Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro can handle many iPad tasks, but it still lacks Apple Pencil support. Here's where the two devices differ.
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Apple has released iOS 27.2.1 alongside updates for older iPhones, Macs, and other devices. See what's known about the fixes and how to update your device.
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Leaked iPhone 18 and 18e diagrams suggest both models could share a 4,430 mAh battery. Here's what the rumored changes could mean for buyers and businesses.
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Samsung's SmartTag3 now works with iPhones, but three features remain Galaxy-only. See how it compares with Apple's second-generation AirTag.
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Sous macOS, 2 chercheurs nommés Dario Pasquini et Michał Bazyli ont trouvé une variable mystérieuse nommée photosPersonPosteriorProbabilityGivenSaturdayNight qui fait partie des 144 entrées de deux modèles CoreML livrés avec macOS (EntityTagging_Family et EntityTagging_FamilyAndFriends). Ces classificateurs XGBoost indique pour chaque personne la probabilité qu'elle soit de votre famille ou de votre cercle d'amis.
Sur ces 144 variables, 20 portent sur l'identité (même nom, même adresse, membre du Partage familial), 40 sur vos échanges et 84 sur les photos où vous apparaissez ensemble... Le reste étant décliné ensuite par jour, par moment de la journée et par lieu. Et vos échanges avec ces personnes sont transcrits en tant que métadonnées : qui, quand, par quel canal.
Ces scores atterrissent ensuite dans une base à part, entityTagging.db. Dans le dossier ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform, on trouve aussi deux daemons, knowledgeconstructiond et intelligenceplatformd, qui remplissent à eux seuls +50 bases SQLite bien bien stockées en clair .
Dans le graphe lui-même, graph.db, entrent ensuite vos contacts, les visages extraits de l'app Photos, le Calendrier, le Partage familial avec l'âge de chacun des membres, le contact d'urgence de la fiche médicale de Santé, ainsi que les événements et contacts que les suggestions de Siri repèrent dans Mail et Messages. À côté, il y a aussi d'autres petites tables qui conservent un journal des communications (qui, quand, quelle app, dans quel sens, mais sans le contenu) et tous vos déplacements.
Voilà... ça fait beaucoup de données privées collectées par nos appareils Apple qu'on peut maintenant explorer tranquillement grâce à cette méthode d'Alexis Brigoni et un outil que je vous propose d'installer :
Les auteurs du papier de recherche ont publié iKnow , dispo sous licence Apache 2.0 qui est un petit serveur en Python 3, sans dépendance, qui n'écoute que sur 127.0.0.1 et ouvre en lecture seule le graphe, mais aussi Messages, Photos, Calendrier et Contacts.
Pour que ça fonctionne, il faudra que votre terminal ait un accès complet au disque donc pensez bien à l'activer dans les Réglages Système, Confidentialité et sécurité, Accès complet au disque. Ajoutez Terminal (ou iTerm, ou votre éditeur), puis quittez-le complètement et relancez-le, puisque la permission n'est prise en compte qu'au lancement.
Terminal coché dans Accès complet au disque
Relancez ensuite Terminal vous-même et tapez les lignes de commande suivantes :
Connexiongit clone https://github.com/8rank/iKnow.git
cd iKnow
python3 server.py
Au lancement, le serveur marque ok ou DENY à côté de chaque base. Il affiche ensuite un lien du type http://127.0.0.1:8765/?token=… avec un jeton neuf à chaque lancement. Ouvrez ce lien.
Le serveur démarré : ok partout, sauf Contacts, faute de compte sur cette machine de test
Comme j'étais sur une VM, il n'y avait pas de compte iCloud ni Google configuré, donc il ne m'a pas sorti directement mes contacts, etc. Par contre, j'ai fini par l'installer directement sur ma machine de tous les jours. Là, j'ai bien récupéré les datas.
