Apple doesn’t appear to be interested in making its increasingly expensive devices cheaper. Instead, it may make the price easier to ignore. The company plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed leasing program for most iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches, on July 28 in the US, according to a Bloomberg report. The reported leasing program comes less than a month after Apple raised prices across much of its hardware lineup, blaming a global shortage of memory and storage chips. The MacBook Air jumped from $1,099 to $1,299, while the iPad Air went from $599 to $749. Apple isn’t exactly…

Published on 21/07/2026 – 11:02 GMT+2 Daniele Compatangelo, La7’s Washington correspondent and president of the White House Foreign Correspondents’ Association (WHFCA), has died suddenly at the age of 50 following a sudden illness, according to Italy’s ANSA news agency. Compatangelo, who covered US politics for more than two decades and…

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