Ken Ray

Mac OS Ken

This is daily Apple news. Monday through Friday, Ken Ray brings a short shot of tech happenings to your day. If it's Apple news, Apple-related news, or news related to Apple-related news, you'll hear about it here. News you'll like... this is Mac OS Ken.

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Ken Ray

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Latest episode

Oct 14, 2026

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Episodes

Cheaper Mac Laptop Talk and New OS Betas - MOSK: 11.05.2025 05.11.2025

- Bloomberg's Gurman Restarts Low-Cost Mac Laptop Talk - Apple Seeds First blankOS 26.2 Betas to Developers - iOS 26.2 Beta Tweaks Enhanced Safety Alerts - watchOS 26.2 Beta Changes Sleep Score Point Ranges - News App Slightly Rearranged in iOS 26.2 Beta - New Feature for Apple Podcasts in iOS 26.2 Beta - Live Translation for AirPods Hitting EU Next Month - Apple One Branding Slices and Stacks the...

iPhone Waits and OS Updates - MOSK: 11.04.2025 04.11.2025

- J.P. Morgan: Waits for Current iPhones Still Longer Than Last Year's - Apple Releases blankOS 26.1 to the General Public - Apple Launches Web-Based, All Encompassing App Store - Apple Arcade Welcomes "Football Manager 26 Touch" - Apple TV Rebrands with New Idents and Stabs by Finneas - Apple TV Announces True Peril Podcast "Adrift" - Sponsored by NordLayer: Now through Dec. 10 get 28% off NordLa...

Melissa Relief and a Higher AAPL Target - MOSK: 11.03.2025 03.11.2025

- Apple CEO Pledges Support in Hurricane Melissa's Wake - TD Cowen Ups Apple Target on iPhone Strength - Counterpoint: Driven by iPhone 17 Line, China Smartphone Sales Surge in October - Latest iPhones Join Apple's Self-Repair Program - iFixit Busts Open the M5 iPad Pro - Apple Wallet Exec Says Digital US Passport "Coming Soon" - Sponsored by NordLayer: Now through Dec. 10 get 28% off NordLayer ye...

Apple's Q4 Earnings Set Record After Record - MOSK: 10.31.2025 31.10.2025

- Apple Sets Numerous Record in Q4FY2025 - Apple Says December-Quarter Will Be Best So Far - Analysts Up Apple Targets in Wake of Q4 Earnings - Sponsored by NordLayer: Save 10% with code macosken-10 at nordlayer.com/macosken. - Keeping bad guys out of your iPhone and busting ghost accounts on Checklist No. 447 - Find it today at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @macosken@mastodon.soc...

Apple Sticks the $4T Market Cap Landing - MOSK: 10.30.2025 30.10.2025

- Apple Market Cap Ends the Day at $4T - BofA Ups AAPL Target to $320 - CNBC: iPhone Air May Not Need to Sell Well - Pro and Indy Analysts Bullish Headed Into AAPL Earnings - Apple Q4FY25 Earnings Set for Today - Apple Dropping €8 Million Per Year Lobbying EU - Sydney Apple Store Reopens Today - Apple Joins Game Awards Advisory Board - Sponsored by NordLayer: Save 10% with code macosken-10 at nord...

Apple's Market Cap Touches $4T - MOSK: 10.29.2025 29.10.2025

- Apple Briefly Snags $4T Market Cap - FT: Apple Services Revenue to Cross $100B for FY2025 - CNET Tests Show Battery Concerns for iPhone Air to be Overblown - Recent Toyota Electrics Get Apple Maps EV-Charger Routing - Apple Seeds RCs for blankOS 26.1 Updates - Where Trump Goes, Cook Follows - Apple Films and Chernin to Develop Dark Horse Comic "Last Flight Out" - Apple TV Heads "Down Cemetery Ro...

Apple's "Halo of Positivity" on Wall Street - MOSK: 10.28.2025 28.10.2025

- J.P. Morgan Ups AAPL Target on "Halo of Positivity" - TD Cowen: No Change in iPhone Air Production - 13-Year-Old App Store Class Action Suit Loses Class Action Certification - Gurman: Apple Adding Ads to Apple Maps in 2026 - iFixit Tears Into the M5 MacBook Pro - OpenAI Buys Software Applications, Original Team Behind Shortcuts - Apple Original Films Picks Up Jason Segel's "Sponsor" - Apple Film...

