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iPhone 17 leads Apple earnings record, new MacBooks near, and a mysterious $2B acquisition

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4.4924 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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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Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

Mayo yesterday, you reported on the fact that you can now go to F1 TV and link your Apple TV account with your F1 TV account.

0:09.0

So when the first, what are they called Grand Prix?

0:11.9

Grand Prix is that?

0:12.9

I just call them races.

0:14.0

Races.

0:14.5

When the first races happen next month, you're all set up to watch with your Apple TV subscription.

0:19.2

There's also preseason broadcast broadcast that happened from next week.

0:23.2

So part of the reason it's rolled out now is that if you're a dedicated fan, you actually

0:26.5

want to tune into that stuff.

0:27.5

So you could do that from next week.

0:29.9

I would like to tune in.

0:31.0

I want to become a big F1 guy this year, but I've been trying for the past 18 hours to go

0:36.7

through this linking process between F1 TV and my Apple TV account.

0:40.3

And all I can see is a big, I send it to you a big loading circle, never stops loading.

0:46.7

So maybe it's just not meant to be with me and F1 TV.

0:51.8

Yeah, the response on the F1T,

1:12.3

the hardcore F1 TV subreddit is about half of people like, it works fine, I did it, it was easy, the other people are like, I just get an error, it just spins forever, like I think they're just overloaded with requests at the moment, so it probably takes one to filter out. Obviously, you don't have to do the linking process, like the races streams will all be through the tv app anyway but if you want like the additional features the additional content that if you want

1:17.0

the experience that you had last year where you're paying f1 tv directly then you have to do the

1:20.3

account linking thing um the basic what most like what the vast majority of people that enjoy the

1:25.3

sport watch will be streamed directly through the tv app itself but if if you want to use the F1 TV staff, which gives you like some more

1:31.6

platform features and some extra content and things and like archives of like all the past

1:35.1

races going back years and years and years, then you need the F1 TV access. And this should

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