The IPO market saw a few winners in 2024, but on the whole, it was a largely forgettable affair. For the third year in a row, the number of companies that opted to go public was below historic averages.And while companies like Reddit, NANO Nuclear Energy, and Astera Labs all saw healthy launches, the total amount raised so far this year has been lackluster. As of mid-December, 121 companies debuted on public exchanges in the U.S. They raised a collective $27.3 billion. Thats roughly half of the IPO raise seen in the pre-pandemic days.What will 2025 bring? Thats still unclear. A new administration coming into the White House could give the market a boost, or the uncertainty surrounding Donald Trumps plans to increase tariffs could cause some companies to stay on the sidelines.Officials at the New York Stock Exchange say theyre expecting a busy year thanks to lower interest rates and lower odds of a recession. Nasdaq, meanwhile, has had more listings for six straight years. Regardless of where they make their debut, heres a look at the companies that market watchers are keeping their eye on for 2025.ChimeNext year could be a big one for fintech IPOs. Right before Christmas, Chime reportedly submitted a confidential filing for its IPO, with plans to list in 2025. The timing of the fintech companys public offering has not been finalized. Chime has raised $2.65 billion to date. Customers can access bank-like services via the companys app and even access money from their paychecks before payday. It was valued at $25 billion in 2021.DiscordDiscord has been on the radar of Wall Street traders ever since it decided in 2021 to end talks with Microsoft over a $10 billion takeover. The company has a $15 billion valuation and has been on a bit of a buying spree for the past few years, acquiring three companies. The communication tool thats a gamer favorite currently boasts 200 million monthly active users, who spend over 1.5 billion hours on the platform.KlarnaThe retail bank, payments, and shopping service has been tiptoeing toward the IPO starting line for over a year, but seems to be getting close. Earlier in December, it added 12 banks to the list working on its public offering. Bloomberg reports an IPO is now expected in the first half of the year. Klarna is said to be near profitability and has a valuation of $14.6 billion. A successful IPO could open the door for several other fintech companies to begin trading publicly.Liquid DeathThe canned water company has not made any formal filings yet, but it has hired Goldman Sachs to handle its public offering and acknowledged its considering an IPO. With a valuation of $1.4 billion, its already a power player in the beverage marketand in June it shored up its executive ranks, hiring beverage veteran Karim Sadik-Khan as CFO. Sadik-Khan oversaw the IPO of Jim Beam in 2011 and the later sale of that company. He also held finance roles at Keurig-Dr Pepper.PaneraAfter five years as a private company, Panera has said it plans to go public once again. Its just taking its time. The company, which also owns Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels, confidentially filed initial paperwork for a public offering in early November of 2023, but has not acted upon it yet. There is still no valuation for the company, nor data on when the offering will occur.SheinThe fast-fashion company made its filing confidentially in November 2023. Its valuation has been all over the map, though. In 2022, it was valued at $100 billion. Earlier this year, that had fallen to between $45 and $55 billion. That could spook investors, as could reported financial slowdowns. In October, The Information reported year-on-year sales growth during the first six months of 2024 fell to 23%, compared to 40% in 2023. Revenue and earnings reportedly slipped as well. Whether investors will see this as a permanent problem or just a bit of volatility will be determined when and if the company fully lays out its finances.SpaceXElon Musks rocket and satellite company is, arguably, the most watched company that could have IPO plans. Musk has not indicated whether he plans to take it public, but with its valuation of $350 billion, investors are salivating over the prospect. Musks close friendship with Donald Trump could be a factor in this decision as well. An IPO of a company this size would be a feather in the economic cap of Trumps second term. Earlier in December, SpaceX and its investors agreed to a tender offer, buying back $1.25 billion worth of insider shares at $185 each.StripeThe payments giant has been teasing a public offering since early 2023, but has kept its plans close to its vest. The company, in July, bought back some employee shares, setting a $70 billion valuation and raised $694 million in April. While it continues to play coy with investors, Stripe continually reports its financial performance, noting it surpassed payment volumes of $1 trillion in 2023 and has been cash flow positive for some time.StubHubIf all had gone according to plan, the ticketing service would already have had its IPO, but in July it delayed its plans until after Labor Day, then paused them once again due to market conditions. With a valuation of at least $16.5 billion, it has been working with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs on its IPO plans for over two years and investors are eager to get a piece of a company, especially given the more than 40% growth in the share price of Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation over the course of 2024.

