By John Moltz
August 1, 2025 2:01 PM PT
This Week in Apple: Book reportgate

Another Apple employee is careless with an iPhone, Tim Cook answers questions, and some former Apple AI employees need new business cards. Maybe AI can design them for them.
iPhones gone wild
Move those renders to the Trash because a soon-to-be-fired Apple employee may have been photographed with a real live iPhone 17 Pro in the wild!
While not definitive, the device looks much like what the rumors and renders of said rumors have been indicating, with a larger camera bump that has the LiDAR sensor and flash further to the right.
Naturally, innovation like moving camera thingies doesn’t come for free.
“iPhone 17 Models May See $50 Price Hike, Says Jefferies”
Well, at least the economy is doing great and everyone is raking in cash! It’s not like AI is being used as an excuse for more layoffs and making things hard on small businesses! Shouldn’t be a problem.…