Apple Intelligence just arrived last month, and some of its most exciting features will arrive with iOS 18.2 in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, a new report indicates Apple’s major AI competitors are hitting speed bumps with their growth. It seems Apple may be hitting its AI stride at just the right moment.
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Apple Arcade is always adding new games for subscribers, but the service is preparing for an especially big holiday season and start of 2025. Today Apple announced 15 new titles that are dropping soon. Here’s what’s coming.
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Apple has a new home device launching early next year, as detailed in an extensive Mark Gurman report. And this as-yet-unnamed ‘HomePad’ sounds like exactly what I want in a smart home product.
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Update: Right on schedule, Little Cities: Diorama has arrived for Apple Vision Pro. Download it here.
More mixed reality games that became popular on Meta Quest headsets are coming to Apple Vision Pro. Little Cities: Diorama offers an all-new version for Apple Vision Pro. Notably, it blends your real-world environment with a virtual city you create. Considering the mixed reality fidelity on Vision Pro, this should be the best version of Little Cities.
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Joining all-time lows on the 42mm and 46mm Apple Watch Series 10 starting from $349, today Amazon has decided to carry the deep discounts over to the GPS+Cell models, including both the aluminum and higher-end titanium variants starting at $449 (the best prices ever across the board). Next up we have a particularly notable deal on Apple’s most affordable new 16GB M4 MacBook Pro at the $1,474 all-time low ($125 off) as well as a $200 discount on 2TB 11-inch M4 iPad Pro that is now at the Amazon all-time low. Those offers join deals on the 2024 official Apple Watch Dark Green and Navy Alpine Loops, some iPhone 16 charging gear, the new Bose Home speaker, and more. Scope it all out down below.
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The team behind Halide is back with an update to their video capture app Kino. Version 1.2 introduces support for Camera Control on iPhone 16, high frame rate support tuned for iPhone 16 Pro, and a new app icon that’s less HAL 9000 and more film reel-inspired. The update also adds the ability to organize Grade presets — apparently a highly requested user feature.
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The holiday shopping season has arrived, and with it a great gift has just released for the Ted Lasso fans in your life (self-gifting is okay too). From The New York Times’ TV critic comes telling the full story of the biggest Apple TV+ hit.
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Ever since Twitter became X, many users have been looking for a good alternative. Meta’s Threads has become that for a lot of people. But a very big, yet inevitable change is happening to the social media network soon: ads are coming to your feeds.
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Alright, let’s make some predictions. Aside from the iPhone, Services is Apple’s most successful product category. The company’s approach to modern artificial intelligence, combined with its acquisition history, hints at how Apple could unlock new revenue streams in 2025. Apple Intelligence has the potential to be the next major driver of Services revenue.
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Apple launched big updates to the iPad Pro and iPad Air back in May, and a new CIRP report offers the first look at their first full quarter of sales. The results are very surprising.
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