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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Tim Cook: “I am healthy. My energy is high, and I plan to be in this new role for a long time.”

Apple’s outgoing CEO and incoming executive chairman addressed employees today about the transition, Bloomberg reports.

John Ternus, who will take over as CEO, also spoke to staff, noting that AI — something that Apple has struggled with, to put it mildly — is “going to create almost unlimited potential.”

Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro launch eventFramework’s Laptop 13 Pro launch event
Richard Lawler and Sean Hollister
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Wait, who is Canva’s biggest competitor?

Canva CEO Melanie Perkins dodged this question with a lot of charm and verve, but I wonder if the answer is quickly going from Adobe to Anthropic. More on this week’s Decoder!

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Framework’s first laptop sleeve is made of space-age Tyvek.

Don’t call it duct-tape! Tyvek is a plastic that feels (and creases) like paper, similarly made of fibers bonded together. I have a wallet made of the stuff. The bag has dedicated pockets for Framework’s Expansion Cards, screwdriver, and up to a 13-inch laptop. The $39 sleeve comes in silver or black.

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A silver bag
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A silver bag
Image: Framework
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Hmm… 🤔 that photo in Framework’s keynote looks familiar.

While hyping up its couch keyboard, Framework CEO Nirav Patel showed images of how people use its computers in the living room. It gave me a Leo DiCaprio moment as I noticed a photo from my time testing Bazzite on the Framework Desktop. How about a photo credit, Nirav?

Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’

Did Framework just catch up to premium laptops?

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Framework is filling the Laptop 16’s literal gaps with one-piece touchpad and keyboard decks.

The Framework Laptop 16 is the most modular laptop ever made — but we’ve never been huge fans of the uneven and occasionally creaky spacers that let you shift the keyboard and touchpad left and right. Here are new one-piece versions. The touchpad might feel nicer now that it’s haptic, too! Waiting to hear the price on these.

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<em>First, the new touchpad and the original keyboard.</em>
Now with the new keyboard.
The full laptop with fewer gaps.
The touchpad solo.
The keyboard solo.
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First, the new touchpad and the original keyboard.
Image: Framework
The AirPods are Tim Cook’s most underrated achievement

Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus made a computer company the most important audio company of the 21st century.

John Higgins
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Framework says new Laptop 13 Pro has more Netflix battery life than an M5 MacBook Pro.

20 hours of 4K Netflix, says CEO Nirav Patel. It’s got a Core Ultra 3 chip, a 22 percent larger and denser battery, a custom 30-120Hz VRR screen and LPCAMM2 compression mounted memory. Full story coming soon.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Stick a 10Gbps port into your Framework Desktop or Laptop.

It’s even bigger than Framework’s existing 2.5Gbps expansion card, and will definitely stick out the side of your machine. But it’s fast! (Framework gave up on foldable Ethernet ports when it turned out their internals were too chunky, BTW.) The company isn’t yet saying how much it’ll cost.

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An ethernet port sticking out of a dongle
The WisdPi 10G, designed by a Hong Kong company, will be sold in Framework’s online shop.
Image: Framework