If there was one product that cemented the myth of the “Apple tax” – the supposedly excessive price premium paid for the logo – it was the MacBook Air . People would point to Apple’s cheapest laptop costing $1,000 and loudly proclaim that you could buy a Windows machine or Chromebook from around $300.
The comparison was of course spurious. The cheap laptops being used to make the argument were ugly plastic things with exceedingly poor specs compared to the MacBook Air. Still, it
Following a last-minute delay due to reported allegations of plagiarism, French drama was released on Apple TV this Wednesday. Here are the details.
Last September, Apple confirmed that a new thriller series called would premiere on Apple TV on December 3. However, about two weeks before the premiere date, The Hunt vanished from the service’s release schedule and marketing material.
A few days after that, French media reported that the series had been pulled due to allegations of plagiarism from a 1973 novel called
The Information Technology Industry Council, whose members include Apple, sent a letter to the Pentagon addressing Anthropic’s designation as a “supply chain risk.” Here are the details.
Last Friday, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth saying that he had directed his department to “designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security.”
MacBook Neo is a great laptop for users who almost never use an external display. If you do connect MacBook Neo to a monitor, there are a couple of things to know.
First, as we’ve noted today , MacBook Neo features two USB-C ports, but they’re not equal.
Both ports look the same. However, the rear USB-C port has USB 3 and DisplayPort while the second USB-C has USB 2 (without external display support).
Each can be used for
Today, Apple introduced new metadata tags that will let record labels and distributors disclose when artificial intelligence was used in the creation of music, artwork, and more. Here are the details.
According to an email distributed to Apple Music partners earlier today, the company will now require AI transparency tags for new content delivered to the platform.
From the email:
The new Transparency Tags will include four tag types that correspond to the main creative elements of digital music content:
- Artwork: AI was used to generate a material portion of
Walmart is staying in the business of selling Macs, with the retailer officially selling the .
That’s no surprise since Apple basically used Walmart as the proving ground for a lower-cost Mac laptop without the fastest processor.
Two years ago, Walmart started selling Macs for the first time with the M1 MacBook Air.
At the time, Apple had just introduced the M3 MacBook Air and stopped selling the M1 MacBook Air after originally keeping it around alongside the pricier, redesigned M2 MacBook Air.
Walmart initially
Apple’s new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR have a lot of differences , but we can now add one more to the list: they come with different A19 chips.
The and actor will join as a recurring cast member for season 2. Here are the details.
One of Apple TV’s highest-profile shows last year was , a golf-themed comedy starring Owen Wilson (Midnight in Paris), Lilli Kay (Your Honor), Marc Maron (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere), among others.
The show earned an 82% average Tomatometer score across its 10-episode run and was renewed for a second season as the finale aired.
As , Zane
It’s only March, but Apple has already launched eight new products this year, including seven just this week . And the most exciting of the bunch is the MacBook Neo.
RevenueCat’s State of Subscription Apps 2026 report shows a widening gap between top-performing apps and the rest of the market. Here are the details.
According to RevenueCat and in line with other recent reports , 2025 set a record for new app releases thanks to factors such as vibe coding and other AI-assisted development tools, which lowered the barrier to entry for app development.
Yet, there is an increasingly widening difference between market leaders and mid-tier apps when it comes to