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Telecommunications & Media

Apple\'s 10 changes under Tim Cook, from Apple Watch health checks to iPhone payments

After Tim Cook became Apple CEO, Apple broadened the roles of existing devices rather than simply adding new products. The Apple Watch shifted toward health management, AirPods added hearing and accessibility features, and the iPhone expanded into payments, identity and satellite communications. Apple runs its ecosystem on more than 2.5 billion active devices. Services grew alongside hardware, with fiscal 2025 services revenue of $109.2 billion and App Store weekly users averaging more than 850 million.

Telecommunications & Media

MacBook choices reshaped laptops for 20 years as PC industry followed Apple

Apple’s MacBook lineup is seen as having reset expectations in the laptop market over the past 20 years, according to a report cited by Engadget. The article traces Apple’s notebook strategy from early portable Macs through the Intel processor shift and unibody designs to the wedge-shaped MacBook Air and Retina displays. It also highlights controversy over port removals and the Touch Bar. It says Apple silicon, starting with M1 in 2020, intensified competition over performance and battery life.

Games & Commerce

Microsoft sets up Xbox Labs to test AI game porting and modding

Microsoft is setting up Xbox Labs, a dedicated unit to study AI-powered game porting and modification technologies. The company plans to test techniques that run existing games on different devices or reconfigure them into new forms to expand accessibility and creative potential. The lab will also study decompiling and recompiling, as well as modding, and research AI agents that can write, run and verify code. Microsoft plans to share tools and results with outside developers.