Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Connected.

It is brought to you by the five folks over at Century and Steam Clock.

It is in fact episode 605.

My name is Man of the People, Mike Hurley, and I have the pleasure of introducing to you

the keynote chairman for now, Federico Viteri. Hi, Federico.

Hello, man of the people. I will say, I will say keynote chairman for the foreseeable future.

We're doing the Rikki's next week. Yeah. Not ready for that. Not ready for that. Yeah.

We are also joined by the illustrious annual chairman stephen hackett

hello stephen hello how are you sir i am i'm good i will say being annual chairman the

stress of an individual keynote just it washes. When you're a keynote chairman...

But don't you feel stressed because you could start losing points for the year, though?

I mean, there is that, but I mean, like, I'm more meaning to this since, like, my title's safe through June, right? It's actually safe through December. Now, could I consolidate power?

Potentially. Can I do a quick tiny topic 0.0.0 before follow up? Sure. Which is a quick recap of the 2026 Rickies and see how we're

doing. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think we have it on this. We just do the, we won't's just the Rikis. All right. So Stephen said Tim Cook's job title changes in 2026. Yeah. He got that. The iPhone 17E ships in 20206. He got that too. Yeah. So that's two points so far. Now we've got the risky pick apple announces a mac of a

touchscreen it is an update to an existing notebook macOS doesn't radically change to accommodate

touch the product comes with the apple polishing cloth in the box hmm i don't know man we'll see

if they announced it this year or not the problem problem for you is that that might slip now.

I did not foresee the ramp shortages.

No, you did not.

So I got Apple ships a folding iPhone.

Jury's still out.

But feel good about it.

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