Imran Hussain is the founder and editor of iThinkDifferent, which he launched in 2008 to cover Apple news, reviews, and how-to guides. He has spent over 15 years writing about iOS, macOS, and the wider Apple ecosystem, with a focus on hands-on guides - installing developer betas, troubleshooting, and walking through new features on his own devices. Based in Dubai, he also loves to cover photography, gaming, and the tech industry more broadly on his social media profiles.
Google has added agentic capabilities to Ask Maps, letting the Gemini-powered assistant order food for pickup, surface real-time transit delays, and connect to Gmail to factor in upcoming plans
Worldwide tablet shipments fell 9.9% year-over-year in Q2 2026, with Apple holding a 37.8% share despite shipping 13.5 million iPads, as a memory crisis upended the usual back-to-school demand pattern
Bloomberg has published new details about OpenAI’s first consumer hardware device, a portable, hockey-puck-sized smart speaker designed by Jony Ive that uses voice and a camera to interact with ChatGPT
Adobe has launched a unified ChatGPT plugin consolidating more than 70 tools across its creative and productivity apps, with Slack and Gemini integrations set to follow later this month
Apple Arcade adds three football titles across August and September, headlined by Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition launching today with full Franchise mode and no in-app purchases
New HomeKit Secure Video features in iOS 27, including 4K recording, AI-generated video descriptions, and multi-camera event tracking, point directly at an Apple-made security camera launching later this year
Apple updated its U.S. trade-in estimates on August 6, 2026, lifting values for most iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models and adding Android phones to the program for the first time
A mobile DRAM shortage has left roughly $1 billion worth of Apple processors stranded at TSMC, unable to advance through production with fewer than six weeks until the iPhone 18 Pro’s expected debut
Apple’s attempt to use Chinese memory maker CXMT as a pricing threat against its Korean suppliers has had the opposite effect, with Samsung and SK Hynix now holding more bargaining power, not less
OpenAI has moved to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, as the case escalates ahead of an October 1 injunction hearing that could freeze OpenAI’s hardware development
