In December 2024, Apple said it would begin opening flagship stores in Saudi Arabia starting in 2026, with an early plan built around an “iconic” location in Diriyah, a UNESCO World Heritage site outside Riyadh. With 2026 now more than two-thirds finished, Apple’s own store-news page has confirmed no physical store as open in the…
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M5 Ultra: How Apple Fuses Two Dies Into 'Its Most Powerful Chip Ever'
M5 Ultra is the chip Apple calls, in its own words, “Apple’s most powerful chip ever.” Announced August 25, 2026, it ships only in Mac Studio, where it starts at $5,499. What sets M5 Ultra apart from every other chip in Apple’s current lineup is not just its size, but how Apple builds it: by…
M6 Chip Explained: Apple's First 2-Nanometer Mac Chip
M6 is Apple’s newest Mac chip and, by Apple’s own description, its first built on a 2-nanometer process. Apple introduced it on August 25, 2026, and it ships in the base Mac mini, on sale September 22 at $899. Mac mini with M6, the first Mac built on Apple's 2-nanometer process. Image: Apple That makes…
Chris Pratt's Way of the Warrior Kid ends Apple TV's 2026 film slate November 20
Way of the Warrior Kid is Apple TV’s next original film, starring Chris Pratt and Jude Hill, and it premieres Friday, November 20, 2026. Apple named the film, its two leads and the date in its 2026 slate release, alongside a dozen other series and films for the year. Apple's 2026 Apple TV film slate…
Nocturne's Ten Episodes Run Weekly on Apple TV Through Christmas Day
Nocturne premieres on Apple TV Friday, October 30, 2026, with its first two episodes, then adds one new episode every Friday until its tenth and final episode lands on Friday, December 25, 2026, Christmas Day. Apple published the entire pattern itself, in a July 2026 Apple TV press release. Apple's Apple TV press releases run…
Apple TV Has Five Dated Premieres Between Now and November 20
Apple TV has confirmed five premiere dates between Wednesday, September 23 and Friday, November 20, 2026: the comedy series Brothers, the comedy series Small Prophets, the film Matchbox The Movie, the crime drama Nocturne and the film Way of the Warrior Kid. Every date below comes from an Apple newsroom or Apple TV press release,…
Apple Has Not Set a Commission Rate for App Store Link-Out Purchases in the US
A federal appeals court’s ruling already requires Apple to let App Store developers in the United States link customers out of an app to finish a purchase on the web. What that same ruling left open is whether Apple may charge a commission on those purchases at all, and if so, how much. As of…
Apple's Other Antitrust Fights: Where the DOJ Case and the UK's CMA Stand Now
Apple’s Supreme Court appeal against Epic Games is not its only antitrust fight. The Department of Justice’s civil monopolization suit against Apple is heading toward a 2027 trial with no date yet set, and the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority has spent the past year building out a regulatory framework under a formal designation…
What Else Happens in October: Apple Arcade's Five Games and Two Apple TV Premieres
October carries five confirmed Apple dates that have nothing to do with a phone announcement. Five new Apple Arcade games arrive October 1. A new Apple TV series premieres October 7. A second series makes its global debut October 30, the same day iPhone Duo reaches 28 more countries and regions. iPhone Duo's own pre-order…
Apple's Calendar From September 12 to October 30: Every Confirmed Date, iPhone and Beyond
Ten confirmed Apple dates fall between today, Saturday, September 12, and Friday, October 30. Most calendars being published this week track only the iPhone. This one also carries the Mac’s return to general sale, a Supreme Court filing deadline, and the day the European Union’s new App Store rules take effect. iOS 27 and four…
What Not to Buy From Apple Right Now: Five Purchases With a Published Date Against Them
Five things in Apple’s current lineup are the wrong purchase this week, and in each case the argument is a published date or a published price rather than an opinion: AirPods 4 in either version, iPhone Air at $1,099, iPhone 16 at $799, any coverage decision made before Monday, and an Apple Watch pre-order placed…
Apple Buying Guide for Photographers in 2026: Four Apertures, 8x Zoom and One Clear Verdict
If you are buying one Apple product for still photography this month, buy the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro. It is the only iPhone Apple sells with a variable aperture, a 48MP telephoto lens and an 8x optical-quality zoom, and it starts at $1,199 with carrier connectivity selected at checkout. The variable aperture at its widest…
Open-Ear, Sealed or Over-Ear: Which AirPods Shape to Buy, and Who Should Skip the Seal
