The tweets today are making me laugh. Not just a chuckle, but that deep, room-filling laugh that you get when you understand something that others don’t. It’s like holding onto an inside joke that you just can’t hang onto any longer. With that said, here’s the punchline — Apple’s last innovation in mobile was the iPhone. Everything since then has simply been perfecting the work of others. What’s that? The sound of a thousand angry iFanboys?...

Apple stopped selling the iPhone 11 Pro models — here’s why ANSWER: supply chain and communication Why has Apple stopped selling the iPhone 11 Pro models? I think it’s about two connected things: supply chain and muddling its phone range. The first one we can brush past quickly. The more different phones Apple sells, the more complex manufacturing and shipping them becomes. Discontinuing the iPhone 11 Pro nips that in the bud....

Apple continues its march to cease selling any software in boxes at all with a move to cease shipping software to educational resellers on school campuses,reports ZDnet. This decision shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to anyone that has been following therelease of OS X Lionor, previously,the Mac App Store. Apple has been working on getting its software delivery system converted to software only since the introduction of the Mac App Store and took a huge leap forward when it shifted to a digital-only distribution for its release of OS X Lion....

As spotted by9to5 Mac, Apple has halted selling MacBook Pros, possibly due to the expected lineup refresh that is likely to happen this week. The screenshot shows that the MacBooks won’t ship until 3 to 5 business days, which may be in time for the big announcement. Additionally, we reported earlier about the speculated five new MacBook ProSKUs that werespottedin BestBuy.Rumorssay that we might actually see the product refresh as early as Thursday, February 24....

In what is almost surely the beginning of a lot more details leaking out about changes to the Apple Retail Store,9to5Machas received a bevy of information from anonymous sources. Those sources claim that many changes are about to be made to the Apple Retail Store experience in an initiative dubbed “Apple Store 2.0”. The sources claim that the design of the new retail experience involved Apple’s SVP of Retail Ron Johnson and was led by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive....