Mac and Apple with Fexingo: macOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Ecosystem Conversations

Lucas and Luna dig into Apple's quiet infrastructure play — not a new smart speaker, not a TV, but Matter and Thread. They break down why the Home app's backend rewrite matters more than a new device, how Apple's privacy-first approach collides with the Google-and-Amazon smart-home duopoly, and what a recent FCC vote on IoT security means for the next iPhone update. Specific numbers: 600 million H...

In this episode of Mac and Apple with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down Apple's surprising shift towards affordable iPads. With the latest iPad 11th generation launching at $349 and the iPad mini 7 under $500, Apple is targeting education and emerging markets. We discuss how this strategy mirrors the iPhone SE playbook, the impact on Apple's services revenue, and why Tim Cook might be willing to...

Apple's enterprise revenue has quietly grown to over $70 billion annually, making enterprise larger than many of its consumer businesses. Lucas and Luna unpack how this happened — from the iPhone's accidental corporate takeover to the iPad's pivot in healthcare, the Mac's M-series resurgence in creative and engineering, and Apple's unique approach of winning through employees rather than IT depart...

In this debut episode of Mac and Apple with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna take stock of Apple Intelligence exactly one year after its WWDC 2025 unveiling. The hosts drill into one concrete number: 37 percent of iPhone users report using an Apple Intelligence feature at least once a day, according to a recent survey by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. They discuss why that number feels both impre...