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Thursday 13 sepTember 2018

Got $1,100? Apple shows off its most expensive iPhone yet

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE iPhone XR. It has a tradi-
AP Technology Writer tional, lower-quality screen
CUPERTINO, California (AP) and an aluminum body; it's
— Apple unveiled three physically smaller than the
new iPhones on Wednes- iPhone 8 Plus but has a big-
day, including its biggest ger screen. It'll cost roughly
and most expensive model $750 and come out on Oc-
yet, as the company seeks tober 26. Apple also said
to widen the product's ap- that its next major update
peal amid slowing sales. to its iOS operating system
CEO Tim Cook showed off will come next Tuesday, fol-
the Apple XS, which has lowed a week later by a
a bigger screen than the Mac software update.
one on last year's dramati- Worldwide smartphone
cally designed model , the sales grew just 2 percent
iPhone X. It'll cost about during the second quarter
$1,000. A bigger version of 2018, according to the
will be called the iPhone research firm Gartner Inc.
XS Max, which looks to be During that period, which
about the size of the iPhone is typically slow for Apple,
8 Plus, though the screen China's Huawei Technolo-
size is much larger. This one gies surpassed Apple as
will cost almost $1,100, top- the second-largest seller
ping last year's iPhone X, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks about the new Apple of smartphones based
iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and the iPhone XR at the Steve Jobs Theater during an event to an-
which at $1,000 seemed nounce new Apple products Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Cupertino, Calif. on Gartner's calculations.
jaw-dropping at the time. Associated Press Samsung remained in the
As with the iPhone X, the lead.
new phone has a screen which will be available they are. spite waning demand as Apple also announced up-
that runs from edge to on Sept. 21 — with orders The iPhone X also got rid of people upgrade phones dates that push its Apple
edge, an effort to maximize open the week before the home button to make less frequently. IPhones Watch further into medi-
the display without making — represents Apple's at- room for more screen and fetched an average price cal device territory. It has a
the phone too awkward to tempt to feed consumers' introduced facial-recogni- of $724 during the April- larger screen and a built-in
hold. The screen needs no appetite for increasingly tion technology to unlock June period, a nearly 20 heart sensor that the com-
backlight, so black would larger screens as they rely the device. percent increase from a pany said can detect ir-
appear as truly black rath- on smartphones to watch By making more expensive year earlier. regular heart rates and
er than simply dark. and record video, as well iPhones, Apple has been Apple also showed off a perform an electrocardio-
This even-bigger iPhone, as take photos wherever able to boost its profits de- cheaper iPhone, called the gram. q

From music to news, EU moves to protect online copyright

By LORNE COOK and KEL- "memes" that are often for the independent press
VIN CHAN based on or inspired by and for democracy," say-
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Euro- existing songs or movies or ing it would modernize the
pean Union wants to shake other content. rules without stifling online
up the way internet com- Voss said the text con- competition.
panies handle media, e- tains provisions to ensure But the Computer and
books, digital music, news that copyright law can Communications Industry
articles and other content be respected without lim- Association said it would
posted online by better iting freedom of expres- "undermine free expression
protecting the rights of the sion. Wikipedia and open online and access to infor-
authors and creators. source software platforms mation."
EU lawmakers voted to would not be affected. McCartney and many oth-
back a report that has "We have addressed con- er musicians had backed
proved controversial and cerns raised about inno- the proposals, saying it
seen celebrities weigh in. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, center, vation by excluding small would help them earn rev-
Beatles member Paul Mc- delivers his State of Union speech at the European Parliament in and micro platforms or ag- enue that otherwise would
Cartney recently wrote an Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Sept.12, 2018. gregators from the scope," have gone to the domi-
open letter to the lawmak- Associated Press Voss said. "I am convinced nant tech companies.
ers to encourage them to that once the dust has set- But others like Jean have
back the new rules, while publishing platforms liable publishers say the chang- tled, the internet will be as rejected it, saying that
former Fugees frontman for copyright infringement. es would help them get free as it is today, creators working with internet plat-
Wyclef Jean has publicly German lawmaker Axel paid for their work. But op- and journalists will be earn- forms is a bigger financial
opposed it. Voss, who chaperoned the ponents say they are too ing a fairer share of the rev- opportunity than threat for
Among other things, the report through the assem- hard to put into effect, and enues generated by their musical artists. World Wide
report calls for automatic bly, said the vote "is a good might lead to filtering or works, and we will be won- Web inventor Tim Berners-
filters of uploaded content sign for the creative indus- even greater control over dering what all the fuss was Lee and Wikipedia founder
that would identify copy- tries in Europe." The chang- the internet. about." Jimmy Wales have said the
righted material. To give es must still be endorsed by They also fear that the new The European Magazine changes would lead to au-
the new system teeth, it EU member states. rules would effectively ban Media Association praised tomated surveillance and
would also make online Media companies and parodies and viral internet the move as "a great day control of internet users.q