iPhone 17 leads Apple earnings record, new MacBooks near, and a mysterious $2B acquisition
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Episode iPhone 17 leads Apple earnings record, new MacBooks near, and a mysterious $2B acquisition
Benjamin and Chance speculate on Apple’s mysterious acquisition of Q.ai, the company’s second biggest acquisition ever. The iPhone 17 is a veritable smash hit, leading to an all-time quarterly earnings record. And Apple redesigns the order flow for buying a new Mac, with new MacBooks just around the corner.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin realizes he has some overdue spring-cleaning to do on his Desktop folder.
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• Apple acquires secretive Q․ai startup for $2 billion • Apple reports record-breaking Q1 2026 earnings • Apple revamps how you buy a Mac online • New MacBook Pro release date: Here's when M5 Pro and M5 Max might debut • Latest macOS 26.3 beta adds to signs that new Macs are imminent • Will the Studio Display 2 have this key upgrade? • Studio Display refresh looms with three key upgrades • Apple announces agentic coding in Xcode with Claude Agent and Codex integration • CarPlay Ultra coming to at least one new car later this year, per report • Tesla still working on CarPlay support, here's what we know
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- https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/29/apple-acquires-secretive-q%E2%80%A4ai-startup-for-2-billion/
- https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/29/apple-reports-record-breaking-q1-2026-earnings-apple-reports-record-breaking-q1-2026-earnings-143-7-billion-in-revenue-up-16xx-billion-in-revenue-up-xx/
- https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/31/apple-revamps-how-you-buy-a-mac-online-removes-preconfigured-options/
- https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/01/apple-m5-pro-m5-max-macbook-pro-release-window/
- https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/04/latest-macos-26-3-beta-adds-to-signs-that-new-m5-macbook-pros-are-imminent/
- https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/04/will-the-studio-display-2-have-this-key-upgrade/?extended-comments=1
- https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/01/studio-display-refresh-looms-with-three-key-upgrades/
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