• Apple scraps plan to design watch displays in-house: report

    Apple is winding down a project to design and develop its own smartwatch displays, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The plan was shelved due to high costs and complexity, and Apple is now reorganizing the teams that handled display engineering and eliminating several dozen roles in the United States and Asia, according to the report. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

  • Apple has decided against making its own microLED Apple Watch displays

    Less than a month after Apple abandoned its plans for the Apple Car, the tech giant has decided to bail on its initiative to design its own microLED screens for the Apple Watch. Apple Watch Ultra The project, which was first discovered in 2023, was designed to reduce its reliance on partners such as Samsung and LG. The company had even built its own screen manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, California, near Apple Park. The company would have swapped the Samsung-produced OLED...

  • Apple Drops Plans to Develop MicroLED Displays for Apple Watch

    Apple has ended a project to develop microLED displays in-house, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in a reversal of his prior reporting on the development of the technology. Apple invested billions in developing microLED displays, with plans to first add microLED to the Apple Watch Ultra. MicroLED was too expensive and too complex for Apple to design, so Apple is now reorganizing its display engineering teams and laying off employees in the U.S. and Asia. Some of the displaced employees...

  • Gurman: In-house Apple Watch display project canceled, but microLED products still expected

    Spring cleaning continues at Apple. Per Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, Apple no longer plans to design and produce its own displays for the Apple Watch. Apple has reportedly been investigating moving from OLED to custom microLED screens dates since at least 2016. more

  • New Apple AI training method retains privacy, and could make a future Siri more flexible

    Apple researchers have hit on a new multi-modal method of quickly training large language models (LLMs) that can enable more flexible and powerful machine-learning and "AI" type systems. A research paper posted by the company to research site arxiv.org earlier this week revealed that Apple has used what it calls a "careful mix" of image-caption, interleaved image-text, and text-only data to train LLMs. The mix of visual and language data allowed the models to handle tasks like...

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  • Apple tried to make Apple Watch work with Android

    Apple tried to make Apple Watch work with Android devices, the company admitted, but ultimately gave up on the idea.

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  • Apple tried to make the Apple Watch work with Android phones

    After the US Department of Justice launched a lawsuit against Apple, arguing that the company has maintained illegal monopoly over the smartphone market and some related services, the Cupertino-based firm came out with a surprising story. For years now, one of the main criticisms against Apple has been its walled garden approach, which makes it extremely difficult or impossible to use its devices with other non-Apple products. However, it appears that the tech company tried to make its Apple...

  • Apple Allegedly Tried and Failed to Bring Apple Watch to Android

    The three-year effort was supposedly cancelled due to 'technical limitations.'

  • Apple worked on Android compatibility for the Apple Watch for three years before abandoning the project

    On Thursday, Apple responded to the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit, saying it "threatens" the company's customer base. The suit targets the iPhone and Apple Watch while roping in other aspects of the tech giant's business, including advertising, browsers, FaceTime, and News services. Apple promises to defend itself against a legalRead Entire Article

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    Apple worked for years to make Apple Watch compatible with Android, says report

    Apple reportedly spent a few years trying to make the Apple Watch compatible with Android. The information comes after the Justice Department sued the company for monopolizing smartphone markets.