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Save up to 45% on TurboTax.
One of the top trending deals at Amazon is tax software for Mac, with TurboTax Deluxe 2022 dipping to $45.99 with a free $10 gift card. Business editions are on sale too.
Save $550 with this exclusive MacBook deal.
The best Apple deals continue to roll in, as AI readers can exclusively save $550 on Apple’s upgraded 1TB MacBook Pro 14-inch with a 16-core GPU.
This configuration is equipped with the upper tier M1 Pro chip with a 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU. It also has 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, double the amount of storage found in the standard MacBook Pro 14-inch.
Now $550 off when ordered in the Silver finish, the savings are in the form of a $300 instant rebate combined with the $200 off promo code. According to our 14-inch MacBook Pro Price Guide, this is the lowest price available on the popular set of specs. And with it being in stock and ready to ship, there’s no time like the present to save money on a fantastic gift idea.
Black Friday 2022 TV deals are live.
The best Black Friday TV deals offer significant savings on popular 4K and OLED televisions from LG, Sony, Samsung & more.
Every year savvy shoppers await Black Friday deals with great anticipation, and TV fans know that this is the time to get some of the year’s lowest prices. LG, Sony, and Samsung are consistently competing to offer the best deals on their OLED and 4K TVs. And no matter your choice in brand, you can always expect deep discounts on Black Friday. With a variety of sizes and features available, you’re sure to find the perfect television to enjoy watching your favorite shows from Apple TV+ or Paramount+.
The AppleInsider team has first-hand experience using Samsung’s The Frame TV and we highly recommend it to Apple TV users. The native Art Mode built into the Frame switches off automatically when waking the Apple TV using the remote or remote app, and starts again when no content is active.
Get the Unlimited Lifetime Learning Subscription bundle for $126.65
AppleInsider readers can save an additional 15% on an Unlimited Lifetime Learning Bundle with access to over 1,000 online courses and a lifetime subscription to Rosetta Stone for 2-days only. Sale ends on Black Friday.
The special bundle includes a lifetime subscription to Rosetta Stone, with access to learn 24 languages. Also included is lifetime access to StackSkills Unlimited Online Courses, where you can take advantage of over 1,000 courses from beginner to advanced in IT, development, graphic design and more.
M2 iPad Pro Black Friday deals are live.
Apple’s powerful iPad Pro with M2 is up to $150 off for Black Friday, with exclusive promo code discounts in effect on the tables and AppleCare.
According to our iPad Price Guide, these are the steepest price drops on the 2022 models with Wi-Fi + Cellular connectivity. The M2 tablets now have Apple Pencil hover support for the optional Apple Pencil 2 (in stock at Adorama.com), which allows it to detect the tip up to 12mm away from the display. Learn more in our guide to Apple Pencil hover.
Save $60 on Apple’s iPad 9th Gen.
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Amazon is making Apple’s entry level iPad 9th Generation even more affordable thanks to a $60 price drop on the 10.2-inch model.
Save $220 on Microsoft Office for Mac.
Now through Black Friday, save 88% on a lifetime Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Business 2021 license. This special offer delivers the lowest price on record for the suite of Office tools.
Save 20% on select Sonos gear.
Sonos deals are rare, but the audio company is slashing 20% off popular soundbars and speakers during its 2022 Black Friday sale.
Now through Nov. 28, save 20% on the Sonos products below and improve your home theater audio for a fraction of the retail cost. These Black Friday offers deliver the cheapest prices available on the Sonos equipment, with Beam, Arc, Sub and One SL hardware up to $180 off.
And for additional Black Friday deals on Apple hardware, including the Apple TV 4K that pairs well with Sonos equipment, check out our Apple Price Guide for up-to-date discounts and bargains that can save you hundreds of dollars on your next purchase.
This Apple Watch Ultra is on sale at Amazon.
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The first major Apple Watch Ultra discounts have debuted at Amazon, with prices dipping to as low as $739.
Shoppers can save $60 on the Apple Watch Ultra this weekend at Amazon, with the ecommerce giant delivering the lowest prices anywhere on multiple band styles.
Choose the best Apple Watch color for you, with Starlight, Orange and Green Loop bands all on sale in the AppleInsider Apple Watch Ultra Price Guide.
In our hands-on Apple Watch Ultra review, we found the Apple Watch Ultra to have premium materials and an ultra-rugged design. It’s the biggest change to the Apple Watch since launch and the multi-day battery life is an asset.
There are plenty more deals going on leading up to Black Friday, including exclusive savings on 2022 MacBook Air models. Here’s an overview of the special offers running this week:
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Minutes after the deadline for Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s demand that engineers sign up for “extremely hardcore” working hours and conditions expired, offices are locked, access badges don’t work, and concerns grow that World Cup traffic will kill the service.
On Friday, Musk sent an email to the 3,700 employees that remained of nearly 7,600 pre-buy that to launch Twitter 2.0, there would need to be a new focus on work. Specifically, Musk was demanding “hardcore” devotion to work, and long hours from everybody.
He set a deadline of Monday evening to agree, or be laid off and take three months of severance pay on the way out the door. The deadline has passed, and the situation appears grim.
In multiple reports across the Internet, and ironically, Twitter, it appears that a large percentage of Twitter’s workforce have rejected Musk’s demand of longer, harder hours in service of the company.
In a report collated by The Verge, exiting employees are expecting the service to start breaking even more severely than it has as of late. The departures may be as high as 75% of the 3,700 remaining employees after two weeks of chaos.
What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.
Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems.
— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 17, 2022
If the 75% total is correct, that leaves about 900 employees remaining, versus the 7,600 that were working just two weeks ago.
Shortly after this was made public, Twitter locked the doors. AppleInsider has confirmed this with an employee who told us that they were staying only until they could pin down another development job.
NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 17, 2022
The same employee told us that the action was initiated by Musk, to prevent sabotage to critical systems by disgruntled employees. Offices will re-open on November 21, and employees, both current and ex-, are being directed to not divulge critical information about the service.
Compounding the problem, the World Cup begins on November 20. Some of the service’s highest posting rate has happened during prior World Cup tournaments, specifically just after a goal was scored, and when the match ends. We’ve been told that that period has historically been incredibly challenging for the company to keep the service functioning well.
“It feels like all the people who made this place incredible are leaving,” one Twitter staffer told The Verge on Thursday evening. “It will be extremely hard for Twitter to recover from here, no matter how hardcore the people who remain try to be.”
On the evening of November 10, Twitter made the decision to activate the $8 Twitter Blue subscription that entitled purchasers to the same blue check mark that users that went through the verification sport. Overnight on Thursday into Friday, Twitter reinstated the “official” checkmark that it had previously launched and killed, and very shortly thereafter, disabled the ability to purchase Twitter Blue.
It’s still unknown whether people who paid their $8 for the first month will revert to the old-style Twitter blue for their next billing period. Also not clear is why Twitter didn’t retain the blue checkmark for verified accounts and implement a different color or shape for the paid subscriptions.
One day later, Musk sent his demand to employees about the extreme hours, and considerably more demanding working environment that he was mandating to make Twitter 2.0.
