Apple has published the price of the iPhone Duo, its two cases, two ways to pay for it and the three months of Apple One that come with it. It has not published what AppleCare+ costs on this phone, what any repair to it costs, what a carrier will offer for it, or what your…
Mike Peterson
Mike is a technology journalist with a deep focus on Apple’s Mac ecosystem. He has spent years tracking macOS development, Apple Silicon architecture, and system-level changes across major macOS versions. His reporting covers everything from kernel-level enhancements and Swift-based APIs to hardware teardown analysis of M-series chips.
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iPhone Duo Comes With Three Months of Apple One: What $1,999 Includes, and What It Does Not
Apple’s iPhone Duo release says buyers get three months of Apple One, the subscription bundle, rather than the list of individual services Apple’s store normally advertises with a device purchase. Apple has not published the same Apple One offer for any other product in this launch. Siri AI on iPhone Duo, part of the iOS…
Apple Watch Series 12 Reads Your Heart Every Five Seconds: What Apple Publishes About That Data
Apple says the Apple Watch Series 12 “measures heart rate every five seconds, all day long”, with 60x more frequent background heart rate readings and 24x more frequent HRV readings than Series 11. What Apple publishes about the handling of all that data runs to two sentences: health and fitness data in the Health app,…
iPhone Duo Monthly Prices: Five of Apple's 10 Storefronts Publish One, and Each Is Just the Price Divided
Apple’s headline monthly figure for iPhone Duo is $83.29 for 24 months, and it is the $1,999 price divided by 24 rather than a finance quote. Multiply it back out and you get $1,998.96, four cents short of the cash price. iPhone Duo in night sky and star white, the two colours offered at every…
Your Apple Watch Will Not Get watchOS 27: What Changes on Monday, and What Does Not
If your Apple Watch is a Series 8 or older, an Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) or the original Apple Watch Ultra, Monday brings you nothing. Those five models ran watchOS 26 and none of them appears on Apple’s watchOS 27 list, which stops at Series 9, SE 3 and Ultra 2. Series 12 ships…
iOS 27 First, Then watchOS 27: The Update Order for Monday, and Where Apple TV Fits
There is a fixed order to Monday’s updates, and Apple publishes it in a footnote rather than an instruction. watchOS 27 requires a paired iPhone already running iOS 27, so the phone goes first and the watch cannot go at all until it does. watchOS 27 installs only after the paired iPhone is on iOS…
visionOS 27 on an M2 Vision Pro: What Arrives Monday, and the Two Features Apple Keeps for the M5
visionOS 27 arrives free on Monday, September 14, and an original M2 Apple Vision Pro gets almost all of it, including the Siri AI beta. Two features are held back for the M5 headset: Siri voice customization and Apple’s improved on-device Dictation model. Apple announced no new headset at its September 9 event. Image: Apple…
watchOS 27's Four Off-Stage Features: Find My, Wallet Passes, Call Context and Kids' Setup
watchOS 27 arrives free on Monday, September 14, and four of its changes were never mentioned on stage: a single Find My app, Wallet passes made by scanning a plastic membership card, Call Context on your wrist, and a setup path for a child’s Apple Watch. None of the four needs an Apple Watch Series…
AirPods 5 vs AirPods Max 2: $420 Apart, and Only One Has a Full Spec Sheet
AirPods 5 costs $129 and AirPods Max 2 costs $549, a gap of $420 inside the same product family. The odd part is that their total rated listening times with noise cancellation are almost the same, at up to 20 hours each. AirPods 5 at $129 sits $420 below the top of Apple's range. Image:…
Every AirPods Apple Sells Runs the Same H2 Chip: So What Separates $129 From $549?
