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The Low-End-Price-Point Edition Wednesday, July 2, 2025

About That A16 MacBook Rumor…, by Jason Snell, Six Colors

First off, the M1 MacBook Air can’t be sold forever. I’m sure the margins on a five-year-old product are great, but Apple and TSMC surely want to stop making M1 chips at some point! So how do you make a new product that’s still well below the $999 of the (incredible value) M4 MacBook Air?

Using the same A18 Pro processor found in the iPhone 16 Pro might be a good start.

Thoughts On A Possible Low-End MacBook Powered By The A18 Pro, by Stephen Hackett, 512 Pixels

The M1 Air won’t stick around forever, and I can see a cheaper, USB-C-only MacBook powered by an A Series chip slotting into that low-end price point nicely.

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Beats And AirPods Headphones Shut Off When You Fall Asleep In iOS 26, by Juli Clover, MacRumors

Apple mentioned the feature during its Worldwide Developers Conference, but it was highlighted as an AirPods feature. Code discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser suggests that the option is also available for Beats headphones.

Stuff

Apple Shares New 'Snap-a-Mole' Camera Control Ad, by Hartley Charlton, MacRumors

The ad shows a photographer quickly grabbing photos with the Camera Control on the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌, using gestures to zoom in and change Photographic Styles rapidly.

I Use This Mac App To Connect To All My Bluetooth Devices With One Click, by Khamosh Pathak, Lifehacker

ToothFairy is a one-click Bluetooth utility that adds a dedicated button for each Bluetooth device right to your menu bar. Click once, and the device will be connected (as long as it’s powered on, and around you). Click again, to disconnect. It couldn’t be simpler. No need to hunt down menus.

Addigy’s Prebuilt App Catalog Is Built To Simplify Managing macOS Apps At Scale, by Bradley C, 9to5Mac

The Addigy Prebuilt App Catalog is designed to automate macOS app deployments and updates across your Apple fleets. The catalog includes a growing list of commonly used apps that can be deployed and updated without writing any scripts or configuring profiles. Each app comes prepackaged with all the required device management profiles, including system extensions and Privacy Preferences Policy Control settings.

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Foxconn Pulls Chinese Staff From India In Hurdle For Apple, by Bloomberg

Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s manufacturing push in the South Asian country.

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It’s not immediately clear why Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler sent the workers home. Earlier this year, officials in Beijing verbally encouraged regulatory agencies and local governments to curb technology transfers and equipment exports to India and Southeast Asia in what is a potential attempt to prevent companies from shifting manufacturing elsewhere, Bloomberg News has reported.

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The rumored MacBook with A-series chip should come in 12-inch and 14-inch sizes, I say, as I fondly remember the MacBook Air 11-inch that I used to bring to everywhere I went.

I don't think Apple will ever do a 11-inch Mac, but the previous MacBook was at 12-inch size.

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