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The original Mac Pro is 20 years old today and even though the whole range is now gone, people are still celebrating this old, favorite workhorse from a time when it was the clear top of Apple's lineup. The distinctive 2006 Mac Pro Apple finally killed off the Mac Pro in March 2026 , just shy of its 20th anniversary, but its death throes really began six years earlier as Macs transitioned to Apple Silicon . The Mac Pro was the last to make the leap away from Intel, and by then it didn't matter.

For smartphones selling at over $600, Apple owns 65% of that market and grew 9% year over year in the first half of 2026. However, Chinese brands are making a dent in local market share. iPhone demand increases Apple's premium market share Apple ships 23% of all smartphones sold globally and captures 49% of all profit . It's a behemoth on its own, but when accounting for smartphones in the $600 plus range, it's the clear leader in market share. According to a report from Counterpoint Research, A

Apple has rolled out another round of security updates for macOS Tahoe , macOS Sequoia, and macOS Sonoma. Apple releases security updates for Mac operating system lineup Thursday's update is the second round of macOS updates to be released in less than two weeks. According to Apple, the patch solves an issue with Screen Sharing. The patch note reads, "An attacker on the network may be able to authenticate to Screen Sharing without valid credentials." Apple says that the issue was addressed with

Fans of "Widow's Bay" in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco can catch a free screening of the series' final three episodes of the first season at select AMC theaters. Image Credit: Apple TV "Widow's Bay" made its debut in April, quickly becoming an Apple TV hit. The series has been praised for blending genuine horror with character-driven comedy. Even with its late premiere date, it earned 19 Emmy nominations. That includes the coveted Best Comedy Series. Continue

Jon Prosser was sued by Apple over the alleged theft of pre-release information, saw a default ruling due to inaction, had that overturned, and is once again failing to provide discovery materials. There's a reason this time. Jon Prosser in his latest video about Apple. Image source: FPT Life hasn't been easy for Jon Prosser since a July 2025 lawsuit from Apple accused him and Michael Ramacciotti of stealing information from Apple employee Ethan Lipnik's test device. He says he's not guilty, but

Time is running out to grab limited-time deals on Apple's latest MacBook Air laptops, with M5 models now up to $200 off. Many deals end this weekend. Save up to $200 on Apple's M5 MacBook Air today - Image credit: Apple Both Amazon and B&H are running back-to-school deals on M5 MacBook Air notebooks, resulting in discounts of up to $200 off. Whether you're in the market for a premium 15-inch configuration with 24GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 70W USB-C power adapter that's marked down to $1,819 or

OpenAI continues to churn out upgrades to its various GPT models, the latest GPT-5.6 promises to be more succinct and provide confident wrong answers less often. Here's what's new. ChatGPT gets a slider for compute intensity Apple and OpenAI have a relationship where ChatGPT is an extension for the previous version of Siri, though that could come to an end soon. The latest updates don't affect users of that specific function, but the Mac utilities and iOS app will gain new features and performan

Details have leaked about OpenAI's new hardware, and by all accounts, it's going to be shaped and sized a lot like a second-generation Alexa Dot, be battery-powered, and retail for between $300 and $400. Amazon Echo Dot, second generation The rumor mill has been loaded with rumors about OpenAI's hardware. A new accounting of the device says it will be a smart speaker without a display. Furthermore, it is rumored to be about the same size as a hockey puck, like the second-generation Echo Dot pict

One of Apple's memory suppliers is making a massive investment to expand chip production amid global shortages, but it won't make your next iPhone any cheaper. Apple supplier SK hynix invests $38B in AI memory — Image credit: SK Hynix On Friday, SK hynix announced that it has approved a 54 trillion won ($38.3 billion) investment to build two new semiconductor fabrication plants in South Korea. The investment includes 35.2 trillion won ($24 billion) towards the Yongin Y2 facility, which will prod

The upgraded M5 MacBook Air has 24GB of memory to boost performance, and it's $150 off this weekend only. Apple's M5 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM is on sale at B&H - Image credit: Apple B&H's best-selling 13-inch MacBook Air configuration is $150 off as part of the Apple Authorized Reseller's broader M5 MacBook Air sale . What makes this particular model especially appealing is its upgrade to 24GB of RAM. Buy 13" MacBook Air 24GB RAM for $1,349 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our F

