As usual with Gurman, Apple's glass is half empty. Also full of bugs.
"New iPhones are coded to recognize the serial numbers for original components and may malfunction if the parts are changed."
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From Dylan Butts' "Apple supplier Luxshare to invest additional US$330 million in Vietnam plant as supply chain diversification continues" posted Friday by the South China Morning Post.

From Keithan Drury's "Prediction: Microsoft Will Overtake Apple as the World's Largest Company By 2025" posted Friday by the Motley Fool.
"iPad shipments in 2024 are estimated at 52–54 million units (vs. about 50 million in 2023 and about 63 million in 2022)."
From Chance Miller's "Amazon gives Apple ‘massive preferential treatment’ in secret deal, report claims" posted Friday by 9to5Mac.
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On the Apple Vision Pro, he says, the results are "somehow simultaneously very natural-looking and utterly uncanny."
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From Scott Stein's "Apple's iPhone Spatial Video on Vision Pro Wowed Me: Here's What to Know" posted Friday by CNET.
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