Apple Rumours: MacBook Pro goes on diet, loses optical drive to get slimmer – Part 3

Apple has been in a buying spree since last year to develop and improve its own map service. In this regard, the Cupertino giants acquired a number of companies that master in mapping services, including the infamous acquisition of C3 Technologies. According to various sources, the Apple map service will be smoother, clearer and more accurate/updated than Google’s.

The Apple device that is making more news than others is the one Apple has not released yet. It is the yet-to-launch Apple Television that was hinted by Walter Isaacson in Late Steve Jobs’ biography. The new television will bring Apple into home appliance business, in addition to computers, mobile devices and audio devices.

In recent developments, Foxconn—Apple’s biggest hardware component vendor—has inadvertently revealed that the new TV set is in the making of at their China-based plant. Terry Gou, Chairman of the company accidently spilled word on the new television. Later Foxconn denied such news mooting it has rumour.

It is apparent that the release of the new television set is inevitable as Jobs’ biography suggests but the release date or even year, for that matter, is yet to be determined.

In other news, various sources have suggested that Apple has not yet finalized the design of the sixth-generation iPhone. However, it is expected to inherit the same aspect ratio from its predecessors but the screen will be bigger. The trademark home button is still at the bottom of the screen but due to size constraints it is creating problems in the design of the device.

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