Local practice Vector Architects has unveiled the Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring spa in Aranya,China, which was designed to resemble a piece of hot spring "apparatus".Topped with a stack of eight chimney-style lightwells, the spa is located on a river valley site surrounded by cliffs and forest in Wuling Mountain's Yanshi Village, which means Eye Stone and gives the project its name.Vector Architects has completed a concrete spa north of BeijingThe 560-square-metre bathhouse was built near an emerging residential community in Wulingshan which is part of Aranya a 22-hectare holiday resort on the coast two hours north of the Chinese capital.Working with the constraints of the site, which is small and located on a slope, Vector Architects layered the main spa facilities vertically into a tall slim tower, while a separate service building is accessed by a corridor bridge on each level.Chimney-style lightwells top the structureThe building was raised up above the forest floor on tall columns, both to avoid flood risk below and to give guests views out over the lush foliage from the spa's relaxation spaces.A bush-hammering technique was applied to the concrete walls to give the building a coarse texture that corresponds to the rugged neighbouring cliffs. A transparent dark-toned coating was the used to give the concrete a more "subdued and grounded" appearance."Before the main structure was built, the construction team produced two or three sample walls with an additional two to three centimetres of concrete thickness," Vector Architects founder Dong Gong told Dezeen."This extra layer allowed us to perform deeper bush-hammering, resulting in a surface with greater strength and richer texture."A bush-hammering technique was applied to the concrete wallsThe design also took into account natural light, which diminishes closer to the ground due to shade cast by the 30-metre-high poplar trees.This limited natural light informed how the architect arranged the spa's spaces, with the dressing rooms, reception and showering facilities built on the lowest level, where the subdued lighting suits the privacy of the space.On the second floor a relaxation lounge was enclosed by floor-to-ceiling glass on all sides with close-up views of the poplar tree canopies and large windows that can be opened to let in fresh air in good weather.Read: Open Architecture designs conical Sun Tower as "giant sundial"The third floor is home to the bath pools, featuring different baths at different temperatures distributed under the eight light wells.Through strip windows above the water surface on the west facade, guests can glimpse the nearby valley cliffs and the treetops enveloping the building.The main spa facilities are organised vertically within a slim tower"Due to the very limited site area, the building had to create a rich spatial experience within a confined space", said Gong. "It is similar to a complex mechanical device, such as a precision watch, where many ingenious designs and details are hidden""Unlike conventional architectural scales, this building functions more like an apparatus, with a meticulously structured interior and precisely coordinated systems," he continued.Large openings overlook the surrounding foliageAsked about the sustainability of the concrete structure, given the material's high carbon footprint, Gong said that due to its low cost it remains the most popular building material in China.This makes it difficult for architects to "persuade clients to spend more on construction", he said, adding that other materials such as timber often require substantial maintenance after completion."More importantly, when an architect identifies a material that resonates with the spiritual essence of a location, such a material can be deemed appropriate," he said.Baths are hosted on the building's top floorThe Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring is one of a number of architectural projects Vector Architects has built in the exclusive holiday resort of Aranya, including a concrete concert hall in the town of Qinhuangdao and a raised chapel built on the shore.The photography is by Guowei Liu unless otherwise stated.The post Vector Architects funnels light to forest spa with tubular concrete lightwells appeared first on Dezeen.

