Cost of ownership is a price divided by the years you keep the thing, and Apple publishes exactly one number on the second half of that sum. It is four years, and it appears in the eligibility wording for AppleCare One Family: most devices less than four years old and in good working condition. An…
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iPhone Duo Day One: Buy the Phone Apple Ships on October 23, Not the One It Has Promised
The strongest argument against buying a first-generation product is usually the roadmap, and the iPhone Duo has one. Apple has dated Apple Pencil support to later in 2026, the developer tools for the fold to later this month, and five more Siri AI languages to October, which means the phone that arrives on October 23…
iPhone Duo Has No Reviews Yet: Which of Apple's Numbers You Can Check, and Which Need Time
Nobody outside Apple has used an iPhone Duo, so every number attached to Apple’s first foldable is Apple’s own. That does not make the numbers useless, but it does mean a buyer has to sort them, because some are measurements anyone can confirm on October 23 and some are claims with no published test behind…
Can an iPhone Duo Replace a Small Tablet? Apple Never Makes That Comparison
Apple’s published case for carrying one iPhone Duo instead of a phone and a small tablet comes down to four figures: a 7.6-inch inner display it calls 50 percent larger than the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s, a body 5.2 mm thick open and 11.3 mm closed, a weight of 254 g, and Apple Pencil (USB-C)…
iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Duo and Ultra 4: Every Free Extra Apple Includes, and When It Runs Out
Three of the things Apple includes with a new device this autumn are free for a fixed period and then are not: three months of five services with any Apple device purchase, three months of Apple One with an iPhone Duo, and two years of satellite access with an Apple Watch Ultra 3 or later…
iPhone Duo's Rear Cameras Read Like the iPhone 17's, Not the iPhone 18 Pro's
Line up Apple’s spec pages for its 2026 iPhones and the iPhone Duo’s rear cameras do not sit next to the iPhone 18 Pro’s. They sit next to the iPhone 17’s: a 48MP main camera at 26 mm and f/1.6, a 48MP Ultra Wide at 13 mm and f/2.2, and a 12MP 2x crop at…
AirPods 5 Cost of Ownership: $129 Buys the Buds, Not the Cable or the Adapter
AirPods 5 cost $129, or $149 with the Wireless Charging Case, and Apple’s own store page states they do not include a USB-C charge cable or a power adapter. On the $129 model that matters more than it sounds, because Apple’s specs list USB-C as the only way to charge its case. The $149 case…
iPhone Duo Reaches More Countries on Day One Than iPhone 18 Pro Did: 70-Plus Against 65-Plus
Apple’s first foldable opens in more markets on its first day than its flagship Pro does. iPhone Duo goes on sale Friday, October 23 in more than 70 countries and regions, with 28 more on Friday, October 30. iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max open in more than 65 countries on September 18. Image: Apple…
Three iOS 27 Features Built to Share Your Details: Tap to Share, Find My Timers and Wallet Passes
Three of the features in iOS 27 exist to pass your information to someone else. Apple Pay’s Tap to Share connects to a merchant’s iPhone to share your email, shipping and loyalty details, Find My gains location sharing that stops at a time you set, and Wallet can turn a scanned physical loyalty card into…
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 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…