Apple now sells earbuds in three shapes, and the shape decides the purchase before the price does. If a silicone tip sealing your ear canal bothers you, AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case at $149 is the best open-ear set Apple makes. If it does not bother you, AirPods Pro 3 at $249 is the…
Cosmic Orange and Deep Blue Are Gone: The iPhone Pro Colors That Did Not Return
iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max shipped a year ago in Silver, Cosmic Orange and Deep Blue. iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max ship in Black, Silver, Glacier and Burgundy. Two names from last year, Cosmic Orange and Deep Blue, do not appear anywhere on Apple’s new color lineup, and Apple’s own newsroom release confirms…
iPhone 18 Pro's Price Gap Is $100, Not the $30 Discount Apple Still Applies to Older Models
Apple’s US store has quietly used a $30 discount for years to make a carrier-connected iPhone look cheaper than the same phone bought unlocked. That discount still applies to iPhone 17 and iPhone 16. It does not apply to iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, or iPhone Duo. In its place, iPhone 18 Pro’s…
iPhone 16 Plus Is Gone: The Last Plus-Size iPhone Apple Was Still Selling
iPhone 16 Plus was removed from Apple’s store on September 9, the same day Apple raised the price of every other iPhone it kept. It was the last Plus-size iPhone Apple was still selling new, and Apple has not released a Plus model since 2024. iPhone 16 Plus had carried that second-size, non-Pro option through…
iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max: The Discontinuation Apple Never Announced
iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max stopped being available for purchase from Apple on September 9, the day iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max were announced. Apple’s own store pages for both phones now redirect to the new models. Nowhere in Apple’s newsroom release, or anywhere else Apple publishes, does a sentence…
Rosetta Ends With macOS 27, Except When Apple Says 26 or 28
Apple has published three separate pages this month stating when Rosetta, the tool that lets Intel-only Mac apps run on Apple silicon, stops working. One says macOS 27. Another says macOS 27 too, with a narrower carve-out starting macOS 28. A third, posted eight days later, says macOS 26 was already the cutoff and that…
Wallet and Apple Pay Change for Everyone on iOS 27, but One New Feature Needs Siri AI
iOS 27 updates Wallet and Apple Pay for every supported iPhone on Monday, September 14, with swipe-to-switch cards, digital passes made from a photo of a physical card, and richer hotel keys. One new piece, splitting a restaurant bill through Apple Cash, needs Siri AI, an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone and a United States billing address,…
Two 'iOS 27' Features Were Already on Your iPhone Before Monday
Not every feature on Apple’s iOS 27 pages is new on September 14. Apple’s own listings mark Image Wand in Notes and Live Translation in Messages and FaceTime as available now, which means both shipped before the free Monday update rather than with it. iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max ship with iOS 27 on…
iOS 27's Three Enterprise Changes, and Why an Unmanaged iPhone Will Never See Them
iOS 27 makes three changes aimed squarely at managed iPhones on Monday: Wi-Fi Assist is renamed Connectivity Assist, device-management connections must meet stricter TLS requirements, and a supervised iPhone can be forced to install a pending update when it receives a Return to Service erase command. None of the three does anything on a personal,…
iOS 27 Without Apple Intelligence: What an iPhone 11 to iPhone 14 Actually Gets on Monday
iOS 27 installs Monday, September 14 on an iPhone 11 or later, including the iPhone SE (2nd generation and later), exactly as it did with iOS 26. Apple Intelligence is a separate, shorter list that starts at the iPhone 15 Pro, which means seven still-supported iPhone generations get the free update with none of the…
iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro Max: 14 Spec Lines the $700 Gap Does Not Touch
An iPhone Duo costs $700 more than an iPhone 18 Pro Max at every one of the four storage tiers, and on 14 published specification lines the two phones are identical. Same chip, same radios, same modem, same port speed, same wireless charging ceiling, same water rating, same Ultra Wide camera, same storage ladder. iPhone…
iPhone Duo: Seven Hardware Features No Other iPhone in Apple's Lineup Has
Most of the iPhone Duo’s specification sheet is shared with the iPhone 18 Pro Max, down to the chip, the radios and the water rating. Seven hardware entries on it are not, and they are the only places where Apple’s $1,999 foldable is genuinely alone in the lineup: two displays, a nano-texture finish, Touch ID,…