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  • Apple Could Unveil iOS 26 at WWDC 2025 As an alternative of iOS 19; Stated to Undertake Yr-Primarily based Naming Technique

    WWDC 2025 will kick off in June and has been rumoured to be a stage the place Apple may unveil iOS 19, its newest OS replace for the iPhone, together with extra firmware iterations for its units. Nonetheless, a current report signifies that iOS 19 could not arrive in any respect. Whereas the corporate will certainly preview the upcoming iOS firmware, it’s stated to be not often known as iOS 19 in any respect. The report means that Apple might be altering its naming conference (or nomenclature) technique for iOS.

    Apple to Preview iOS 26 As an alternative of iOS 19

    It has been recognized for a while that Apple may make some huge adjustments this yr in relation to its working programs. However whereas this was beforehand considered relevant to the core design or performance, the change could start from the nomenclature itself. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stories that the Cupertino-based tech large may move away from an iteration-based strategy in direction of an year-based one in relation to the naming of its OS updates.

    This probably means OS updates will reportedly be recognized by the yr it’s launched as a substitute of a model quantity, the journalist stated, citing nameless sources aware of the plans. Therefore, iOS 19 is predicted to be known as iOS 26, iPadOS 19 might be iPadOS 26, macOS 16 could possibly be macOS 26, and so forth and so forth. The corporate is reported to make use of the upcoming yr as a substitute of the present one whereas naming its firmware variations.

    The next replacements of Apple’s updates are more likely to be previewed at WWDC 2025:

    Platform Anticipated Identify (Primarily based on Previous Pattern)     Hypothetical Future Identify
    iPhone iOS 19 iOS 26
    Mac macOS 16 macOS 26
    iPad iPadOS 19 iPadOS 26
    Apple Watch watchOS 12 watchOS 26
    Apple TV tvOS 19 tvOS 26
    Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional visionOS 3 visionOS 26

    Notably, Apple’s OS updates are accompanied by completely different variations as they didn’t launch on the identical time. Thus, iOS 18 is the most recent replace for the iPhone whereas macOS 15 ships with all Mac units. In the meantime, the just lately launched Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional runs on the visionOS 2 firmware. Thus, Apple is alleged to be making this alteration to carry “consistency to its branding” and to do away with a naming strategy that could possibly be complicated to prospects and builders alike.

    This modification, together with all the options, is predicted to be previewed on the WWDC 2025 keynote which takes place on June 9.

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  • BlackBerry Shifts Patent Technique By Outsourcing Deal

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    Canada’s BlackBerry introduced the outsourcing of a big a part of its patent licensing efforts on Wednesday to a unit of the US-based Marconi Group.

    BlackBerry mentioned the work of sub-licensing a broad vary of its patents to international smartphone producers will fall to Teletry.

    Teletry is a part of the Marconi Group, which launched earlier this and says it focuses on patent licensing throughout a broad vary of applied sciences and merchandise.

    BlackBerry mentioned it might retain possession of its roughly 40,000 patents – which span working techniques, networking infrastructure, automotive subsystems, cyber safety and wi-fi communications – and function its personal licensing programme outdoors of Teletry’s sub-licensing rights.

    Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.

    “They’re mainly saying ‘I do not need to construct this inside group up at BlackBerry, I need to outsource it,” mentioned Todd Coupland, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.

    “It permits BlackBerry to give attention to their core enterprise, which isn’t patent licensing. I haven’t got an issue with that,” Coupland mentioned.

    He added that BlackBerry ought to give attention to successful extra offers for its QNX working system for use within the automotive business – a key potential supply of future development.

    BlackBerry Chief Government John Chen had made monetizing the corporate’s mental property a key pillar of his plan to show the corporate round after ceding the handset promote it as soon as dominated to rivals.

    Chen mentioned final month that BlackBerry had greater than 80 folks engaged on patent offers, though a number of senior members of the group have departed in current months, together with Mark Kokes, who left the corporate to take a job at well being expertise firm NantWorks LLC, two sources have beforehand mentioned..

    Marconi’s management group consists of Kasim Alfalahi, the previous head of patent licensing at Ericsson , and Eric Reifschneider, who was beforehand normal supervisor for Qualcomm Inc’s licensing efforts.

    Such sub-licensing offers sometimes contain little or no when it comes to upfront funds, business members say, with the patent enforcers offering their experience in change for a reduce on any offers reached.

    © Thomson Reuters 2017