This story is so cool, even if it does reinforce the myth all blind people constantly count steps to get around.
The frequently zany scribblings of a well-rounded man with passionate opinions. Hey, it's better than "Something I put up because I needed to rant before my head exploded."
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
REMEMBER WHEN BILL CLINTON WANTED AN ABC 9/11 MINI SERIES SHUT DOWN?
National Review
Remember When Bill Clinton Wanted an ABC 9/11 Miniseries Shut Down?
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
September 8, 2026 2:20 PM
John J. Miller has a piece today in the Wall Street Journal‘s Free Expression section about The Path to 9/11 miniseries that aired once on ABC and then disappeared. I had forgotten about it. An aspect of the series and its reception is particularly worth being reminded of.
One scene shows President Clinton’s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, in the situation room in 1998, failing to give the green light for a military action to grab Osama bin Laden. Miller writes:
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A couple of weeks before the scheduled broadcast of “The Path to 9/11,” ABC sponsored a screening in Washington, D.C. It showed a portion of the program, including the scene with Berger. Almost immediately, Democrats revolted. Harry Reid of Nevada, Chuck Schumer of New York, and three other senators sent a letter to Bob Iger, who was the CEO of Disney, which owns ABC. It warned him about “misinformation,” urged him “to cancel this broadcast,” and reminded him in the manner of extortionists who run a protection racket that ABC enjoys “a free broadcast license” from the government “to act as a trustee of the public airwaves serving in the public interest.”
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It was a brazen move. It might even be described as “despicable, disgusting, and against democratic values,” which is what Mr. Schumer called President Trump’s demands that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel last year, after the late-night host claimed that the assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was “one of them,” i.e., a member of “the MAGA gang.”
At least the letter from the senators was a public document. The media reported on it. Americans could read it. In private, President Clinton phoned Mr. Iger and insisted that he stop the show, according to the journalist Carol Felsenthal in her 2008 book, “Clinton in Exile.” ABC responded by ordering last-minute edits. The scene with Berger was chopped up. “That was an important sequence,” says Cyrus Nowrasteh, the screenwriter. “We were censored.”
Miller wrote about the series for us in “Blacklisting ABC” (2006).
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 9/11 EXAGERATIONS
National Review
President Trump’s 9/11 Exaggerations
By Jim Geraghty
September 9, 2026 10:02 AM
President Trump, speaking on the Ellipse on Tuesday at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks:
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For three months after September 11th, the flames raged in the rubble of Ground Zero. For nine months, rescue and recovery crews worked day and night on the site. I want to just thank my people. I took a lot of my — I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened, and they were — they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me. We went down as a big group of people. Wasn’t too much we could do. I’ll be honest. It was — it was raw. Nobody’s seen anything like it, ever. We had other buildings. The United States Steel Building was creaking. Really creaking. Now, we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is it creaked a lot. It creaked. There’s still creaks, but uh, it never came down. And I’ll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us and two firemen, big strong guys, and I’m not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arm, said, “Got to get out of here.” And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself.’ But they were amazing. But they thought it was coming down. It didn’t come down. US Steel.
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Aaron Rupar characterized those remarks as, “Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11.” That’s not really an accurate description, although a listener could easily come to that conclusion, if they don’t know that the “U.S. Steel building” was the name of One Liberty Plaza from 1972 to 1980, and that One Liberty Plaza is one block east of the site of the South Tower.
Trump had told another version of this story, way back in 2016, except then it was “a couple of days” after the attacks, not “right after it happened.”
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But when the World Trade Center came down, I watched these incredible people rebuild from the day it came down, literally, they were there when other buildings in the surrounding area they thought were going to fall.
And you had people working, trying to help the most horrific sights you’ve ever seen. Trying to help, do whatever they could. And I was there when we actually thought the U.S. Steel building was coming down, and I’ll never forget that I was standing next to these two massive wonderful firemen and we heard a screech, like a screech, steel on steel and it was a couple of days after the buildings and I was down there with the — we had a crew of people that, you know, to help.
