This week, Apple released a third iOS 26 developer beta, and lost an Apple Intelligence executive, all on the anniversary of when Steve Jobs came back to the company, plus there’s news of what’s next with the Apple Vision Pro, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
You’d be forgiven this week for thinking that Apple is finished, that Apple Intelligence might as well be abandoned, and that speaking of abandoning, everyone good is leaving Apple. With all due respect to the two people leaving Apple, though, they are just two people, and Apple Intelligence isn’t going anywhere.
And somehow the new third developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe and — a little late — tvOS 26 managed to get released anyway. There’s only a little new in this version, released presumably just ahead of the first public beta, but it looks like Apple is refining Liquid Glass still further.
The many new features in the betas appear to be working just fine — touch wood, and don’t mention Journal’s syncing. But that may be little consolation to people living in any of the EU’s 27 member states, who learned anew this week just which iOS 26 features they won’t be getting.
It’s also been a contentious week in the US, with the DOJ targeting an individual app developer. Plus the latest round of tariffs changes continue to appear to be particularly problematic for Apple — and so, ultimately, for its prices.
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Links from the show:
- Returning Steve Jobs took over Apple 28 years ago, on July 9, 1997
- Tim Cook isn’t going to get fired, and Steve Jobs isn’t rolling over in his grave
- Meta lured AI exec away from Apple with blockbuster $200M pay package
- Meta poaches Apple Intelligence executive amid larger leadership restructure
- Samsung may have built a new factory just for folding iPhone displays
- Apple’s design team leadership in flux once again with Jeff Williams retirement
- Apple COO Jeff Williams retiring later in 2025, replaced by SVP Sabih Khan
- Apple seeds third developer betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26
- What’s new in iOS 26 beta 3: Wallpaper color options, stronger blur effects, and more
- Third tvOS 26 developer beta arrives one day late
- Apple A19, C2, M5 chip identifiers all leaked in early iOS 18 code
- Apple: EU App Store micromanagement demands are illegal, fights $570M fine
- TikTok builds new US app version ahead of planned sale
- DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
- What Apple products will get hit the hardest by Trump’s new tariff orders
- FTC ‘Click to Cancel’ rule that was annoying some services cancelled by the courts
- Faster, more comfortable Apple Vision Pro rumored to arrive in 2025
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