Deals: Jet Black Apple Watch Series 10 $376, black Milanese Loop all-time low, Mac keyboards 30% off, more

Your Friday edition of the day’s best deals on Apple gear and accessories starts off with ongoing , but we also spotted a new low on the alongside the best price to date on Apple’s new . From there, we move over to a frankly wild discount on the official iPhone 16 Camera Control cases that are , these gorgeous Satechi backlit , a deep deal on , and more. Scope it all out down below.

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Apple axes Powerbeats Pro ahead of major refresh coming next year

Apple has just discontinued its Powerbeats Pro wireless headphones. They are no longer available from the Apple Store and have been removed altogether from Beats’ own website. But it’s not all bad news: a major refresh is still coming soon.

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Ted Lasso season 4 sets January start date as we await Apple TV+ announcement

It’s been a fun week for fans of Bill Lawrence-created shows on Apple TV+. The new season of debuted, then immediately got a season 3 pickup . Lawrence shared that is planned out for three seasons . Now, Apple TV+ has set the date for when filming of season 4 begins.

Apple TV+ has not yet officially announced that more Ted Lasso is coming. But we continue to get more and more evidence that confirms season 4’s existence.

First there was word that key cast


Half of Americans have forgotten to cancel a trial subscription

A new survey reveals that almost half of Americans have forgotten to cancel a trial subscription. It also corroborates earlier findings that we’re now spending around $1,000 a year on subscription services.

The survey comes as the FCC announced new rules ensuring that companies can’t use deceptive practices to hook us into taking out subscriptions, nor make it hard to cancel them …

Earlier in the year , a survey found that subscription streaming spend of the average American is now close to a thousand dollars per year


iPhone 16 sales in China are surprisingly great, despite Apple Intelligence uncertainty

Ahead of Apple’s quarterly earnings later this month, we’re getting a better picture of how the iPhone 16 line is selling—and it looks very good. The latest evidence is a report on sales in China, where Apple is seeing big launch numbers despite uncertainty around its Apple Intelligence rollout.

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Sales of Apple Inc.’s newest iPhones in China are up 20% in their first three weeks compared with 2023’s model, a positive sign for a device that struggled


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TSMC may have breached US sanctions; Apple chip production could be at risk

The US Commerce Department is carrying out an investigation into whether Apple chipmaker TSMC breached US sanctions against China by supplying smartphone and AI chips to Huawei . The probe was in part driven by Huawei’s surprising ability to resume competing with iPhones.

If found guilty, TSMC could potentially face sanctions which might interfere with its ability to produce future Apple chips …

Huawei’s smartphones used to compete strongly against iPhones, not just in China but worldwide. That ended when the US government imposed sanctions against China, prohibiting US companies from


First iPad mini 7 benchmarks reveal upgraded RAM and more

Apple announced a new iPad mini on Tuesday, powered by the A17 Pro chip with support for Apple Intelligence features. The first new iPad mini orders are set to arrive to customers next week, but early benchmarks have now . These results confirm that the latest iPad mini features 8GB of RAM, and give us a glimpse at the performance of the binned A17 Pro chip inside .

The fact that the new iPad mini is powered by 8GB of RAM shouldn’t come as a surprise. The


Apple strong passwords aren’t entirely random, but are cleverly designed

Whenever an Apple device generates a strong password for you, the structure of those secure passwords isn’t entirely random.

Instead, Apple created rules specifically designed to make them easier to type if you ever have to do that manually, and to make them briefly memorable …

Apple software engineering manager Ricky Mondello leads the team responsible for delivering the best possible authentication experience on the company’s devices, and responded to a post by someone who suspected that auto-generated strong passwords aren’t as random as you might imagine


All smartphones will have to be compatible with all Bluetooth hearing aids

The FCC has announced new requirements for all smartphones to be compatible with all Bluetooth hearing aids, and one quirky impact is that this will include AirPods Pro 2 .

It will also require iPhones to support all Bluetooth hearing aids, not just MFi ones …

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today formally adopted the new rules.

100% of all mobile handsets—such as smartphones—must be compatible with hearing aids. With this change, the 48 million Americans with hearing loss will be able to choose among


Belfast Apple Store opened today, on the island of Ireland

The latest Apple Store opened today in Belfast, Northern Ireland – with local schoolchildren getting access to it ahead of the opening.

The location of the store is carefully described as being “on the island of Ireland” rather than “in Ireland” …

The complexity of the situation is such that almost any explanation is likely to offend somebody, even when offered by a man who has dual British and Irish citizenship.

The short version is that Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, while

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