The Mac Observer

EU broadcasters want Apple TV regulated the same way as Facebook and Google. The streaming wars just became an antitrust case. macobserver.com/news/eu-networ…

A government-grade iPhone hacking tool just leaked on GitHub and the only people at risk are those still running iOS 16 because they ignore update notifications. macobserver.com/news/the-darks…

Claude can now click around your Mac and edit your files while you watch. We've officially crossed from "AI that answers questions" to "AI that does your work for you." macobserver.com/news/claude-ca…

15-minute internal video from 1999 just surfaced and Jobs is basically doing a victory lap for completing his four-square product grid. Tech history nerds are about to lose their minds. macobserver.com/news/unseen-19…

Someone just ran an AI model that needs 200GB of RAM on an iPhone with 12GB by basically streaming it from storage instead of loading it. Your phone is now technically more capable than most data centers, just really really slowly. macobserver.com/news/developer…

Cook's been CEO for 13 years and they're still calling Ternus succession planning "quiet." At some point you're just running two CEOs and pretending one doesn't exist. macobserver.com/news/apple-is-…

Apple just ditched the single-die chip design they've used for decades and went full 3D with stacked dies. The M5 Pro basically has CPU and GPU sitting on top of each other like a semiconductor apartment building. macobserver.com/news/apple-exe…

After a decade of making fun of each other in ads, Samsung just decided to support AirDrop instead of beating it. macobserver.com/news/samsung-g…

Apple tried to buy Halide because their own Camera app can't handle the pro hardware they keep shipping. When that fell through, they just hired one of the founders instead. macobserver.com/news/apple-con…

Amazon lost $170 million on the Fire Phone in 2014 and their brilliant plan is to try again but this time with more talking to your device in public. macobserver.com/news/amazon-pl…

Malware figured out that developers will copy-paste any command from GitHub without reading it first. Turns out our laziest habit is also our biggest security hole. macobserver.com/news/ghostclaw…

The $599 MacBook Neo just did what decades of Mac marketing couldn't: get Windows laptop buyers to switch. First-time Mac sales hit a record in one week. macobserver.com/news/apple-mac…

Apple's "performance cores" got demoted to the middle tier and renamed when they added even faster "super cores." Awkward rebrand or did they just admit the old flagship cores weren't that fast? macobserver.com/news/apple-exp…

Apple collected $900 million in commission fees from AI apps last year without building a real ChatGPT competitor. Perfect mob boss strategy: let everyone else fight the war, tax the winners. macobserver.com/news/apple-ear…

iPhone sales jumped 23% in China while the entire smartphone market there shrank 4%. Everyone else raised prices because of expensive memory chips, Apple just ate the cost. macobserver.com/news/apple-see…

Perplexity now wants to read your medical records, bloodwork, and heart rate data to answer health questions. Apple Health is the gateway that makes it all possible with one permission toggle. macobserver.com/apple-fitness/…

$5,150 for a leather MagSafe charger that costs more than four iPhone 17 Pro Maxes and doesn't even include the power brick. macobserver.com/news/hermes-in…

Apple just bought one of Final Cut Pro's biggest third-party plugin makers. Nothing says "we believe in our ecosystem" like absorbing the companies that made it actually useful. macobserver.com/news/apple-acq…

Five years later and they're still calling it AirPods Max 2 instead of just admitting the original was a beta test with last-gen internals at $549. macobserver.com/news/apple-int…

Students in the US can get the MacBook Neo for about $499 instead of $599 using Apple’s education discount. Here’s how to claim the student deal and save more with trade-ins. macobserver.com/tips/how-to/ge…