- Cult of Mac Today
- Posts
- What to expect
In partnership with
Last weekend, my AirPods Pro earbuds finally broke down completely (they’d been hanging on for dear life for months now).
It’s a huge tragedy, and I’m eager to replace them — especially when you could snag them for $169 or thereabouts (looks like that deal disappeared, though 😞).
But what if Apple launches the all-new AirPods Pro 3 next week?
The third-gen Pros might be unveiled at Apple’s big September event, which is now just seven days away.
The chances seem 50-50 at this point.
Then again, there’s already a raft of new products that are going to be announced that day, so maybe Tim Cook will hold them back lest they get overshadowed.
Can I wait a week? Yes, of course I can!
Here’s the complete list of Apple products rumored to be revealed next Tuesday — Apple’s biggest day of the year.
Also in today’s newsletter:
It’s not the sexiest feature, but eSIMs are generally great. They make it easy to swap numbers and add new ones. And now they’re coming to Europe.
Get your game on with our list of the best games on Apple Arcade.
The headline says it all: Apple should copy this clever earbuds case.
The Apple Pencil Pro is the top iPad stylus available, and right now you can grab one on Amazon for just $99 — that’s 23% off the usual cost.
What’s the most popular show on Apple TV+ right now? Surprisingly, it’s Invasion, the incredibly slow and boring alien invasion show that apparently has gotten a lot less slow and boring in season three.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
A message from Fintech Takes
If you work in fintech or finance, you already have too many tabs open and not enough time.
Fintech Takes is the free newsletter senior leaders actually read. Each week, we break down the trends, deals, and regulatory moves shaping the industry — and explain why they matter — in plain English.
No filler, no PR spin, and no “insights” you already saw on LinkedIn eight times this week. Just clear analysis and the occasional bad joke to make it go down easier.
Get context you can actually use. Subscribe free and see what’s coming before everyone else.
A message from the Cult of Mac Deals team
A message from the Cult of Mac Deals team
A message from Zipchat
Ever heard of Agentic Commerce?
Every Shopify store will face Agentic Commerce eventually. The question is: are you ready?
Zipchat.ai turns traffic into profit with instant answers, cart recovery, and 24/7 support automation. Add the AI Chat-Bubble to your store or deploy it on WhatsApp to win Q4.
Use code NEWSLETTER10 for 10% off forever.
Tweets of the day
Apple’s “clear” case for the iPhone 17 Pro
all because they wanted to shift the logo
— Noah Cat (@Cartidise)
1:45 PM • Sep 1, 2025
Forget an Apple acquisition
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
4:14 PM • Sep 2, 2025
If you think @Apple is not doing much in AI, you're getting blindsided by the chatbot hype and not paying enough attention!
They just released FastVLM and MobileCLIP2 on @huggingface. The models are up to 85x faster and 3.4x smaller than previous work, enabling real-time vision
— clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue)
2:42 PM • Sep 1, 2025
Wallpaper of the day
One more thing ...
We thought if we could make what’s called a printed circuit board, which is a piece of fiberglass with copper on both sides that’s etched to form the wires so that you could build a computer … you could build an Apple I in a few hours instead of 40 hours. If we only had one of those, we could sell them to all our friends for as much as it cost us to make them, and make our money back. And everybody would be happy, and we’d get a life again. So we did that.
Today’s poll
Anyone watching 'Invasion'? Should we tune in? |
Results from last Friday’s poll: What's the best feature of the new Spotlight?
Best reader comments
Subscribe to The Weekender — Get the week's best Apple news, reviews and how-tos from Cult of Mac, every Saturday morning. Our readers say: "Thank you guys for always posting cool stuff" -- Vaughn Nevins. "Very informative" -- Kenly Xavier.
Reply