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Archive From the archive of The Apple Rumor Mill
This is an archive page with the Apple rumors of Friday 30 October 2026, as they stood that day. The summaries have not been updated since; rumors may have been confirmed or overtaken by now. Today's news is on The Apple Rumor Mill.
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Today is about the HomePod mini 2 going on sale, how iPhone Duo stock was split, fresh iPad mini details and regulation in Taiwan and Russia.
The HomePod mini 2 goes on sale today, a few hours earlier in Australia and New Zealand. Pink, blue and green get a fabric shell in two shades, while midnight and white have a subtler version. It has the S10 chip and a glowing top surface; Siri AI only arrives later through an update.
Xcode 27.2 shows the new iPad mini carries 12GB of RAM, the same as the iPhone Duo. The display stays at 60Hz; hardware design chief David Pakula argues that OLED's fast pixel response already delivers much of what a high refresh rate offers. Earlier reports put the store launch at 6 November.
HomeView goes on sale on 13 November. Amazon has trimmed the pre-order price of the space grey model to $289.99, but delivery estimates there now run into the second half of November. The new Apple TV 4K has 8GB of RAM according to Xcode.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says on his podcast that Apple sent most of the initial stock to its own stores: some got as few as 50 units, flagships up to roughly 250. That helps explain why people queuing in person got a device while online orders slipped to late January.
Following talks with Taiwan's fair trade regulator, the cut on in-app purchases and paid apps in the Taiwanese App Store falls from 30 to 26 percent. Developers need not sign new terms to benefit. The same rate already applies in Japan and the EU.
An updated EU acquisitions list shows Apple may hire staff from Ascension Labs, the company behind Ascend.io, and receives a non-exclusive licence to its technology. The firm builds AI agents for data engineering. No price has been disclosed.
According to Bloomberg, Apple and Microsoft were added to Russia's information-disseminator registry on 2 October. That requires local storage of messages and handing data to security services when asked. Apple has not said whether it will comply.
The research firm expects Apple to ship 29.8 percent of foldable phones worldwide next year, ranking second behind Samsung. It is a forecast built on only a week of sales; the outcome depends on app support and how reliable the hinge proves to be.
Eye Research estimates 250,000 to 350,000 Macs ran an update checker from the Time4Popcorn app that blindly trusted what it downloaded at every startup. The firm took over an expired address and switched the mechanism off; uninstalling the app is still advised. There is no sign of abuse.
An unnamed leaker on Weibo points to the A20 chip for the budget iPhone, a 48-megapixel camera and possibly a 6.12-inch 60Hz OLED screen. No price is known. A spring 2027 launch could coincide with a new iPhone Air and a base iPhone 18.
Next up: Monday 2 November: possible first iOS 27.3 beta; on 6 November the first deliveries of the new Macs and iPad mini follow.
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Everything here is speculation or based on rumors, not an official Apple announcement. The label (Certain, High, Medium, Low) is my estimate of how reliable the source is. The summaries are in my own words; read the article itself for the details (the star marks the leading source). Sources: leading Apple sites.
