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- More US Apple Stores Close for COVID-19 - Apple Extends Window for 13-Inch MBP Backlight Repair Program - Apple Stops iOS/iPadOS App Side Loading onto Apple Silicon Macs - Epic Expands Court Fight Against Apple to the UK - MacRumors: Apple May Have to Pay VirnetX $1.1B - Amazon and "Big Five" Publishers Sued for eBook Price Fixing - Tim Cook Talks REJI, Parler, and More on "Fox Sunday Morning" -...

- Cowen: Apple the Smart Play in PCs - TSMC Q4 Beats on iPhone Strength - TSMC Ups Capital Spending for 2021 - Qualcomm Acquires Nuvia for $1.4 Billion - Intel CEO Bob Swan Retiring Next Month - Apple Closes D.C. Metro Stores Ahead of Inauguration - Apple Inks Deal for Ridley Scott-Directed Napoleon Epic - Apple Signs Signs on for Two-Part Oprah Doc - Apple Releases First Full Trailer for Cherry -...

- Apple Invests in and Promotes REJI - Cook: Parler Welcome Back to App Store When It's ToS Compliant - UBS Thinks iPhone Sales Were Down in China in 2020 - Wedbush: iPhone Sales Beating the Bull-Case - Belkin Recalls Wireless Charger Sold Through Apple Stores - Apple Hits Developers with Round-Two Betas - Apple's Firewall Exceptions Removed in macOS 11.2 Beta - Amazon Pharmacy - Amazon Prime Memb...

- Tim Cook Announcing Something on TV Today - Trying to Suss the Apple Announcement - Wells Fargo Ups Apple Target on iPhone Strength in China - Gartner: Pandemic Drove Wearable Growth in 2020 - Report: Apple and EV Startup Canoo Held Talks in 2020 - Apple Hiring Car Experience SQA Engineer for Some Reason - Report: Rare MacBook Repair Shifts to Mail-In - Replacement AirPods Max Don't Come with Re...

- IDC and Gartner Saw Significant Growth for Mac in 2020 - Canalys Saw Notable Growth for Mac in 2020 - Test Raises Concerns About Pacemakers and iPhone 12 - JP Morgan Notes Apparent Growth for iPhone in China Last Quarter - Counterpoint Research: Apple Orders to Drive TSMC Outperformance in 2021 - JP Morgan Analyst Sees Services Driving Apple Car - Apple Releases iOS 12.5.1 to Fix Exposure Notifi...

- Friday: Apple Gave Parler 24-Hours to Clean Up or Be Expelled from App Store - Friday Night: Google Play Store Pulls Parler App - Early Saturday: Parler Tops Free Charts in iOS App Store - Saturday: Apple Removes Parler from App Store - Sunday: Amazon Suspends Parler from AWS - Parler CEO Cannot Find New Home for Service - Parlor: "Social Talking App" Rockets Up App Store Charts - Morgan Stanley...

- Flurry: iPhone Took 8 of Top-10 US Smartphone Activations in December - TSMC Sees Record December Revenue on Strength of iPhone 12 - Counterpoint: iPhone 12 Costs 26% More to Make Than iPhone 11 - German Apple Watch Owners See Weird Altimeter Readings in Weird Weather - Democratic Members of FTC Label Apple and Google "Gatekeepers" in Mobile Gaming - Bloomberg: Apple Car Five-to-Seven Years Away...

- App Store Sales Hit Record $540 Million on New Year's Day - Apple Highlights Services Growth for 2020 - Apple's "Back to University" Promo Launches in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, and South Korea - Apple Puts Out Year-of-the-Ox AirPods Pro for Chinese New Year - Apple Emphasizes Antitrust Concerns in Annual Proxy Statement - Tim Cook Tweets Regarding Insurrection at U.S. Capitol - MKM Partner...

- Canaccord Genuity Ups Apple Price Target to $150 - JP Morgan: Macs and Services May Make Up for Seasonal iPhone Declines - Merrill Lynch Analyst Into Services, Concerned Over Compares - Credit Suisse Still "Neutral" on Apple Despite iPhone Strength - CIRP Sizes Up the iPhone 12 Line - Bloomberg: Foxconn Sets December Sales Record on iPhone Strength - Nikkei: Apple Increasing 1H21 iPhone Orders 3...

- Tech Stocks Fall in Broad Market Selloff - CNBC Piece Ties Monday Stock Drops to Politics and COVID Concerns - CNBC Leans Into Politics as Cause of Monday Selloff - All 38 UK Apple Stores Close as New Lockdown Ordered - Apple Adds New Weekly Content to Fitness+ - Gene Munster on Why Apple Will Beat the Rest of the FAANGs in 2021 - TF International Analyst Make Apple Hardware Predictions for 2021...

- JP Morgan: Demand for iPhone 12 Pro Still Robust Post Holidays - Wedbush: We're on the iPhone SuperCycle™ - Sensor Tower: Christmas iOS App Spending Up 39% YoY - Apple Pulled 46,000 Apps from App Store in China on New Year's Eve - Amphetamine to Stay in the Mac App Store - Apple and Prepear Suspend USPTO Suit for Settlement Talks - New York's MTA Completes Contactless Payment Deployment - Apple...

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- Flurry: Top-Nine US Phone Activations on Christmas Were iPhones - Apple's App Store Takes Over Two-Thirds of Christmas Day App Spend - Bloomberg: Lots of Mobile Downloads for HBO Max and Disney+ Over Christmas - Amazon, Apple, and Tesla Supplier Accused of Using Forced Uighur Labor - Corellium Prevails Against Apple Copyright Claim - Apple Quietly Launching Launch@Apple College Mentorship Progra...

