The largest published saving on an Apple Watch Series 12 does not come from Apple. Best Buy’s listing takes up to $325 off a Series 12 pre-order when you trade in an eligible Apple Watch, and that offer expires 9/18/2026. Apple’s own price is From $399, and Apple is not discounting it. Series 12 in…
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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Three Years With an iPhone 18 Pro: The $2,063 Total That Is Not on the Price Tag
An iPhone 18 Pro is $1,199. Add 8 percent sales tax, one $49 case and three years of AppleCare One at $19.99 a month, and our arithmetic on Apple’s published figures puts the three-year total at $2,063.56 before anything comes back at trade-in. iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for 256GB in four finishes. Image:…
Apple Refurbished iPhones: Up to 15 Percent Off, and Still No iPhone 17 in Stock
Apple Certified Refurbished promises savings of up to 15 percent, a one-year limited warranty, and on iPhone a new battery and a new outer shell. What it does not have, as of September 10, 2026, is a single iPhone 17 generation model. iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 new, and will not appear refurbished for…
iPhone 18 Pro for Students: Apple's Education Store Charges the Same $1,199
Apple’s Education Store lists iPhone 18 Pro at $1,199, which is exactly what everybody else pays. There is no student discount on any iPhone, and there never has been one at Apple. iPhone 18 Pro costs $1,199 in Apple's Education Store, the same as the consumer store. Image: Apple What the Education Store does discount…
AppleCare One on iPhone 18 Pro: The $19.99 Maths, and the Price Apple Has Not Published
AppleCare One costs $19.99 a month for up to three products, which is $479.76 over two years on our arithmetic. That is the only coverage price Apple has published for this launch, because the per-device AppleCare+ figures for iPhone 18 Pro and everything else announced in September 2026 are not published at all. A $1,199…
Apple No Longer Sells the iPhone 17 Pro: What to Buy Instead Now Older iPhones Cost $100 More
The oldest trick in iPhone buying, waiting for the new Pro so you can pick up last year’s Pro cheaply, does not work in 2026. Apple has stopped selling iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, and the four older iPhones it kept are each listed $100 higher on its store than they were…
iPhone 18 Pro Monthly: What 24 Months at Apple and 36 Months at a Carrier Commit You To
There are four published ways to pay for a $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro in the United States, and the figure that separates them is not the monthly payment. It is the term: nothing, 24 months at Apple, 24 or 12 months on a lease, or 36 months of bill credits at a carrier. iPhone 18…
iPhone 18 Pro or Pro Max: What the $100 Gap Buys, and When to Spend It on Storage
At matching storage, iPhone 18 Pro Max costs exactly $100 more than iPhone 18 Pro, and that $100 buys two things: six more hours of rated use and 0.6 inch of screen. Nothing else on the spec sheet changes, so if neither of those is what you want, the same $100 is better spent on…
iPhone 15, 16 and 17 Trade-In Values Fell on September 9: What Yours Is Worth Now
If you were holding your iPhone 15, 16 or 17 back until launch week to get the best trade-in figure, the timing worked against you. Apple’s trade-in values changed on September 9, the day iPhone 18 Pro was announced, and the iPhone values moved down, by as much as $120 on an iPhone 16 Pro.…
The iPhone Duo Accessory Budget: A $79 Case, a $129 Folio and a Charger Apple Has Not Priced
iPhone Duo comes with a phone, iOS 27.1 and a one metre USB-C cable, and nothing else. The two accessories Apple has priced are the iPhone Duo Case at $79 and the iPhone Duo Folio with Kickstand at $129, and the accessory that actually changes how the phone behaves day to day, a power adapter,…
iPhone Duo for Business: Apple Publishes No Volume Price, and Here Is What It Does Publish
Apple publishes no business price and no volume discount for iPhone Duo. There is no schedule on apple.com tied to unit counts, no published business price list for iPhone of any kind, and no percentage anyone can quote you. A company ordering Duos on October 16 pays the same $1,999 to $3,199 a consumer pays.…
iPhone Duo on an Apple Card: $59.97 in Daily Cash, $83.29 a Month, and the Carrier Rule
Two published Apple Card numbers do the work on iPhone Duo: 3 percent Daily Cash back on purchases at Apple, paid up front, and 24 monthly installments at 0 percent APR. On the $1,999 model that is $59.97 back and $83.29 a month, which is Apple’s own figure. iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB…
