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MacworldIts an exciting time to be an Apple user. What was expected to be a spring event has turned into a string of announcements spread out over five days in February and March bringing a slew of new products: A new app! A new iPhone! Two new iPads! A new chip! Two new Macs!But aside from the strangeness of the launches, Apple also made a few decisions that have us scratching our heads. While there is definitely a bunch of great stuffthe MacBook Air price cut, the iPhone 16es processor, the Mac Studios RAM limitthe announcements are littered with some truly strange decisions that leave the lineup in a weird place for the next 12-15 months. Here are five moves that have us wondering what Apple is thinking.iPhone 16e: No MagSafeWhen Apple launched the iPhone 16e, it cleared up a ton of questions within the iPhone lineup. The SE and its very old design are gone, all models now have USB-C, and theres a new lower-end model with a clear upgrade path. But while we expected a fair amount of sacrifices to get to the lower price, we didnt expect Apple to leave off its proprietary MagSafe charging tech. MagSafe is one of Apples best iPhone features and its even made its way over to AirPods cases and Android phones via the Qi2 standard. So for Apple to skip it on the newest iPhone 16eeven a budget modelis very odd.You can get a MagSafe puck to stick to the iPhone 16e if you try, but make no mistakeits not MagSafe.David Price / FoundryiPad Air: Just an M3When Apple updated the iPad Air in 2024 after more than two years, it was somewhat worth the wait. There was a new 13-inch model, a faster M2 chip, a landscape front camera, faster Wi-Fi, and support for the Apple Pencil Pro. But this time around, not so much. Apples latest iPad Air update arrives less than a year after the last one and brings the one thing no one needs, a slightly faster M3 chip. And thats it. No OLED screen, no new colors, no C1 modem, nothing.iPad: No Apple IntelligenceIf the iPad Air was an unnecessary update, the 11th-gen iPad is even unecessarier. We werent expecting much, but Apple couldnt even clear that bar. Instead of an A17 Pro chip or A18 chip to bring Apple Intelligence support, we got an A16 chip thats only marginally faster than the A14 in the previous model and doesnt support Apple Intelligence. Its still a great deal at $349especially with double the storage but why would Apple release a device in 2025 that doesnt support its marquee feature?Every new device in Apples iPad, iPhone, and Mac lineup is built for Apple Intelligenceexcept the A16 iPad.AppleMac Studio: M3 UltraThe new Mac Studio is a ridiculously powerful machine for its size. (Or any size for that matter.) The high-end chip configuration has a 32-core CPU with 24 performance cores and eight efficiency cores, 80 graphics cores, and support for up to 512GB of RAM. The only strange thing is that the chip is part of the M3 family, not the M4. Reports say the reason is that the M4 chip doesnt have the UltraFusion packaging architecture needed to fuse two M4 Max into one Ultra, but if thats true, then we ask: Why didnt the Mac Studio arrive last year with an M3 Max and M3 Ultra?iPad: Apple PencilOh Apple Pencil, well never understand you. Even with a new iPad lineup, Apple still sells four Apple Pencils, two of which are still listed as compatible with the new iPad: the USB-C Apple Pencil and the 1st-gen Apple Pencil, which was released nearly a decade ago. It has none of the newer features in the USB-C model, including magnetic charging, wireless pairing, or Apple Pencil hover. Yet it costs $20 more.

