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Apple rarely conducts sales, and hasn’t for decades.
There’s no need! Apple products fly off the shelves, discounted or no.
This shopping season, Apple is offering gift cards worth up to $250 on qualified purchases, but there are far, far better deals to be had at third-party retailers.
For Black Friday, a lot of Apple’s hottest products have been discounted to their lowest prices ever, including the latest M5 MacBooks and iPads, AirPods Pro 3 and Max, Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3, a bunch of accessories, and many more (including Mac software and even Apple TV subscriptions).
We’ve been tracking prices on Apple’s products all week and have rounded up the best deals we’ve found below.
Earlier this week, some of the deals were “meh,” but now that it’s officially Black Friday, the savings are heating up. There’s a lot of money to be saved by doing your holiday shopping now.
I know that I’ve already half-bankrupted myself, and I’ve only just got started.
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I had no idea you could do this: If you block someone in Contacts, it blocks everything: all calls, texts and even emails.
Apple killed off Launchpad in macOS 26, but our friends at Dr.Buho have a new app that re-creates the classic app launching and organizational tool for Mac. And Cult of Mac readers can get BuhoLaunchpad at up to 70% off with the exclusive code CLMA25BL58 during Dr.Buho’s Black Friday sale.
Anyone remember RealVideo and what an abomination it was? QuickTime 5 was a real glass of cold water for us in RealVideo hell, and Apple cleverly knew how to grow its nascent streaming platform.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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