Hey, everybody. Time for the best of 2025. Our year-end episode of Mac Break Weekly is next.

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This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 1005 for December 30th, 2025.

Farewell 2025, hello, 26.

It's time for Mac Break Weekly, our annual Best of episode.

We've gathered the gang together and a few extra folks who stopped by

along the way to bring you some of the best pieces from 2025. I'm Leo Loport. I want to thank you

for supporting Mac Break Weekly. We celebrated, or next year we'll celebrate 20 years doing the show.

I think it's next year year it's been a great run

and it's been all thanks to you i hope you enjoy uh what you're about to hear some of the best

of 2025 also in northern california hiding in his fortress of solitude mr alex lindsay of office hours

hello we're approaching i think i think we're to hit near 70 today here. Yeah, we've

had some balmy weather. Next three next couple days. Weird. Yeah, my, I don't. My, my, my,

my daughter and I both enjoy cold weather. So we're, we're kind of like the end of the good

times are gone. It's funny. We're talking about the weather like old friends who have

nothing to say to one another.

You know, Mike Hurley on the Upgrade podcast, he had to make a segment called Snell Talk where we talk about something other than the weather that is suggested by a listener because otherwise it was always going to be the weather.

So we're steering out into the skid.

You steer into the skid, right? There's a new iPhone.

There's, yeah, you know, there is a story. Kind of. There is a story. You could call it's,

it's being sold as an iPhone. That's made. It's made from various old parts and one new part

and sold as a new iPhone. Yes. Bloomberg, Mr. Mark German says Apple is abandoning the smartphone budget market with the 16E.

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