May 2025

President Trump has confirmed that the 25% tariff mentioned for iPhone earlier today will also apply to Samsung and “anybody” making smartphones outside of the United States. more…

Macworld There may be a new M3 iPad AIr on shelves, but since not much has changed, we’re always on the lookout for a sale on the M2 model. And today we’ve got a whopper: Amazon is selling the M2 iPad Air with 512GB of storage and 5G connectivity for just $699. That’s a savings

A few years ago, Apple published a series of short videos on its British YouTube channel that were very different from the company’s usual campaigns. Now, the company is at it again, with a new set of futuristic and oddly hypnotic ads. more…

Xiaomi has retaken the digital crown in the global wearable band market, surpassing Apple to become the top vendor in Q1 2025, according to new data from Canalys. The research firm says Xiaomi pulled it with a more mature ecosystem strategy than the one it had back in mid-2021 (the last time it led the

The long-term promise of Apple Intelligence and next-gen Siri is that it will be able to access all our apps, and the data stored in those apps, to become massively more helpful. ChatGPT has effectively given us a preview of this type of capability through its integration with a handful of Mac apps, and I’ve

I don’t usually watch trailers, but Apple TV+ makes it nearly impossible to avoid them with how aggressively it peddles its own content. After the umpteenth time that sharp trumpet note from The Studio’s trailer blared through my TV while I was just trying to watch something else, I gave in. My first thought? Yeah,

Tim Cook is personally involved in an attempt to stop a Texas child safety bill targeting the App Store from becoming law, the Wall Street Journal reports. more…

While and Best Buy’s Memorial Day sales before we even kick off the holiday weekend, there are some additional deals to add to the list today. Amazon has now dropped a sizable $300 off the 2TB M4 iPad Pro, while more affordable models start from $809. That deals joins some notable offers on Apple’s Magic

Just one day after Mozilla confirmed it’s shutting down Pocket, Digg co-founder and chairman Kevin Rose has stepped up with a public offer to take it over. more…

Macworld Let’s be honest: WWDC 2025 is unlikely to go down in history as one Apple’s greatest ever events, as I’ve warned in a separate article. The company shouldn’t really be forging ahead with new plans until it finishes mopping up the undelivered ones from last year, and the ongoing and unaddressed failures of Siri