7 announcements I can’t wait to see at WWDC 2025
Let’s be honest: WWDC 2025 is unlikely to go down in history as one Apple’s greatest ever events, as I’ve warned in a separate article. The company shouldn’t really be forging ahead with new plans…
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Apple could be in serious trouble over Fortnite rejection
It would be inaccurate to claim that either Apple or Epic Games has decisively won their acrimonious and long-running legal dispute over the use of external payment links in iPhone apps: courts have sided with…
The iPhone 17 Air’s battery looks to be exactly as bad as we feared
Tim Cook giveth, and Tim Cook taketh away. We’ve long known that while this fall’s iPhone 17 Air is set to be an astonishingly slender and lightweight device, it will come with a painfully small-capacity…
The Fortnite saga shows Apple at its pettiest–and most vulnerable
Just when you think Apple’s long-running dispute with Epic Games is finally over, someone manages to find a way to spin it out even longer. There’s always time for one more lawsuit, one more appeal,…
Apple looks to poach Spotify users with new playlist transfer tool
Users are often reluctant to switch from one music-streaming service to another, even if they find the price, features, algorithm, curation, or song library more appealing. And that’s because of playlists. A huge part of…
If the iPhone 17 Air is anything like the Galaxy S25 Edge, I don’t want it
It’s often said that Apple doesn’t do things first; it does them right. But not everything can be done right. And my fear is that the faults of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, which launched…
Bizarre iPhone bug causes some audio messages to fail. Here’s why
Super-weird bugs in Messages are nothing new, but this latest one is a real head-scratcher: If you try to send an audio message with the phrase “Dave and Buster’s,” it won’t work. Why would that…
Folding and curved iPhones both predicted in 2027 ‘product blitz’
The iPhone hasn’t seen a truly radical change in design since the switch from Home button to a notch in 2017, and some models have been almost indistinguishable visually from their predecessors. (Line up the…
Apple’s string of 2025 setbacks is a blessing in disguise. Here’s why
In last week’s column, I managed to find the cloud (looming financial and political uncertainty) floating around the silver lining that was Apple’s record-breaking quarterly results. But this week I thought I’d look at the…
‘Fortnite’ could return to the iPhone this week (if Apple doesn’t block it)
Almost five years after the game was removed from the App Store, triggering a legal dispute that rocked the mobile gaming world and has been grinding on ever since, Fortnite appears close to a return.…