By John Moltz
December 19, 2025 2:00 PM PT
This Week in Apple: Free range Macs

New Macs are in the pipeline, Japan gets alternative app stores, and Apple deigns to give someone back their iCloud account.
Things to come
Good news, everyone! Apple is working on new Macs! Thank goodness. For a minute there I thought they were done. That would be very concerning because I use Macs and hope to continue to use them in the future.
And what form will these future Macs take? How ‘bout the return of the King? Of 2017.
“Apple Developing iMac Pro With M5 Max Chip”
Yes, last seen sporting an Intel Xeon processor, dressed in space gray, and listening to Ed Sheeran, a new M5-based iMac Pro has been spied in leaked debug code that fell off a truck or something. I don’t know how computers work.
Somehow they read a thing and it has a code in it and they can tell by the code what the unreleased Mac will be.…