Why you won’t be lining up for the new iPhone 16

Most European users won’t be getting integrated AI on Apple devices, so are the updates offered by Apple just window dressings?

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Trying to figure out what to focus on for the first post-Alex Hern TechScape was tricky. (If you missed it last week, you can and should revisit his valedictory newsletter after 11 years at The Guardian). Why? Well, everything is happening all the time now – so there are any number of topics to dive into.

We could talk about the likelihood of Elon Musk running Donald Trump’s“government efficiency commission” if he is re-elected as US president. But that would involve doing another newsletter on Musk, and you may be as tired as Alex was of that. The likelihood of the latter is still a flip of the coin; the likelihood Musk would stop running his multi-trillion-dollar companies for a low-paying government job, less so.