La page d'accueil d'iKnow, rendue avec des données inventées : aucun nom n'y est réel
Dans la barre latérale d'iKnow, notez qu'il y a un switch qui permet de masquer visuellement les données perso, ce qui m'a permis de faire sereinement mes captures d'écran.
Sur mon ordi, le graphe a été créé initialement le 19 septembre 2024 et compte actuellement 35 953 faits, sur 3 876 entités dont 3 038 personnes et 712 logiciels. La table des scores de parenté indique l'existence de 3 052 personnes et l'outil y compte aussi 214 relations précises sur 27 personnes.
Mon graphe c'est 35 953 faits sur 3 876 entités, dont 78 % de personnes
La table des scores de parenté, avec les noms remplacés par des substituts
La page Who else reads it est peut-être la plus parlante puisque chez moi, 31 vues dérivées sont abonnées à mon graphe personnel. Cela veut dire que d'autres appareils chez moi accèdent à ce graph.
Qui d'autre lit le graphe sur mon Mac : 31 vues abonnées, 9 autres appareils
Apple en sait donc beaucoup plus sur notre identité et nos liens inter-humains que ce qu'on pourrait penser, et iKnow nous permet d'en prendre conscience en nous permettant d'aller fouiller dans tous ces graphs présents sur nos iPhones et nos Mac.
Certes, l'application est un peu complexe parce qu'il y a beaucoup de données, et ce serait rigolo, je trouve, d'en faire quelque chose de beaucoup plus accessible qui finalement listerait un peu qui sont nos VRAIS amis et qui n'est pas notre VRAIE famille puisqu'Apple, apparemment, sait mieux que nous avec qui nous tissons des liens plus ou moins forts.
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Apple's M6 iMac brings faster performance, but the M4 still makes a strong case. Here's how their prices, ports, and upgrades compare.
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A WIRED investigation links more than 400 apps and websites to AI deepfake abuse, raising questions about Apple, Google, and app-store security reviews.
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Apple's OLED iPad mini is much lighter, while Samsung's Galaxy Tab S11 offers a bigger screen and included stylus. Which fits how you use a tablet?
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Compare 10 foldable phones for 2026, with buying advice on displays, battery capacity, software support, durability, and features for everyday work.
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Compare the iPhone Duo and Pixel 11 Pro Fold on design, multitasking, cameras, battery life, and pricing to see whether Apple's extra $100 is worth it.
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TrendForce expects Apple to ship up to 1.5 million OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros in 2027 as premium pricing and Samsung Display's supply role shape adoption.
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Apple confirms iOS 27.3 for December, with a developer beta planned for November. Here's what to know about new features, Apple Intelligence, and availability.
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Apple's rumored $1,000 tabletop robot could launch in 2027 with a swiveling display and Siri AI, but software delays may push its release into 2028.
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UGREEN vend depuis quelques semaines un chargeur un peu particulier, le Nexode Pro 160W , dont l'argument principal n'est pas la puissance (pourtant bien là) mais le câble USB-C rétractable intégré au boîtier, un enrouleur qui se déroule sur 70 cm avec huit crans d'arrêt et qui revient se loger dans le bloc tout aussi simplement.
L'idée est toute bête. Le câble est donc en permanence dans le chargeur, donc plus rien à transporter ni à oublier.
Ce câble délivre jusqu'à 140 W, tout comme le premier port USB-C du bloc, alors que le deuxième s'arrête à 100 W et que l'USB-A de service dépasse à peine les 20 W, le tout dans la limite des 160 W que le chargeur répartit de lui-même entre les prises occupées quand vous branchez plusieurs appareils.
La densité de l'appareil, comme toujours désormais, vient du nitrure de gallium, ce semi-conducteur qui a remplacé le silicium dans les chargeurs puissants de ces dernières années et qui permet de caser tout ça, écran compris, dans un format tour d'un peu plus de 300 grammes.
