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Apple devices currently hold the top honor in our guide to the best laptops, smartwatches and tablets. But the company's gear isn't cheap — and you won't find sales at Apple's own website either. But that doesn't mean you can only get a new iPad or MacBook at full price. Other retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Target and B&H Photo often host considerable discounts, sometimes on the order of a few hundred dollars in savings.
At Engadget, we've tested and reviewed every major device Apple has released — including the brand new MacBook Air M4, the Mac Studio M4 Max, a new iPad Air M3, and of course the iPhone 16. One thing to note is that it's harder to find unlocked current-model iPhones on sale — for those you'll need to go directly to Apple's site or buy through a wireless carrier.
It's springtime, and deals at this time of year are never what they are in, say, November when Black Friday deals are live. So even in a normal year, deals would be harder to come by right now. But the uncertainty surrounding
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In an ongoing calendar of deprecated features within Windows, Microsoft has targeted Maps for deprecation by April. It will be removed from the Windows Store by July and will no longer be supported, the company said. In July, a new update will turn the Maps app off.
"Any personal data or files you have saved, such as guided navigation or URLs to maps, won't be removed, but they'll no longer function in the Maps app past July 2025," Microsoft said. The Maps app won't come preinstalled on new PCs past the current Windows 11 24H2 release, either.
Maps will still be supported within Windows, however. You'll simply have to visit Bing's own maps page to access them.
Maps is a legacy app that was invaluable on Windows Phones, though that platform died years ago. Now, there's no real reason to hold on to Maps, or to add those few kilobytes to the install size of Windows.
Maps, whose data is credited to both TomTom and Microsoft itself, also previously agreed to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America." So if that riles you up, you'll be glad to see Maps go.
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the rumored look of the iPhone 17 "Air" and iPadOS 19's major productivity update.
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Manufacturers in India would need to double production to meet US iPhone demand—and the shift still wouldn't solve Apple's China problem.
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It can be hard to let go of old tech, but there are ways to make money and help the planet. Plus, Apple has a recycling promotion with discounts on accessories.
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 Apple is accelerating its manufacturing shift away from China, with plans to assemble all U.S.-bound iPhones in India by the end of 2026, according to a new Financial Times report.
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Photos of memories you'd prefer to forget might appear on your iPhone. Here's how to stop it.
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 Netflix today announced that it is introducing a new subtitle option that only shows subtitles for spoken dialogue, aimed at those who don't need captions, but prefer to watch movies and TV shows with the subtitles turned on.
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