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Following other analysts, Citi Research analyst William Yang has slashed the first-quarter production estimates of Apple’s 2019 iPhones due to weakening global smartphone sales. The analyst now believes that Apple will ship 45 million iPhones in Q1 2019, down by 5 million. He notes that the iPhone XS Max will be the one to see its sales fall considerably, with its shipment expected to decline by as much as 48 percent in Q1 2019. Yang is cutting the forecast for the new iPhones because they are “entering a destocking phase, which does not bode well for the supply chain.” Almost all reputed analyst have slashed their iPhone sales forecast by 5-10 million due to a fall in demand. They now expect Apple to sell anywhere between 38-45 million iPhone units in Q1 2019. There have been reports of Apple asking its suppliers to cut down on iPhone XS and iPhone XR orders  due to weak demand. The weak iPhone sales have even forced Apple to offer attractive trade-in discounts in a ...

While Spotify has Wrapped 2018 to let listeners do a year in review and look back at their favorite songs, albums, and artists of the year. Apple sadly does not offer any such feature for Apple Music, though developers have managed to create their own year in review tool for the streaming service If you are looking to create your own Apple Music year in review, follow this guide. We will be making use of the app called Music Year In Review developed by NoiseHub for this but there are plenty of other such similar apps also available. The Music Year In Review will not provide you with as much detailed stats as Spotify’s Unwrapped. The latter is able to compile the top 100 songs you have listened to throughout the year, hours of music streamed, the most listened to artist/album, and the new genre of music you have discovered. As for Music Year In Review, it will highlight your favorite artist, the genre you have listened to the most, and your top artist/song for the year. It displays...

Josh Hillard, an iPhone XS Max owner from Columbus, Ohio claims that his phone caught fire in his pant pocket on December 12. He says that he first noticed a foul smell coming from the rear pocket of his pant before a “large amount of heat” burnt his skin and the trouser pocket along with it. The incident occurred while Hillard was on his lunch break. He first saw green and yellow color smoke billowing from his iPhone XS Max. Hillard has described his ordeal and his experience in the Appl Store in extreme details. “Left no other option, I had to exit the room since there was a female in the break room with me and remove my pants. I ran to the boardroom where I got my shoes and pants off as fast as possible. A VP of our company put the fire out with a fire extinguisher because he heard me yelling.” … “From the time of first noticing the fire and between removal of the pants and taking the phone out of my pocket and placing it outside, I inhaled A LOT...

With 2018 coming to an end, now is perhaps the time to look back at all the products Apple released this year. This year was a particularly busy one for Apple as it held three events and announced over 10+ products including 3 iPhones. Some of the products received rave reviews, while others were held back by their software and plagued with issues. This was also the year that Apple finally focused on upgrading other products in its hardware lineup apart from the iPhone with some meaningful hardware aimed at prosumers. HomePod – February 2018 First announced at WWDC in June 2017 , the HomePod was released to the public almost eight months later in February 2018. Apple apologized for the delay in launching HomePod towards the end of 2017 saying it wanted the time to make sure the product is just right. Sadly, Apple’s first smart speaker failed to impress everyone with its smartness. Siri on HomePod is simply not as good as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant and leaves a...

Current Netflix subscribers can have their monthly subscription billed through iTunes if they want, which can make consolidating monthly bills a bit easier. But, as was first revealed on Friday by VentureBeat , that is no longer the case for new subscribers. The report indicates that Netflix removed the feature for new customers sometime within the last month. No exact date was provided, though. So if you’ve recently tried to set up a recurring billing method through iTunes for Netflix and weren’t able to, now you know why. ““We no longer support iTunes as a method of payment for new members,” a Netflix spokesperson told VentureBeat. Existing members, however, can continue to use iTunes as a method of payment, the spokesperson added. The company did not share exactly when it rolled out the change globally, but a support representative VentureBeat spoke with pegged the timeframe as late last month. Additionally, the support rep added that customers who are rejoining Net...

Galit Gura-Eini is the Hebrew voice of Siri, but the Israeli broadcaster is looking for a big change, along with some money. CalCalist is reporting this week that Gura-Eini is currently in the process of taking legal action against Apple. The broadcaster is the navigational voice for the app Waze as well, but when it comes to Apple and Siri, Gura-Eini believes that her voice is being used in “illegitimate” ways, and can be used to say hate speech and sexist language. Gura-Eini says that when she agreed to use her voice for the Nuance Communications recordings, she did so under the terms that the voice be used only in a “legitimate” manner. Apple, for its part, has weighed in on the lawsuit and said that Siri is “nothing but syllables joined together by an algorithm”. Gura-Eini contacted Apple earlier this year and asked for her voice to be removed as the Hebrew voice of Siri, but Apple has so far declined. Apple acquired Nuance’s natural speech...

2018 is coming to an end and to celebrate it, B&H is offering some sweet deals on a variety of Apple products including Macs, iPhones, and iPads. The deals are almost as good as what B&H offered as a part of its Cyber Week sales in late November  and Sweet Apple deals . Deals on MacBook Pro  2018 MacBook Pro 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3GHz Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD for $1,599 –  Deal  ($200 off) 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3Ghz Core i5 processor, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD for $1,849 –  Deal  ($150 off) 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3GHz Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, and 512GB SSD for $1,699 –  Deal  ($400 off) 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3GHz Core i5 processor, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD for $1,949 –  Deal  ($250 off) 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3GHz Core i7 quad-core processor, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD for $2,399 –  Deal  ($200 off) 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.7GHz Core i7 quad-core processor, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD for $2,599 –  Deal  ($300 off) 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.7GHz Core i7 ...