So many people are leaving Apple that it's a wonder it can still function with only 164,000 employees. But it's still bringing out new iPads, while Pebble has a smart ring, and the legend of Snow Leopard is back again on the AppleInsider Podcast.
The news is that more senior people are leaving Apple, and the context is that most of them are senior in another sense — they tend to be people who are retiring. While reports of the departures even threatening the future of the iPhone are ridiculous, these were key people who shaped Apple.
Nonetheless, Apple is somehow going to manage to bring out new iPads early next year. The latest rumors seem to be settling on the A19 processor coming to the base model — which should mean Apple Intelligence too.
If rumors of the timing are correct, that would mean Apple Intelligence coming to even the base iPad exactly as the updated Siri is expected.
Plus Pebble is ahead of Apple with a new smart ring, but there's a question over what actually you would do with one.
BONUS: Subscribe via Patreon or Apple Podcasts to hear AppleInsider+, the extended edition. Yet again, we're hearing that Apple is going to — and should, or possibly even must — slow down its development instead of racing to make annual deadlines. It's the old Snow Leopard argument and you have opinions.
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Links from the show:
- Apple executive shuffle continues with Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams retiring
- Dozens of staffers quit Apple, leaving behind only 164,000
- Apple CEO succession discussion enters new realm of rampant speculation
- Apple chip chief Johny Srouji rumored to consider his own exit
- Apple chief Johny Srouji confirms he isn't going anywhere
- Leak shows A19 iPad & M4 iPad Air unsurprisingly will arrive in early 2026
- Pebble's simple smart ring lets you make voice notes from your finger
- ICEBlock developer suing DOJ, ICE, & more after Apple App Store removal
- Apple's removal of ICEBlock sees repeated protests at Portland store
- Stop this myth that Snow Leopard was just some tune-up Mac release
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