I mean it’s — they needed a lot of help. I’ve never seen anything like I saw, and they heard a screech, and everybody thought that the U.S. Steel building was coming down and it was not so far from us. And these two guys there were massive guys, two really big — because I’m a big guy and they grabbed me. I must tell you honestly, I never knew I could run that fast.
I — but they were running just as fast and they had my arms and they were and we were just running and these are incredible people.
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One Liberty Plaza was indeed damaged during the 9/11 attacks, but the building remained structurally sound. From the New York Times, October 17, 2001:
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One Liberty Plaza, the sleek black skyscraper just east of the World Trade Center, was the subject of numerous reports of collapse and serious structural damage in the hours and days just after Sept. 11. Rumors of its demise, however, were premature. The building is reopening, with a celebration scheduled for Monday. A ribbon will be cut at the 54-story building, which has arguably been pronounced ”structurally sound” more times than any other skyscraper in the city.
”There are no structural concerns with this building,” said Ilyse Fink, the director of communications for the city’s Department of Buildings, reinforcing a message she has delivered almost daily since Sept. 12. ”It is not and was not in danger of collapse. The building is structurally sound.” . . .
Among the buildings in the area, 1 Liberty Plaza was unusual because of the numerous erroneous news reports, including one broadcast on CNN, that the building had collapsed. In fact, the building also had its own rumor mill and its own running joke, which made its way up from the street all the way to the Department of Buildings: ”Oops, Liberty Plaza just collapsed again.”
But just about the only kinds of repairs that the building needed were the replacement of hundreds of windows that had been blown out on its western facade and the removal of heavy dust and debris.
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This past weekend, Trump sat down for an interview with Trey Gowdy of Fox News Channel, and he offered another variation of this story.
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“I was building a building in New York, and I had a lot of construction workers, and I went there very shortly thereafter, the following day, you couldn’t go down the same day, but, like, the following, very, very quickly afterwards,” Trump said. “We worked long and hard, but it was just so terrible and so hopeless. It was so hopeless. Such a terrible thing.”
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There are no records of Trump visiting Ground Zero or photographs of him there. There is video of him somewhere in lower Manhattan on September 13, saying he had “100 men working down here” and he was there “just to spur them on. . . . I just want to give them some support. . . . They’ve been down here for about a day and a half.”
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but of all the topics that could do without Trump’s habitual off-the-cuff hyperbole, the 9/11 attacks rank high on the list. Assuming the broad contours of Trump’s story are accurate — that some days after the attacks, he visited One Liberty Plaza and was hastily evacuated by firefighters when they worried the building might collapse — Trump’s impulse to tell this story ignores the fact that 9/11 wasn’t and isn’t about him, and this week isn’t the time or place to tell stories that make himself the center of the story.
Also in that Gowdy interview, Trump said: “People can say what they want about New York, but they rebuilt that project so fast it was so incredible to see.”
“Fast” is a relative term. The Freedom Tower didn’t begin construction until 2006; in 2008, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg fumed, “Progress on the redevelopment of the World Trade Center has been frustratingly slow, owing in large part to a multilayered governance structure that has undermined accountability from the get-go.” The tower reached its final symbolic height of 1,776 feet when the spire was installed on May 10, 2013, nearly twelve years after the attacks. The Freedom Tower opened for business on November 3, 2014.
For comparison, it took five years to build the Twin Towers.
If Joe Biden had told a story like Trump’s, it would get intense coverage and ridicule in the right-of-center media, and deservedly so. In fact, Biden did tell a story like this, back in 2023. Biden said, “And I remember standing there [Ground Zero] the next day and looking at the building, I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.” Biden visited Ground Zero more than a week later, on September 20.
Critics of the octogenarian president contended that his memory was fading, and that he had become a rambling, oblivious Mr. Magoo. But that was the previous president, nothing like the current one, of course.
AH: Many of today's posts continue the grand Alex Horton Blog tradition of blogging about things tied to specific occasions, holidays, etc. really late, such as weeks or months after they happened.
