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I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, Apple has officially released iOS 27.2 to the general public.

The update brings a handful of new features and changes for iPhone users.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, a new CounterPoint research report on global PC shipments for the most recent quarter shows Apple outperforming the broader market.

The MacBook Neo, in particular, is helping cushion the impact of declining demand.

And a lot of people would not have been able to solve them otherwise.

And then the other one was like, I have been having trouble with my Backblaze app on my computer spinning up the CPU way too high.

And I found a blog post that someone said, here, here is a little script that will figure out which folders on your computer have millions of little files.

That's what the problem was, right? So I...

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, an Australian federal judge has ordered Apple to make sweeping changes to its App Store guidelines after a years-long antitrust battle with Epic Games.

Apple must allow iPhone users with an Australian Apple account to install apps from third-party app stores and websites starting in March of 2027.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, the iPhone Duo comes out tomorrow, but given the strong pre-order demand, it already seems like it's going to be a hit.

We're expecting Apple to follow up with a second-generation model next fall, which means it's already started work on that upgrade internally.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today in a new investor note sent out this week, analyst Jeff Poo projects that Apple will be the only major smartphone manufacturer to grow shipments in 2026.

The overall expected smartphone market is expected to shrink by more than 14%.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, we have some follow-up to the conversation yesterday about availability for pre-orders for iPhone Duo.

First, Apple appears to be moving forward delivery estimates for at least some iPhone Duo pre-orders.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, Meta and Apple have teamed up on Muse Spark Open, which Meta says is the most capable US open weight AI model to date.

But what's interesting is that Meta says Muse Spark Open is optimized to run on the Mac Studio powered by M5 Ultra.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, Bloomberg reports that Apple plans to finally launch Apple Intelligence in China in December.

Yesterday morning, a report from the South China Morning Post said that Chinese regulators had approved the use of Alibaba's AI models to power Apple intelligence following preliminary approval for the platform's rollout in July.