Apple has waited ten months to update the MacBook Air to use the cutting-edge Apple Silicon M4. How does this delay benefit the Mac portfolio and promote the MacBook Pro without weakening consumer confidence?

Apple's Game Porting Toolkit is helpful for developers, former Apple software engineer Nat Brown explains, but it still has a lot of work to do to encourage more games to get made for macOS.

In 2027, Apple aims to roll out its third modem, code-named Prometheus. The company hopes to top Qualcomm with that component’s performance and artificial intelligence features by that point. It will also build in support for next-generation satellite networks.

The rest of the smartphone world doesn’t seem to mind buying Qualcomm’s modems, which hold a dominant market share, especially when you only consider high-end phones like the ones Apple makes. As current iPhone users know, Qualcomm’s 5G modems are solid, fast, and good. So why is Apple kicking against them so hard?

Apple is working on integrating its new in-house developed modem chip into the Apple Silicon-based processors used in their devices.

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In many ways, the Apple C1—its first cellular modem—is the company’s most important product in years. Just as the company broke free from reliance on Intel with its own Mac processors, it is now breaking free from reliance on Qualcomm for cellular connectivity. Ditching Broadcom for its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is said to happen this year, too.