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Apple’s Next iMac Is Coming With M6 and New Colours

Apple is lining up refreshed 24-inch iMacs with an M6 chip and new colour options before the end of the year, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Gurman says the new machines are likely updated versions of the current 24-inch model, swapping in the base M6 for today's M4 and...

Early Testers Like Apple’s Foldable iPhone, Except the Camera

People who have actually used Apple's first foldable iPhone like how it feels in a pocket and how the hinge holds up, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, though the camera setup is already looking like the weak spot. Gurman says the device, which Apple staff still call the iPhone...

Apple Stores Prepping for New HomePod mini, Apple TV and a Screen Hub

Apple retail teams are quietly preparing stores for a wave of new home products this fall, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Layout teams are rearranging the accessory walls known internally as Avenues and adding new accessory bays to make room. Two of the products behind that shuffle are already...
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Apple Is Prepping an iPhone Price Hike as Memory Costs Climb

Apple is getting ready to raise iPhone prices, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. The move would follow Samsung and Google, which both added roughly $100 US (about $138 CAD) to the price of their latest flagship phones this year. Matching those increases would push the iPhone 18 Pro to...
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CRTC Lets Bell Kill Legacy Broadcast Lines, But Not Until December

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved Bell Canada's plan to withdraw its Channels for Program Transmission service, but pushed the final kill date to December 1, 2026, in a decision published August 21. It is also the latest in a busy stretch of CRTC and Bell friction, after the Commission demanded answers...

Amazon Just Raised Echo and Kindle Prices in Canada by Up to 63%

Amazon has raised prices on a string of its own gadgets in Canada, according to checks by iPhone in Canada on Saturday, after Fortune reported in an exclusive that the company quietly hiked U.S. list prices overnight across Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero and an Amazon spokeswoman confirmed the moves. Echo speakers, Kindles, Fire...

Apple Restructures Siri and Vision Pro Teams, Eliminating 200 Jobs

Apple is cutting around 200 jobs across its hardware and software divisions as it shifts focus toward new products and artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The layoffs hit teams working on the pricey Vision Pro headset, including its gaming division and immersive video group. Apple is scaling back these efforts to reflect how...