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The iPhone 16 arrives in stores and users’ hands next week. But one of its tentpole features—Apple Intelligence—won’t be available until October. And even then, the full AI feature set will release as a slow drip over the coming year. While some may see that as a bad thing, I think Apple will ultimately benefit from the progressive rollout. Here’s why. more…...

Make sure you secure your new iPhone 16 pre-order if you haven’t yet before shipping times slip even further, but you certainly don’t want to miss the pre-order deals we have on Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4 as well as the new black Apple Watch Ultra 2. But today we are adding the AirPods Max with USB-C in to the mix – you can flip out your old set and save $130 right now – alongside up to $1,000 in savings on the M2 iPad Pro as part of Best Buy’s new weekend sale. But from there it’s all about the iPhone 16 cases we have secured exclusive deals on: SANDMARC leather, Arc’s metal iPhone 16 bumper cases, Burton Goods’ leather iPhone 16 cases and wallets, and even more down below.  more…...

When we ran a poll before the keynote, more than 9,000 of you voted, and almost exactly half of you said that you didn’t plan to buy an iPhone 16. Among those who did, the iPhone 16 Pro Max was the clear leader, with the two base models seeing almost no love at all … more…...

I said before the keynote that I expected to be ordering an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and that was going to be largely down to the functionality of the Camera Control button. This turned out to be an even stronger draw than I’d expected. Despite the button itself inevitably leaking beforehand, Apple did manage to keep a lot of its functionality secret … more…...