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro is right around the corner, and the rumor mill started earlier than normal. Here's what you need to know. Apple's iPhone 18 Pro will feature numerous improvements over the iPhone 17 Pro. In 2025, Apple gave its high-end iPhone a major redesign, with the iPhone 17 Pro featuring a distinct pill-shaped camera plateau, an aluminum frame, and a bright orange color option. Inside, the A19 Pro chip bumped up the RAM to 12GB, and the phone even gained a vapor chamber cooling system

Someone has to pay for all this AI, nothing is foolproof, and Apple's lawsuit with OpenAI is only just beginning, all on the AppleInsider Podcast. The cost of iPhone components is only getting higher. As Wesley briefly covered on the previous episode, artificial intelligence is costing companies billions with very little return. Every new tool comes with a new cost, sometimes money, sometimes privacy. It's a grab bag of topics with people putting iPhones in freezers, getting Uber email scams, an

You may like Pages and you may tolerate Microsoft Word, but text editor BBEdit has been rightly earning devotees on the Mac for 34 years. Here's how. Software used to come in boxes. I know. Image credit: Bare Bones Software. There are very few Mac apps that go back this far, and even fewer that remain both actively developed and actually beloved by its users. And there is only one with the trademark "It doesn't suck." BBEdit is just a text editor, but rather than this meaning it is limited, it m

Apple obviously knows, and perhaps some of its retail staff have at least a clue, but for the rest of us, here's the best estimate of when the iPhone 18 Pro will be announced. Mockup of a possible iPhone 18 Pro Max, which is rumored to come in a dark cherry red. No question, it'll be in September. Apple has held its iPhone launches in October, but since 2011 the only time it has done that was during COVID. The question is when in September we'll find out the all-important updates and, more than

Amazon is again offering steep price cuts on Apple's current MacBook Pro line, with a $500 discount in effect this weekend on a high-end M5 Max model with a spacious 2TB SSD. Save $500 on Apple's M5 Max 14-inch MacBook Pro - Image credit: Apple This weekend's $500 discount applies to the M5 Max MacBook Pro 14-inch with an 18-core CPU, 32-core GPU, and 36GB of RAM. The Space Black laptop also has 2TB of storage, providing extra space for files and apps over the entry-level 1TB M5 Pro . Save $500

Apple may raise the prices of the iPhone 17 roster on August 10, bringing the smartphones in line with other products affected by the memory pricing crisis. The iPhone 17 will be around for a while longer, but it could soon get a price rise. After months of being insulated from the rapidly rising cost of memory plaguing the tech industry, Apple increased the prices of most products in late June. A month and a half later, the iPhone could do the same. According to a Friday post to Weibo, leaker F

The Apple Watch will see a revamp in the coming years, as Apple is reportedly in the middle of a shake up its wearables formula to meet an ever-changing market. Apple Watch Ultra 3 The Apple Watch has retained the same core design of a square display on a watch band, but it has evolved over time. While it has become thinner, larger, and more rugged in the Apple Watch Ultra , it can potentially do more. In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg , Mark Gurman writes that the Apple Watch is r

Apple reportedly evaluated giving Apple Upgrade buyers with iPhones that came with all their previous iPhone's data preloaded, but that didn't make the final cut. Apple Upgrade could have had more options for the iPhone Apple Upgrade is a lease in the US rather than a loan and so it's different to the iPhone Upgrade Program it replaces, but it could have been more different still. According to Bloomberg , Apple at least considered preloading a user's data. It's been described as a "white-glove c

An Apple Watch is a clue in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, a Senate committee has Anthony Fauci's iPhone, and a man is accused of using a fake Instacart order to steal iPads, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter. The Apple Store at Dadeland Mall Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

The iPhone Fold's two colorways may have been revealed, with the foldable smartphone potentially shipping in dark blue and silver colorways. A pair of third-party camera bump accessories for the iPhone Fold - Image Credit: Sonny Dickson/X The iPhone Fold is expected to arrive this fall alongside the iPhone 18 Pro . However, while the general design and specifications have pretty much been settled on, rumors over the summer couldn't decide what colors it will ship with. If images shared by Sonny