MOM WHO LEFT FOUR KIDS ALONE TO TAKE BUSINESS TRIP REFUSED TO FLY HOME, EVEN AFTER SON WAS HOSPITALIZED
New York Post
Mom who left 4 kids alone to take Vegas trip refused to fly home — even after son was hospitalized: cops
By Anthony Blair
Published Oct. 28, 2026, 9:47 a.m. ET
A Florida mom accused of leaving her four kids home alone to go on a work trip to Las Vegas refused to fly home even when cops called her to say her youngest child had been taken to the hospital, police said.
Irene Miller, 50, was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Friday on charges of child neglect after allegedly leaving her kids, aged 9, 11, 12, and 14, home alone at her Kissimmee condo, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
Officers informed Miller last Wednesday that her 9-year-old son had been rushed to the hospital with a head laceration after his older sister called 911 to report that a dumbbell had fallen on him, police said.
Miller, a Russian-born photographer, said she was in Vegas until Friday and “couldn’t come home,” Capt. Kim Montes, of the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, told the Daily Mail.
Authorities then contacted the children’s father, Mark Miller, 53, who didn’t know his estranged wife had left them unsupervised, she said.
The “ecstatic” kids were placed in their father’s care, Montes added.
Mark Miller was charged with criminal battery against wife Irene earlier this year.
The dumbell accident happened as the four children were trying to make a blanket fort, using the dumbbell to secure it, an unidentified family friend told the Daily Mail.
There was “a lot of blood,” the friend added, describing the situation as “chaotic,” for Mark, who has no contact with his wife.
The couple has been in the process of getting a divorce after 15 years of marriage.
They were cohabiting in the Kissimmee condo until August, when Miller accused her husband of abuse, an allegation he denies, the captain said.
Mark was taken into custody on Aug. 21 after he allegedly struck his wife outside their children’s school, according to a charging affidavit.
He was subsequently arrested, charged, and released on a $10,000 bond, court records showed.
A judge issued a no-contact order after the assault allegation on Sept. 4, but the Department of Children and Family Services determined that Mark was safe to take his children, Montes said.
All four kids are now living with their father in a single-room motel after he became their “unexpected sole caregiver,” Mark revealed in a GoFundMe seeking $5,000 to support his children.
The Ukrainian-born dad of four is “doing everything I can to keep my children safe and together,” he wrote, adding that he doesn’t believe his estranged wife is “a bad person,” but rather, “made choices she didn’t fully think through.”
Miller is still living in the family’s condo after she filed a dissolution of marriage petition in Osceola County on Sept. 17, court records showed.
AH: A Russian and a Ukrainian are having problems with each other. I wonder if this is going on anywhere else in the world?
INDIA IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY
Though I don't agree with everything in this video, it nevertheless discusses some important things that aren't normally talked about.
TRUMP BREAKS GLASS, JOINS SOCIALISTS, EMBRACES BRIBERY
National Review
Trump Breaks Glass, Joins Socialists, Embraces Bribery
By Charles C. W. Cooke
September 10, 2026 9:47 AM
His pledge of $5,000 ‘dividends’ to voters if Republicans win is just preposterous.
Painfully aware that, once the midterms are over, he risks being gradually consigned to irrelevance, President Trump has hit once again upon a Hail Mary plan for political success. That plan is bribery. Last night, after vocally condemning the rise of socialism in the United States, Trump pledged some of his own. “If the Republicans win,” he told a crowd in Dallas, “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
No, no, no, no, no.
Did I mention “no”?
The Democrats who have condemned this idea are, of course, ridiculous, for in trying to trade votes for cash, Trump is merely adopting their approach without the middlemen or the euphemisms. But that is not a defense of the move — which is, in every sense possible, catastrophic.
Let us start with the obvious moral problem that the money in question does not belong to those to whom Trump is promising it. Explaining his idea, the president described it as a “dividend.” But, of course, it is no such thing. A dividend is money a company pays to its shareholders, usually from its profits. The United States is not a company; the voters are not its shareholders; and, to put it lightly, there are no profits to be shared. There is no reason whatsoever that each adult in America should be sent money from the federal government; there is no reason that, if it is to be sent, that money should be equally allocated; and there is no reason to condition such a payout upon the Republicans winning the midterms. This isn’t tax policy or fiscal policy; it is a reckless, shapeless, irritable spasm, divorced from the nature and purpose of our government and from the Constitution that created it.
