Hide My Email, price rises, Apple Upgrade, and mass iPhone production starts, on the AppleInsider Podcast

The Hide My Email failure is real but nowhere near as significant as it’s being portrayed, plus Apple is raising 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.

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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?
• AAPL capitalization squeaks past NVDA, Apple becomes world's most valuable company
• 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 hazyApple 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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• (00:00) - Intro
• (02:49) - HIde My Email
• (16:07) - Apple Services and price rises
• (25:56) - Apple Upgrade
• (42:09) - Masimo

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