Apple lists the same H2 chip and the same Bluetooth 5.3 radio on every set of AirPods it sells, from the $129 AirPods 5 to the $549 AirPods Max 2. The price range across that lineup is more than four times, and none of it is explained by a different processor. AirPods 5 carry the…
iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Match Last Year's Pros Millimeter for Millimeter: How to Size-Test Before Pre-Orders
Apple lists the iPhone 18 Pro at 150.0 x 71.9 x 8.75 mm, which is exactly what it listed for the iPhone 17 Pro, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max at 163.4 x 78.0 x 8.75 mm, exactly what it listed for the 17 Pro Max. If you can hold either of last year’s Pro…
AirPods Features That Stop at One Model: Heart Rate, Hearing Aid, Volume Swipe and MagSafe
Several of the features Apple advertises on AirPods exist on exactly one model in the range, and one of them exists on only one of the two AirPods 5 versions. Heart rate sensing and the hearing features are AirPods Pro 3 alone, MagSafe charging is Pro 3 alone, and the force sensor with volume swipe…
iPhone Duo Storage Costs the Same as iPhone 18 Pro Max Storage: How to Configure a $1,999 Fold
iPhone Duo costs exactly $700 more than an iPhone 18 Pro Max at every storage tier, and every storage step costs exactly what the same step costs on the Pro and Pro Max: $200 to reach 512GB, another $400 for 1TB, another $600 for 2TB. Apple has priced the fold as a flat surcharge and…
iPhone Duo Arrives Five Weeks After the iPhone 18 Pro: What That Gap Is Worth to a Buyer
Apple’s first foldable pre-orders on Friday, October 16 and ships on Friday, October 23, exactly five weeks after the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max reach buyers on September 18. For anyone weighing a first-generation fold, that gap is the most useful thing about the launch, because most of what sits inside an iPhone Duo…
iPhone 18 Pro Cameras: Apple Took Four Years to Get Every Rear Lens to 48MP
All three rear cameras on the iPhone 18 Pro are 48MP, and Apple took four years to get there. The first 48MP sensor arrived on the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, the Ultra Wide followed in 2024, and the telephoto only caught up last year. The 48MP main camera was the…
iPhone 18 Pro Reaches 2TB and iPhone Air Stops at 1TB: Where Each Storage Ladder Ends
Apple’s new iPhones do not offer the same capacities as each other. iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Duo climb to 2TB, iPhone Air stops at 1TB, iPhone 17 stops at 512GB, and iPhone 16 is the only model in the lineup that still starts at 128GB. iPhone Duo, one of three…
iPhone 18 Pro Carbon Figures: One Storage Step Costs More Than Moving Up to the Pro Max
Apple gives every iPhone 18 Pro configuration its own carbon figure, and read side by side they say something the price list does not: choosing more storage adds more emissions than choosing the bigger phone. A storage step adds 9 kg of CO2e on the 6.3-inch Pro, while moving to the 6.9-inch Pro Max at…
iPhone 18 Pro Thickness: 8.75 mm Against iPhone 17, iPhone Air and a Folded iPhone Duo
Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes are 8.75 mm deep, the same depth Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. That makes the new Pro thicker than the 7.95 mm iPhone 17, well thicker than the 5.64 mm iPhone Air, and thinner than the 11.3 mm an iPhone Duo measures when it…
iPhone 18 Pro Battery vs Pro Max: 36 Hours Clears the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Falls 3 Short of the 17 Pro Max
Apple rates the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro at up to 36 hours of video playback, which is three hours more than it rates the iPhone 16 Pro Max and three hours less than last year’s iPhone 17 Pro Max. The small Pro has, in other words, caught up with a big Pro, just not the…
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Cost of Ownership: $399 and $799 Are Starting Points, Not Totals
Apple has published three Apple Watch prices for this launch and every one of them starts with the word from: Apple Watch SE 3 from $249, Apple Watch Series 12 from $399 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 from $799. Nothing else about what a Watch costs to own over three years is on an Apple…
iPhone 18 Pro Ownership: Year One Costs $1,497.88, and Year Two Cannot Be Priced at All
Every number needed to cost the first year of an iPhone 18 Pro is on an Apple page. The 6.3-inch 256GB model is $1,199 with carrier connectivity, the TechWoven Case is $59 and AppleCare One is $19.99 a month, which totals $1,497.88 over twelve months on our arithmetic. The Clear Case is $49, one of…
iPhone 18 Pro Max Is 20 Percent More Screen for 18 Percent More Phone: The Size Math Apple Does Not Print
Choose the 6.9-inch iPhone 18 Pro Max over the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro and you get about 20 percent more display, in a body with about 18 percent more footprint and 18 percent more weight. Both panels are 460 ppi, both are the same shape, and Apple publishes every number needed to work that out…
iOS 27 Password Alerts Are Not Ready on Monday: Every Privacy Feature Apple Left Undated
One of the security additions Apple lists for iOS 27 is not in Monday’s release. Apple’s own page says the Passwords app “Alerts you to weak or compromised passwords and can update them”, then labels it “Coming in a future software update”, with no date attached. iOS 27 arrives Monday, September 14, without every feature…
iPhone 18 Pro Max Size Premium: A Flat $100 in the US, 10.5 Percent of the Price in Singapore
The iPhone 18 Pro Max costs exactly $100 more than the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro at all four storage tiers, and Apple’s store pages show the same flat pattern in every one of the ten countries we have prices for. What that gap is worth changes with the market: it is 7.8 percent of the…