Dezeen rounds up our top 10 videos of 2024, featuring collaborations with studios MAD Architects and Future Facility, as well as institutions such as Triennale Milano, the Barbican and the Serpentine Galleries.Fernando Laposse wins Bentley Lighthouse AwardMexican designer Fernando Laposse was named the winner of the Bentley Lighthouse Award at the 2024 Dezeen Awards ceremony in November. In this exclusive video, Dezeen visited Laposse in his Mexico City studio, where he discussed his practice.Laposse is particularly known for his work with natural fibres, including Sisal, a fibre created from the leaves of Mexico's native agave plant.His work engages with regenerative agriculture practices, including a recent collaboration with an Indigenous farming community in Tonaquixla, Mexico to address erosion and biodiversity loss in the area.Theawards jury praised Laposse for "reinvigorating waning craft skills and materials, in turn boosting local ecosystems and supporting his local communities".Find out more about Fernando Laposse Minsuk Cho introduces his 2024 Serpentine PavilionIn this exclusive video produced by Dezeen in partnership with the Serpentine Galleries in London, architect Minsuk Cho unveiled his 2024 Serpentine Pavilion, titled Archipelagic Void.Cho's pavilion took the shape of a star, organised around a central void. Each arm of the pavilion had a different purpose, with a tearoom, play area and library making up the structure.He told Dezeen the space was inspired by traditional Korean architecture."I like to have people come in and feel at home that's what happens in Madang, in Korean traditional houses and just freely explore what this space can offer and compose your own experience."Find out more about the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion Minsuk Cho Studio visitAhead of his pavilion unveiling, Dezeen visited Cho in his Seoul studio, as seen in this video interview. Cho founded his architecture studio Mass Studies in 2003."This request [from Serpentine] felt like we were given a great riddle to demonstrate what this pavilion can do at this point," Cho told Dezeen."We understand architecture itself is not a beginning-to-end narrative, but is part of a larger act that is in between many befores and afters," Cho told Dezeen.The architect discussed his design process when creating his Serpentine Pavilion, and its relation to previous projects, such as the Seoul Won Buddhism Wonnam Temple and the O'Sulloc Tea Museum pavilions, located in Jeju.Find out more about Minsuk Cho Alessandro Mendini at Triennale MilanoDuring this year's Milan design week, Dezeen covered the opening of Triennale Milano's retrospective of Alessandro Mendini, in a video produced in collaboration with Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier.Titled Io Sono Un Drago (I am a dragon), the exhibition contained more than 600 pieces by Mendini across his 60-year career."Alessandro Mendini was a key figure of the last century, not just for design but also for art and architecture because he was able to link all these disciplines and blur the lines between them," explained Michela Alessandrini, curator for Fondation Cartier.The exhibition also featured a immersive installation designed by French designer Phillipe Starck, who was a friend and colleague of Mendini."Mendini is something special for me," Starck said. "His brain was an atomic bomb of fantasy, with no limits."Find out more about Io Sono Un Drago Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the BarbicanDezeen partnered with the Barbican Centre earlier in the year to explore its Unravel exhibition, which examined the political and transformative power of textiles.The show featured over 100 works that made use of textile, fibre and thread from over 50 artists from across the globe, such as Judy Chicago, Shelia Hicks and Cecilia Vicua, and spans from the 1960s to the present day.Featured works explored themes of power, oppression, gender and belonging, and the show was intended to challenge the perception of textiles."Textiles are one of the most under-examined mediums in art history and in fact history itself," Barbican curator Lotte Johnson told Dezeen. "They're really this very intimate, tactile part of our lives and therefore perhaps the most intrinsic, meaningful way to express ourselves."Find out more about Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art Tola Ojuolape design workshopIn the first of Dezeen's workshop series with 3D software brand Sketchup, interior designer Tola Ojuolape explains how she used SketchUp's tools to create a virtual library for London.Ojuolape created a 3D model of a custom craft-focused library informed by the history and character of the Clerkenwell neighbourhood."Having a sense of place is incredibly important," explained Ojuolape. "We chose Clerkenwell because it's a place that I'm very familiar with. It's where I started my career, it's where my practice is based, and it also has a rich heritage of makers and foundries."Ojuolape's design was split across each three levels, with each floor intended for a different use, such as studying, interaction and reflection.Find out more about Sketchup x Dezeen's workshop series Future