Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world’s most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Between the Apple Watch Series 10, the Ultra 2, and the second-gen SE, there are more options than ever. We’ll help you sort through them.
Whether you want a battery that lasts for days or the best deal, we’ve got some recs for your next iPhone.
Shawn Hickman, who makes an app I really like called Sofa, has eight developer-specific requests for Apple at WWDC. Some are technical, some are business-focused, some are pure vibes. Hickman is just one dev, obviously, but he covers bunch of frustrations I’ve been hearing for years. It’s a good frame ahead of next week.
The tower defense game is headed to Apple Arcade on July 3rd, along with the spinoff Angry Birds Bounce, which swaps the classic slingshot gameplay for arcade-style brick-breaking.
As previously announced, What the Car? for the Apple Vision Pro and Uno: Arcade Edition are available starting today.
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The platform is globally releasing a self-service “Pre-Release” feature for Artist accounts that allows musicians to easily promote forthcoming album releases. Fans can automatically save unreleased albums to their Spotify or Apple Music libraries so that they don’t miss the album drop and can listen to them instantly upon release.
0This fun story from The Atlantic is about President Trump’s love of phone calls, and the risks that entails: impersonation, hacking, and much more. But as soon as I read an advisor saying that “he is not walking around with a run-of-the-mill iPhone off the shelf,” I immediately had one thousand more questions. I now need to go find answers.
(Also, if, like me, you’ve never stopped wondering how Obama’s BlackBerry worked, there are some interesting details here.)
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0The keynote for Apple’s next developer conference is only a week away, and the homepage for the event has just been updated with a short tagline, “sleek peek,” while exec Greg Joswiak tweeted out this new animation. We’re guessing this refers to the visionOS-like design refresh supposedly coming for Apple’s operating systems, and not to the “gap year” for AI features rumored over the weekend.
Whatever it is, we’ll be at Apple Park on June 9th to report the details.
The WhatsApp for iOS 25.16.81 update that’s rolling out over the coming weeks allows users to hold down on a message to select and copy specific sections, instead of being forced to copy the entire message text. Android users are still stuck with this limitation for now, but WABetaInfo reports that a similar update is in the works.
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter follows up on his earlier news that Apple’s operating systems will switch to Madden-style numbering by saying the new Mac update will be Lake Tahoe-themed.
With just one more week to go before WWDC 25, he’s also suggesting this will be a “gap year” for Apple’s AI ambitions, with projects like LLM Siri, a true ChatGPT competitor, and an Apple Intelligence-enhanced version of its Shortcuts app still in development but possibly not ready for a preview.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has been hosting a WWDC live podcast session for years, and every year since 2015, Apple senior execs have shown up. That won’t be the case for the 2025 edition, and after his recent report on unmet promises of Apple Intelligence, I think I can guess why.
If you missed the recent Decoder episode with John discussing Apple, its App Store, and Apple Intelligence, you can listen to it right here.
Following Bloomberg’s report that Apple plans to name the next versions of its operating systems based on years, Apple Insider is reporting that macOS 26 may drop support for several older Intel-based Macs, according to people familiar with the matter.
Unsupported Macs will potentially include the 2018 MacBook Pro, the 2017 iMac Pro, the 2018 Mac mini, and the 2020 Intel-based MacBook Air, which are currently the oldest models currently supported by macOS Sequoia.
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When The Morning Show returns to Apple TV Plus for its fourth season on September 17th, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) are going to find themselves navigating “a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups.”
The first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ upcoming crime drama Smoke starring Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett as a detective / arson investigator duo forced to team up in order to take down a pair of serial fire starters is — apologies — hot as hell. The show debuts on June 27th.
Last month, the European Commission ruled that the App Store’s “anti-steering” policies — which put restrictions on developers pointing to external purchases — violate the Digital Markets Act. That ruling has since been published in full, stating that Apple must pay the €500 million within three months, or it will incur interest. Apple must also come into compliance with EU laws by the end of next month.
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Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 2420 on Tuesday, which will require app store owners like Apple and Google to verify the ages of their users before they can download apps. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook called Abbott about the law in an attempt to intervene, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The law will go into effect on January 1st, 2026.
The Information reports that three years ago, Musk offered Apple an 18-month exclusive connection via SpaceX in return for $5 billion up front, and $1 billion per year after that to support satellite-connected iPhone features. If Apple didn’t take it within 72 hours, he threatened to announce a competing feature.
Apple went forward with Globalstar (the report also mentions a canceled “Project Eagle” effort with Boeing that would’ve delivered full-blown internet service), and before the iPhone 14 launched, Starlink announced a deal with T-Mobile. Later that year, Musk and Cook met at Apple HQ to discuss Twitter’s App Store presence, “among other things.”
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Shipments dropped 76 percent in April 2025 compared to the year before, as those from India grew by the same percentage, according to new figures from Omdia. April’s figures are low overall, but skewed by March’s efforts to rush 600 tons of product into the US before tariffs hit.
The big question is if Apple will keep prioritizing Indian-made iPhones now that Trump has threatened fresh tariffs on all phones that aren’t made in the USA.
1-Bit Rainbow, an online store full of spare parts and accessories for keeping vintage Apple computers running, is now selling a functional original Macintosh replica that’s just 2.4-inches tall.
The Pico-mac-nano is powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico which has more than enough power to emulate the Macintosh, and while its creator warns there may be stability issues and incompatibility with some older software, the tiny desktop does support modern USB keyboards and mice.