A Higher AAPL Target and iPhone FailuAir - MOSK: 10.27.2025 27.10.2025

- Wells Fargo Ups AAPL Target on iPhone and Services Strength, A.I. Excitement - Nikkei: Apple Boosts Orders for iPhone 17 Line, Cuts Orders for iPhone Air - TF Intl. Analyst: Apple Massively Cutting iPhone Air Orders - Thoughts on iPhone FailuAir - Apple Earnings Set for Thursday 30 October - Counterpoint: Mac Shipments Up 15% in Q3 - Apple Shipping Private Cloud Compute Servers from Houston Faci...

iPhone 17, App Store Wars, and "Shrinking" - MOSK: 10.22.2025 22.10.2025

- Wedbush: Wall Street is Underestimating iPhone 17 Cycle and Apple's Q4 - Apple Seeks (Again) to Have 2025 Fortnite Ruling Overturned - Apple Argues (Again) Against EU's DMA - Walmart Gets "Exclusive" Colors for Two Beats Offerings - Rumor: Apple Testing Immersive Video for Soccer Broadcasts - Pickle Pro: Pickleball with PS VR2 Sense Support for Apple Vision Pro - Apple TV Thriller "Hijack" Retur...

Apple Shares Hit New Highs - MOSK: 10.21.2025 21.10.2025

- Apple Shares Hit New Intraday and Closing Highs - Counterpoint Notes Strength for iPhone 17 Line - Loop Capital Upgrades Apple on iPhone Strength - Epic Argues for iOS Sideloading and No Commission in Australia - Apple Sued Over App Store Practices in China - blankOS 26.1 Betas Out to Developers and Public Testers - blankOS 26.1 Lets Users Turn Liquid Glass Elements Opaque - The Asahi cyberattac...

Apple TV Wins F1 - MOSK: 10.20.2025 20.10.2025

- Apple Inks Five-Year Deal for US Rights to F1: The Races - MLS Season Playoffs Included with Apple TV Subscription - FT: iPhone 17 Line Sees Best Starting Sales Since Pandemic - Mizuho: Apple Increases Orders for iPhone 17 Line, Decreases iPhone Air - Evercore Puts AAPL Back on "Tactical Outperform" List - Meta to End Messenger App Support for Mac and Windows in Near Future - Apple TV Outs Trail...

iPhone Air "Sells Out" in China - MOSK: 10.17.2025 17.10.2025

- SCMP: iPhone Air "Sells Out" in China - Counterpoint: Global iPhone Shipments in Q3 Up 9% YoY - Counterpoint: Carriers Up Subsidies to Win High-Value iPhone 17 Customers - Apple TV and Peacock Tie Up on Subscription Bundles - Apple TV Sets Mid-November Premier for Documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light" - Docuseries "Mr. Scorsese" Now Streaming on Apple TV - "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie...

Mmmmm, Mmmmm Hardware - MOSK: 10.16.2025 16.10.2025

- Apple Announces 3nm M5 Processor - No In-Box Wall Wart for New MacBook Pro in EU and UK - Apple Announces iPad Pro Powered by M5 - Apple Outs Black Magic Keyboard for iPad Air - M5 Apple Vision Pro Up for Order - M2 Vision Pro Not Eligible for Trade-In - Apple Announces Accessories for Vision Pro - Apple Vision Pro App Hits iPad with iPadOS 26.1 - NBA 2K26 Arcade Edition Hits Apple Arcade Today...

Joz Teases Powerful New Mac - MOSK: 10.15.2025 15.10.2025

- Joz Teases New Laptop in Cryptic Twitter Post - Omdia: Q3 Global Growth for Smartphones up 3%, Strongest Q3 Growth Ever for iPhone - IDC: Q3 Global Growth for Smartphones up 2.6%, Strongest Q3 Growth Ever for iPhone - Tata Subsidiary Buys Its Way Further Into Apple's Business - Apple Seeds Third blankOS 26.1 Betas to Public Testers - Public Testers Get New AirPods Firmware Betas - Cue Talks Stat...

iPhone Air in China, Plus Apple TV+ Minus + - MOSK: 10.14.2025 14.10.2025

- Cook Says iPhone Air to Hit China Next Week - iPhone Air Ships in China on Wednesday 22 October - Carriers Get Special eSIM Permission for iPhone Air - Apple Seeds Third Betas of blankOS 26.1 to Developers - AppleInsider Lists New Features Found in iOS 26.1 Developer Beta - Apple Drops the + from Apple TV+ - F1: The Movie Hits Apple TV: The Streaming Service on 12 December - Apple Store in Carls...

New Apple Products This Week? MOSK: 10.13.2025 13.10.2025

- Bloomberg's Gurman Expects at Least Two Updated Apple Products This Week - AT&T Website May Confirm M5-Powered iPad Pro - Ming-Chi Kuo: Hinge May Cost Less Than Expected on iPhone Foldable - Sites See blankOS 26.0.2 in Visitor Logs - Report: Apple Close to Buying Computer Vision Startup Prompt AI - SUNY Professors Sue Apple for Using Their Writing to Train A.I. - Apple Original Films and Chernin...

