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This week in Apple: AirPods lineup likely delayed, Apple slips to fourth place
August 25, 2025
This week in Apple news we heard some rumors related to the three new AirPods products. Third-gen AirPods, second-gen AirPods Pro, and the long-fabled AirPods Studio will likely land in 2021. It was previously rumored the Studio over-ears would land this year at some point.
In other Apple news, we saw Apple slip in its global smartphone ranking, hints about an upcoming hardware launch, an iPhone 12 Mini hands-on that launched and then vanished, and news related to a possible Apple search engine.
See the Apple news roundup below for all the latest.
The top Apple news stories of the past week:
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