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The Indian government approved a measure on Sunday that allows Apple to directly finance iPhone manufacturing equipment in India without risking additional taxes. Here are the details.

As , the Indian government has approved changes to its income tax rules allowing foreign companies to provide manufacturing equipment to local contract manufacturers without triggering tax liabilities.

Apple had reportedly been campaigning for changes to the law, amid concerns that directly funding high-end iPhone manufacturing machinery in India could expose it to taxes on its local profits, even if production was handled entirely by third

The RetroVa Vintage Image Kit features a slide-on camera grip with real buttons, modular telephoto optics, film filter presets, and support for external storage. Here are the details.

If you follow the Chinese smartphone market, you’re likely familiar with Vivo and Oppo, which rank second and third in shipments, behind Apple .

Both companies’ flagship phones feature an official photo extender made by PGYTECH, the same company behind this new iPhone-focused Kickstarter project.

iTunes is an ancient relic of an old music era, right? Not so fast, says a highlighting iTunes’ resilience despite stiff streaming competition, as evidenced by new statistics from Apple.

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Labels have been strategizing around iTunes, in part, at the behest of Apple, executives tell me. In conversations with its partners, the platform’s team has been encouraging them to take advantage of the full breadth of its offerings — not just marketing to Apple Music subscribers, in other words, but also to iTunes users

Apple TV walked away with one win out of four Grammy nominations at last night’s ceremony. Here are the details.

Last November, the Recording Academy revealed the full list of nominees for the 2026 Grammy Awards, which included four Apple TV nominations :

Out of the four nominations, Chris Stapleton’s won Best Country Solo Performance. Interestingly, Stapleton couldn’t make it to the ceremony, so fellow musician Sierra Hull accepted the award on his behalf.

You can watch the moment below:

Stapleton

Apple has just released a variety of new software updates for its devices, but they’re all for older versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS. Here are the details.

Per , Apple has released the following new software updates:

• iOS 16.7.14 (build 20H370)
• iPadOS 16.7.14 (build 20H370)
• macOS 11.7.11 (build 20G1443)

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At CES 2026 last month, Anker unveiled a few interesting new accessories for Apple users, including its Nano Desktop dock and new 45W Nano charger with smart display. It also unveiled a new with a couple of highly appealing features, and it’s now available for purchase.

The big trend of the latter half of 2025 was bringing 25W Qi2.2 to every single wireless charging accessory possible, and that’s going to continue into 2026.

OpenAI has a brand new Mac app: Codex, which it says is “the best way to build with agents.” Here are the details.

OpenAI is expanding its lineup of macOS apps. Joining the existing ChatGPT and Atlas apps, today a brand new Codex app has launched.

The Mac app offers a dedicated hub for agentic coding, and offers a seamless workflow across the Codex app, IDEs, and the Terminal.

For a limited time to celebrate the app’s launch, OpenAI is letting more users try