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The iPhone 11 Pro Max cost $1,099 in 2019 and won't get iOS 27. Meanwhile the $429 iPhone SE from this year will get updates until 2031.
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Apple spent three years refusing to hand over India revenue numbers, then caved the moment a judge told them to cooperate. $38 billion in potential fines will clarify your legal strategy real quick.
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Musk sues Apple claiming they're anti-competitive while a judge forces him to hand over emails from three different companies he runs simultaneously.
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Apple gave a Design Award to an app literally called "grug" and somehow that's not even the most embarrassing thing about this year's winners.
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The governor of Maryland is now weighing in on which Apple Store gets to stay open. We've reached peak retail labor politics.
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Turns out people actually want cheap laptops. The $599 Neo outsold both M5 MacBook models in its first few weeks, proving Apple left money on the table for years by refusing to go downmarket.
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Apple's solution to apps looking terrible on foldable screens is copying Huawei's three-year-old feature and calling it "Parallel View."
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The iPhone 18 Pro gets a 36 mAh battery bump in the U.S. That's enough power for maybe 3 extra minutes of scrolling.
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Apple is shipping foldable iPhone prototypes to carriers worldwide but won't even let you replace your own battery without voiding warranty.
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Apple's first unionized store is closing and suddenly 40 Congress members care about retail workers. Where was this energy for the thousands of other store closures over the years?
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Musk's xAI wanted documents from Grab and WeChat to prove Apple plays favorites, but Singapore told them to get lost because the lawsuit looked like a "fishing expedition."
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Dell's $599 laptop includes a touchscreen, backlit keyboard, and Wi-Fi 7 while Apple's $599 MacBook Neo has none of those. Someone's getting lazy with their "budget" laptop.
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They changed one word in "all systems go" and now everyone thinks Siri is getting completely rebuilt. The bar for Apple hype is impressively low.
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Apple spent all of 2024 insisting 8GB was plenty for AI workloads, then builds a $2000 foldable that needs vapor chamber cooling just to not melt itself.
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People are time-traveling to 2027 to trick their iPhones into clearing storage because Apple won't just give us a "delete cache" button like every other computer made since 1995.
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Apple spent a decade mocking Samsung's foldables as gimmicky and now their first one comes in white only because colors are "too complex" to manufacture.
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Nvidia just called their new chip "the most efficient PC chip ever built" which is a very specific way to avoid saying "more efficient than Apple's M-series."
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Apple's already designing iOS 28 before they've even announced iOS 27. Apparently the 20th anniversary iPhone deserves the real software effort while this year gets leftover Siri fixes.
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Apple TV 4K hasn't been updated since 2022 but they're telling you to wait anyway because the new Siri isn't ready. Your streaming box is hostage to an AI assistant that still can't understand basic commands.
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Apple's smart glasses have now been delayed more times than they've been announced. Meanwhile Vision Pro sits at $3,500 waiting for a cheaper sibling that's still three years away.
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