Practically, the idea is deeply irresponsible. “Dividend” would remain the wrong word if the United States had no debt, a budget surplus, and 5 percent annual growth. But now? We are $40 trillion in debt. This year’s federal budget deficit will exceed $2 trillion. Sending $5,000 checks to every adult would cost around $1.3 trillion — more than the entire federal discretionary budget for 2026, and equivalent to about ten years of revenues from the tariffs that Trump’s feckless vice president insists will pay for this latest foray. Last year’s tax bill corrupted the sensible reforms of 2017 by adding a patchwork of irrational exemptions and special treatments: deductions for people who live in fiscally profligate states; preferences for workers who earn some of their income from tips; an expansion of the entitlements that are bankrupting us; and more. Trump’s checks-for-everyone gambit would corrupt our already corrupted budget in a similar — and considerably more consequential — manner.
Politically, the act would confirm for all time that the second Trump administration has been a failure. Trump was returned to office because a majority of voters believed that he could get inflation under control and thereby lower prices. Instead, Trump has publicly called for aggressive interest-rate cuts and imposed tariffs on all sectors of the economy. Adding another $1.3 trillion in stimulus would without doubt make the status quo worse. The populists are fond of insisting that the choice is between them and the socialists. This morning, that contention seems preposterous. Leaving to one side that the deliberate stoking of inflation by a president who defines himself as an anti-socialist is likely to lead to a thermostatic increase in the socialists’ support, one must ask the obvious question: If this is populism, what need is there of socialism at all?
Pundits and partisans routinely suggest that Donald Trump’s great electoral insight was to recognize that the public does not like being asked to eat its vegetables and that it does not want to be reminded of the dire fiscal situation that now stares it in the face. Analytically, this may be true. But “is” and “ought” are often irreconcilable, and, irrespective of their desires, the voters will not be able to outrun mathematics forever. Now, as ever, the old maxims are true. The purpose of government is to secure liberty and to tax and spend only in the realms in which it has been empowered. A society that permits its government to extort it will be a society without virtue. And, as Dickens’s Mr. Micawber famously observed, debt always leads to disaster in the end. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness,” Micawber tells David Copperfield. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty-pound ought and six, result misery.” That applies in America in 2026, too — on both sides of the ledger.
HE RELIVES 9/11 EVERY DAY
New York Post
‘I relive 9/11 every single day,’ hero custodian William Rodriguez, the last man out of WTC’s North Tower, says
By Chris Nesi
Published Sep. 10, 2026, 8:00 a.m. ET
William Rodriguez never took a sick day in his nearly 20 years as a custodian at the North Tower of the World Trade Center. But he seriously considered it on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
“It was so beautiful outside, I thought, ‘I’m just gonna stay home and hang out,'” he told The Post. “I called my supervisor and said I wasn’t going to work.”
But his boss begged him to come in — a decision that would change the course of his life.
Rodriguez arrived at 8:30 that morning, too late for the free breakfast his friends working at Windows on the World on the 106th floor usually gave him on the sly. Instead, he went directly to the B1 basement.
Sixteen minutes later, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the top of the building, all the way up on floors 93-99.
“We heard an explosion so powerful, so big the walls cracked,” Rodriguez recalled. “The building shook, the sprinkler system activated. It was horrible.”
He first assumed a generator had blown on a floor even deeper underground. But then he heard another explosion from high above — and a chorus of people screaming.
Suddenly, a badly burned man came running into the basement office, covered in blood and with skin hanging off his hands “like he was wearing gloves,” Rodriguez remembered.
It was only once he led the shell-shocked man out to a loading dock area near Vesey Street that he found out what happened.
“I saw everybody on the streets looking up with their mouth open. That’s when I saw the hole,” he said. “I saw the fire and the smoke, which was so dense it covered the antenna of the North Tower.”
Rodriguez immediately thought of his friends stranded inside Windows on the World, and started screaming, “We gotta go back!”
Trapped by plane wreckage and fire, no one at the restaurant survived that day. But Rodriguez held an important key to saving lives — literally: a master key that opened any door in either tower, something just five other people in the world possessed.