Facility at Design You Can FeelDezeen teamed up with technology brand ASUS to host an exhibition exploring the relationship between materiality, craftsmanship and artificial intelligence. In this video, Future Facility co-founder Kim Colin discusses the studio's custom made SUSA device with Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser.Dezeen and ASUS commissioned Future Facility to create a custom smart device for the exhibition, and Colin told Fraser how the SUSA was designed to be a "calmer" alternative to typical smart devices.SUSA can be used for organisation and communication similar to modern smartphones, but intentionally suppresses entertainment and attention-sapping apps, focussing instead on more meaningful interaction. The device is created using's ASUS's proprietary Ceraluminium material."It's a bit of a provocation about those ideas," Colin said. "Ceraluminum offers us this opportunity to make a device that is different in the hand than any other device we've seen. This has a very different, much warmer feel."Find out more about Design You Can Feel Ma Yansong discusses MAD's Train Station in the ForestIn this one-on-one conversation, MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong discusses the studio's first train station with Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft.Located in Jiaxing, China, the station was rebuilt from the shell of a historic station building. Yansong told Ravenscroft how his team had explored the theme of time through the merging of historical and contemporary elements."When people come through this space they feel it's more like a museum about time, they can understand the history, or the past, [or] the future of the city," Yansong said. "You have the two elements in a collage together."The sprawling development features forested green spaces, a commercial area, and landscaped lawns that can be used to host events and festivals.Find out more about Train Station in the Forest Blond Laboratory at Milan design weekIn this video produced by Dezeen for Blond Laboratory, founder James Melia takes us through the studio's industrial design exhibition, which took place at this year's Milan design week.Blond Laboratory tasked designers with creating unique designs in response to a selection of found objects. Featured designers included John Tree, Sony Europe's Hirotaka Tako and Maddalena Casadei.The final designs were exhibited alongside the objects that inspired them in a historic carpentry warehouse in Milan's Brera district."Often in exhibitions you see lots of final polished objects," said Melia. "Very rarely the process of creating these objects is celebrated."Find out more about Blond Laboratory Hydro 100R at London Design FestivalDesigner Rachel Griffin discusses the "utopian qualities" of aluminium in this video covering Hydro's 100R exhibition at this year's Material Matters Fair in London.Griffin was one of seven designers who was tasked with creating furniture or lighting pieces solely using Hydro's Circal 100R extruded aluminium.Griffin produced a modular folding partition called Serial, which comprised of a set of interlocking extruded aluminium pieces with an in-built hinge that can be combined to form screens of any length. Other designers featured in the show included Max Lamb, Inga Semp, John Tree and Philippe Malouin."Aluminium has these utopian qualities," Griffin said in the video. "The fact that you can take something, reuse it and it still performs the same, it still looks the same, it really does feel like a material of the future."Find out more about Hydro 100R The post The top 10 Dezeen videos of 2024 appeared first on Dezeen.

When youve just come from a vacation, you probably have a hangover from all the day drinking and activities you did when you were at a resort or beach. Getting back to your mundane, ordinary life can be a challenge. Well you can still day drink even when youre home but its not the same. What if your kitchen still gives you a bit of the vacation feels to ease your transition?Designer: Kim TaeyeonThats the idea behind this concept for a water purifier that is inspired by cocktails. The Spare of Water Purifier offers you a moment of serenity according to the designer. Even if its just plain water flowing out of it, it can give you a sense of relaxation because of the way its designed, or rather, the inspiration for the design of something thats usually just functional. The spherical shaped water purifier has some buttons at the top for different things like water dispensing, purification, cold water, hot water, and filter replacement. The dispensing button has a slight indentation for your finger while the others have a touch UI. Theres also an LED display to show the water dispensing amount. The faucet is in the shape of a fruit, 3/4 of an orange to be specific which is where the cocktail inspiration comes in. The renders also show three different color ways, drawing inspiration from the sunset over the sea, the sea itself, and a luxury hotel. Its a simple and minimalist design but puts a cute little spin to the normal water purifier. The post Water purifier concept adds a cocktail twist to the design first appeared on Yanko Design.

