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The daily Mac news site that ran from 1995 to 2009 is publishing again.

13,749 archived items by two writers, every one of them here, and 59 new this month, each with its sources.

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A smiling man with short dark hair, in a dark gray button-up shirt and blue jeans, sits on the edge of a light wooden table against a plain gray backdrop, hands clasped on his knee and a beaded bracelet on his right wrist; Apple captions the picture "John Ternus."

2026Apple business

Apple Q4 2026 Financials--$114.5 Billion Revenue, Up 12 Percent and Above Apple's Own Range, Mac Revenue $10.8 Billion, Up 24 Percent, a Record $478.8 Billion Year, and a 7 to 10 Percent December Forecast With Macs Short on Memory

November 3, 2026 · 8 sources

2026

Parallels Desktop 27.1.0 is Out--Fixes the False Non-SSD Warning, iCloud Folders in Windows 11 Under macOS 27 and OpenGL Crashes in CAD Apps, and Marks Start-with-Mac, the TPM Toggle and the Floppy Drive for Removal

November 2026 · 8 sources

2026

WARNING--ICMacOS, the $699-a-Week Mac Stealer, Now Stays On as a Remote-Access Trojan. It Gets In When a Web Page Talks You Into Pasting a Command Into Terminal and Typing Your Password Into a Fake System Dialog

November 2026 · 8 sources

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1997–98

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January 1998

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1999–2004

Apple Updates CompUSA and MacMall Hot Deals

August 2002

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2004–09

Apple Revised Mac OS X 10.4.7 (Intel) Install Package But Situation Unclear

June 2006 · Bill Fox

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2010–13

iPad 2: Online order experience with delivery on Thursday

March 2011 · Bill Fox

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On this day in 2006: Brief Hands-On Report--Apple released Aperture 1.5.1 Update and 30-day Trial Version · Everything from November 3

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2004–09

Two Records--Apple Posted Best Ever Quarter & Fiscal Year, Beating Analysts Estimate by 35%!

October 2005 · Bill Fox

2026

Apple Q4 2026 Financials--$114.5 Billion Revenue, Up 12 Percent and Above Apple's Own Range, Mac Revenue $10.8 Billion, Up 24 Percent, a Record $478.8 Billion Year, and a 7 to 10 Percent December Forecast With Macs Short on Memory

November 2026 · 8 sources

In 2005 Apple's best-ever quarter and year beat the analysts' $0.37 guess with $0.50 a share; in 2026 the best-ever year is $478.8 billion and the quarter beat Apple's own range.

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About this site

Macs Only! was Bill Fox’s daily Mac news site, established December 28, 1995 and published through 2013, with Dana Baggett as Ace Reporter from 1999. The archive here, 13,749 items across 128 monthly pages, was recovered from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, parsed into a database and sorted into eighteen categories. In 2026 the site is publishing again, in the same voice, with every new item citing its sources.

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