⚽ Soccer on Apple Vision Pro LIVE

📰 Apple is in talks with 🇪🇸 Real Madrid FC and plans to hold the first immersive broadcast of a match. According to Spanish sports publication Marca, the president of Real Madrid soccer club, Florentino Perez, has revealed talks with Apple. One of the ideas discussed was the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, which is still undergoing renovations, could get a technical innovation with Apple. Although he did not elaborate on the details, it is likely to be immersive video broadcasts of matches specifically for Apple Vision Pro. Apple has its own dedicated cameras to capture Apple Immersive video, but there have never been live broadcasts in this format yet.

🎤 Florentino Perez:

Everyone wants to get inside the Santiago Bernabeu, but the number of seats even after the renovation is limited and that's why we are in talks with Apple to be able to carry Apple Vision Pro and watch the match as if you were right inside the stadium. It would be a real infinite Santiago Bernabeu!

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📰 Apple orders M5 chips from TSMC ahead of late 2025 production

😐 Apple has ordered M5 chips from TSMC as the company begins production development of its next-generation processor for future devices, claims a new Korean-language report by The Elec.

🆙 The technology of the new chip will remain 3nm, but will be improved, which will slightly improve performance. The chips will be assembled in the second half of 2025, and the first devices will be released at the end of the year: Apple Vision Pro, iPad Pro and MacBook Pro.

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🔉 Great reflection for creative people from Apple, and most importantly for free

📱 Today it's hard to imagine your life without a smartphone, and for some people it is without iPhone. Business people and fans of chips with AI have not long to wait because iOS 18.2 is on its way – it is promised next week.

🎵 In the meantime, you can reflect on your year with Apple Music, because the music we listen to every day reflects what's going on inside of us. It's true that some people just turn on the radio for background, others listen to what everyone else listens to. But for those who have a collection of music and the moods it creates such a “New Year's gift” from Apple will be a genuine pleasure.

🔎 Apple Music Replay – by tapping on the link, logging into your profile, you can see clearly how your musical year went, how many minutes and songs you listened to, your achievements, the top artists and much more. It is very useful that you can see your top artist for each month, and, run through the whole year: what happened in your life in this month and to what soundtracks.

🍎 Third-party services (like Spotify) have similar “Replays”, but it seems that only Apple has its talent to present the information about you in such a stylish way.

💬 Share screenshots of Apple Music Replay in the comments, but if you don't want everyone to know your most magical music, keep your personalized highlight reel for yourself.

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🥽 Apple Vision Pro sales officially start in Taiwan

🇹🇼 Apple Vision Pro sales will start on December 17 at Apple stores in Taiwan.

🔜 Pre-order and sign up for demo sessions in stores will open from tomorrow, December 5.

💰 The device will be priced from NT$119900 for the 256GB version.

⚖️ P.S. NT = New Taiwan dollar. 1 USD ≈ 32.5 NT.

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💰 From Apple employee to cold-blooded criminal

A story of people never having enough. It happens that Apple employees on a good salary want even more!

📰 Six former Apple employees have been charged with using a charity scheme to defraud Apple out of thousands of dollars, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney.

🪙 Apple has a program that will match or double employee donations made to charities, and the employees came up with a plan to make fake donations and collect money from Apple.

💰 Between July 1, 2018 and April 6, 2021, the employees collected approximately $152,000 from Apple's program and overreported $100,000 in charitable contributions as tax deductions. Apple detected the fraud and brought it to the attention of the district attorney's office. From Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen:

This case underscores our unwavering commitment to rigorously prosecuting individuals who defraud the tech community and misuse vital charitable programs and state resources. We commend Apple for coming forward and actively collaborating with our Office to uncover this elaborate fraud. We encourage others in the tech community to do the same. It's the holidays. Give - legally - to help the needy, not to help yourself.

👩‍⚖️ The six former Apple employees who participated in the scheme have been charged with grand theft, conspiracy to commit felony grand theft, perjury, and tax fraud. Due to the amount of money involved, they face charges under California's aggravated white-collar crime enhancement. If convicted the six are facing jail time, fines, and fees, including restitution for the money they collected.

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📶 MacBook with cellular support thanks to Apple's 5G modem

📶 The new project is within Apple's three-year cycle of moving from Qualcomm modems to its own communications chips. In addition to the MacBook, the 5G+WiFi modem could theoretically also be installed in one of the next Apple Vision Pro, as well as future smartglasses.

📰 In a lengthy article on Bloomberg, Mark Gurman says that Apple's first 5G modem will be worse than current Qualcomm models as it won't have support for mmWave 5G (used in the US) and will only support four-carrier aggregation, a technology that combines bands from several wireless providers simultaneously to increase network capacity and speeds. Modems from Qualcomm can support six or more carriers at the same time.

However,

by using its own modem, Apple is able to create a smartphone that’s about 2 millimeters thinner than an iPhone 16 Pro, while still having room for the battery, display and camera system. Over time, the shift could allow for other new designs. That includes foldable devices — a concept Apple continues to explore.

📱 The novelty is already planned for use in the iPhone SE4 and iPhone 17 Air, and later the modem could be used in base iPad models as well.

📆 By 2026, there should be more advanced versions of Apple's modems with mmWave 5G and support for 6x aggregation. By 2027, plans are in the works to roll out a modem that will include built-in satellite support and faster speeds than the competition.

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