In addition to Monday's release of iOS 18.1 and a first tranche of Apple Intelligence features, there's a week's work of product announcements coming.
From Ben Cohen's "Tim Cook on Why Apple’s Huge Bets Will Pay Off" posted Sunday by the WSJ Magazine.
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"One particularly damning result was a new task the Apple team developed, called GSM-NoOp."
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"The first version of Apple Intelligence will include things like notification summaries, while subsequent updates like iOS 18.2 will add ChatGPT integration and support for Genmoji custom emoji."
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"For Apple Intelligence to interact with the millions of non-Apple apps, it needs developers to embrace a new way of programming their apps."
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Meanwhile, analyst Atif Malik raised Citi's March and June 2025 estimates by 4 million and 7 million units, respectively.
Read More Citi cut its December iPhone unit sales estimate by 2 million units
From Brian X. Chen's "Apple’s A.I. Is Landing Soon on iPhones. Here’s What It’s Like." posted Wednesday by the New York Times.
"The current model costs $429, which is hundreds less than the standard iPhone but more expensive than many of its rivals."
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Apple prefers to own the whole stack.













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