Using Apple Invites. Apple Invites debuts and needs a lot more work, the M5 processor is in production, and you can now hack even a cable to run Doom, all on the AppleInsider Podcast. Following the rumors that it would be doing an internal beta test of an event planning app, Apple instead released Apple Invites publicly — and so we all learned why beta tests are needed. There's a good app at the heart of this, and it's a clever use of multiple Apple Services, but there are so many reasons why you should wait until Apple Invites 2.0.
But then there are also good reasons why you shouldn't try to use a cable to play a game, chiefly because the whole idea is insane. And yet it's been done — it is now possible to play "Doom" on just a piece of wire. Admittedly it's a very specific piece of wire, but still. While you're waiting for either an update to Apple Invites or a reason to buy a cable for a game, you can also spend your time waiting to see which device the M5 processor will arrive in first. It appears that mass manufacturing of the M5 is well underway and those processors have to go somewhere, but there's reason to believe it will be the Mac that gets them first — and reasons why it will be the iPad.
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