Apple sweetens its trade-in deals, yet you can still do so much better
…First it launched the leasing program Apple Upgrade so that up-front device costs are lower , and now it's stepped up its trade-in game . Not everything has seen an increase…
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TP-Link Deco BE14000 review: more capable whole-home tri-band mesh Wi-Fi 7
…While the first upgrade was a night and day improvement, the second was more incremental, if welcome. I had a lot of success using TP-Link's $250 BE5000 dual-band mesh…
Still simple, still powerful, BBEdit is a Mac app legend
…While BBEdit was a one-time purchase, Bare Bones Software has always issued paid upgrades at intervals. The Mac App Store did not allow for paid upgrades once a user had bought…
Apple earnings crush Wall Street consensus again, Q2 record smashed
…During Q1, Apple enjoyed some post-holiday product launches, including the M4 iPad Air, the iPhone 17e, the M5 upgrade to the MacBook Air, and the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook…
Reboot: Downgrades, gaming, and opera house doodles
…The Pro Display XDR was a giant screen with many benefits that tempted buyers with massive budgets to pay for the upgrade. The display market has changed in that six years, and…
Ollama is supercharged by MLX's unified memory use on Apple Silicon
…This increases the speed on most Apple Silicon hardware, but it is especially useful on the M5 generation of chips. Ollama is also able to leverage the Neural Accelerators inside each GPU…
Strong iPhone demand turns Apple's rebound into a $5 trillion run
…Apple's biggest strengths carried it to $5 trillion Apple's enormous installed base gives the company more ways to earn revenue after each hardware sale. Services, subscriptions, accessories, and future upgrades…
When to reuse, sell or recycle an old iPhone or iPad
…donating supported hardware can create more regular use than turning the device into a clock or photo frame that nobody needed. Assurant reported that mobile trade-in and upgrade programs returned a…
Apple's future smart glasses plan is just part of a larger computer vision play
…However, that will only really be useful as part of an upgraded Siri in iOS 27. However, we're probably not going to get a full augmented reality experience anytime soon…
Everything Google announced: Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, more
…Google upgraded its smartwatch offerings as well, with the Pixel Watch 5 introducing additional health-focused capabilities. Most of Google's new devices seem on par with what Apple has to offer…