Benjamin and Chance react to the biggest news of the week, and probably this year, with Tim Cook officially announcing his plans to hand over the CEO job to John Ternus. The calm and orchestrated transition falls directly into Cook’s playbook. Also, we have new leaks about iOS 27 and iPhone 18 Pro colors to discuss.
And in Happy Hour Plus , Netflix drops support for the system video player on tvOS, much to the frustration of everyone who actually cares about the Apple TV box. Subscribe at
AI is shaking up plenty of industries around the world, but despite concern from some analysts, the iPhone appears stronger than ever despite Apple’s AI struggles. And that’s not a coincidence, according to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas.
Last week, an interview with Apple SVPs John Ternus and Greg Joswiak. We covered many of the quotes here , but Apple’s incoming CEO Ternus also shared his thoughts on the Vision Pro.
Spotify is celebrating its 20th birthday today, and one new gift for users is Claude integration. Spotify’s music and podcast streaming service now integrates with Anthropic’s AI. Here’s how it works.
The new Spotify feature is available through Claude for desktop as well as the mobile app on iPhone and Android.
It lets Claude users connect a Spotify account, then use Spotify to power music and podcast picks from the chatbot app.
Starting today, Spotify users can connect their account to Claude for personalized
My new favorite Apple Watch and Apple Health metric is one that has been quietly working in the background for years. Specifically, it’s a bit of a hidden feature for tracking a great healthy habit: Time in Daylight.
Time in Daylight arrived as a metric in the Health app as part of iOS 17 in 2023. Since watchOS 10, Apple Watch has automatically tracked Time in Daylight just by wearing it.
The feature works by using the watch’s ambient light sensor to measure your
Apple has released a new video ad that highlights how the Health app works with iPhone and Apple Watch. The commercial centers around someone receiving lots of unsolicited health advice from strangers in public.
All the unwanted help becomes overwhelming fast as the tension builds up.
Ultimately, the person at the center of the ad spot turns to their Apple Watch and iPhone 17 Pro to discover actually helpful insight from the Health app.
The wonderfully clever tagline? “Listen to your body. Not everybody.”
It’s a very
Apple launches new iPhone models every year, but products in all-new categories are far more rare. Here are six “major new product categories” that Mark Gurman are in development at Apple.
OpenAI is expected to be nearing an announcement around GPT-5.5, its next model upgrade to ChatGPT. A cryptic post on X includes a hidden teaser, suggesting the news is coming soon.
The message from OpenAI on X simply reads “NS41” with no additional context. Fortunately, some of the replies explain the hidden meaning found in those four characters.
“The text NS41 in the tweet is a Base64-encoded string
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by this 2TB 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro hitting its best price yet at $170 off alongside Apple’s wild 8TB M5 Max MacBook Pro at $400 off , and some nano-texture models $220 off . Amazon’s M3 iPad Air clearance deals are back at up to $250 off and we also have Apple’s 11-inch 1TB M5
Apple has just implemented an interest rate cut for Apple Card Savings account holders that’s effective immediately. Here are the details.