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iPhone 16, 17, 17e, and Air See $100 Price Increases ⇢

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Tim Hardwick, MacRumors:

The new starting prices for the three models now look like this:

  • iPhone 16: $799 (+$100)
  • iPhone 17e: $699 (+$100)
  • iPhone 17: $899 (+$100)
  • iPhone Air: $1099 (+$100)

So that’s a $100 price hike on all four existing models in Apple’s iPhone lineup. With the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple has discontinued the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.

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Apple Journal CLI ⇢

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If you have tried moving entries from Day One to Apple’s Journal app en masse, you have no doubt hit a wall. Journal has no AppleScript support, no public API, and very limited Shortcuts support.

I assumed this would remain unsolved until Apple created an importer for Journal, but then I saw Brian Stucki link to this project on GitHub.

I made an extra backup of my Day One data and then threw nearly 3,000 Day One posts at it, and the CLI just worked.

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Lion Was Weird ⇢

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Sam Gold on Mastodon, writing about the one version of OS X that allowed a user to put something to the left of the Finder icon in the Dock:

[In] Lion DP1, you could set defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-left-of-finder -bool YES and get this.

that first Lion beta build is absolutely chock full of experimental UI behind flags.

This makes me feel weird inside.

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The Ternus Era Has Begun ⇢

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Myke Hurley:

Today is September 1, 2026 — the day that John Ternus becomes CEO of Apple.

As you would assume, Apple has now updated its executives page with Ternus as CEO, along with a refreshed profile for him.

I wanted to note three narratives that I spotted in this profile that I think tell the story of the kind of CEO he wants to be, and how Apple wants to communicate this to us. All three of these are very interesting to me.

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Tim Cook Says Goodbye as CEO

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Tim Cook, on X (gross):

Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I’m excited for the next chapter!

This followed an “internal” memo in which he wrote:

There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it. That purpose is part of what makes this place extraordinary. Apple helps nurture it, but I believe it lived within each of you long before you arrived here. It is what brought you to this company and what continues to drive the work you do every day. Together, we have created something far greater than any one of us could have imagined or accomplished alone. And that’s the secret to our success. We bring out the best in each other. We lift each other up. We have made it possible to leave our “dent in the universe,” as Steve once described it, because of who we are and what we believe, because of what we value and how we see the world. How fortunate we are. How fortunate I am.

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