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Welcome 2026!!

Just like that, 2025 is finished and we’re straight into 2026. I hope everyone had a safe and refreshing break over Christmas - all ready to start the year ahead! No doubt we’ll start to see some rumours build for what new releases we can expect from Apple - more computers to get the M5 chip will be one of the main things this year.

Definitely been a fairly hot one lately as well, as the weather heated up. A perfect reason to be inside under the Aircon!

I hope everyone’s year has started out well and 2026 is productive for everyone - and January goes well also.

Apple Creator Studio announced

Apple have just announced the “new” Apple Creator Studio. - where the bundle will include some of their Applications - at a subscription. So previously “buy outright” versions apparently will no longer get updates. So if you own or use these, then the older versions may no longer get updates - unless you go to the yearly subscription plan. (Though some Apps like Pages, Numbers and Keynote will still be free - some more in-depth features or AI “stuff” will require the paid subscription.

You can read more about it here.

Apple’s Siri May Soon Get 7 Powerful New Features Thanks to Google Gemini

Apple and Google announced this week that Siri could soon become smarter, more powerful, and more personal, with Google’s Gemini reportedly powering parts of the assistant behind the scenes.

The upgrade is expected to introduce several new capabilities, including answering factual and world-knowledge questions in a more conversational way, telling richer stories, offering emotional support, assisting with advanced tasks like travel bookings, and creating documents in the Notes app - such as cooking recipes and other structured content.

More details are expected to emerge in the lead-up to WWDC 2026, which typically takes place in June.

But for now you can read more about it here.

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