{"id":216919,"date":"2026-02-24T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26-heres-what-our-readers-thought-about-the-ipod-iphone-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:15:08","slug":"macrumors-turns-26-heres-what-our-readers-thought-about-the-ipod-iphone-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26-heres-what-our-readers-thought-about-the-ipod-iphone-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"MacRumors Turns 26: Here&#8217;s What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26\/\">MacRumors Turns 26: Here&#8217;s What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26\/\">https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 09:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.macrumors.com\">www.macrumors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MacRumors turns 26 today, and we want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has read and supported our website over the years.<\/p>\n<p>MacRumors was founded by Arnold Kim on February 24, 2000, while he was a medical student, and it has since become one of the world&#8217;s most popular Apple news websites. Kim was profiled in The New York Times in 2008. Coincidentally, we share our birthday with Steve Jobs, who would have turned 71 years old today.<\/p>\n<p>Our website has been around for many major Apple product announcements, including the iPod, MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the forum threads for each product:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>iPod<\/strong> on October 23, 2001<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mac mini<\/strong> on January 11, 2005<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPod shuffle<\/strong> on January 11, 2005<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPod nano<\/strong> on September 7, 2005<\/li>\n<li><strong>MacBook Pro<\/strong> on January 10, 2006<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mac Pro<\/strong> on August 7, 2006<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple TV<\/strong> on January 9, 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone<\/strong> on January 9, 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPod touch<\/strong> on September 5, 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>MacBook Air<\/strong> on January 15, 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPad<\/strong> on January 27, 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone 4<\/strong> on June 7, 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Watch<\/strong> on September 9, 2014<\/li>\n<li><strong>AirPods<\/strong> on September 7, 2016<\/li>\n<li><strong>HomePod<\/strong> on June 5, 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone X<\/strong> on September 12, 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>AirPods Pro<\/strong> on October 28, 2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>HomePod mini<\/strong> on October 13, 2020<\/li>\n<li><strong>AirPods Max<\/strong> on December 8, 2020<\/li>\n<li><strong>AirTag<\/strong> on April 20, 2021<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mac Studio<\/strong> on March 8, 2022<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Vision Pro<\/strong> on June 5, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><h2 class=\"heading--1cooZo6n heading--h3--23mHEuMI inline--Nnb-B96C\">Popular Stories<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading--1cooZo6n heading--h4--3n5gZUlc title--3FvxcRdi\">Apple Reportedly Plans to Unveil at Least Five New Products Next Week<\/h3>\n<p>In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman said Apple will have a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4. In total, he expects Apple to introduce &#8220;at least five products.&#8221;<br \/>\nSubscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.<br \/>\nA week ago, Apple invited selected journalists and content creators to an &#8220;Apple Experience&#8221; in&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading--1cooZo6n heading--h4--3n5gZUlc title--3FvxcRdi\">iOS 26.3.1 Update for iPhones Coming Soon as &#8216;Apple Experience&#8217; Nears<\/h3>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s software engineers are testing iOS 26.3.1, according to the MacRumors visitor logs, which have been a reliable indicator of upcoming iOS versions.<br \/>\niOS 26.3.1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacRumors Turns 26: Here&#8217;s What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/24\/macrumors-turns-26\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.macrumors.com\/t\/ZvPoVY5Al-uBk1jvsaq2L9osMzw=\/2500x\/article-new\/2026\/02\/MR-Turns-26-Feature.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77],"class_list":["post-216919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216921,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216919\/revisions\/216921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}