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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Apple did it first.

As Framework announces its second price hike tied to rising RAM costs, it’s worth taking a moment to give Apple its dues — it was hiking up memory prices long before it was cool.

Akarain8:

If this carries on Apple’s RAM pricing will start to look merely ‘overpriced’.

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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
“...like e pluribus unum.”

Once you’ve watched the Pluribus (or, actually, Plur1bus?) season finale and read through Andrew Webster’s review, it’s time for Apple TV’s 20-minute behind-the-scenes video with Vince Gilligan & Co.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Apple’s foldable gets Prossered.

It’s unclear if Jon Prosser — Apple rumor monger and target of that Cupertino lawsuit — has his own sources, or is just regurgitating as fact reporting already done by the likes of Mark Gurman and Ming-Chi Kuo. Nevertheless, this video is a good summary of where rumors of the foldable iPhone have coalesced, less than a year before its supposed release.

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Allison Johnson
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
More ads in App Store searches.

Apple knows that search is the most common way to find and download apps in the App Store. So in 2026, it’s going to inject even more ads into those results. Right now ads appear at the top, pushing down the things you’re actually looking for, but soon they’ll also be sprinkled into the slots below.

Say it with me: enshittification.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple might be bringing back a high-end iMac.

Leaked kernel debug kit files have references suggesting that Apple is working on a new iMac with an M5 Max chip, MacRumors reports. Return of the iMac Pro?

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Monsters inc.

Apple just announced that, in addition to the upcoming second season, a spinoff of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is also on the way that will star young Lee Shaw (Wyatt Russell). Here’s the logline:

The spinoff series will follow the story of Colonel Lee Shaw, an American operative who in 1984 went on a secret mission behind enemy lines in an attempt to stop the Soviets from unleashing a horrific new Titan big enough to destroy the U.S. and turn the tide of the Cold War.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Apple is getting closer to bringing notifications to third-party watches.

The iOS 26.3 beta introduces a new “Notification Forwarding” setting that you can use to forward alerts to non-Apple watches, according to MacRumors. The feature comes in response to an order from the EU, and is still a bit limited, as it only forwards notifications to one device at a time.