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Apple's mainship supplier gets hit with the virus and the iPhone 10 plus clues hidden in the iOS 12 code we're breaking down the biggest rumors this week on the apple core to say that Tim Cook had a rough start to his weekend would be an understatement the Apple CEO was probably looking forward to a relaxing celebratory weekend with some champagne after Apple hit a trillion dollar valuation this week instead the CEO woke up Saturday morning to news of a virus at one of his factories according to a Bloomberg report Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co or TSMC aka the company making the a12 chip on the next iPhones was hit by a virus Friday night that shut down production over the weekend now most of the factories were up and running by Monday but two days can be critical especially if you're up against a September deadline with Apple okay and as bad as this sounds we as consumers may not even notice a difference first off because apparently not all the facilities were infected so there is a chance that the ones handling the a12 chip for Apple were spared and secondly it's not Apple's first rodeo meaning they usually bake in a little bit of buffer time for this type of unforeseen delays now tsmc also said in a statement on Monday that the company would be able to make up the lost time in the fourth quarter what I still have questions about is how this happened in the first place apparently it wasn't a hacker attack but a Mis operation during the software installation process for a new tool which sounds a little vague to me I want more answers sometimes the best source of leaks can be the source itself and I'm talking about the iOS 12 code and apparently the latest beta 5 release for developers came packed with hidden treasures luckily there are people like eerm a Rambo of 95 Mac to help us find them his latest discovery a sketch or render of the iPhone 10 plus or whatever it is we're calling it a alongside a smaller counterpart which could be the current ten or its sequel the images also show an icon of something that looks like an iPad with slimmer bezels and no home button just as the rumors had suggested for a while but what's most interesting in particular is the square shape which just could serve as a placeholder and not the actual form factor of the next iPad in a previous post he had also discovered double sim support which had been a strong rumour about the iPhone 10 plus now just because there's support included in the iOS 12 code doesn't mean we're necessarily gonna see it in this round of iPhones but at least we know it's going to be a possibility in the future and if you still had any shadow of a doubt the Apple will be releasing a gigantic iPhone 10 in the next round of launches there's this Brazilian blog I helped BR revealed a code that showed horizontal interface support for this gigantic iPhone we can see in the images here that it looks a lot like what we already experienced on the iPad and to some extent in the current Plus models of the iPhone but these features handing it made it to the iPhone 10 the report also suggests that this iPhone Plus version would have a resolution of 2688 by 1242 pixels that's the highest resolution of any iPhone okay so now that we think we know so much about the phones themselves let's take a look at what's inside the box or in this case what's missing in the box according to a Barclays report published in MacRumors this year Apple will not include the headphone adapter in the iPhone box now the company has included that tiny little dongle in the box since it launched the iPhone 7 when it first eliminated the headphone jack that I personally still miss now if you're still holding on to a set of headphones with a 3.5 millimeter input you will have to buy that adapter separately for about nine dollars okay now here's where Apple could redeem itself at least according to the rumours Apple could include a quick charger in the box of the new iPhones according to images leaked a few weeks ago in Japanese blog site Mac o Takara Apple will supposedly switch to an 18 watt wall charger with USB C port at the moment that fast charger in the Apple store costs you almost $80 so I personally would rather have the fast charger than the dongle but why not both alright so moment of truth are you going to miss the dongle leave your answers on the comment section below or hit me up on Twitter and remember to come back next week for more apple core