Welcome to the AppleInsider Daily for Monday, January 30, 2023.

Typically reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has today reaffirmed his expectation that Apple will launch a folding iPad in 2024. Kuo has reported this before but now his supply chain sources have added the detail that the iPad Fold will feature a carbon fiber stand, made by Anjie Technology.

At the same time, Kuo has pushed back his estimate of when we'll see a new,  seventh generation iPad mini until early 2024. He says that this means we may not see any iPad release this year, though it's not clear whether that includes the iPad Pro.

One thing Kuo is adamant about is that, despite some previous rumors, the iPad Fold will not replace the iPad mini. This isn't going to be a single iPad, but instead the lineup will expand.

Speaking of lineups, the whole iPhone 14 range -- and the current Apple Watches -- feature Crash Detection and today saw news of when Crash Detection proves to be a good thing, and a bad one.

First, the bad, and false positives, which are where sudden moves such as in sports like skiing, trigger the Crash Detection and emergency services are contacted unnecessarily. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency is asking iPhone users to be cautious about leaving the feature turned on.

Between December 16, 2022, and January 23, 2023, 919 emergency calls were placed to one Fire Department, and 134 were false alarms.

Similarly, a separate fire department elsewhere in Japan reported about 350 emergency calls in the first three weeks or so of January, and there 135 were false positives.

When an iPhone 14 or an Apple Watch detects a crash, it first alerts the user and gives them the opportunity to cancel a call for help. But in skiing or snowboarding sports, for instance, the user may not see the alert in time.

If that's the bad news about crash detection, it's hard to say that there is actually any good news, since today's other report is about an actual car crash. A Ford Ranger, towing a horse trailer, left the highway in Tasmania and hit a tree stump.

Five people in the car were taken to hospital, while another had serious injuries and had to be airlifted. Two of the four horses were killed in the impact, and the other two had to be euthanized.

The good news, such as it can be, is that the authorities reached the scene faster because one of the car's occupants had an iPhone 14. Its crash detection alerted emergency services immediately and help was on the scene within eight minutes.

Crash detection is turned on by default on the iPhone 14 and certain Apple Watches, it isn't a separate app you need to download. 

There has been a change today about downloadable apps, though, if you are in  the UK, Columbia, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria, Norway, or South Africa.

For each of these countries, Apple has announced that apps are going to be more expensive to download. It's not a dramatic rise in any case -- in the UK, for instance, an app that was 89 pence will now be 99pence. Apple has produced a PDF listing all 658 of the price changes taking place across these countries.

The new prices will also apply to subscriptions and in-app purchases, and they come into effect from February.

Lastly, today we learned that the Jabil company is starting to make components for AirPods, specifically the enclosures or body. It's significant because Jabil is in India, and this marks both an expansion of Apple manufacturing in the country -- and another case of Apple working to reduce its overreliance on China.

So Chinese suppliers should be worried, you should be buying that app you're thinking about today, crash detection is a mixed bag but it's saving lives, and it's looking ever more likely that we'll see a foldable iPad next year.

You can hear more news from AppleInsider on the weekly AppleInsider podcast every Friday. There's also our HomeKit Insider Podcast for smart home users, that's out every Monday. Links for both shows are in the notes for this one. 

Thanks for listening, I'm William Gallagher and this has been the AppleInsider Daily for January 30, 2023.