M6 coming soon, more
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple’s new M6 chip could launch surprisingly soon, per report
- Apple has a lot in store for the Mac lineup this year, here's what's coming
- Apple dominated best-selling smartphone rankings; iPhone 17 key
- Apple Creator Studio launches today, and it's an incredible value
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Thursday, January 29th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.3 | We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the clean and powerful to-do list application. |
| 0:15.8 | Leading off today, a new market intelligence report shows that Apple dominated the best-selling |
| 0:20.4 | smartphone rankings for |
| 0:22.1 | 2025, and the base iPhone 17 stands out for its position in the top 10. In total, counterpoint |
| 0:30.2 | research says that iPhones filled seven of the top 10 spots. Since it's measuring sales for the |
| 0:37.0 | whole of 2025, it's no surprise that it's the |
| 0:40.0 | iPhone 16 rather than the iPhone 17 that ranks number one. What's notable, however, is that |
| 0:46.1 | the base model iPhone 17, which only shipped in September, took 7th place. This contrast with the |
| 0:53.9 | iPhone 16 managing 10th place in 2024, |
| 0:57.6 | and it very much reinforces the widespread view that the base iPhone 17 is the model to buy |
| 1:03.6 | unless you specifically need one of the pro features. The full rankings are as follows. |
| 1:09.5 | iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 17 Pro Max, Samsung Galaxy A16, Samsung Galaxy A-O6, iPhone 17, iPhone 17, iPhone 15, Galaxy S25 Ultra, and iPhone 16E. So Apple again accounted for seven of the top 10 spots, and Samsung |
| 1:31.5 | didn't even show up on the chart until number five. In total, Counterpoint says the iPhone |
| 1:37.0 | 17 series achieved 16% higher sales than its predecessor during its first full quarter on the market. Next up today, Apple's |
| 1:46.1 | first M5 products launched just three months ago, but a new report says we could see the first |
| 1:52.5 | M6 product debut surprisingly soon. Mark German in his Power On newsletter has offered an overview of |
| 2:00.2 | what to expect from the Mac in the year ahead. |
| 2:03.6 | After mentioning the M5 updates for the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacMany, and more, |
| 2:08.8 | he ended with a curious hint about the forthcoming M6 chip. |
| 2:13.2 | He says that he thinks the M6 chip is potentially coming sooner than people anticipate. |
| 2:19.5 | Not necessarily in these next laptops, but in the near future in some configurations. |
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