Chris Espinosa from Apple sharing a job offer:

We’re hiring in the tvOS Engineering group at Apple. Real programmers to really write real code.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200602666-0836/ios-engineer-apple-tv?team=SFTWR

“Real programmers to really write real code.” 🤔 This sounds a little bit off.

Microsoft Raises Prices for All Surface PCs, Making Them More Expensive Than Equivalent Macs — MacRumors

Microsoft’s PCs are now more expensive than their Mac equivalents, which is good news for Apple.

How long can Apple hold any price increase?

On the Name of Apple’s Foldable iPhone — Daring Fireball

I have no inside knowledge about what Apple plans to name this device, but I’ll eat my proverbial hat if they name it “iPhone Fold”. That name is so dumb it’s what Samsung calls their foldables. You don’t name a device for what it does, you name it for what it connotes.

The iPhone Duo potential name is not doing it either because it denotes a device with two screens or two sides that you fold together.

iPhone 18 Pro Reportedly Won’t Come in Black — MacRumors

Apple offers the iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max in just three colors – Silver, Cosmic Orange, and Deep Blue – but notably there’s no black option. Last year was the first time Apple’s high-end iPhones have not been available with a black or dark gray color option in any way, but those hoping for the return of black this year for the iPhone 18 Pro should look away now.

My go-to choice is black, the only exception was for the iPhone 13 Pro which was in light blue (or whatever color they used to call it). If no black option for the 18 Pro Max, then my second choice goes to the deep red.

I’m part of Apple’s 50-year history. Here are some documented proofs.

iOS 27 might give iPhone’s keyboard a new autocorrect feature — 9to5Mac

Apple has explored an updated system keyboard that expands autocorrect by offering alternative words, using an approach that’s similar to tools like Grammarly.

If they can fix Autocorrect once and for all, I’m all in.

Everything New in iOS 26.5 Beta 1:

iOS 26.5 is now available for developers, and while it doesn’t include any new Siri capabilities, there are some major changes for the European Union, and smaller tweaks for features available worldwide.

A meagre release, except for the EU. I find it stupid that Apple doesn’t enable the same feature set in the Americas market. Apple being… Apple.

Apple is sure to release iOS 26.5 beta, when is still an unknown, but also unknown is what Apple Intelligence/ Siri new features Apple will want users to test that cannot wait iOS 27. 👀 We shall see very soon.

9to5Mac’s article “Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it”:

Summary

The rise of AI-powered “agentic coding” has overwhelmed Apple’s App Store review process, with developers reporting review times of 3+ days to a week instead of the traditional under-24-hour turnaround. The influx of fully AI-generated apps from new developers has created a bottleneck for human reviewers, making it unfair for established developers whose update submissions are delayed. To address this, the author suggests Apple could implement separate review queues for established developers or automate updates while maintaining human review only for new submissions, though it may ultimately become necessary to reduce or eliminate full human review.

I don’t see the current review process at Apple as sustainable. I can imagine parts of the current workflow being automated (like finding instances of private API usage in application binaries). But, just for vibe coding, reviewing app submissions should be human-gated. An AI agent could even run the app in a simulator for testing.