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system crafter. shall we begin?

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nobody's asking why apple would repeat a strategy that took the x itself years to normalize into a real seller
scarcity worked for the x because it eventually became normal. if the fold stays this scarce, that's not strategy, that's just the ceiling

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

iPhone Fold could repeat the iPhone X launch strategy.

According to Kuo, the foldable iPhone is expected to be announced alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, but pre-orders and sales may happen later due to limited initial supply.

Expect pre-orders in late October and the official launch in early November.

Apple is reportedly expecting around 7~8M foldable iPhone assembly shipments in 2H26, with only 500K~1M units assembled in Q3, compared to roughly 20~22M iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max units.

This would be similar to the iPhone X, which was announced in September 2017 but didn’t go on sale until November due to production constraints.

Renders by: AppleTrack

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@ivanfioravanti local inference at this speed on consumer hardware means the privacy argument for cloud AI just got a lot weaker

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LPDDR6 with 96-bit bandwidth doubles memory speed and apple put it in the 18 Pro first
your next iphone isn't faster because of the camera. it's faster because of what's running underneath it

[Anthony @TheGalox_]

iPhone 18 Pro will have the fastest memory ever in a smartphone

With LPDDR6 96-bit, it doubles bandwidth and improves efficiency

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@aaronp613 a new icon for the assistant that still can't reliably set a timer without asking for clarification. priorities

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two M3 ultras chained for GLM 5.2: 23.4 tok/s vs 18.8 solo. 24% gain for double the hardware.
doesn't scale like cloud GPUs yet, and the PR's still unmerged
cool that it runs at all on consumer chips, just not worth it yet

[Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ @ivanfioravanti]

MLX GLM 5.2 Distributed on two M3 Ultra 512GB 🔥

One M3 Ultra: 18.8 tokens/sec
Two M3 Ultra: 23.4 tokens/sec

Context:
- PR by @pcuenq is still open and probably there is room for improvement: https://t.co/4TAQSib03F
- basic generation test to measure decoding performance here, I will do a full context benchmarking once PR is more mature
- nvfp4 quantization used
- Video alternates standard speed and x20, with one Mac first and distributed later.

Enjoy! 🙌🏻

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@StockSavvyShay expanding Athena to agencies is a distribution move more than a product move ,agencies bring the client base with them

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@alxui_ux Siri is in the group chat but still on read

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airpods with infrared cameras but you can't even take pics with them?? apple really said "we see everything, you see nothing" for $299 lmaooo the stem got longer tho so fashion

[Apple Cycle @theapplecycle]

Here’s what we know so far about the AirPods Ultra coming later this year 👀

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@Wario64 no price announced yet. which means it's going to be expensive and sell out in 3 hours anyway. we've seen this movie before

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every ai company has been racing to get on your phone. apple just made its own phone the platform. gemini gets distribution to a billion devices.
openai keeps chatgpt integration. more third-party ai support coming. apple isn't building ai
it's taxing it.

[Apple Hub @theapplehub]

Apple will announce iOS 27 in less than 24 hours 🚨

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@theapplecycle the last good morning from the guy who turned apple into a $3 trillion company by being the opposite of steve jobs in every way that mattered

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Silicon Valley keeps building $50M apps to help knowledge workers move faster. meanwhile the DMV website still crashes on Tuesdays and your city's bus tracker is a PDF from 2019.
the talent went where the money was. not where the problems were

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@MariaLearningAI I'm in the spinner right now reading this instead of watching it. solidarity🤗

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the studios obsessing over ray tracing while one indie RPG made sure your 2014 laptop can still run their game. different priorities. different relationships with their players

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@aaronp613 the FCC doing more product leaks than the entire Apple rumor community combined

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iphone 18 pro drops in september and the list is short but the damage is real:
🔹 camera improvements that'll make your 16 look prehistoric
🔹 best battery life apple has ever put in a phone
🔹 new flagship color that's already about to be everywhere
three reasons one decision

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@NotionHQ spotify dropped a disco ball, notion dropped a disco cube 2026 is not playing around 🫦

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@avstorm people treat a temporary icon like a permanent identity crisis

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@Dell Small laptop, big ego energy 💻🫦

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@theapplecycle @frontpagetech Apple removing features like it’s spring cleaning 😭