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In addition to running Apple World Today, I’ve written a book called “Fables & Fairy Tales,” a collection of 23 original stories targeted to youngsters ages 8-12.  The fables/fairy tales are designed to teach moral lessons on virtues and vices, as well as...

The game development company, Bloober Team, has announced that a Mac version of Cronos: The New Dawn is coming on April 28. Cronos: The New Dawn is a 2025 survival horror game. It was released for Linux, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S...

The Counterpoint Research group says Apple had 21% of the global smartphone market as of the first quarter. However, the Omedia research group says the iPhone had 22%. Omedia says Apple’s strong quarter was supported by stable pricing and steady demand for the iPhone...

The Omdia research group says Mac sales grew 10.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, while the IDC research system says the growth was 9.1%. Now Gartner says Mac sales grew 12.7% year-over-year. This research group says Apple sold approximately 6.7 million...

Global smartphone shipments declined 6% year-over-year (YoY) in quarter one (Q1) 2026, as DRAM and NAND shortages disrupted supplies and increased costs, reports Counterpoint Research. Apple led Q1 smartphone sales for the first time with 21% market share, growing 5%...

The rising adoption of local brands negatively impacted Apple’s smartwatch shipments in China in 2025, which declined 5% year-over-year, reports Counterpoint Research. As a result, Apple Watches were absent from the top-10 list for the...

Apple TV is bringing some of its biggest hit series to fans for an up-close look with a two-weekend event at the Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles, reports Deadline. “Think Apple TV” will feature interactive fan experiences from hit shows including Pluribus,...

Apple Original Films’ dark comedy, ‘Outcome,’ debuts today on Apple TV. Directed by Jonah Hill, it stars Keanu Reeves, Hill, Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Susan Lucci, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Martin Scorsese, Atsuko Okatsuka, Roy Wood, Jr., Welker White, Kaia Gerber and...

Here are some of the latest software announcements: ° Astropad has debuted WorkBench, a “modern remote desktop for Mac, iPad, and iPhone.” With it, you can control your AI agents remotely. The app supports voice input control for dictate prompts and commands from...

Here are some of the latest hardware and accessory announcements: ° Satechi has expanded its mobile charging lineup with the US$129.99 3-in-1 Foldable Wireless Charging Stand with Qi2 25W, a wireless charging stand featuring a compact folding design. Designed as...

Apple TV has debuted the trailer for “My Brother the Minotaur,” an all-new animated kids and family adventure series set to premiere globally on Friday, April 24.  From Academy Award-nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon and the award-winning children’s media...

Juno Temple’s multiple on-screen husbands have been revealed. Joe Alwyn, Richard Gadd, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Joel Kinnaman, Daniel Ings, Bob Morley and Fehinti Balogun have all signed on to play the spouses of lead star Temple in Apple TV’s “The Husbands,” reports...

Apple TV was recognized with five nominations for the 86th Annual Peabody Awards, with category nods for “Pluribus,” “Come See Me in the Good Light,” “Mr. Scorsese,” “Vietnam: The War That Changed America” and “Shape Island.”  The Peabody Awards honor excellence...

Comcast’s Xfinity has unveiled a “major expansion” to its StreamSaver bundles. It adds the Disney+, Hulu Bundle and HBO Max alongside Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV, and offers customers multiple ways to bundle and save up to 45% on the biggest names in streaming....

DoveRunner, which specializes in mobile and connected device application security, has announced the general availability of DoveRunner TV OS Security. It’s designed to offer “comprehensive runtime protection for Apple TV applications built on tvOS.” This release...

Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 with bug fixes. To install the update go to System Settings > Software Update.  The upgrade resolves an issue where MacBook Air with M5 and MacBook Pro with M5 Pro or M5 Max failed to join 802.1X Wi-Fi networks while using...

Apple has updated PixelMator Pro, Logic Pro, Compressor, MainStage, Motion, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Camera, Numbers, Keynote, Pages, and other apps. The (when applicable) Mac, iPad, and iPhone versions of the apps have been updated. Logic Pro is the company’s...

The Omdia research group says Mac sales grew 10.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026. However, the IDC research group says the grow was 9.1%. According to IDC Apple sold 5.2 million Macs in the first quarter of 2026 for 9.5% global PC market share. That...

According to the latest research from Omdia, total shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations in the first quarter of 2026 increased by 3.2% year-over-year to 64.8 million units. Notebooks (including mobile workstations) saw a modest year-over-year increase of...

This is good news for Apple’s rumored smart glasses: After experiencing fluctuations in recent years, the global AR smart glasses market grew 98% year-over-year (YoY) in 2025, reaching a record high, according to Counterpoint Research’s...

Apple will be permanently closing three retail stores in the U.S. in June: Apple Trumbull in Trumbull, Connecticut, Apple Towson Town Center in Towson, Maryland, and Apple North County in Escondido, California. The tech giant issued the following statement to...

A new bug has been discovered that breaks all Mac networking every 49 days, 17 hours, two minutes, and 47 seconds, reports AppleInsider.  The solution: restarting your Mac sooner than every 49 days, 17 hours, two minutes, and 47 seconds. The bug was detailed in a...

Apple has asked a U.S. court to formally request internal Samsung documents from South Korea as part of discovery in the Department of Justice’s ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the company, reports MacRumors. In May 2024 the DOJ filed the lawsuit, alleging that...

Apple TV has unveiled a trailer for the upcoming second season of the crime thriller “Criminal Record.”  Starring Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner Peter Capaldi, and Laurence Olivier Award and Critics Choice Award nominee Cush Jumbo, the eight-episode second...

Jamf Threat Labs has discovered a ClickFix-style macOS attack that abuses the applescript:// URL scheme to launch Script Editor and deliver an Atomic Stealer infostealer payload — bypassing Terminal entirely. Unlike traditional ClickFix campaigns that instruct users...

MacPaw’s Moonlock Lab has investigated the origins, functionality, and distribution of notnullOSX, a new Go-based modular stealer with full backdoor capabilities. The Lab’s telemetry recorded the first detections of notnullOSX on March 30, 2026. Delivered via ClickFix...

Apple has released Safari Technology Preview 241 that includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, Animations, CSS, Canvas, Forms, HTML, Images, JavaScript, MathML, Media, Networking, Printing, Rendering, SVG, Storage, Web API, Web Inspector, and WebRTC....

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Global notebook PC display shipments grew 7% year-over-year (YoY) in 2025, while the advanced notebook display segment (MiniLED and OLED) grew 19% YoY, driven by demand pull-forward ahead of memory cost inflation, enterprise upgrades, AI PC adoption and new product...

Apple got low grades in the “Failing the Fix” report for smartphones and laptops.  The report is from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, which “conducts research, policy analysis and public education to advance solutions to problems that affect consumers’ health,...