He led police and firefighters up to the 39th floor, unlocking emergency doors along the way so that countless workers and visitors could escape.
In a now well-known photo from that day, shot by The Post’s Matthew McDermott, Rodriguez — wearing a bright orange safety vest — can be seen helping carry an injured person out of the building.
He was outside when the first tower collapsed and dove for cover underneath a fire truck. Rescued four and a half hours later, Rodriguez is widely considered the last survivor out of the North Tower.
Even 25 years later, he says the experience is never far from his mind. He still has his orange vest, as well as the master key.
“I relive 9/11 every single day. There’s not a day I don’t think about it. Mostly because I lost 200 friends, and the emotional inventory losing so many friends is devastating,” he said.
“New York during that time was so innocent about terrorism, and the outpouring of love we got from the city was just amazing,” Rodriguez added. But he worries “that’s all gone now. It’s like people forgot how they felt during that time.”
So he has dedicated himself to keeping alive the memories of his friends and of that shocking day.
“I got boxes and boxes of recognition, but I just survived,” he said. “I’m going around the world doing interviews, doing documentaries because it’s the only way people won’t forget. It’s the only way I can glorify the friends and the people we lost on 9/11.”
He spends much of his time talking to Americans who weren’t yet born or were too young to remember the day firsthand; today, there are approximately 100 million adults in this country with no living memory of the attacks.
“I try to tell them that it wasn’t about the towers, it was about the people that we lost. I’m alive because of a miracle that happened on that day, I believe,” Rodriguez said. “So I try to tell the story around the world so people won’t forget.”
He estimates his cumulative efforts have raised some $122 million and counting for survivors and families of those killed.
He especially wants to help survivors who have slipped through the cracks, who, for whatever reason, haven’t benefited from programs created to help victims.
That terrible day, and losing so many friends, helped Rodriguez find a renewed purpose in his own life — realizing how precious and short it all can be.
“I was thinking about having a good time — 40 years old and single,” he said of 2001. “But after 9/11 my life made a whole metamorphosis. I became a person that was more spiritual, that has a sense that compassion is more powerful than violence and has a continuing desire to help others.
“I became more in tune with the community, what their needs are and how to fight for them. I became addicted to helping.”
AH: Great story overall, but I doubt the explosion was a plane flying into the tower.
HAS APPLE JUST WRITTEN OFF TEN PERCENT OF ITS CUSTOMERS?
Daily Mail
Has Apple just written off 10% of its customers? Left–handed people claim the foldable iPhone Duo is 'pretty much unusable'
By SHIVALI BEST, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
Published: 06:51 EDT, 11 September 2026 | Updated: 07:03 EDT, 11 September 2026
After months of anticipation, Apple finally unveiled its first foldable to the world this week – the iPhone Duo.
The futuristic device features a book-style design, with an inner screen that is wider than it is tall when opened out.
While the iPhone Duo goes on sale next month, Apple may have already written off 10 per cent of potential buyers.
Following the launch, Apple fans have flocked to X to complain about the usability for left-handers.
'I liked the new iPhone Duo. It looks great and fancy in many aspects. Though, this phone is pretty much unusable for me. Simple Reason: I'm a left–handed person,' one user said on X.
Another added: 'Just realized that the iPhone Duo isn't going to work for me since the controls are for right handed operation. I'm a phone in the left pocket, keys in the right pocket kind of guy.'
And one joked: 'Hey from what I gather from the iPhone Duo announcement is Apple hates left handed people.'
The issue lies in how the screen is displayed when the iPhone Duo is folded open.
Lock Screen controls, the Dock on the Home Screen, and app navigation and controls now appear on the right-hand side of the device.
For people who usually use their left hand to tap the screen, this could prove problematic.
Taking to Reddit, many fans have expressed their concerns about the layout.
One user said: 'You would think being able to move the dock around for left handed use would be something they would implement.
'But with Apple who knows. For a company that claims to focus on UI and UX as much as they do they do tend to make some really obvious oversights.'
Another said: 'I really wanted to buy it, but it's not just not reaching the other side, it literally is every main function away from you as far as possible..
'Every 10th human is left handed, and we will not be able to use it properly.'
