By Wesley Hilliard As a preamble to earnings, CEO Tim Cook said Apple is still looking to partner with companies other than OpenAI for Apple Intelligence integrations, but nothing is ready to be announced just yet.Siri could get more integrations beyond ChatGPT soonApple’s Q4 earnings are in, and it’s a good one that beats Wall Street expectations, though iPhone sales aren’t increasing at a rate investors would like to see. Another significant interest for investors is AI, which Apple CEO Tim Cook did comment on in regards to earnings.According to a quote shared by CNBC live on their cable show, Cook shared that more AI integrations are coming, but there’s nothing to announce. This aligns with previous rumors that Apple was in talks with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring versions of their models to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By William Gallagher Apple’s iPhone revenue for the quarter is marginally below predictions because of supply constraints, but sales will instead manifest in what Tim Cook is calling the best holiday quarter ever.iPhone 17 Pro MaxIn Apple’s latest quarterly earnings report, Wall Street analysts had expected the company to report iPhone sales of $50.19 billion. Instead, the company says it made $49.03 billion.Ignoring that analysts who make these predictions having no clue what’s going on inside Apple at any given moment, Tim Cook isn’t concerned about it. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By Andrew Orr Apple’s iOS 26 leak lawsuit is starting to look less like high-tech corporate espionage and more like two defendants trying to blame the other for the leak.Apple is involved in a lawsuit regarding iOS 26 leaksIn a formal court filing on October 29, 2025, Michael Ramacciotti denied conspiring with tech YouTuber Jon Prosser to steal Apple’s trade secrets. He admitted to accessing an Apple development iPhone and showing Prosser some pre-release iOS 26 features over FaceTime.However, Prosser claimed that the $650 payment he later received wasn’t part of any deal. Ramacciotti insisted that the payment was unrelated to their interactions. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By Malcolm Owen In its last quarter of the 2025 financial year, Apple has posted $102.5 billion in earnings, marred by a narrow miss on iPhone earnings — but not sales volume.Apple CEO Tim Cook [left], CFO Kevan Parekh [right]Apple has released the financial results for Q4 2025, bringing to an end a very profitable year for the company. The quarter is the first to enjoy some of the effects of the period’s product launches, including the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, but the full effect will be felt during Apple’s typically massive Q1 results in three months time.The publishing of the results occurs shortly before the traditional conference call with analysts and investors, hosted by CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By Christine McKee This upgraded M4 Mac mini is not only $150 off, but it features a bump up to 24GB of memory and 1TB of storage.Save $150 on Apple’s upgraded Mac mini.The upgrades add to the versatility and appeal of the current Mac mini, and B&H is making it even more attractive thanks to a month-end price drop, bringing the cost down to $1,049.Save $150 on Mac mini 24GB/1TB Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By William Gallagher The popular three Affinity design apps on Mac and Windows both have been scrapped, as Canva combines all previous functions into a single and completely free Mac app.The new Affinity app — image credit: CanvaIt’s an enormous understatement to say that users of Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Designer, have been worrying for a month. New owner Canva removed Mac apps, made all of the iPad versions of its apps free, and promised a dramatic announcement.Now that announcement has broadly put to rest the key concerns: Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By Amber Neely Apple’s newest iPhones have joined the Self Service Repair lineup, letting users order parts and access repair manuals for the full 2025 lineup — including iPhone Air.Apple has released self-repair manuals and opened parts orders for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air through its Self Service Repair portal. The program is currently available to customers in the US, Canada, the UK, and many European countries.As of now, you can order parts to repair various parts of the phone. This includes replacement batteries, cameras, glass, microphones, and more.The repair manuals for all four of the 2025 iPhone lineup are available on the following pages: Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By Andrew Orr A new teardown shows the iPad Pro M5 earned Apple’s best repairability score so far, but its sealed design and complex layout still make real fixes difficult.iPad Pro get’s a mid repair scoreElectronics repair firm iFixit released a teardown of the device and revealed a “repair paradox.” Despite Apple’s official self-service repair parts and manuals, the tablet remains among its least repairable devices.The teardown, posted on October 30, revealed that the M5 iPad Pro is mostly a specification bump with no significant internal design changes. However, iFixit assigned it a provisional repairability score of 5 out of 10. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By William Gallagher Thursday’s announcement about a halving of tariffs on goods shipped from China only applies to the summer’s back-and-forth between the two nations, and not the “reciprocal” tariffs applied in April that Apple has already warned about.Tim Cook and Donald Trump in a meeting at the White House in 2018Apple won an exemption on future semiconductor tariffs — at least temporarily — after investing $100 billion in the US. But it is still subject to Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, and the new truce negotiated with China does not affect that.According to the New York Times, Trump has agreed with China’s Xi Jinping, to halve his fentanyl-related tariffs, which were announced over summer 2025. In its turn, China has agreed to suspend for a year its limits on exporting rare earth materials. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By William Gallagher The television dramatization of best-selling novel “Long Island Compromise” has been dropped by Apple TV before production begins.Apple TV was originally launched as Apple TV+Taffy Brodesser-Akners novel had been the subject of a bidding war between studios, before being successfully bought by Eden Productions. That meant the project was then offered to Apple as Eden’s executive producer Richard Pepler is nearing the end of a five-year deal with Apple TV.According to Variety, Apple turned down the project. It’s not clear how far the show got with Apple TV — the novel was subject to a bidding war before its July 2024 publication. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
