Apple increased prices on Macs, iPads, and more this week after months of shielding customers from an AI-driven memory shortage.

Key Points Interested in Apple Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Apple shares suffered their worst trading day in more than a year on Thursday, dropping over 6% after the company announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads.

As the tech industry has raced to win the AI war, “the price of RAM has skyrocketed because the memory manufacturers have reallocated their production lines to produce new HBM memory for AI data centers and away from consumer DDR5.

Apple may skip the high-end M6 chips and shift premium Macs to AI-focused M7 processors, making the upgrade decision tougher for power users.

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What did we learn? Credit: Mashable In this special live edition of One More Thing, tech editors from CNET, PCMag and Mashable break down Tim Cook's final

Stocks kicked off Thursday's trading session with a tech rally that quickly fizzled as investors weighed Micron earnings and Apple price hikes.

When it comes to favorite technology, Apple gets a double win from me. My MacBook Pro is my single most important piece of tech, and the Apple ecosystem is absolutely core to my approach to a whole range of things, across both work and leisure. But I also ...