APPLE'S $AAPL JOHN TERNUS WAS ASKED WHY IT TOOK APPLE SO LONG TO MAKE A FOLDABLE PHONE His answer was that nobody else had built one worth copying. "People have shipped foldable products before. None of them we felt were particularly appealing." "We ship things when we're ready to ship them. It takes time." "We wanted to design something that we were really passionate and excited about. And that's true on the hardware, but it's also true on the software and on the design. It takes time to get it right, and we feel like we got it right."

Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo is its most expensive iPhone yet, but the company is betting customers will pay for a genuinely new form factor. Foldable smartphone revenue rose 16% globally last year, outpacing nonfoldable phones. Read more insights:

Apple's iPhone 18 went on sale with new CEO John Ternus opening its Fifth Avenue store doors in New York, while Spirit AI made bold claims about its robots. We round up the week's hottest stories in tech

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro Max 1TB may have a storage problem unexpected in a more expensive phone. >HOMOLAB tests show the 1TB model uses QLC storage, while the cheaper 256GB version uses TLC. >The 1TB model can hit over 3,000 MB/s at first, but speeds drop hard once the cache fills. It averaged 79.4 MB/s in one test and fell to 1.1 MB/s. >A 512GB iPhone 18 Pro with TLC storage beat the 1TB model in every mixed read/write test, by up to 38%. You pay more for extra storage but you get slower performance when moving large files.

Apple’s new watches are coming with a new feature that turns them into mass surveillance devices This new feature will can provide you with AI summaries of every conversation you've had in the day The watch’s mic listens for speech, it decides whether a conversation is happening, then audio gets deciphered, then Apple Intelligence model produces a title + summary + key points in the conversation The issue here is people you are taking with might be wearing this watch and you’ll never know it’s recording everything you say Apple says the recordings aren’t stored and the speech it’s capturing won’t be accessible to anyone, including Apple. But who really believes this can’t be exploited….. This turns Apple Watches into recording devices you’ll never even know are recording This new feature will be on Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4