Email Response x3 and Regular Apple News - MOSK: 10.10.2025 10.10.2025

- IDC Tracks Strong Mac Growth Globally, Slow Growth for Traditional PCs in N. America - Apple Watch Hypertension Notifications Go Live for Three More Countries - DeICER: App Store Removal Seems to Label ICE as Protected Class - OpenAI Apparently Complains to EU About Big Tech (?) - OpenAI's Sora Video App Sees Over a Million Downloads - Apple's App Store Hosts Several Sora Fakes - Apple Universit...

A Response to an Email on ICEBlock and Such - MOSK: 10.09.2025 09.10.2025

- Having been encouraged by a listener to be quiet about stories that touch on politics, I've decided not to. Let me explain... - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @macosken@mastodon.social - Send Ken an email: info@macosken.com - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken

One-Day Mindful Month Challenge - MOSK: 10.08.2025 08.10.2025

- NikkeiPoint: Huawei Took Top Spot in Smartwatches for First Time Ever in Q2 - Apple Seeds Second Public Betas of blankOS 26.1 to Developers - Apple Updates Firmware for Relatively Recent AirPods - Report: Apple Intelligence Problem Fixed on Affected iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Units - New iPhones Hit Indonesia on 17 October - Rumor Has Former NPR Podcast Exec Joining Apple - Mindful Moth Apple Watc...

Developer Betas + There's Still an iTunes?!? MOSK: 10.07.2025 07.10.2025

- Apple Seeds Second blankOS 26.1 Developer Betas - Slide to Stop: Fixing a Design-Driven Alarm Issue in iOS 26.1 - Slide Over Slides Back Onto iPad in iPadOS 26.1 - iPadOS 26.1 beta Tweaks Controls for Local Audio Capture - Apple Support App Gets Liquid Glass Treatment - TestFlight Gets Liquid Glass and Accessibility Improvements - France Investigating 2019 Siri Issue - Taylor Swift Launches 24-H...

Putting Two Financial Analysts in Timeout - MOSK: 10.06.2025 06.10.2025

- Needham Analyst Upset Apple Didn't Raise iPhone 17 Price - Jefferies Analyst Upset Apple Lowered iPhone 17 Price (???) - U.S. Government Shutdown Pauses Discovery in Apple/DOJ Case - Maine Episode of "Elevated" Hits Apple Vision Pro - Sponsored by CleanMyMac - Now with Cloud Cleanup. Try 7 days free and use code MACOSKEN20 for 20% off at clnmy.com/MACOSKEN - Japan's biggest brewery under cyberat...

Melting ICEBlock and Silencing "The Savant" - MOSK: 10.03.2025 03.10.2025

- Apple Blocks ICEBlock - Variety Really Wishes You Could See "The Savant" - Morgan Stanley Ups Apple Target on Next Two Years of iPhone - Apple Sets Q4FY25 Earnings for 30 October - Apple Posts Steps to Fix iMessage Bug in iOS 26 - Bloomberg: Apple Shifts Work from Lighter Headset to Smart Glasses - Apple Drops "Carbon Neutral" Messaging for Apple Watch and Mac mini - "The Lost Bus" and "The Sist...

iPhone Sales and iCloud Encryption - MOSK: 10.02.2025 02.10.2025

- J.P. Morgan: iPhone 17 Strength Driven by Upgrades - UK Tries for Access to Encrypted iCloud Data of UK Citizens - Court Dismisses Apple/Amazon Price Fixing Case - Apple Moves to Dismiss xAI's Collusion Suit - Apple, Google, and Meta Have to Answer for Gambling Apps - iFixit: AirPods Pro 3 Are Not Repairable - Apple Buys Ireland's IC Mask Design - Three New Titles Hit Apple Arcade - Apple TV+ Ou...

Leaks and Hints Around Apple Hardware - MOSK: 10.01.2025 01.10.2025

- FCC Posts Reference Numbers for Unannounced Apple Hardware - Russian YouTuber Posts Unboxing of Legit Looking M5 iPad Pro - Samsung Display Preps for Foldable Phones from "North American Client" - Powerbeats Fit Up for Order, Hit Stores 2 October - Apple Puts iPhone 11 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 3 on Vintage List - Sleep Apnea Notification Goes Live on Apple Watch in South Korea - North Dako...

An Odd Note and a Bunch of OS Updates - MOSK: 09.30.2025 30.09.2025

- Jefferies, J.P. Morgan, and the Barron's "Balance" - Apple Fixes Several Bugs with iOS/iPadOS 26.0.1 - macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 Opens Way for M3 Ultra Mac Studio - Several Small OS Updates from Apple Address FontParser Vulnerability - Apple Issues Minor Updates for watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS - FCC Posts Confidential iPhone 16e Schematic - Ford CEO Likes CarPlay, Not a Fan of Today's CarPlay Ultra - C...

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