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MacworldWhen Apple launched the iPhone 16 in September, it continued to sell the 14, 15, and SE 3 models at lower prices. As usual, this gave customers on more limited budgets the flexibility to pick between five main iterations (counting the Plus variants) with three different sizes and a mixed assortment of technical specifications.However, while none of these iPhones are bad phones, it couldnt be a worse possible time to get one of themeven as a gift. And, if you got one, you may want to take it back before the holiday return window closes. Because the iPhone SE 4 will be better than all of them.Nothing specialThe iPhone SE line has long been in need of an update due to its outdated design. While higher-end iPhones have long moved on and adopted more modern appearances, the SE continues to persist in a bygone era. Thats about to change in a few months.Credible leaks have long indicated that the iPhone SE 4, which is due to arrive this spring, will finally retire the classic chassis in favor of a modern look that adopts something similar to the iPhone 14. So, in just a few months, we could be bidding the prehistoric 4.7-inch LCD with thick bezels and a physical Home button farewellonce and for all. The front side would instead adopt an edge-to-edge, 6.1-inch OLED panel with a notch. This would finally provide iPhone SE users with an immersive screen featuring a higher pixel resolution, true black levels, and sleeker bezels. It could also offer a 48MO rear camera and a TrueDepth front camera with Face IDall lightyears better than the current SE you just got.Plus its still got a Lightning port, as does the iPhone 14. So, waiting for an iPhone SE 4 would spare you from carrying around a dedicated Lightning cableassuming your other gadgets charge via USB-C.The iPhone SE and iPhone 14 still have Lightning ports, which means you have to carry an additional cable.FoundrySearching for Apple IntelligenceFrom afar, the iPhone 14 and 15 may look more advanced than even the upcoming SE 4. After all, they pack dual rear camera systems, and the 2023 models boast the futuristic Dynamic Island. Meanwhile, 2025s budget release will likely miss out on both features. Despite that, a closer look at the budget phones rumored internals suggests itll outperform the aforementioned iPhones.However, the iPhone SE 4 will likely pack either the iPhone 16s base A18 chipset or the iPhone 17 Pro, featuring 6 CPU cores, 5 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores, and 8GB of RAM. This would enable it to run some of the demanding mobile games that exclusively run on newer devices. Beyond its snappier Safari, the iPhone SE 4 will most probably receive software updates for a longer period than the 14 and 15 models.More importantly, though, it would unlock the extensive Apple Intelligence suite that isnt available on the iPhone 14 or 15. Apple Intelligence is going to be a centerpiece of the Apple ecosystem for years to come, so youre going to want a phone that supports it.Apple Intelligence might not be important now, but it will be at the forefront of Apples ecosystem for years to come.FoundryFlagship quality at a discountThe iPhone SE 4 wont have every feature youre getting with your iPhone 15 or even the 14. The most prominent absentee will potentially be the ultra-wide rear lens available on the iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 15, and 15 Plus. The iPhone SE 4 could similarly be limited to a single 6.1-inch option, while the flagships from 2022 and 2023 offer larger 6.7-inch Plus editions. Otherwise, the final notable omission would be the Dynamic Island cutout available on the iPhone 15.Despite these drawbacks, the iPhone SE 4 will still be a better budget pick. Sure, the Dynamic Island is nice to have, but youll still be able to access Live Activities via the Notification Center and Lock Screen. And, even though the camera and size limitations may irritate certain customers, the iPhone SE 4 will be leaps ahead of its predecessor.Face ID is coming at least the iPhone SE, making it more secure and convenient.FoundrySwitching from a 4.7-inch, thick-bezel LCD to a 6.1-inch, edge-to-edge OLED will substantially upgrade the iPhone SE 4s video-watching and app-scrolling experience. Comparably, upgrading the ancient rear camera from 12MP to 48MP will unlock crisper shots and 2x zoom that dont completely wreck the outputted photos resolution.The iPhone SE 4 will be the first iPhone to offer both a design that fits our modern times and a flagship processor that supports all of the relevant iOS features. And, for the first time, iPhone users will get to experience Apple Intelligencelikely for less than $500. Its even possible Apple will discontinue the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus altogether since paying $100 more for a similar iPhone that lacks Apple Intelligence and USB-C isnt the best deal.The iPhone SE 4 is shaping up to be a real threat to midrange Android phones and Apples current lineup. Based on the leaks, Apple appears to have addressed all the current SEs flaws and built a phone thats perfect for any user on a budget. So if you just got one of Apples cheaper phones, go box it up and return it, because something better is coming soon.

