iPhone 17 Pro -Lecks, Apple Watch SE -details, iPhone 17 release data

Take a look back from Apple this week, including iPhone 17 Pro Lecks, the publication plan of the new iPhone, the legal danger of Apple, China's critical role, Apple Watch SE grows, lighter Apple Vision Air and the AI of Google that come to iOS.

Apple Loop is here to remind you of some of the many discussions about Apple in the past seven days. You can also read my weekly Digest of Android News here on Forbes.

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Apple was killed in Apple-Epic Games-Anti-Trust case

According to a court regulation 2021, the US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple violates the arrangement. It covered the anti-steering regulations of the App Store:

“… Rogers had ordered Apple to reduce the barriers that protect his previously exclusive payment system for digital in-app transactions and enable developers to display links to alternative options. On Wednesday, she found that Apple violated an injunction from 2021 that she wrote to” prohibit the anti-encorpetitive behavior of the iPhone macers ” Price purchases.

“Apple's continued attempts to disturb the competition will not be tolerated,” said Gonzalez Rogers in the decision that Apple kept contempt. “

(Ap).

An Apple spokesman commented on the case of 9to5macs Zac Hall:

“We have not agreed to the decision. We will comply with the order of the court and appeal.”

(9to5mac).

iPhone 17 Pro specifications lick

Is Apple updated the iPhone's vanilla models to send 12 GB RAM? Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that this is considered. The current 8 GB sets a border for Apple Intelligence, and this limit becomes clearer over an expected service life of seven years. If you browse the new telephones in one of the iPhone 17-air-is a long-term sense if the conditions allow this at short notice:

“Kuo also said that even the basic model iPhone 17 could be equipped with 12 GB RAM, but it depends on whether supply chain shortages can be overcome. He said that Apple will make a final decision about the amount of RAM that will offer in the regular iPhone 17 model. Even if the basic model iPhone 17 sticks with 8 GB RAM-RAM-RAM-RAM-RAM model a RAM-RAM-RAM mode of 12 GB.

(DCS about macrumors).

iPhone 17 release time plan

Since Apple is pursuing the industry standard shortly after a product launch and the iPhone is brought to retail on the shelves, the manufacturing lines must be designed well in advance. The technical validation tests must be completed beforehand. Reports this week indicated that this milestone was passed and that the iPhone 17 and 17 are on course:

“The EVT level should ensure that it is practical to produce a new product in its intended form and to recognize potential bottlenecks and challenges that Apple and its partners may have to overcome. The subsequent DVT level is where products for the intended processes for the use of the final production limit. The PVT level. Times -Mass -Mass -Mass -Mass -Mass -Mass -Mass -Mass -Production.

(Digitimes over 9to5mac).

A revolutionary iPhone needs Chinese support

Apple is working hard to move more manufacturing skills from China to India and Vietnam, even if the Chinese supply chain and the Chinese skills remain unsurpassed. For this reason, it is likely that the iPhone model will be produced for the 20th anniversary in China, even with the risk of tariffs:

“Writing in his latest power on newsletter says Gurman that the new models are” extraordinarily complex “and that” new parts and production techniques “will include that are best supported by Apple's established production centers in China. The facilities have the experience and infrastructure that is necessary for advanced engineering.

(Makes over macrumors).

Apple Watch SE to grow

Apple Watch SE is the cheaper portable apple guard and is physically a touch of less than the main box line. New supply cover details indicate that the SE of the next generation will increase the specifications and the current regular watches will correspond:

“[Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC)] The Apple Watch SE 3 would be available with displays with misery 1.6 and 1.8 inches. The figures provided by Young indicate that the 2025 variant of the SE is similar to the 41 -mm and 45 mm size options of newer models such as the Apple Watch Series 6 to Apple Watch Series 9. “

(Apple insider).

A brighter visionos headset on the way

With its price of 3,500 US dollars, Apple's Vision Pro is seen as a software development kit as a full -fledged consumer goods product. The latter would need an easier and cheaper handset. Turn the Apple Vision Air, the next independent mixed reality die next year:

“All signs indicate the lighter model that arrives between the end of this year and the first half of 2026. Although the first version was sold poorly, the company does not give up the ship here. The main uncertainty is whether the lighter version is regarded as a replacement for the vision pro or a cheaper alternative.

(Bloomberg).

And finally …

Will the next iPhone support Google Gemini's AI platform? This is the fascinating possibility that Google CEO Sundar Pichai raised as part of his evidence in the case of the Search Monopoly Court. Since Apple has significantly behind mobile devices in the generative AI, this may have to be taken over to keep up with the competition, even if the idea that Apple offers a unique AI experience can be diluted:

“The integration would probably enable Siri to demand Gemini to answer more complex questions, similar to the integration that Apple created with Openais Chatpt. Apple Senior Vice President Craig Federighi, indicated plans to build Gemini in the Apple Intelligence functions last June.” Time. “