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Three lesser-known Apple products will receive upgrades this year.
Leander Kahney
January 15, 2025
In 2025, we’ll likely see a raft of exciting new products and product updates from Apple.
Apple’s very busy dance card includes:
iPhone 17 + iPhone 17 Pro + iPhone 17 Air — with possible big redesigns.
iPad 11 — faster chips and Apple Intelligence for a stellar starter tablet.
M4 MacBook Air — superb laptop made even better.
Home hub — some kind of controller for smart homes, possibly with a robot arm!
AirPods Pro 3 — with new health-monitoring features.
Apple Watch SE 3, Vision Pro 2, M4 Mac Studio and Mac Pro, M5 MacBook Pros and more.
If this seems like a lot, there are also three other lesser-known Apple products likely to get big updates this year. Guess what they are.
Also in today’s newsletter:
Apple loves to keep new products secret, but the pesky U.S. government can’t stop dishing spoilers.
As the devastating fires in Los Angeles rage on, Apple’s making it super-easy to donate to recovery efforts.
Surfshark’s Alternative Number shields your phone number from spam and scams.
A Swiss startup is taking on smartphone addiction with a real-life version of the lovable AI from the movie Her.
An escapee from Silo showed up at an NBA game. Employees of Lumon Industries are working at NYC’s Grand Central Station. What on earth is going on?
Today’s the day in Apple history that Steve Jobs pulled off one of the most memorable product reveals ever when he slid an impossibly thin MacBook Air from a manila envelope.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Tweets of the day
CarPlay, but iOS 7 never happened.
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1:28 PM • Jan 15, 2025
OMFG. Leave it to @nikitabier.
— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy)
6:37 PM • Jan 14, 2025
Not a lot of people know this, but there’s actually a setup where the Apple Vision Pro feels like it weighs NOTHING. Like, literally nothing.
Here’s what I’m doing: I use the “Globular Cluster CMA1 Comfort” Mod while lying down, position the strap between the ground and the back… x.com/i/web/status/1…
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3:45 PM • Jan 15, 2025
Ta-da! My Security Research Device iPhone 16 from Apple has arrived.
Thanks @Apple
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3:02 PM • Jan 14, 2025
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One more thing ...
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
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