Mac mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra now in Apple Stores
Even with pickup live in 30 countries, stores only hold standard builds, and the 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio doesn't ship until late October.
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SK Hynix weighs Intel's Ohio fab for its first US memory
Apple's RAM and flash supplier could lease space in a plant Intel doesn't expect to open until next decade, and South Korea still has to sign off.
Galaxy Z TriFold 2 early launch is a maybe, not a rush
One Korean leaker says Samsung is weighing it, and even the report that tied it to the iPhone Duo expects the original schedule to hold.
OLED MacBook Pro reportedly testing on macOS 27.1
Apple's touch-screen laptop moved up to this year in Bloomberg's reporting, but it runs M5 Pro and M5 Max while the regular MacBook Pro heads for M7.
An iPhone Duo Max is likely, Duo SE and mini possible
Employees used the iPhone Ultra name until launch, per Bloomberg, and Duo won because it leaves room for a Max, a cheaper SE, and a clamshell mini.
A new iPad mini nears as Apple pitches the Duo in its place
Federighi says the Duo can often fill an iPad mini's space, and Bloomberg has an OLED mini due by the end of October, the month the foldable ships.
iPhone Duo: most new phones could fold within a decade
Bloomberg's newsletter has foldables at 2% of shipments now and a majority in ten years, while betting Face ID and a telephoto wait for the third Duo.
The iPhone Duo's unfold animation is already being copied
A Fold 8 mod mimics the Duo's fold blur off the hinge sensor, and a Weibo leaker says Chinese makers are studying it, though Samsung blocks a real version.
Apple will train its AI on Siri chats, if you opt in
An eight-word opt-in clause lets Siri AI chats and audio feed Apple's models, and heise online says the decline button in the iOS 27 prompt looks muted.
The iPhone Duo gets the split screen the iPad lost
Saved app pairs and a video beside an app make the iPhone Duo's split screen simpler, 9to5Mac argues, than the windowing iPadOS 27 forces on an iPad mini.
iPhone 18 Pro Max skips the C2 modem in the US
Apple's updated tech specs put a Qualcomm modem in US units of its largest iPhone, and mmWave 5G is the one thing that doesn't change.
iPhone Duo trades the 8x telephoto for a 7.6-inch screen
With the same A20 Pro in both, the iPhone 18 Pro and the Duo split on cameras and weight, and the foldable's zoom range stops at 4x against 16x.