communication that Apple Pay uses for other banking and wallet apps.
A questionable report from the supply chain says that Apple has already cut iPad Pro OLED screen orders from one supplier down from what was originally requested, leaving the other supplier unaffected.
Apple certainly isn't doomed if the Apple Vision Pro isn't a blockbuster out of the gate, which is good because it is launching into a product category that is so small and poorly defined that it doesn't even qualify as nascent yet.
If a new report is correct, Apple still plans on doing some form of iPhone app review and charge developers for sideloaded apps in the European Union, but the details aren't fully clear.
Hours after tech specs declared that Apple Vision Pro could stream video to an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV in 1080p, the tech specs have been revised downward.
After half a year of knowing nothing technically about the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has spelled out many of the specs of the unit. Here's what you need to know.
It was known that Apple has Zeiss lenses for correcting vision while wearing the Apple Vision Pro, but there was a surprise third option — Monovision. Here's what it means, what Apple can't correct for, and how to tell if you need to select it when you buy a headset.
Masimo CEO Joe Kiani took advantage of an interview to slam Apple's implementation of pulse oximetry in the Apple Watch, and confirm that there have not been recent settlement talks.
Starting January 18, Apple will sell the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 with pulse oximetry disabled in software. Here's how to tell if an Apple Watch has pulse oximetry or doesn't.
As part of its mandate in the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has sent requests for a new set of information about to 17 tech companies about how they protect users.
The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 ban will start again on January 18 at 5 PM ET, and will remain banned until the appeal has concluded.
The six-year long saga about the iPhone 7 speaker issues is finally coming to a close, with Apple agreeing to settle a class action lawsuit about the matter.
Apple generated over five times more profit from South Korea in its fiscal year ending September 2023 than it did the year before, from roughly the same net sales as the last two years.
After less than a year of operation there appears to be no profitable way forward for AI news aggregator Artifact, and the service will close completely in the end of February.
New York was the first US state to pass a Right to Repair bill, which is now law, but it's so weak and watered down, it is effectively worthless for consumers.
Now that 2024 has arrived, the Competition and Markets Authority that will be responsible for big tech antitrust decisions in the UK has made it clear that when it is fully empowered it will immediately launch several investigations against US big tech.
While there are conflicting reports about exactly how many Apple Vision Pro units Apple will have available at launch, Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that the number will be smaller than previously predicted.
In intraday trading on Thursday, Apple was usurped as the most valuable company in the US for about two hours, with Microsoft temporarily taking the crown more than two years after the last time it happened.
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