iPad mini 7, Apple Vision Pro 2, and another executive leaves Apple

We’ve been enjoying “Submerged” on the Apple Vision Pro — and AppleInsider has two ex-Navy people who relished it. But then after you take off the all-encompassing, all-surrounding displays of the Apple Vision Pro, there was a somewhat smaller release from Apple.

For this week saw the unexpected release of the new iPad mini 7. If you’re an iPad mini fan, you were delighted and excited.

But if you aren’t, then you weren’t. The new iPad mini is arguably just the smallest of updates to the device, yet in practice it’s enough to make host Wesley Hilliard very happy.

Find out whether he bought one — the answer is not going to be a shock — and join us to play “Where is Apple’s Latest Executive to Leave Going to End Up?”

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