This Week in Apple: No pork for you

You’re going to have to wait a while to fold an iPad, Apple explores its AI options, and cheap MacBooks? In this economy?

Apple folds

Bad news for folding tech fetishists. (Weirdos.) While we are still expected to get a folding iPhone next year, its larger sibling will not be joining it.

“Apple’s ‘iPad Fold’ won’t be launching any time soon, per new report”

Only some analysts thought it would be coming in 2026, anyway, but now it seems clear it’ll be more like 2028.

Or 2029.

2030 is not out of the question.

Or never. Never is also a possibility.

No word yet on when to expect foldable iMacs or Apple Watches.

Forget AI, it’s stupid anyway!

Apple may be taking its AI ball and going home. Then puncturing the ball with a knife and asking if it can use someone else’s ball.

OK, the ball analogy may not have been the best choice but it’s too late now.…