2025 is gonna be exciting

Lots of cool goodies in store from Apple this year.

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Leander Kahney
January 02, 2025

Holy moly — how did we get to 2025?

2025 doesn’t seem like a real date, tbh. It’s more like some crazy, sci-fi, far-off-in-the-future kind of date. Like the year 2000 when I was a kid in the ’70s.

Aside from being another year closer to my own demise, 2025 is set to be a pretty exciting year in the world of Apple.

There’s the first major new iPhone design in years — likely called the iPhone 17 Air. Plus, we’ll possibly see a very interesting redesign of the regular iPhone lineup.

We may also get an entirely new line of products from Apple, plus crazy new software that might be a radical split from the past.

Also in today’s newsletter:

  • Apple settled a pretty big privacy lawsuit after Siri recorded users without their consent. Apple users like you and I are likely eligible for a payout, but don’t book that lavish vacation yet.

  • New year — new passwords!

  • Dry January is becoming ever more popular. If you’re interested in abstaining for the first month of the year— and perhaps beyond — there are lots of apps to keep you on track and provide support.

  • Users rave about this portable Samsung SSD, calling it an easy and fast way to add tons of external storage. And now it’s on sale.

  • I hate mice — computer and otherwise — and hopefully will never have to use one ever again. But lots of people swear by them, especially Logitech’s. We hands-on review a low-cost Logitech alternative — but is it any good?

  • Do you know the killer app that saved the Apple II?

  • I was amused by the lopsided response to Tuesday's poll about making New Year’s resolutions (or not). See below.

— Leander Kahney, EIC.

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Tweets of the day

In Memoriam 🌹🪦 Apple Products we lost in 2024

— Basic Apple Guy (@basicappleguy.com)2025-01-01T16:19:28.995Z

Wallpaper of the day

One more thing ...

❝

Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things — that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.

— Steve Jobs, 2011.

Today’s poll

Will you miss anything Apple killed off in 2024?

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Results from Tuesday’s poll: Do you have any New Year's resolutions?

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