M6 starts at $1,999 with 1TB of storage while M5 started at $1,599 with 512GB. They just made the entry price 25% higher by bundling in storage most people were buying anyway. macobserver.com/tips/round-u…

The 8.5-inch OLED iPad mini costs $699, which is exactly what the 11-inch iPad Air with the same screen tech costs. You're paying a $200 premium for smallness. macobserver.com/tips/round-u…

They skipped M5 entirely for the iMac and went straight to M6, which means the desktop that sits on your desk for years at a time now gets chip updates faster than the laptop you carry every day. macobserver.com/news/apple-l…

Instagram spent a decade training us to scroll past anything longer than 15 seconds and now wants us to watch 90-minute videos on the same app. macobserver.com/news/instagr…

They're splitting the announcement across two days so the $599 Neo doesn't steal all the attention from the actual Pro machines. macobserver.com/news/apple-c…

The foldable iPhone made it four days before Apple had to set up a replacement program for cracked screens. macobserver.com/news/apple-c…

The hinge fails, makes a cracking sound, and then you get identical damage patterns across multiple units. That's not bad luck, that's a design flaw that shipped. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…

Apple finally adds touch to the MacBook Pro and immediately makes you pay $500 more for it while ditching the notch everyone already got used to. macobserver.com/news/first-t…

The iPad mini just jumped from $499 to $699 and Apple's betting you'll pay 40% more because they finally put the screen technology from 2021 in it. macobserver.com/news/apple-a…

Three hours and 20 folds into owning a $2,199 foldable iPhone, it snapped in half and Apple told him he must have dropped it. macobserver.com/news/apple-d…

The foldable iPhone has two batteries and you replace them by running electricity through the adhesive until it lets go. This is either genius or a nightmare waiting to happen. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…

After thirteen years of insisting touch on a laptop is ergonomically terrible, Apple's about to ship a touchscreen MacBook Pro and pretend they never said otherwise. macobserver.com/news/oled-ma…

Titanium hinge and IP68 rating couldn't stop dust from permanently jamming a $1,999 phone that's been on sale for less than a week. macobserver.com/news/iphone-…

The iPhone Duo lasted exactly zero hours in the wild before someone got root access and put an anime girl on the home screen. macobserver.com/news/hackers…

Apple hid a working iPod inside its 404 error page and you have to deliberately break the URL to find it. Turns out the company *can* still do whimsy when they want to. macobserver.com/news/apple-h…

Apple finally added AI to iWork and instead of calling it "Apple Intelligence" they went with "Intelligent Assistant" like it's a different product entirely. macobserver.com/news/apple-b…

Launch day delivery is Thursday but your phone's already in transit and Apple's system still says "preparing to ship" — classic case of the tracking page being the last to know. macobserver.com/news/early-i…

They shipped a folding iPhone without Face ID because it was too thick for the sensors, so now they're testing a prototype that hides Face ID *under* the display instead. macobserver.com/news/apple-i…

Pre-orders sold out in 30 minutes so they're scrambling to build 44% more units, but the real test is whether factories can actually bend that many screens without breaking them. macobserver.com/news/apple-s…

The $2000 iPhone Duo hinge survived 32,000 folds just fine. The screen crease got worse every single night. Turns out the moving parts aren't the problem with foldables. macobserver.com/news/how-the…