Top Stories: Tim Cook's 2026 Exit?, Mac Pro on Hold, and More

2025 is rapidly drafting to a close, but this week inactive saw immoderate absorbing quality successful the satellite of Apple, led by a study claiming that Tim Cook's status arsenic Apple CEO mightiness not beryllium excessively acold away.


This week besides saw connection that the aboriginal of the Mac Pro appears to beryllium successful question, portion Apple continues to enactment connected the upcoming iOS 26.2 update and related releases. Black Friday is besides close astir the country present with tons of deals already available, truthful work connected beneath for details connected these stories and more!

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Report: Tim Cook to Step Down arsenic Apple CEO 'as Soon arsenic Next Year'

Apple is preparing for Tim Cook to measurement down arsenic CEO of the institution "as soon arsenic adjacent year," according to the Financial Times. The company's committee of directors and elder executives "recently intensified preparations for Cook to manus implicit the reins," the study said, with Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, John Ternus, viewed arsenic Cook's astir apt successor.


Cook volition likely modulation to a president relation with Apple, but his level of power successful a post-CEO relation remains to beryllium seen. Arthur Levinson, the existent president of Apple's committee of directors, is 75 years aged and prohibited from being re-elected nether Apple's firm governance argumentation unless an objection is made.

Word of Cook's impending status comes arsenic former Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams officially retired past week aft spending the past fewer months winding down his responsibilities and handing them disconnected different executives.

Mac Pro Reportedly connected 'Back Burner' and 'Largely Written Off' astatine Apple

Apple's high-end Mac Pro desktop machine is presently "on the backmost burner," according to the latest connection from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In his Power On newsletter this week, Gurman said helium heard that Apple has "largely written off" the Mac Pro, with the sentiment wrong the institution being that the Mac Studio represents the contiguous and aboriginal of Apple's pro desktop computing.

Apple is moving connected a high-end M5 Ultra chip, but Gurman said the institution is presently "only" focused connected a caller Mac Studio with that chip, which leads him to judge that the Mac Pro "won't beryllium updated successful 2026 successful a important way."

Apple Black Friday Deals Available Now connected AirPods, iPads, Accessories, and More

Holiday buying deals proceed to ramp up up of Black Friday, with large prices disposable present connected AirPods, AirTag, Apple Watch, Macs, iPads, and more.


Apple has announced details connected its ain Black Friday event with bonus acquisition cards disposable with the acquisition of galore Apple products, but amended straight-cash discounts are typically disposable from different retailers.

In summation to Apple's ain products, we're seeing large aboriginal Black Friday deals from Samsung, Sony, Walmart, Adobe, Nomad, Sonos, and more.

Everything New successful iOS 26.2 Beta 3

Apple is continuing to enactment connected iOS 26.2 and related updates, with nationalist releases apt coming successful mid-December.


With the 3rd developer beta of iOS 26.2 seeded this week, we saw a fig of changes and improvements, including new AirDrop functionality, a caller API to let third-party apps to pat into Hypertension Notifications, and the quality for users successful Japan to set an alternate dependable adjunct app to beryllium activated utilizing the iPhone's broadside fastener traditionally utilized for Siri.

Apple is besides continuing to enactment connected iPad multitasking, with a caller tweak to adhd drag-and-drop functionality to the revived Slide Over feature.

iPhone Pocket Now Available to Order, But Rapidly Selling Out

Apple precocious teamed up with Japanese manner marque ISSEY MIYAKE to make the iPhone Pocket, a limited-edition knitted accessory designed to transportation an iPhone.


The accessory became disposable to bid connected Apple's online store past week Friday successful the United States, France, China, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Kingdom, but it sold retired wrong hours successful the United States, and supplies rapidly began moving abbreviated successful different countries arsenic well.

iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 16 Wi-Fi Speeds: New Study Reveals the Winner

A caller survey has revealed that the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air achieve importantly faster mean Wi-Fi speeds compared to the iPhone 16 series, acknowledgment to Apple's custom-designed N1 chip.


The survey by Ookla, the institution down the fashionable Speedtest website and app, recovered the N1 spot to beryllium a "substantial upgrade," with up to 40% faster mean download and upload speeds compared to Broadcom's Wi-Fi spot successful the iPhone 16 series.

Ookla recovered that the N1 spot "lifts the floor" for Wi-Fi performance, much than "raising the ceiling." Based connected the results, Ookla said the N1 spot often delivers much accordant show successful challenging Wi-Fi conditions.

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