Apple embraces Lil Finder Guy with WWDC 2026 swag — 9to5Mac
There’s now a physical Apple pin for Lil Finder Guy, the adorable Finder-based Mac mascot who originated from MacBook Neo’s marketing campaign.
I want this little guy to pop up in tomorrow’s WWDC introductory video.
If you’re shopping for a Mac mini in Canada right now, the Apple Store configurator is both powerful and opaque. It shows you one combination at a time, with no easy way to compare shipping wait times across the full lineup. So I decided to do something about it.
Using Claude’s browser automation tools, I navigated the Apple Canada store programmatically, cycling through every possible Mac mini configuration: all 52 of them, spanning two chips (M4 and M4 Pro), two CPU/GPU variants, two memory tiers, five storage options, and two Ethernet speeds. I captured the live price and shipping lead time for each one directly from the store. No guessing, no third-party data. Everything you see was pulled in real time from apple.com/ca.
The result is the reference table below. The headline finding is blunt: if you want a Mac mini without a long wait, your options are narrow. Only the base M4 model ships in 3 to 4 weeks. Upgrade almost anything (memory, storage, Ethernet, or chip), and you’re looking at 10 to 12 weeks. The Mac mini may be Apple’s most configurable desktop, but right now it’s also one of its hardest to get quickly.
So you were expecting a long blog post about my expectations for WWDC26, right? Well, I don’t have a clue. I think it would be better to write what I want, not what I expect. Here’s what I want.
That’s it.
If this year’s OS releases are Apple’s way of fixing its software, do these rumors still make sense if work has already started on next year’s major updates? How can Apple manage to do both and maintain them simultaneously? I understand that some features take months or even years to develop, but this doesn’t seem to fit with the rumors. Alternatively, the rumors might just be reflecting common expectations.
Apple AI glasses launch pushed back to late 2027, Vision Air to arrive by 2029: report — 9to5Mac
Apple believes it has a massive opportunity here in the eyewear space, and wants to potentially capture billions of people who depend on prescription glasses, casually wear sunglasses, or use glasses as a fashion accessory.
Until Apple released the iPhone, wireless providers dictated everything about the buying experience, but Apple sidelined them. Could Apple repeat a similar tour de force with prescription glasses? Imagine getting your prescription, then heading to the Apple Store to pick up your smart glasses. I do see this as Apple’s next disruption. Really.
iOS 27 might convince a lot of people to upgrade to a new iPhone — 9to5Mac
Before now, Apple Intelligence arguably hasn’t provided enough reason to motivate upgrades for most users, but in iOS 27, that could very well change.
Unless Apple hits a home run with this year’s Apple Intelligence upgrade, I tend to think that we overestimate the attractiveness of AI for ‘ordinary’ iPhone users.
Melius’ Ben Reitzes raises price target on Apple to $385 — Asymco
An agentic version of Siri could boost 2030 revenue by as much as $65 billion, Wamsi and his team estimated, adding up to $2 billion in incremental earnings over the next four years.
Siri+. I hope Apple don’t read his blog.
You know Apple created chaos when Apple Publishes Document to Help Users Tell Creator Studio Apps Apart. 🤔🤦🏻♂️
If all goes according to plan, I’ll be upgrading my aging iPhone 15 Pro Max to the iPhone 18 Pro Max this coming September. For each upgrade, when I upgraded to the iPhone 13 Pro, and then to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, I wrote a personal take. Both are quite different, and I’d like to put another one this year. The big difference: the place AI could take to help me put this together. I have all summer to think about this. And I know what some people might be thinking about those who use AI and write about using AI to do their things.
iOS 27: Dedicated Siri App to Include Auto-Deleting Chats Feature:
Apple in iOS 27 will include an enhanced Siri with a dedicated app that gives users options to keep conversations in memory for a limited time, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Clearly, Gurman knows someone at Apple willing to share secret information about the upcoming AI chat app. We’re getting a pretty well-formed idea of what Apple is brewing behind closed doors. I’m looking forward to seeing how Apple will tackle memory management, if they ever decide to expose that portion to the users. Also, will the AI chat support the share extension for uploading images or sharing a website for summarization? All the types of things that we take for granted these days.