Top Apple-related stories March 10-14

Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of March 10-14.

° Apple has reportedly delayed the release of its (rumored) smart home hub.

° Apple’s hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2 are still unavailable for users in Canada.

° Apple retains its top position in the smartwatch market despite a 19% annual decline.

° Lowe’s has launched Lowe’s Style Studio for the Apple Vision Pro in five stores across Austin, Texas, and its metro area. 

° Apple now has 69% of the smart tag market among US Internet households.

° Apple is preparing major overhauls of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, aiming to make the operating systems more consistent and simplify navigation.

° An M5-equipped iPad Pro may not spur major sales increases for Apple’s professional tablet.

° Apple has announced that six games and updates for Apple Arcade are coming over the next month, adding to the catalog of more than 200 games. 

° Apple has released updates for macOS Sequoia, iOS, iPadOS visionOS, and tvOS.

° Apple has successfully blocked its opponents in India, Tinder-owner Match and a group of startups, from accessing its commercially sensitive information.

° Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says a HomePod with display has been delayed until after this summer’s WWDC.

° Apple saw Mac and iPad sales surge in India year-over-year as of quarter four of 2024. Mac sales grew 62.3% annually, while iPad sales grew 29% year-over-year. 

° A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are coming to Apple’s defense over the UK government’s attempts to get backdoor access to users’ iCloud data.

° Apple is planning a new AirPods feature that allows the earbuds to live-translate an in-person conversation into another language.

° Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services (RCS) spec.

° Two human rights groups have filed a legal complaint with the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in an attempt to quash the UK government’s demand for Apple to allow backdoor access to its encrypted data.

° Top U.S. tech, defense and energy companies including Apple and Boeing and Apple will join a large business mission to Vietnam next week.

° It’s official: there will be a fourth season of “Ted Lasso.”

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