May 2025

Amazon’s is now live and kicking alongside a series of new deals on Apple and Beats gear. The details on the early Amazon Memorial Day event are right here, but you’ll also find a new all-time low on Apple’s 13-inch 24GB M4 MacBook Air at $170 off alongside entry-level configurations from $849. Next we spotted […]

After years of more iterative, some might say ‘boring’ iPhone updates, Apple has major new designs coming soon. And one upcoming iPhone model, timed for the product’s 20th anniversary, looks set to make a long-time Jony Ive dream come true. more…

Based on more than 200 interviews with former Apple execs and engineers, Patrick McGee’s ought to leave Tim Cook laying awake at night. It makes a convincing argument that the iPhone could be killed overnight should the Chinese government wish it. This is a book reminiscent of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs in its careful research

Trying to make a payment using your iPhone? You might need to use a third-party service, as Apple Cash appears to be down, and Apple Pay looks to be struggling too. more…

If you closely follow Apple’s inner workings (and since you’re here, I’m guessing you do), you know Phil Schiller has always been known for his unrelenting and fierce protectiveness of Apple and the App Store. This is why perhaps the most surprising aspect of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s recent scathing order to Apple in the

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The countdown to WWDC is winding down, as Apple’s big software unveilings are just weeks away. macOS 16 will introduce a new California-inspired name, of course, alongside a variety of feature upgrades. Here are four new Mac features expected to be announced next month. more…

Macworld The battle royale between Apple and Epic Games over Fortnite doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon.  After a judge ordered Apple to allow developers to link to external payment systems, Epic Games rushed to deliver Fortnite to the App Store after a five-year absence. Earlier this week, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said the

Microsoft has published a new video on its YouTube channel that touts the speed of its top Copilot + PCs. Curiously though, these “top PCs” are compared against Apple’s consumer-targeted MacBook Air…from over a year ago. more…

Macworld Summer’s just around the corner—and that means road trips, backyard BBQs, long weekends, and, let’s be honest, a lot of snack runs. If there was ever a time to join Costco, it’s right now. For $65, you get a 1-year Gold Star Membership plus a $20 Digital Costco Shop Card* to use on anything from bulk burgers to