MacworldWhere I grew up, youd often hear the phrase, Dont get your hopes up! Not in any kind of discouraging, Dickensian sense, I hasten to add. Merely a friendly warning that high expectations often lead to disappointment. Were a cynical bunch in the British midlands.But Apples upper management come from more sunnily optimistic parts of the world. The company started 2024 with sky-high expectations, anticipating the imminent launch of two vitally important, long-gestated projects: Vision Pro, and Apple Intelligence. This would be the year when all the sacrifices were shown to be worth it.Perhaps inevitably, however, the big build-up was followed by the big let-down. Vision Pro went on sale in February, and the critical response was strong; but sales could never live up to those lofty expectations. Tim Cook himself admitted that its simply not a mass-market product. Right now, he told the WSJ, its an early-adopter product.The problem isnt with the product, which has lots of potential, although the price and weight do both need to come down. The problem is with society, which isnt yet ready to transition from the smartphone to whatever comes next. Apple needs to be ready for the next phase of consumer technology, hence the importance of the Vision Pro project. But it cant force customers to move on before theyre ready.Speaking of unready, Apple Intelligence was another of 2024s damp squibs, partly because so many of its features werent available as part of the initial rollout. iOS 18.0, disappointingly, contained no Apple Intelligence features at all, so we had to wait until 18.1 in late October. (That, youll note, is long after the launch of the iPhone 16, which was sold as being made for Apple Intelligence.) Many of the most interesting elementsImage Playground, Visual Intelligence, Genmoji, ChatGPTdidnt arrive until iOS 18.2 this month. And if you live in the European Union, or speak any language other than English, you dont get to join in until 2025.Of course, building an AI platform from scratch takes time, and Apple is to be commended for releasing features when theyre finished rather than foisting unreliable software on its users. But the thing with having the worlds greatest marketing machine is that people tend to get their hopes up. Fans were led to believe that Apple Intelligence would transform their lives, and were understandably miffed when it turned out to be underwhelming and incomplete.Its fortunate, then, that Apples marketing machine doesnt apply its hype to every product equally. Two of the companys big successes of 2024 were (comparatively speaking; this is Apple were talking about) sleeper hits. Launches that caught us at least somewhat unaware, emerging from the shadows of costlier and more celebrated siblings to scoop up positive reviews and strong consumer interest alike.The 4th-gen AirPods, which were announced in September, did exactly what was asked of them. They looked and sounded great, and adopted key features from the Pro models without increasing the price. We think theyre fantastic.The new Mac mini, too, delivered that blend of quality and value that customers love and Apple finds so tedious. It got a petite design and delivers superb performance at a manageable price. The only problem is the way it makes the Mac Studio look, well, gratuitously expensive.We know that Apple doesnt like to release appealing cheap products, because it would much prefer for us to buy the expensive ones instead. But were reaching a stage in the consumer tech industry where cheap products really are good enough for 99% of users 99% of the time, and Apple needs to learn how to thrive in that world. Vision Pro is a very nice, ludicrously expensive device that doesnt really do anything necessary. The way to impress todays consumers is to find a way to meet their needs at an affordable price. Its all a question of knowing how to make a well-judged compromise.But ultimately, the main lesson is that youre far more likely to have a good time if you remember not to get your hopes up.FoundryWelcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but its cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too.Trending: Top storiesThe Macalope has picked his worst takes of 2024Got a new iPhone over the holidays? Do these things firstHow about a new Mac? This is where to startThe Apple Watch needs a fresh startApples 2025 will be anything but boringPodcast of the weekThe Macworld Podcast took the week off for the holidays.You can catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify,Soundcloud, thePodcasts app, orour own site.Reviews cornerZimaCube Pro: Versatile and speedy NAS monsterMophie Powerstation Mini 5K Gold: A smart and stylish power bankHarber London Leather MacBook Sleeve: Sophisticated travelThe rumor millApples quest to build a smart home platform might include a Face ID video doorbell.iOS 19 is expected to support iPhones going back to the XR.Software updates, bugs, and problemsHow do I find Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2?And with that, were done for this weeks Apple Breakfast. If youd like to get regular roundups, sign up forour newsletters. You can also follow uson Facebook, Threads, or Twitter for discussion of breaking Apple news stories. See you next Monday, and stay Appley.