Parce qu'il y a un écran, oui. La petite dalle couleur de la face avant affiche en continu la puissance, la tension et la température de chaque port, de quoi voir d'un coup d'oeil si l'iPhone tire bien ses watts ou si un vieux câble bride la charge, et l'application Ugreen Connect ajoute le suivi à distance en Bluetooth ou en Wi-Fi, la coupure d'un port et la mise à jour du logiciel interne. Pour le coup ça n'est pas indispensable, mais on va dire que ça fait partie du jeu en 2026.
Je n'ai relevé aucune surchauffe avec quatre appareils branchés, et mon MacBook Pro 14 pouces récupère plus de la moitié de sa batterie en à peu près 20-25 minutes minutes sur le câble intégré.
Pour le tarif, UGREEN demandait 130 euros au lancement et affiche une centaine d'euros en ce moment. C'est cher, mais pas tant que ça si on considère la puissance et le servie rendu. Si vos journées se partagent entre un Mac, un iPhone et une tablette, je ne vois pas de chargeur de bureau mieux pensé en ce moment. Il est disponible par ici sur Amazon .
Apple has finally made a touchscreen MacBook Pro, and you know what? Good.
I’ve been using touchscreen Windows laptops for well over a decade. Microsoft made touch central to Windows with Windows 8 in 2012, and PC makers have spent the years since experimenting with convertibles, detachable keyboards, pens, dual-screen PCs, foldable displays, and nearly every combination of those ideas imaginable.
Now Apple has decided touch belongs on a Mac, too.
There’s an obvious temptation here to point and laugh, particularly given how long Apple spent telling everyone that touchscreen laptops were a bad idea. But I don’t think Apple adopting touch in 2026 is really the problem. Technology improves. Consumer behavior changes. Companies reconsider old assumptions. Ideas that didn't make sense 15 years ago can make considerably more sense today.
Companies should be allowed to change their minds. In fact, I wish more of them would.
What bothers me is the corporate absolutism that so often comes before the reversal, and how readily consumers absorb those talking points and repeat them as though they were established technological truths.
Steve Jobs didn't merely say that Apple wasn't interested in making a touchscreen Mac. In 2010, he argued that vertical touch surfaces were “ergonomically terrible” and that after using one for an extended period, “your arm wants to fall off.”
Apple continued defending that philosophy long after Jobs. Craig Federighi argued that reaching up to touch a screen was fatiguing, while John Ternus explained Apple's position in 2021 by saying the iPad was optimized for touch and the Mac for indirect input.
And now we have a touchscreen MacBook Pro.
Apparently, our arms have recovered.
I mean, Windows 10 came out 11 years ago and abandoned the Windows 8 approach you're criticizing.More importantly, what exactly is Apple doing here that Windows 10/11 haven't already done conceptually?The article praises Apple for keeping the familiar desktop UI while making elements more touch-friendly, adding touch gestures, increasing spacing between controls, and supporting things like pinch-to-zoom.That's essentially the post-Windows 8 approach Microsoft has been using for years: keep the desktop, accommodate touch where useful, and dynamically adjust parts of the UI for touch input.Windows 8 deserves plenty of criticism, but using it as the comparison in 2026 sidesteps 11 years of Windows development.If there's something fundamentally new about Apple's approach here, I'm genuinely curious what it is.October 28, 2026
But there was never anything inherently ridiculous about occasionally touching your laptop screen! You don't use a touchscreen PC by spending eight hours with your arm suspended in front of you like you're directing traffic. You type. You use the touchpad. You use a mouse. And sometimes a button is sitting right there on the screen, so you reach up and tap it.
That's it. Nobody needed a grand philosophical argument for why that was useful.
Microsoft certainly got plenty wrong with Windows 8, especially its attempt to aggressively redesign a desktop operating system around touch. But the underlying idea that a computer could accommodate a keyboard, mouse, pen and your fingers was perfectly reasonable. Windows laptop makers proved that years ago.
