The Hide My Email failure is real but nowhere near as significant to users as it's being portrayed, Apple is hiking so many prices yet looking at ways to make that palatable, plus Foxconn has begun its annual recruitment drive as it begins producing millions of new iPhones, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
It's been painted as a big security failing by Apple, and it definitely isn't good. But even if someone does manage to circumvent your use of Hide My Email, the worst they can do is send you a spam message.
There's more to it, of course, and if there weren't then you wouldn't benefit from listening to Wesley Hilliard explaining it on the podcast. But while it's good to know the background, not to mention interesting, you can be reassured too.
Which you might also be by how Foxconn is ramping up its recruitment right on schedule. Even if you're not looking for a job assembling iPhones, it means that the iPhone 18 Pro is on track.
It would be, of course, and the only real questions are whether it can possibly match the success of the iPhone 17 Pro range, and whether there will be an iPhone Fold.
Although of course, there is also the issue of just how much any of these new iPhones will cost. But a strong new rumor claims that Apple will shortly launch a new Apple Upgrade program, specifically to make it possible to buy with a lower upfront cost.
If Apple gives us this leasing program, it also may take away something. To protect it from people just signing up and walking away with costly iPhones, Apple is believed to be readying a way to restrict the use of its devices if a payment is missed.
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Links from the show:
- Seven years after Apple Card, Samsung leaps into fintech with its own credit card
- Hide My Email class action lawsuit seeks payout without evidence of any attacks
- It's easy to find a real email address behind Hide My Email, but it doesn't really matter
- Hide My Email flaw still worked two weeks after Apple's claimed fix
- A fake Hide My Email header can expose the address behind your Apple Account — a different thing
- Apple Music gets first U.S. price hike in four years
- Is Apple One worth it in summer 2026?
- Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program was great while it lasted
- Apple Upgrades will let users lease iPhones and Macs with Klarna
- It has begun: Foxconn amassing army of workers for iPhone 18 Pro assembly
- Upgraded Mac Mini, Mac Studio, OLED iMac readied, release date hazy
- Apple preps MacBook Pro, MacBook Neo refresh in bigger AI push
- Apple's $634M payment to Masimo now set in stone after Judge tosses appeal
- Caleb Hammer on YouTube
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