Apple’s MacBook Neo quandary
9to5Mac Daily
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
- iPhone Fold dimensions: Here's how the foldable iPhone sizes up next to the iPhone 18 Pro
- ‘iPhone Ultra’ is the likely name of Apple’s foldable, says leaker
- iPhone Fold launch could be delayed into 2027 after engineering problems
- Apple faces supply chain problem as MacBook Neo demand exceeds expectations
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 995 Mac Daily for Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.1 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:12.6 | Leading off today, thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence and new app submissions. A new report says that while app submissions to the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions. |
| 0:21.8 | A new report says that while app submissions to the App Store fell 46% between 2016 and 2024, |
| 0:29.7 | the number of new apps that showed up on the App Store globally suddenly exploded last year, |
| 0:35.5 | growing 30% compared to 2024. |
| 0:38.9 | The report is based on data from analytics company's sensor tower and suggests that the main |
| 0:44.5 | contributor to the surge in new apps is vibe coding tools, such as Anthropics ClaudeCode, |
| 0:50.4 | and OpenAI's Codex. It's difficult to determine how many of these new apps are actually made |
| 0:56.8 | using AI, but there's clearly a link between that dramatic increase in App Store submissions |
| 1:02.6 | and the increasing prevalence of these AI tools. Apple said to the information that this wave |
| 1:09.5 | of submissions reflects the relevance of the App Store. |
| 1:13.2 | The information also notes that the search and new apps might be putting extra strain on Apple's App Store review teams. |
| 1:20.8 | Some developers have reported extended wait times when submitting new apps to the App Store and submitting updates to existing apps. Apple, |
| 1:29.3 | however, denied that review times are getting longer. The company said the App Store review team |
| 1:34.3 | processes 90% of submissions within 48 hours, and over the last 12 weeks, the team has processed |
| 1:40.5 | more than 200,000 app submissions a week with an average review time of one and a half days. |
| 1:47.3 | An Apple spokesperson also said that while a human reviews every app submission, |
| 1:52.2 | the company is increasingly using AI tools to assist in the process. |
| 1:57.9 | And with WWDC-26 right around the corner, it'll be interesting to see what changes Apple has planned for developers as the prevalence of these AI tools continues to advance. |
| 2:09.4 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
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