Yet because Apple didn't want to make that computer, the company's decision somehow became evidence among some of its most devoted followers that these computers shouldn't exist at all.
That's the part I think is worth remembering.
And touch isn't an isolated example.
When Microsoft was trying to blur the line between tablets and PCs with Surface, Tim Cook famously compared converging products to combining a toaster and a refrigerator. Years later, Apple built the iPad Pro and paired it with increasingly sophisticated keyboard and trackpad accessories. The implementation is Apple's own, but the supposedly absurd idea of a tablet increasingly behaving like a laptop doesn't seem quite so absurd anymore.
I've seen the same attitude around foldables and devices like Surface Duo. Years ago, I found myself explaining to Apple fans, practically like children, why someone might find value in a large display that folds into something much smaller and more pocketable. The response inevitably centered on all the reasons folding phones were unnecessary, compromised, gimmicky, or "solving a problem that didn't exist" (the line always used by people with no imagination).
Now Apple is making foldable devices too.
And again, good. I want Apple to make these products. Competition drives improvement, and Apple entering a category can push everyone else forward. I recently discussed on Schwab Network (above) how strategically important the iPhone Duo is, and its growing pains—or whether it’s the perfect $2,000 phone—are less of a concern in the long term.
This isn't an admonishment of Apple for adopting ideas that competitors got to first. It's an admonishment of the corporate theater that often precedes those reversals, and especially of consumers who willingly participate in it.
Every technology company does some version of this. Microsoft does it. Google does it. Samsung does it. Apple does it.
I've interviewed enough executives over the years to know the standard response when you ask why a product doesn't have some particular piece of technology. You usually get something along the lines of: We're watching the technology, we're talking to our customers, and when we think the experience is right, we'll consider it.
That's corporate PR, but it's also a perfectly respectable answer.
What companies shouldn't do, and what consumers absolutely shouldn't help them do, is transform today's product limitation into some grand design philosophy explaining why the missing technology is actually stupid.
(Anyone else remember Apple not making large iPhones because your thumb couldn't reach across the screen? yeaaahh...)
Companies have roadmaps. They have price targets, manufacturing constraints, engineering limitations, internal politics, and products they aren't ready to announce. Sometimes they haven't figured something out yet. Sometimes a competitor simply got there first.
And sometimes they're just wrong. Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Craig Federighi were wrong. And it wasn't the tech that changed; it was the opinion.
Consumers and the technology press shouldn't turn those temporary business realities into articles of faith.
Apple is particularly good at controlling the language around its products, which makes resisting this tendency even more important. When Apple doesn't offer something, there's often an impulse among its most ardent supporters to rationalize the omission and explain why nobody really needs it anyway.
Then Apple ships it, and suddenly it's useful.
That's why the lesson of the touchscreen MacBook Pro isn't that Apple lost, and Windows won. Frankly, that kind of platform-war thinking is just another version of the same problem.
@OABlanchard @TheRichWoods "He wouldn't be saying it today."Speaking for the dead now are we?October 28, 2026
The lesson is much simpler: stop putting corporations on pedestals.
You don't work for these companies. You don't owe them ideological consistency. Buy the products you like. Praise them when they're good. Criticize them when they're bad. And when an executive explains why a technology their competitors already offer is unnecessary, ridiculous, inelegant, or something customers don't want, maybe don't adopt that argument as part of your identity.
Because a few years from now, they may be standing onstage trying to sell it to you.
And when that happens, changing their mind is perfectly fine. Pretending they never told you otherwise is something else entirely.
But tell me, am I wrong or missing something? What do you think about Apple suddenly being interested in foldables and touchscreen laptops in 2026? Let me know in the comments.
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Apple Creator Studio will add AI assistants to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote in November. Check pricing, device requirements, and business account limits.
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Siri AI and Google Gemini both offer conversational AI, personal context, and app automation, but they work differently across devices. Compare their features, privacy controls, and everyday usefulness to decide which assistant suits you best.
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