Touchscreen Macs, OLED iPad mini, ads in Apple Maps
Benjamin and Chance react to a bevy of Bloomberg reports...
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Benjamin and Chance react to a bevy of Bloomberg reports about Apple’s future plans, from touchscreen Macs to ads in Apple Maps and a future OLED iPad mini.
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Links
- Apple Music PM to discuss recent features in Reddit AMA
- Original Reddit thread about the AMA
- iOS 26.1 release candidate now available with these changes
- Bloomberg: Apple planning huge MacBook Pro overhaul for as soon as next year
- Report: Apple preparing major display upgrade for three upcoming products
- New iPad mini could solve my biggest complaint
- Report: iPad Pro to gain vapor chamber cooling with M6 model
- Apple may introduce search ads to Apple Maps starting next year, per report
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