Apple's Mac lineup has seen dwindling supply in recent months due to more expensive and hard-to-get RAM, and now even the MacBook Air is seeing available stock dwindle. It's getting harder to find a MacBook Air The MacBook Air is Apple's most popular laptop by far, even if the MacBook Neo is seeking to usurp that spot. Up until recently, it has remained relatively easy to find in all configurations, but that is no longer true . As reported in the "Power On" newsletter from Bloomberg , the MacBoo

Adobe's newest AI ChatGPT plugin shows that the company doesn't care where people create, but more on ensuring they create with Adobe. Image generated with Adobe and ChatGPT On Thursday, Adobe and OpenAI rolled out a new feature. A new ChatGPT tool that would combine more than 70 of Adobe's creative tools into a single plugin, accessible by typing @Adobe. If you've got an Adobe account , you can go to ChatGPT, install the Adobe plugin, and begin generating... Well, whatever you want, really. Con

While the design isn't changing one bit, one expensive and favorite material might return to Apple Watch after a seven-year absence. Apple Watch Series 5 , in ceramic It's been nine years since the Apple Watch Series 2 debuted the material. After a back-and-forth for a few years of just white, or white and black ceramic options, Apple dropped the material entirely in 2020. That may change soon. Apple is reportedly working on returning ceramic to Apple Watch as soon as 2026. In Sunday's "Power On

The iPhone Fold has yet to ship, but Apple's already working on a third-generation foldable it could release in 2028. It's something it's compelled to do. A render of what the first-gen iPhone Fold could look like - Image Credit: AppleInsider Apple is expected to launch the much-rumored iPhone Fold this fall, as part of its usual September iPhone launches. But, despite not having sold a single unit for the foldable, Apple is already planning for multiple follow-ups. According to Mark Gurman in h

ChatGPT maker OpenAI wants Apple's lawsuit dismissed, calling it "rotten to the core" and a pretext for how the firm is failing in AI and at keeping its staff. ChatGPT is in the App Store now While Apple went back to court to ask that its lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft be sped up, OpenAI initially turned to the court of public opinion. But it has now responded to Apple's latest filing with one of its own, presented to a US judge with the request that the case be dismissed

Apple has significantly increased how much it pays you to trade in most devices, but you should compare carrier offerings, other trade-in vendors, and private sale values to get the most for your hardware. Apple has increased its trade-in values for many, but not all, iPhones - image credit: Apple There's no question but that Apple is looking down the barrel of weaker than usual sales for the forthcoming iPhone 18 Pro . No matter how good that smartphone is, it comes at a time when the global ch

Researchers have uncovered Mac malware that can steal credentials and drain all or a selected percentage of a cryptocurrency wallet, in yet another reminder not to paste random commands from the internet into Terminal. New malware via ClickFix The Go-based malware arrived through a ClickFix attack , which disguises a malicious instruction as a CAPTCHA or error message. Instead of exploiting macOS , the attackers persuaded the victim to run the command that installed their malware for them. Once

In this week's Sunday Reboot , the nightmare scenario of OpenAI's hardware leak and the astounding cheapness of promoting Ted Lasso . What's the collective term for a group of Ted Lasso lookalikes? - Image Credit: Apple TV Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Apple's new A20 Pro processor isn't being cranked out as fast as it could be because of RAM shortages, and that is reportedly slowing assembly of the iPhone 18 Pro , and the folding iPhone. That's not great. Render of a possible iPhone 18 Pro - image credit: AppleInsider The fact that there's a RAM crisis and supply problem isn't a new revelation. What is, however, is the fact that in Apple's and TSMC's most complex processor, that uses a new manufacturing technique, RAM supply may be gumming up

Amazon has launched a steeper AirPods Pro 3 discount this August, dropping the earbuds to a 30-day low of $189.99. Grab AirPods Pro 3 at a 30-day low price of $189.99. Amazon has dropped AirPods Pro 3 down to $189.99 , reflecting a $60 discount off the premium earbuds. This is the lowest price we've seen since Prime Day 2026. Buy AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Apple Support in China has published detailed instructions on how local Mac users can utilize Alibaba's Qwen AI with Siri , but the guide was quickly removed. Mac users in mainland China still don't have Apple Intelligence, but they briefly got an Apple guide to it. Back in March 2026 , Apple Intelligence was finally launched and available in China, except it wasn't. Apple had released it seemingly accidentally, and certainly without approval from the Chinese government, so it was rapidly pulled