If you overlook the introduction of theiPhone 16ewith its ownApple-designed 5G modemalong with the release of new iPads, Macs and processors, you might argue that Apple didnt make an impression at this years Mobile World Congress. However, it clearly did, as thanks to rumors from two of the worlds most well-connected Apple bloggers its mobile plans are casting a large shadow across the industry.These plans seem to involve the rapid development of faster and more performant mobile processors, intense effort to bring highly competitive and very fast 5G modems to market, platform-wide implementation of artificial intelligence, and whispers of new mobile devices. The latter include the first ever Apple foldable iPhone and a super-thin model expected this year.All of these solutions will be supported by the companys other products and services, giving Apple the kind of integration between mobile and other devices most other hardware vendors cant even dream of. Even if the 5G modem doesnt quite match up to everything Qualcomms modems currently promise, the additional benefits of platform integration could yet make up the gap.But with incumbents in the mobile space working feverishly to bring networked services, including 5G-based services, to market, the importance of the Apple modem cannot be underestimated. Will carriers be able to use these chips to deliver private 5G services effectively? Will Apple look to deploy its software development talents to create systems enterprise developers can use to craft bespoke network services for clients? Will Apple seek to make its unique 5G modem a technology to enable further digital transformation? Those are the kinds of questions people attending MWC this week may have been talking about. It matters that the C1 modem appeared in the week before the event. The speculation driving the conversation at this years show included:Out of the shadowsWe know, because Apple told us, that the company has aroad mapfor C1 development. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo hasadded a little more fleshto help us see what those plans may involve. In a post, he says Apple is working to upgrade the C1 next year, likely with the introduction of support for mmWave 5G (which is important in the US and a few other places). The current chip only supports the slightly slower (but far more widely used) sub-6GHz band. The analyst says the main challenge Apple is trying to solve is to build reliable and power efficient tech to support the band. The idea here is that reception will be consistent and battery life not impacted. Kuo also says the C1 will be used in some additional products, but that Apple wont put its own modem inside all the iPhones it sells until 2026. We dont yet know what Apple plans for the C2, but what Kuo has been able to tell us suggests that reliability and energy consumption will remain critical pillars in what it does do.Under the foldAs tariffs,frightening surveillance plansfrom an increasingly conflict-obsessed UK at war with its ownpoorest citizens, and regulation of its business, weigh down Apples stock performance, its not a big surprise that the pace of Apple rumors is accelerating. When it comes to a folding iPhone (in development for years),the latest claims arethat Apples foldable device will be slim, fast, and equipped witha fold you can barely see. That hinge will combine stainless steel and titanium alloy. It will also be equipped with Apple Intelligence, including the situation-aware Apple AI the company seems to be having challenges getting to the mass market. That piece in this jigsaw is coming, however, which means the iPhone fold (and all iPhones) will soon be equipped with cross-app AI integration likely to amplify what you can do with these devices. Kuo also says the device will have a 7.8-in. display when unfolded, making it just slightly smaller than an iPad mini; MWC attendees can breathe a sigh of relief in that the Apple foldable isnt likely to appear before the end of next year.In with the thinWell see an iPhone 17 Air appear later on this year, Kuo claims. This will hold a super- high density battery for excellence in battery life and should be 5.44mm thin thinner than any other smartphone. Speculation suggests it will use a C modem like the iPhone 16e, sport a 48MP camera, and use that super-fast A-series A17 chip, which is part of what enables Apple to make such thin devices.Explode into spaceMeanwhile, Apples work with GlobalStar continues, a space race that opens a new frontier in the mobile industry, support of which may really benefit from Applescontrol of modem production. In other words, once again, Apple doesnt need to attend MWC to become talk of the town. The worlds leading handset vendor already is that.You can follow me on social media! Join me onBlueSky,LinkedIn,andMastodon.

An exclusive discount drops the price on every Mac Studio configuration, from the standard M4 Max model to the M3 Ultra spec with 512GB of RAM.Save on every new 2025 Mac Studio.Prices start at $1,859.07 after the 7% discount at Expercom through the link-activated deal. Every configuration is reduced, so if you're looking for additional RAM or the top-of-the-line M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU and 80-core GPU, you can grab the discount.Save on the Mac Studio Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

For eight years, Apple has sold iPhones starting at 64GB to hit a price point, but Apple Intelligence has made it accept what we all knew already 128GB is the real minimum.Apple has made 64GB the base storage for all iPhones from the iPhone X in 2017 until 2025Back in 2017, the iPhone X brought us features that we wouldn't be without today, like Face ID and an edge-to-edge screen. None of this may ever go away, and certainly the thousand bucks price tag isn't going to shrink, but one thing has changed.The iPhone X, along with the same year's iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, introduced 64GB as the starting storage capacity. There had been 64GB configurations before, starting with the iPhone 4S, but it was that 2011 model's maximum capacity. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Tomorrow, March 7th, 2025, Kwong Von Glinow will begin hosting a special two-day exhibit of its models at 2021 S. Wabash Ave. in Chicago. The opening will be from 4:00 PM8:00 PM on Friday, with extended hours on Saturday from 12:00 PM5:00 PM. The fim shares: "The models in Models Off-Site are a mix of in-progress models from our office, models returned from exhibitions, and models from completed projects that have been in storage. We see this two-day exhibition as an opportunity to bring models from the last 8 years of our practice together, unboxed, and in one space."The firm was founded in Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow in 2016.