iPhone Duo in the UK at 0% Over 30 Months: What That Changes About Buying on Day One
Apple’s UK store finances iPhone Duo over 30 months at 0 percent APR, from £66.63 a month against a £1,999 list price. The 30 payments add up to £1,998.90, which is the whole point: the term changes your cash flow on day one and changes nothing at all about what the phone costs. iPhone Duo…
iPhone Duo in India: What ₹2,99,900 Really Costs After No Cost EMI and Cashback
iPhone Duo starts at ₹2,99,900 in India, and Apple’s own store shows a monthly figure from ₹48,817 against it. That is not a long instalment plan: six of those payments come to ₹2,92,902, which is ₹6,998 below the list price, so the number you see already has a cashback deduction folded in and is spread…
Apple Trade In or Sell It Yourself for an iPhone Duo? The Number You Have to Beat
Apple will credit $175 to $885 against a new iPhone for an iPhone 13 or later, and it applies that credit instantly at the point of sale. Selling the same phone yourself has no published price, so the only useful way to compare the two is to treat Apple’s number as the figure a private…
iPhone Duo Pre-Order Day, October 16: What Actually Decides Your Delivery Date
iPhone Duo pre-orders open at 5 a.m. PT on Friday, October 16, and the first units arrive on Friday, October 23. Apple publishes no stock levels and gives no delivery estimate until after an order is placed, so the only variables you control are how fast you get through checkout and which options force an…
iPhone Duo at $1,999: Will It Ever Go on Sale, and What Apple Did to iPhone Prices in 2026
Apple has published no discount of any kind on iPhone Duo, and the only time Apple moved iPhone prices in 2026 it moved them up. Four older iPhones went up $100 each on September 9, which is the exact opposite of the pattern that makes waiting for a price cut look sensible. The 7.6-inch inner…
iPhone Duo Unlocked or on a Carrier: The Three-Year Cost, and Why No Carrier Has Priced It
Buy an iPhone Duo unlocked from Apple and the three-year cost is knowable today: $1,999 for 256GB, or 24 payments of $83.29 at 0 percent, and the phone is yours. Buy it on a carrier and the three-year cost is not knowable, because no US carrier has published an iPhone Duo offer of any kind.…
iPhone Duo Trade-In: What Apple Will Credit, and Why $885 Is Not Your Number
Apple’s published trade-in figure for an iPhone Duo purchase is a range, not a price: $175 to $885 in credit for an iPhone 13 or later, applied instantly at checkout. The top of that range needs an iPhone 17 Pro Max in good condition, and even then it leaves $1,114 to pay on a $1,999…
The Cheapest Way to Buy iPhone Duo: Every Route Apple Publishes, Ranked in Dollars
iPhone Duo costs $1,999 for 256GB and $3,199 for 2TB, and only three published routes take money off those numbers: Apple Trade In, the Veterans and Military Purchase Program, and Daily Cash on an Apple Card. Everything else Apple offers changes when you pay rather than how much you pay. iPhone Duo pairs a 7.6-inch…
iPhone 18 Pro Color, Storage and Case: One Choice Is Permanent, One Is Free, One Can Wait
Three decisions go into an iPhone 18 Pro pre-order when the page opens at 5 a.m. PT on Saturday, September 12: storage, color and case. Only one of them is permanent, one of them is free, and one of them can wait until the phone is already in your hand. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone…
iPhone Duo Storage: What Each Step Costs Per Gigabyte, and Where It Stops Paying
Apple prices iPhone Duo at $1,999 for 256GB, $2,199 for 512GB, $2,599 for 1TB and $3,199 for 2TB on its US Store page. The three steps cost $200, $400 and $600, which works out at $0.78, $0.78 and $0.59 for each gigabyte added, by our arithmetic on Apple’s prices, taking 1TB as 1,024GB. The 7.6-inch…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage vs iCloud: The $5.56 a Month That Decides Which Is Cheaper
The first storage step on iPhone 18 Pro costs $200, the difference between $1,199 for 256GB and $1,399 for 512GB on Apple’s US Store page. Spread across three years of owning the phone that is $5.56 a month, and that is the number any cloud plan has to beat before it is the cheaper way…
iPhone 18 Pro 4K120 and ProRes: The Storage Math Behind Apple's Two Heaviest Formats
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro tech specs list 4K Dolby Vision recording at 24, 25, 30, 60, 100 and 120 fps, and ProRes video up to 4K at 120 fps with external recording. Those two lines decide more about which storage tier you need than anything else on the page, because one of them multiplies your…