Two Apple TV+ documentaries are nominated for Peabody Awards 15 Apr 2025, 6:47 pm

The 2025 Peabody Awards have announced the first batch of this year’s nominees. Apple TV+ has two nominations.

“Bread & Roses” and “The Last of the Sea Women” are nominated in the Documentary category.

Here’s how “Bread & Roses” is described: Sahra Mani’s documentary follows the experiences of Afghan women since the Taliban took control of Kabul, including an ex-government employee forced to stay indoors, a woman organizing resistance via her dentistry practice, and a refugee who flees to Pakistan.
Here’s how “The Last of the Sea Women” is described: Director Sue Kim follows a declining community of women in South Korea—most of them now in their 60s or older—who dive to the ocean floor without oxygen tanks to harvest seafood to feed their community.

The Peabody Awards, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described “as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.”

This year’s Peabody Award nominees were selected by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from more than 1,000 entries across TV, radio/podcasts and online. You can find the complete list of nominees here. 

About Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. 

For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free. For more information, visit apple.com/tvpr and see the full list of supported devices.

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Apple to launch a new trade-in promotion at its stores this week 15 Apr 2025, 3:20 pm

Apple will launch a new trade-in promotion at its stores this week, according to  an “X” post by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

“Apple plans to launch an in-store recycling promotion tomorrow, giving a 10% discount (up to $20 off) on Apple accessories — including AirPods, AirTags, Apple Pencil, watch bands, cases, Mac peripherals — when bringing in items not eligible for trade-in credit,” he says.

Apple will officially announce the promo on Wednesday. It will run for a month, Gurman says.

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Apple TV+’s ‘Severance’ among top 10 most streamed titles in March 15 Apr 2025, 12:51 pm

According to Deadline, March marked a high-profile month for streaming, which represented 43.8% of all television usage during the month, driven by top programs across seven different platforms, according to Nielsen‘s latest monthly report.

“Severance,” “Reacher,” “The White Lotus,” and “Adolescence” were among the top streaming titles. Prime Video‘s “Reacher” came in atop the list with 6.6 billion minutes viewed. Apple TV+’s “Severance” was in 10th place with 3.3 billion minutes of viewed streaming time. 

About Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. 

For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free. For more information, visit apple.com/tvpr and see the full list of supported devices.

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Apple TV+ acquires ‘Come See Me In The Good Light’ 15 Apr 2025, 11:04 am

Apple has landed the global rights to “Come See Me in the Good Light,” the latest documentary from three-time Emmy nominee Ryan White (“Pamela,” “A Love Story”), reports Deadline.

Here’s how the documentary is described: The doc is a love story centered on poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, who face an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

It won the Festival Favorite Award in its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “Come See Me in the Good Light” will arrive this fall on Apple TV+.

About Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. 

For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free. For more information, visit apple.com/tvpr and see the full list of supported devices.

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Apple officially brands ‘Search Ads’ as ‘Apple Ads’ 15 Apr 2025, 11:03 am

Apple has officially rebranded Search Ads as “Apple Ads,” reflecting the expanding scope of Apple’s advertising business, according to 9to5Mac.

“When Apple Search Ads launched in 2016, we offered a single ad placement at the top of search results,” Apple said in a note to developers. “Today, advertisers can run ads in multiple placements across the App Store, so we’ve decided to change our name.

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Apple will permanently close its retail store in downtown Bristol, England 15 Apr 2025, 11:02 am

Apple has confirmed that it will be permanently closing its retail store in downtown Bristol, England, and there is no replacement in sight, reports MacRumors.

Apple Bristol will be closing its doors on Saturday, August 9, due to redevelopment plans at the Cabot Circus Shopping Centre, and the adjacent Bristol Shopping Quarter. Architects’ Journal says the regeneration project will demolish the “failing”1990s Galleries shopping centre in Bristol’s Broadmead quarter, redeveloping the site to create “a sustainable urban quarter that will stand the test of time.”

Apple Bristol open in 2008. Despite the store closing, Apple says its employees will “continue their roles at Apple.”

With the shuttering of Apple Bristol, the tech giant will have 39 retail stores in the United Kingdom (although one is rumored to coming to Oxford(. The country with the most number of Apple locations in the UK is England, with 34 stores, which is about 85% of all Apple stores in the UK.

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Apple posts second round of new developer betas of its operating systems 15 Apr 2025, 11:01 am

Apple has seeded the first developer betas of macOS Sequoia 15.5, iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, tvOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, and watchOS 11.5.

Registered developers can download the betas via Apple’s developer portal. Or they can be downloaded over-the-air once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Developer Center. 

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News items you should check out: April 15 15 Apr 2025, 11:00 am

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites.

° From 9to5Mac: There are three reasons why Apple tariffs absolutely won’t be reapplied. 

° From AppleInsider: India now makes one in five of all iPhones worldwide.

° From Apple Newsroom: Apple has posted an article about how to “Get Active With Apple Watch.”

° From The MacObserver: Some iPhone users are now receiving push notifications from the Apple Store app promoting the iPhone 16.

° From MacRumors: Here’s how Apple is working to improve Apple Intelligence.

° From MacVoices Live!: On the new episode, the MacVoices Live! panel discusses the fallout from 23andMe’s bankruptcy and data concerns, Discord’s controversial ad rollout, and the implications of AI-powered Amazon Alexa+. 

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FTF: ’Silicon Six’ tech firms such as Apple don’t pay enough UK corporate income tax 15 Apr 2025, 12:23 am

The big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” (Apple, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, and Microsoft) have been accused of paying almost US$278 billion less UK corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits, according to The Guardian.

The article says they generated $11 trillion of revenue and $2.5 trillion of profits over the past 10 years, yet paid an average 18.8% in combined national and federal corporation taxes, compared with an average 29.7% in the U.S,. according to the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF), 

The FTF is a not-for-profit social enterprise. It’s mission is to make sure businesses practice “responsible tax conduct.”

“Our analysis would indicate that tax avoidance continues to be hardwired into corporate structures,” Paul Monaghan, the chief executive of the FTF, told The Guardian. “he Silicon Six’s corporate income tax contributions are, in percentage terms, way below what sectors such as banking and energy are paying in many parts of the world.”

He pointed to “aggressive tax practices” such as the contingency tax positions, while the companies also exerted “enormous political influence as well as economic power”, spending millions of dollars on lobbying governments.

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Apple removes AI references from iPhone 16 billboards  14 Apr 2025, 8:13 pm

Apple has removed AI references from its New York billboards promoting the iPhone. 

BGR reports that — as noticed by PMC’s Parker Ortolani — the “Imagine it. Genmoji it” slogan has been replaced with “iPhone 16 Pro. Cinemasterpiece.”

This is a surprising move. Apple has been hit with multiple lawsuits for “false adverting” that promised AI and “personalized Siri” features in the iPhone 16. Those features have yet to arrive.

However, Apple hopes to release its delayed Apple Intelligence Siri features in the fall, according to a report by The New York Times.

“Apple hasn’t canceled its revamped Siri,” the article says. “The company plans to release a virtual assistant in the fall capable of doing things like editing and sending.”

This contradicts previous reports. Last month Apple spokesperson Jacqueline Roy indicated to Daring Fireball that it would take longer. 

“Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT,” she said. “We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.”

And Reuters said AI improvements to Siri won’t arrive until 2026. 

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