Apple’s stopped selling iPhone SE/6/6 Plus/6s Plus in India, leaving only 6s at the low end
The phased-out models will increase the average selling price of iPhones in India and boost both Apple’s profit and revenue at the expense of market share.
iPhone 6s Plus
Apple trialing production of nearly three years old iPhone 6s Plus in India
While iPhone 6s Plus may seem outdated by today’s standards, it accounted for an estimated one-third of Apple’s smartphone sales in India last year. The company could reduce production cost of iPhone 6s Plus by five to seven percent with local manufacturing.
Apple may replace damaged iPhone 6 Plus requiring replacement with iPhone 6s Plus
Depending on the exact damage to your iPhone 6 Plus and the results of Apple’s diagnostic tests, Apple may replace it with a brand new iPhone 6s Plus at no charge whatsoever.
Russians are hopping on the anti-Apple bandwagon
Customers in Russia are also suing Apple for slowing iPhones.
Jim Cramer: Apple has become a punching bag
CNBC’s Jim Cramer says Apple’s become a political target after Senator John Thune demanded answers from the firm about the iPhone throttling saga.
US and France investigating Apple over the iPhone throttling scandal
Following last week’s investigation by a French watchdog, Apple is now facing questions from government officials in its own country over the iPhone trolling debacle.
Apple’s discounted $29 battery replacement service is limited to one repair per iPhone
The discounted out-of-warranty battery replacement fee, at $29, is limited to one repair per iPhone.
Camera+ updated with RAW saving improvements, 3D Touch Peek and Pop & more
Camera+, my favorite iPhone photography app, was updated this morning on App Store with new features putting more RAW power at your fingertips while adding support for Peek and Pop gestures in the app on 3D Touch-enabled devices like the iPhone 6s/7 series. Building on the previous update which enabled RAW shooting and editing, the new Camera+ version 9.1 includes new RAW options for saving and exporting images at the best possible quality.
Google Maps gains 3D Touch place previews
Last week, I whined about Google dragging its feet when it comes to implementing support for important iOS features, like 3D Touch, in apps such as Gmail. Other iPhone and iPad apps from Google have been more aggressive in adopting 3D Touch features, including Maps. In the latest update, Google Maps was bumped to version 4.28 and now allows users who have an iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus to press places on the map to get quicker access to popular actions.
17 months later, Gmail gains a single 3D Touch shortcut
Google today refreshed its mobile Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on App Store, adding very limited 3D Touch support nearly a year and a half after Apple first brought pressure sensing to iPhone’s display with the September 2015 release of iPhone 6s.
Owners of the iPhone 6s/7 series can now press Gmail’s icon to quickly compose a message, but that’s about it. Thank you, Google, but seriously?
In my view, Google doesn’t really have a clue how to properly build 3D Touch gestures into Gmail in a manner that would save users time and boost their productivity.
The app still lacks Peek and Pop gestures., but we’ll get those next year, right?
TapticPasscodeButtons adds haptic feedback to your passcode buttons
Lots of people are fans of haptic feedback, and now that most of the latest iPhones have that sleek taptic engine instead of a clunky vibration motor, those haptic responses are even better to feel than ever.
A new free jailbreak tweak called TapticPasscodeButtons brings that satisfying haptic feedback to the passcode buttons on your Lock screen, and it taps into the power of the taptic engine we previously mentioned in order to do it.
Google launches Chrome 56 for iOS with QR code scanning and overhauled tab switcher on iPad
Google today updated Chrome for iPhone and iPad on App Store with a pair of new features. The first allows you to scan a QR code or barcode by selecting a new Scan QR Code option in the shortcuts menu after pressing the app’s Home screen icon with 3D Touch on iPhone 6s/7 series. On older devices without 3D Touch, search for “QR” in iOS’s Spotlight feature to reveal a shortcut to the browser’s new barcode-scanning function.