- Apple Hits iCloud Activation Issues on Christmas and Boxing Day - ATT Notifications Showing Up in Beta for iOS 14.4 (and Earlier?) - Apple Hearing Study Accidentally Collects Extra 30-Days of Data - Report: Apple Pulled 94,000 Games from China's App Store in 2020 - Apple Sends Out Developer Small Business Program Acceptance Notifications - Ming-Chi Kuo Sees Apple Car in 2025 at Earliest - After...

- Cowen & Co: iPhone Shipments to Grow 38% in Q1 2021 - iPhones Going Out to Apple Security Research Device Program Participants - Evercore Analyst Doesn't See an Apple Car Coming - Tesla CEO Puts Himself in the Apple Car Story - Apple Stores Actively Promoting Fitness+ - Apple Pay Support Added to Japan's LINE Pay - Cult of Mac Contemplates Apple Buying MGM Studios - Producer: "Ted Lasso" is a Th...

- Reuters: Apple Looking to Roll Out a Car in 2024 - Morgan Stanley: Yeah, yeah. We Assumed an Apple Car - Counterpoint Research: iPhone 12/12 Pro Top 5G Smartphones in October - Goldman Sachs: Good 2020 for Mac Sets Up Tough Compare in 2021 - Report: Saudi Arabia and UAE Used NSO Group Software to Spy on Journalists' iPhones - Troubleshooting "Pairing Cancelled" in Fitness+ - Epic and Samsung Sen...

- California Apple Stores Closed Through the Holidays - Apple Puts Wistron on Probation as Indian Investigation Continues - Indian Government Finds Fault with Wistron Around Riots - Wistron Apologizes to Employees in India and Fires the Person in Charge - Facebook Keeps Hitting Apple Over ATT - EFF Calls Facebook ATT Arguments "Laughable" - Apple Manual Covers Device & Data Access When Personal Sa...

- Morgan Staley "Increasingly Bullish" on iPhone in China - Wedbush Bull Case Puts iPhone Sales at 250 Million Units in FY21 - Indian Trade Union: Local Government Going Soft on Wistron Post-Riot - Apple Must: iOS 14 Adoption Numbers are "Amazing" - Public Beta Testers Get First macOS Big Sur 11.2 Beta - Public Beta Testers Get First iOS/iPadOS 14.4 Betas - Apple Nixes Standalone Updaters in Big S...

- Wednesday: Facebook Runs Attack Ads Against Apple - Apple Responds to Wednesday's Attack Ad by Facebook - Thursday: Facebook Runs Attack Ads Against Apple - Mozilla Sides with Apple on ATT - Newspaper Publishing Group Joins Coalition for App Fairness - Epic Wants Cue and Federighi Under Oath - JP Morgan Apple Note Seems Both Somber and Upbeat - Apple Outs First Developer Betas of iOS/iPadOS 14.4...

- Nikkei Says Apple Upping iPhone Orders ~30% in First Half of 2021 - Nikkei Report Supports Wedbush Assertion Says Wedbush - DigiTimes: Wistron Downplays Damage Caused by Riot in India - India Cellular and Electronics Association Apologizes to Wistron for Riot - EU Proposes Big Changes for Big Tech - Facebook Hopes EU Rules Will Curb Apple - iPad and iPhone Apps Get Bigger with Big Sur Update - A...

- Evercore Analyst Sees iPhone 12 Smoking the Competition in China - Goldman's Apple Analyst is Definitely a "Glass Half Empty" Guy - UBS Analyst: Demand for iPhone 12 Pro High in China, Softening in States - Apple Investigating Riot at India iPhone Factory - AirPods Max In the Wild Today - Apple Updates OSes for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV - watchOS 7.2 Adds Low Cardio Fitness No...

- JP Morgan Weighs Wait Times for iPhone 12 Line - TF International Sees Continued Strength for iPhone Demand - Reports of Riots in India's iPhone Supply Chain - Cydia Accuses Apple of Maintaining Illegal iOS App Monopoly - Apple and Google Kicking X-Mode Location Trackers from App Stores - Amtrak Turns on Apple Pay for App and Website - Apple Maps Officially Updated for Canada - Apple Pay Headed...

- Morgan Stanley Sees "Record Holiday Quarter" for Apple - Wedbush Ups Apple Target to $160 - Apple Confirms Internal Work on Cellular Modems - Apple Releases Public and Developer Betas for iOS/iPadOS 14.3 - Apple Releases Public and Developer Betas for macOS 11.1 - Apple Music Getting Animated Album Covers with Upcoming Updates - Apple TV+ Lands Julia Roberts for Limited Series - Apple Drops Trai...

- Goldman Sachs Sticks with "Sell" and $75 on Apple - CounterPoint: Apple Watch Saw Serious Growth in Q32020 - Apple Includes New ECG Algorithm in Upcoming OS Updates - ECG Goes Live for Apple Watch in Taiwan Next Tuesday - Apple Watch Cellular Land in Portugal - Federighi Makes ATT Case to European Regulators - WhatsApp: WhatsUp with App Store Privacy Labels? - Apple Says Its Apps Will Have Priva...

- Apple Announces $549 AirPods Max - AirPods Max Deliveries Slip Quickly into 2021 - Apple Launches "Journey Into Sound" Promo Video for AirPods Max - Out of Warranty Battery Replacement $79 on AirPods Max - Fitness+ Launches Monday 14 December - Apple Seeds Non-Mac OS Release Candidates to Developers - Bell Mobility First to Launch Apple Watch Family Setup in Canada - Apple Seeks to Have Epic Gam...