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Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday.

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Apple could lose between $300-400 million in revenue as a result of the import ban on select Apple Watch models.
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iPhone designer Jony Ive (L) is reportedly working on an AI hardware device with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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An orange Apple Watch Ultra 2 on a charging mat.
The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 are still available at third-party retailers even if Apple isn't selling them.
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I want to love Siri. I really do. Every day, I walk around with a little robot that lives in my pocket and responds to simple commands. It is a full-blown miracle, the kind of thing our ancestors could only dream of. The problem is Siri’s an idiot. My digital assistant and others like it from Google and Amazon are…

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The Apple Watch SE was the only one displayed at the Apple Store when I went to check it out in Richmond, Virginia.
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Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2
The Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Series 9 models are now not available for purchase in US stores.
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Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical tools with ChatGPT, asking them to turn their work into GPTs.

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The White House has left Apple without hope of federal intervention to keep the current-gen Apple Watch on store shelves. The Biden administration has officially declined to veto restrictions on the company’s wearables due to an ongoing patent dispute, despite the Cupertino tech giant’s pleas. So much for the season…

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Tim Cook enters the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple HQ, where the company announces its new products.