Tim Cook is approaching retirement, and it is obvious he cannot hold this position indefinitely.
Tim has led the company since 2011 and helped it grow from a $350B company to a $4T giant. However, they are currently having a problem and are stagnating even in AI.
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC26) kicks off June 8.
It's Tim Cook's last big event as CEO, and the company is expected to use the occasion to present a complete overhaul of Siri, the voice assistant that's been built into every iPhone since October 2011. Starting with iOS 27, Siri is expected to look a lot more like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude.
Reviewers broadly praise Apple for polished design, ease of use, strong performance, long battery life, and an ecosystem that makes devices and features like AirDrop work smoothly together. Users also highlight reliability, security, and useful work setups, including Vision Pro with Mac. The main complaints are familiar: high prices, a closed system, costly upgrades, limited storage, and repairability concerns such as battery replacement. Makers of Typeahead and Nativeline add that Apple’s hardware and Swift tooling make native, on-device apps feel fast and practical.
@Apple finally gave the iPad mini an OLED screen. It's 8.5 inches now, with 24% thinner bezels but roughly the same footprint. Peak HDR brightness reaches 1,200 nits, and there's even a nano-texture option on the 256GB and 512GB models.
The new mini is just 5.4mm thin and weighs 255g (Wi-Fi model), with IP67 water resistance. Apple also redesigned the speakers into what it calls an Acoustic Display, with woofers coupled through the screen and tweeters hidden between the glass and aluminum. Pretty neat for such a small tablet.
A20 Pro brings a big jump in graphics and on-device AI. One detail worth knowing: only the 512GB version gets the 6-core CPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine.
And yes, still no ProMotion 🤷
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Love the iPad mini and have used it for so many years in different versions, but skipping this generation and giving iPhone Duo a chance instead.
Currently using a macbook Pro late 2015 model, 8GB of RAM.
My experience has been mixed. The OS and bundled software is mostly of good quality, the hardware is now seven years old and still going strong apart from the original battery which needs replacing... that brings me on to the less attractive parts of Apple's products.
Removing the battery, which was a piece of cake in earlier models (circa 2007), is a major repair job. They've gone backwards here. Batteries are probably the first thing that will need replacing given they wear out the fastest.
That said I've had to replace the power adapter once as the original failed after about a year. Their materials are not always durable. Take cables and grommets made in their white rubber material. Over time this rots and disintegrates. I have older equipment that doesn't suffer this issue.
They also charge more than other vendors for things like RAM and storage. Its also laughable that they still have product SKUs in their store that come with 8GB of RAM. This may have been sufficient in 2015, but we're 8 years on now, and RAM hungry apps make for a disappointing experience on my machine.
I'd buy another macbook, but only because we require it to support our plugin software that we make.
What needs improvement
high pricing (5)high maintenance costs (2)limited storage space (2)
Re: Vision Pro, it's a product I use a lot for work. I pair my Macbook and use the widescreen virtual display. I crank up some good music and head into Yosemite. I used to use Quest Pro for this use case, but the resolution wasn't there for it to be really useful. With Vision Pro we get our retina display moment for AR/VR for work.
It's already 2026, but 8GB of RAM is a significant drawback. But in return, we have a price that fits our budget. For an office worker with basic features and no need to perform heavy tasks on a laptop, this is a great deal. Not to mention, it has a color I like (blush) and truly impressive battery life
Hi everyone!
@Apple finally gave the iPad mini an OLED screen. It's 8.5 inches now, with 24% thinner bezels but roughly the same footprint. Peak HDR brightness reaches 1,200 nits, and there's even a nano-texture option on the 256GB and 512GB models.
The new mini is just 5.4mm thin and weighs 255g (Wi-Fi model), with IP67 water resistance. Apple also redesigned the speakers into what it calls an Acoustic Display, with woofers coupled through the screen and tweeters hidden between the glass and aluminum. Pretty neat for such a small tablet.
A20 Pro brings a big jump in graphics and on-device AI. One detail worth knowing: only the 512GB version gets the 6-core CPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine.
And yes, still no ProMotion 🤷
Love the iPad mini and have used it for so many years in different versions, but skipping this generation and giving iPhone Duo a chance instead.
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It is 2026