Apple Discontinued Fifteen Products This Week -- Most Of Them Less Than A Year After They Were Introduced -- March 6, 2026

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With all the new products Apple announced this week, it's easy to overlook the ones Apple discontinued. See also the Apple press release regarding some of these new products.

Link here. 

Fifteen products Apple discontinued this week:

• iPhone 16e with A18 (2025) 
• 11-inch ‌iPad Air‌ with M3 (2025) 
• 13-inch ‌iPad Air‌ with M3 (2025) 
• 13-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ with M4 (2025)  
• bought for my wife in November, 2024
• discontinued less than six months later, March, 2026
• replaced with the MacBook Air M5, March, 2026 
• 15-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ with M4 (2025) 
• 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with M5 and 512GB storage (2025) 
• 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with M4 Pro (2024) 
• 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with M4 Pro (2024) 
• 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with M4 Max (2024) 
• 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with M4 Max (2024) 
• Mac Studio with M3 Ultra and 512GB memory (2025) ‌
• Studio Display‌ with A13 Bionic (2022) 
• Pro Display XDR (2019) 
•  Pro Stand for Pro Display XDR (2019) 
•  Pro Display XDR VESA Mount Adapter (2019) 

Apple introduced

• the M3 chip family on October 30, 2023;
• the M4 chip on May 7, 2024; and, the M4 family, late October 2024
• the M5 chip family on October 15, 2025; the M5 family March 3, 2026.

It is amazing how fast Apple announces / releases upgraded chips. One assumes the M5 might be around for awhile.