Apple Archive

Mark Gurman’s newsletter runs the gamut of Apple nexts this weekend, starting with rumors of the “iPhone 17e” kicking off an annual refresh cycle for cheaper iPhones, more iterative chip-bump updates for the Mac and iPad starting this fall, and Apple’s first new Mac external monitor since 2022’s Studio Display.

At the moment, ESPN has the rights. But Apple has made a made a bid “worth at least $150 million a year to stream the races starting in 2026” and ESPN “isn’t going to try to match or beat that,” Business Insider reports.

When The Morning Show returns for its fourth season on Apple TV Plus on September 17, the UBA-NBN merger will be a done deal, and the newsroom will find itself dealing with a new slew of challenges as it tries to keep its audience informed about the truth.

Here’s the outgoing Apple COO and defacto head of design recounting the time that Steve Jobs willed a scratch-resistant display into existence after the original iPhone was announced and demonstrated with a plastic screen. Corning eventually dubbed the product “Gorilla Glass.”

Demand for PCs in the US has cooled significantly from the spike saw in the first quarter, as demonstrated in the chart below. “What we’re witnessing here might highlight US PC demand slowing down in anticipation of the import tariffs looming deadline,” says IDC in its latest quarterly report. Lenovo dominated Q2 2025 with an estimated 24.8 precent global share of “desktops, notebooks, and workstations.” Apple placed 4th after a big 21.4 percent jump in year-over-year shipments. HP ranks 2nd, Dell 3rd, and Asus comes in at 5th.

The Cupertino company is in discussions with ESPN to acquire the Formula 1 broadcasting rights in the US next year, according to The Financial Times, following the success of Apple’s F1 Movie.