iPhone 16e and US investment pledge

It's been a busy year for Apple and alongisde this week's news, it's time to look at just what happened when -- from Apple Intelligence woes to brand new devices.

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JANUARY TO JUNE

January

• Apple fails to make its 2024 CarPlay promise
• Unreliable leakers agree on unlikely 'iPhone 16E' name
• Apple agrees to $95M settlement to end Siri recordings ...
• Apple again dominates CES without even showing up
• Dell rebrand shamelessly rips off Pro iPhone marketing
• Indonesia welcomes Huawei but wants still more from Apple
• Apple employees fired over charity donation matching fraud
• Twenty years of the Mac mini, the little Mac that could
• OK Go creates manual visual effects with 64 iPhones
• Apple has more than 2.35 billion active devices, up 550 million since 2022

February

• AppleCare+ moves to subscription-only model
• 'Doom' can even run on Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter
• Rumored Apple Invites app is now live on the App Store
• Lufthansa now embraces AirTags, since it couldn't ban them
• UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on users worldwide
• Apple Sports app adds Nascar support just in time for ...
• Apple now lets you migrate Apple Account purchases
• Indonesia wins as Apple considers manufacturing iPhone ...
• Indonesia set to lift five-month iPhone 16 ban
• Tim Cook's tweet hints at new name for iPhone SE 4
• iPhone 16e replaces iPhone SE, iPhone 14, and ...