It ’s been another bumper calendar week in the tech world and , as is so often the typesetter’s case , Apple is at the center of attention of it . Here are our winners and losers for this calendar week .
The wearisome Australian crawl towards Spotify offering Hi - Fi music come along to gather pace this week , withpotential pricing for Music Pro tieralong with other perk being reported . It ’s still not carry until later on this year though .
Speaking of things we ’re still wait for , a report suggested the revampedAlexa Plus AI is still not quick for premier timeand wo n’t be available in the immediate backwash of Amazon ’s planned launching event on February 2026 .
The mobile company Nothing made a bluff command bycomparing the cameras on its forthcoming Nothing Phone ( 3a ) to the iPhone 16 Pro Max . We ’ll believe that when we see it .
As you ’ll read later in this week ’s round - up , there was some unsatisfying news for Brits with the UK excluded from theglobal launching of the Huawei Mate XT tri - fold .
And finally , there was also big news program in the streaming realm withAmazon gaining full creative control over the future of the James Bond franchise . It remains to be seen whether that ’ll be a win or a loss for 007 diehards .
Now , rent ’s move on to this week ’s Winners and Losers .
Winner: Apple iPhone 16e
TheiPhone 16earrived on the shot this week and it ’s a far cry from the via media - laden iPhone SE speech sound of yesteryear .
It go the same A18 serial chip , has the same 6.1 - inch OLED display ( both are very slightly downgrade ) as the iPhone 16 . It has the same 48 - megapixel Fusion Camera that can take both 24 - megapixel and 48 - megapixel shot and enchant 4 jet HDR video at 60fps . Plus , it has look ID with Touch ID now consign to history .
It offers access to all of the raw Apple Intelligence feature and there ’s the Action Button offering access to the Visual Intelligence . The design too , is more befitting of a advanced iPhone .
Plus , itdebuts the long - awaited homegrown C1 5 one thousand modemthat Apple says is part of the reason there ’s an extra four hour of assault and battery life uncommitted on this gimmick compared to the iPhone 16 .
Of course , it ’s not staring . Omitting MagSafe charging does n’t make much senseand it ’s a tough anovulatory drug to swallow to only have one main photographic camera on a £ 600 phone . However , the positives far outweigh the negatives andI think the iPhone 16e is going to be a smash hit .
Loser: The UK government
iPhone users in the UK were dealt a huge privacy blow on Friday with the intelligence Apple waspulling its Advanced Data Protection cock , that offer final stage - to - end encryption for drug user photos , files and app data stored in iCloud .
Apple reluctantly made the conclusion to drop the feature , rather than undermine to UK government demands to provide a backdoor to get at iPhone users ’ private data worldwide .
The worrying overreach from the Labour government threatens Brits ’ surety , has removed their peace of mind , and enrage counterparts around the world .
Apple said it was “ gravely thwarted ” to be removing the feature at a metre when the scourge to substance abuser ’ most tender data was at its highest degree .
you’re able to read aboutwhat it think for Brits here .
