October 28, 2025

MacBreak Weekly 996: The Billion Dollar Scratch

2 hours 33 minutes

Apple held a special developer event for immersive media experiences last week, and some of MacBreak's own were there! Did Apple reduced production levels for its iPhone Air? Apple crosses the $4 trillion market cap. And what's going on with Apple's lawsuit against Jon Prosser?

Apple holds special developer event touting immersive media experiences for Vision Pro.

Samsung takes on Apple's Vision Pro with new Galaxy XR headset.

Apple iPhone Air cuts mean very little in October 2025.

iPhone Air production cut orders may not be true.

The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having "strategic market status", imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition.

US judge decertifies Apple app store class action.

Apple crosses $4 trillion market cap for the first time.

Apple begins shipping American-made AI servers from Texas.

Apple says Jon Prosser 'has not indicated' when he may respond to lawsuit.

Apple readies new framework to let iPhone users migrate app data to and from Android.

iPhone 18 Pro could gain satellite 5G as SpaceX chases Apple partnership.

Apple seeds iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 release candidates.

Picks of the Week

Alex's Pick: Blackmagic Camera

Leo's Picks: Adobe's Project Indigo & Casio's G-Shock Nano DWN-5600

Andy's Pick: Susan Kare's Prints

Jason's Pick: Daft Music

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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