And one joked: 'Hmm, break it in half and duct tape the halves from the opposite sides.'
The Daily Mail has reached out to Apple for clarification on whether the dock can be moved to the left-hand side.
The £1,999/$1,999 iPhone Duo shares the same squat, book-like shape as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, meaning the screen is wider than it is tall when opened.
Both the inner and outer screens share the same 1.4 aspect ratio, ensuring that apps don't get distorted or leave dead space when changing between views.
The outer display measures 5.4in, while the inner screen extends out to 7.6in.
Users will be able to use the iPhone Duo in any orientation or position, leaving it half open to prop up and watch movies hands-free or holding it partially folded like a book.
Thanks to the new A20 Pro chipset, Apple's new foldable will be able to accommodate multitasking, running different apps on either side of the screen.
Apple says the screen will also support the use of Apple Pencil just like an iPad, making it the first iPhone to do so.
On the back, the iPhone Duo uses the same 48-megapixel camera as the iPhone 18 Pro.
The trillion-dollar rise of Apple
1976: Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on April 1, 1976, as they set about selling computer kits to hobbyists, each of which was built by Wozniak.
The first product was the Apple I.
1977: Apple released the Apple II in June, which was the first PC made for the mass market.
1981: Jobs became chairman.
1984: The Macintosh was introduced during an ad break for the Super Bowl and later officially unveiled during a launch event. It was discontinued a year later and Jobs left the firm.
1987: Apple released the Macintosh II, the first colour Mac.
1997: Apple announces it will acquire NeXT software in a $400 million deal that involves Jobs returning to Apple as interim CEO. He officially took the role in 2000.
2001: Apple introduced iTunes, OS X and the first-generation iPod.
The first iPod MP3 music player was released on October 23, 2001, at an event in Cupertino and was able to hold up to 1,000 songs.
2007: Apple unveils the iPhone.
2010: The first iPad was unveiled.
2011: Jobs resigned in 2011 due to illness, handing the CEO title to Tim Cook. Jobs died in October from pancreatic cancer.
2014: Apple unveiled the Apple Watch. It also unveiled its first larger iPhones - the 6 and 6 Plus.
2015: After purchasing Beats from Dr Dre, Apple launched Apple Music to compete with Spotify and other music streaming services.
2016: Apple returned to its roots and announced the 4-inch iPhone SE. Meanwhile, the firm is embroiled in a legal battle with the FBI, involving the agency demanding access to the locked phone used by Syed Farook, who died in a shootout after carrying out a deadly December attack in San Bernardino, California, with his wife. The court order was dropped on March 28 after the FBI said a third party was able to unlock the device.
2017: Apple introduces the iPhone X, which removes the home button to make way for a futuristic edge-to-edge screen design and a new FaceID system that uses advanced sensors and lasers to unlock phones with just the owner's face.
2018: In a first for the company, Apple introduces new features in its latest operating system, iOS 12, that encourage users to manage and spend less time on their devices. The move was spawned by a strongly worded letter from shareholders that urged the firm to address the growing problem of smartphone addiction among kids and teenagers.
2019: In January, Apple reports its first decline in revenues and profits in a decade. CEO Tim Cook partly blamed steep declines in revenue from China.
2020: In March, Apple closes all its brick-and-mortar retail stores outside of China in response to coronavirus.
2021: In an online virtual event in April, CEO Tim Cook declares Apple's goal of becoming carbon neutral for Earth Day. Later in the year, the iPhone 13 was announced.
2022: In September, the iPhone 14 was announced. One of the new features included a new sensor to detect if a user had been in a car crash, as well as an improved camera system.
2023: Apple brings back its 'Home Pod' after the first generation was discontinued. The 'Home Pod' can be seen as an alternative to Amazon's Alexa or Google Home, as it is powered by voice commands.
2024: Apple makes its first steps into artificial intelligence with the release of Apple Intelligence. The features are not all released at once, with many delayed until the following year.
2026: Apple announces a leadership shakeup. After 15 years leading the company, Tim Cook steps aside from his position as CEO to become executive chairman. John Ternus, 51, Apple's widely respected hardware chief, takes as CEO on September 1.