The Core: Apple News in 5 minutes, July 21

Apple is preparing for new leadership and exploring opportunities like Apple-as-a-service with Klarna. TSMC’s chip price increase will likely impact Apple’s products. This is a partial summary – full report here. Subscribe to receive all the news in one hand-crafted, human-curated email – sometimes with spelling errors!

Apple and the changing of the guard

How Apple is defining the new age of John Ternus

Apple + Klarna mean we can now get Apple-as-a-service

With Klarna, Apple One, and Creator Studio Apple is offering access to all its products and services for a monthly fee.

TSMC raises chip prices by up to 10% in 2027

AI-flation has raised TSMC costs too, now it is passing those increases to customers, who will pass them on in turn to you. Appe’s chips likely impacted. 

Apple’s 27 series developer betas hit release 4

Among other things, you’ll find Siri AI support on Vision Pro.

Yesterday’s collection is available here.

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