Apple’s already thinking about a clamshell iPhone
Apple, on its ignoble quest to dip its fingers into all the pies, now plans to develop a clamshell-style folding iPhone to rival Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip series, despite the company’s unfinished work on its first foldable. That hasn’t dampened Apple’s desire to drum up some competition, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who noted that the device was still in the ideas phase and “far from guaranteed to reach the market”.
If it does come to market, you can expect it to look a whole lot like Samsung’s clamshell. A “square, clamshell-style foldable phone” is the only description Gurman could part with. It’s not that surprising. Apple reckons its first foray into the foldable market will be successful enough to build out the rest of the department.
On that, the Fruit Company has plans to expand the coming book-style foldable iPhone range, which will start a little smaller than Samsung’s models, with the outer display reportedly coming in at around 5.5in. It’ll still sell well — this is Apple — but for the customers unwilling to go smaller, Apple will happily oblige down the line.
Oh, Starlink
Now that more than 12 million people (and counting) rely on Starlink for access to the internet, Elon Musk — in what we can only assume was accompanied by a dastardly ‘evil-genius’ laugh — has revised the Starlink privacy policy that enables the company to use the customer data flowing through it to… train AI. The change only fuels the rumours, reported by Reuters, that Musk plans to smush xAI and SpaceX into one big company this year.
While Starlink’s new policies won’t affect South Africans, it’s only a matter of time before the internet company arrives to take many of the country’s poorer residents under its wing. The new policy, which automatically opts users in, states that Starlink data may be used to “train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models”.
“Your internet history will never be shared with AI models, including individual browsing habits or geolocation tracking, and we comply with laws prohibiting unauthorized surveillance.,”SpaceX said.
The policy doesn’t make it clear what data will run through the system to train Musk’s AI ambitions. Either way, customers can opt out for good. Whether you believe the company’s sticking to its word is up to you. Head over to Starlink.com, click “edit profile,” and uncheck the box labelled “Share personal data with Starlink’s trusted collaborators to train AI models.”
Macs and M5 Cheese
In another bout of Apple news, Bloomberg reports that the company has not one but two upgrades lined up for the MacBook Pro in 2026. The first, involving the regular speed boost, will see the M5 Pro and Max chips debut in the laptop, while the second would see it fitted with OLED and other upgrades “toward the end of 2026.”
The first upgrade, which will arrive sooner than expected, according to Gurman, will join the likes of a ‘new’ MacBook Air and Mac Studio with the usual upgrades customers expect. Then there’s the company’s attempt at a low-cost MacBook sporting an old iPhone chipset, set to debut in the second half of the year.
One “wrinkle” that Gurman can’t account for is the possible release of the M6 chipset, despite the M5 Pro and Max’s late release. “Not necessarily in these next laptops, but still in the near future in some configurations. Apple released the M5 processor in October [2025] in three devices. Though it might seem soon for an M6, there was only a five-month gap between the M3 and M4,” he wrote.
The Nintendo Switch says goodbye to an (Apex) Legend
It finally happened. Apex Legends, after years of dedicated service, is coming to an end. On the Nintendo Switch. You didn’t really think EA was done milking that particular cash cow, did you? Not for good, anyway.
Respawn confirmed in a post on X that it would end support for the Switch 1 version of the game with the release of season 30. That means Switch players will have one final hurrah with season 29, after which the game will only function on the Switch 2, where the hardware supports better performance without breaking a sweat.
Specifically, players will have until 4 August to get with the program (move to a console that supports the game) or risk missing out on the game for good. Don’t worry about your purchases or in-game stats. They’re tied to each user’s specific EA account, meaning that everything will be recovered when signing in on a different console.