Here come the price hikes: the continuing memory crisis will make the iPhone 18 Pro even more expensive to manufacture, with it expected to cost Apple almost 40% more to make than the iPhone 17 Pro. A mock-up of a dark cherry iPhone 18 Pro, one of the rumored colorways. Like almost all other tech producers, Apple is subject to the rising costs and limited supply of memory . With the iPhone 18 Pro release on the horizon and expected to cost consumers more than ever to acquire, it will also be ver

The high-profile television version of Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" will reportedly no longer be made for Apple TV because of creative differences. Apple TV will not go ahead with a series dramatization of "The Bonfire of the Vanities." This would have been the third version of Wolfe's famous 1980s novel about greed and Wall Street, and it was to be made by "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" writer/producer David E. Kelley. Now according to Deadline , the deal is off and the productio

LG Display is reportedly developing 5-stack OLED panels rumored to be headed to the 24-inch iMac , which give ever better brightness and image quality. A 24-inch iMac already has a great display, but a 5-stack OLED one would be better and last longer. Apple is clearly planning to bring OLED displays to all of its devices, potentially with the iPhone 20 Pro getting 2-stack or what the company calls Tandem OLED panels. Back in 2022 , Apple was so keen on 2-stack for the iPad that it insisted an in

Analyst firm Jefferies has downgraded Apple stock to underperform alongside a price cut, because the firm believes Apple has cancelled its all-glass design for the still-unannounced iPhone 20. iPhone 20 is probably going to look more like a third-generation iPhone Air Apple has a lot going on to be concerned about. RAM pricing will just get worse , SSD flash cells are a year away from relief, and so forth. One firm thinks that they have a bigger problem than all that. Analyst Edison Lee of Jeffe

The closeout M4 15-inch MacBook Air is a top-seller at the discounted $1,279 price. This blowout 15-inch MacBook Air deal is limited to stock on hand - Image credit: Apple B&H is looking to clear out remaining M4 MacBook Air inventory this week, with the 15-inch model dropping to $1,279 . This spec includes a 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 256GB of storage, with only the Midnight finish left in stock. Buy 15" M4 Air for $1,279 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Summer Apple Watch sales at Amazon and Walmart deliver discounts of up to $172 off SE 3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 styles. Save up to $172 across the Apple Watch lineup - Image credit: Apple Prices across Apple's wearables line start at $219 this week, with standout offers being a $172 discount on the 42mm GPS + Cellular Apple Watch Series 11 at Walmart and a $100 markdown on the Apple Watch Ultra 3 at Amazon. Grab Apple Watch deals from $219 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Apple has been testing memory made by China's CXMT as a lower-cost supplier as its regular suppliers hike up prices, but CXMT is demanding what Samsung gets paid for RAM. A Samsung LPDDR5X memory chip - Image Credit: Samsung It was an idea that would help Apple in the short term at best, and it was one that got it repeated criticism from US senators and memory firms . But with the global chip shortage only getting worse because of demands from AI firms, Apple asked Trump to allow it to buy from

A new report reveals the rather obvious fact that Apple has been testing CXMT memory in more than the iPhone , but also says that competitors are shipping hardware overseas with the controversial RAM already. CMXT is rapidly becoming a major player in memory - image credit: CXMT The global chip shortage has seen Apple looking to use memory made by China's CXMT, even though the firm is blacklisted by the US. It's not a solution , and it isn't the lower-cost answer Apple hoped for, but reportedly

As the launch of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max nears, rumors continue to circulate, claiming that Apple will be using a dark cherry red as its featured colorway. A mock-up of a Dark Cherry iPhone Following the wild success of the striking Cosmic Orange option of the iPhone 17 Pro line, Apple has been expected to do something similar for the iPhone 18 Pro. It seems that the selected color this time is red. According to an August 10 post by Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital, two red versions have b