Source: Apple. Apple has announced a new limited-edition iPhone accessory, the iPhone Pocket, created in collaboration with design brand ISSEY MIYAKE. Here’s how Apple describes the accessory, which will be available in select Apple Stores and onlin…
Lees meerLast week, Epic and Google made a big show of settling their antitrust dispute. The only trouble is that they didn’t do so until after the judge in the case had entered a permanent injunction requiring Google to make changes to how it operates its P…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Chris simplifies his backpack, Matt has complex feelings about the new Affinity Studio, and Niléane’s challenge has her questioning the sanity of the American suburbs. On Co…
Lees meerQuite the scoop from Mark Gurman yesterday on what Apple is planning for major Siri improvements in 2026: Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Al…
Lees meerLate yesterday, Epic Games and Google announced a settlement of their Google Play Store litigation that, subject to court approval, would open Google’s storefront more widely than ever before. Like Apple’s revisions to its store in response to the E…
Lees meerNintendo fans in Japan have had a “My Nintendo” storefront app for everything Nintendo for five years. Now, it’s finally here for the rest of us, rechristened Nintendo Store for iOS and iPadOS. With the release of the Switch 2, the Nintendo eShop’s …
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John look at the hype surrounding AI browsers to see if there’s any there there. On AppStories+, Federico explains his experiments with lightning fast …
Lees meerToday, Apple released version 26.1 of its full family of OSes. Every platform received attention, including the proverbial “bug fixes and feature enhancements,” but it was iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 that received the most changes that are likely to be…
Lees meerToday, Apple launched a web version of the App Store, with a twist. I’ll admit that this wasn’t on my “things Apple will do this fall” bingo card. I’ve wondered since the earliest days of the App Store why there wasn’t a web version and concluded lo…
Lees meerMiniMax M2 with interleaved thinking steps and tools in TypingMind. In addition to Kimi K2 (which I recently wrote about here) and GLM-4.6 (which will become an option on Cerebras in a few days, when I’ll play around with it), one of the more intere…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane is experiencing the lowest lows with gaming, but Chris is full of joy. Meanwhile, the gang’s attempts to use local LLMs ranges from similar low lows to joy as well. …
Lees meerToday, Apple announced its 2025 Q4 earnings, posting quarterly revenue of $102.5 billion, an 8% increase over the same quarter last year. Apple CEO Tim Cook had this to say of the results: Today, Apple is very proud to report a September quarter rev…
Lees meerKimi K2, hosted on Grow, running in TypingMind with a custom plugin I made. I’ll talk about this more in depth in Monday’s episode of AppStories (if you’re a Plus subscriber, it’ll be out on Sunday), but I wanted to post a quick note on the site to …
Lees meerThere is a variety of new content coming to Apple TV+ this month, and this is your handy guide to all of it, including trailers and calendar links you can use to be sure you don’t miss their premieres. Pluribus (November 7) Vince Gilligan, creator o…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John consider whether Apple made the case for running local LLMs and gaming on the M5 iPad Pro and discusss who should consider buying it. On AppStorie…
Lees meerFor the past week, I’ve been testing the Belkin Stage PowerGrip. It’s an iPhone accessory that adds a DSLR-like grip to your iPhone while simultaneously charging it. Belkin isn’t the first company to make an accessory like this, but the Stage PowerG…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Matt reviews basically every phone of 2025, Chris has Apple silicon Christmas in October, and the whole gang gets creative on their phones. In the Cozy Zone, the gang discus…
Lees meerEarlier this year, Andrej Karpathy wrote an in-depth analysis of four sleep tracking methods that Federico recently recommended I read. I’m glad he did, Karpathy, an AI researcher who has worked at OpenAI and Tesla, took the kind of nerdy, data-driv…
Lees meerSource: OpenAI Sky, the AI automation app that Federico previewed for MacStories readers in May, has been acquired by OpenAI. Nick Turley, OpenAI’s Vice President & Head of ChatGPT said of the deal in an OpenAI press release: We’re building a future…
Lees meerClaude’s new in-context screenshot tool. Anthropic introduced a couple of new features in its Claude Mac app today that lower the friction of working with the chatbot. First, after giving screenshot and accessibility permissions to Claude, you can d…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John discuss what might be next for Apple Intelligence and how it fits into the broader AI market. On AppStories+, Federico and John cover the fallout …
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