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iPhone Fold visualized, HomeKit Adaptive Temperature, MacBook Neo shortages

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4.4924 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin and Chance analyze the form factor of the iPhone Fold with dummy units start surfacing, and investigate why so many of Apple’s Macs are severely backordered right now. Also, NASA takes the iPhone into space, Aqara launches the first thermostat with support for HomeKit’s new Adaptive Temperature feature, and Chance is mad at the MLB app.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

Mayo, you know it's baseball season now, right? Your favorite time of the year?

0:03.6

It's baseball season for like 80% of the year, it feels like.

0:06.9

Pretty much, yeah. The reason that I wanted to mention this real quick is not to brag about the Cincinnati Reds actually starting the year strong, having one of the best records in baseball.

0:15.4

I want to complain very quickly about the state of the MLB app, particularly on Apple TV, because I said this last year.

0:23.2

And I think for a long time, MLB had really good apps on all of Apple's platforms.

0:28.5

They were a great steward of Apple's platforms.

0:30.3

They were like, they're on the Apple Watch on day one.

0:32.5

They've always supported the Apple TV very well.

0:34.5

But in the last several years, it's been a downward slope because I think

0:38.2

they changed whatever third-party, like, developer firm they use to make their apps. And this

0:45.2

year on Apple TV, there's a bug where you are watching the video and you can choose between

0:50.3

listening to the TV broadcasters or the radio broadcasters.

0:54.6

That's always been a feature in MLB.

0:56.3

It's always worked great except this year.

0:58.9

There's like this four to five second difference between what you're seeing on the screen

1:03.1

and what the radio audio is telling you.

1:05.7

Obviously, it's not synced up.

1:07.1

It's not synced up properly for some reason.

1:09.6

And like that kind of ruins the whole point of being able to switch between those audio feeds. Like what's the point of watching video where the audio isn't synced up properly? It's just not a good experience. Then also, and this is a long running bug that I thought they would fix this year, like in their annual maintenance, on the Apple TV. You're watching a game. The game ends. At least what I do is I click the home button on the Apple TV remote, go back to the Apple TV, you're watching a game, the game ends, my, at least what I do is I click the home button on the Apple TV remote, go back to the Apple TV home screen, and then I usually go to bed or something.

1:33.8

For whatever reason, somehow the MLB app will start playing audio like an hour later in the background after you've left the app on Apple TV.

1:43.5

I don't even know how this is like possible. Well, it is, it is technically a feature because you can have like a third part of music app, play music without the app. Yeah, that's true. Like Apple Music does that, right? If you stop playing music, you can go to the home screen, the music keeps playing. You can do that with, I can't remember, does Spotify even have an Apple TV app? But at least in theory, Spotify could play music

2:02.8

and then it could carry on while the apps closed. Like, it works just like an iPhone in that regard. Yeah. So I guess that's what they're doing, but obviously it shouldn't happen. And it's like... I can now... If I'm in the other room where I'm laying in bed and I hear the TV in the living,

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