Mac shortages, iPhone rumors, and Schmigadoon! on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 8 May 2026
β±οΈ 72 minutes
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Summary
Apple is having even greater success with the MacBook Neo than expected, and also startling success with its great but cancelled "Schmigadoon!" show, plus there are so many new iPhone rumors, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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- @williamgallagher_ on Threads
- @WGallagher on Twitter
- William's 58keys on YouTube
- William Gallagher on email
- Wes on Bluesky
- Wes Hilliard on email
- Wes's blog Hillitech
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Links from the Show:
- Tim Cook's remarks strongly suggest that there are no new Macs or iPads before September
- MacBook Neo shortages force new A18 Pro run & doubled production to keep up
- Apple's 2026 Pride Collection includes 11-color weaved Sport Band
- Apple Wallet will let you make your own passes in iOS 27
- iPhone users will get to select a preferred AI model in iOS 27
- Samsung & Intel considered as alternatives to TSMC for Apple Silicon production
- Curved-glass 20th-anniversary iPhone may finally introduce solid-state buttons
- Smaller iPhone 18 Dynamic Island rumor surfaces again
- Spring iPhone 18 launch rumored since before iPhone 17 debut in spite of odd rumor
- Epic vs Apple fight could be put on hold again if Supreme Court sides with Apple
- Supreme Court denies Apple breathing space in Epic fight
- Delayed Siri class action suit ends with massive $250M settlement
- Owning an Apple Home: HomePods as a whole-home audio system
- 'Schmigadoon!' earns Apple's first-ever Tony nominations despite being cancelled on TV
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:07) - No more Macs
- (19:01) - MacBook Neo
- (24:04) - Apple Watch Pride Collection
- (27:18) - Rumorpalooza
- (37:56) - Siri and AI options
- (42:08) - Dynamic Island
- (45:10) - iPhone 17, 18, and 20
- (50:34) - Epic Games
- (59:00) - Schmigadoon!
- (01:02:02) - Owning an Apple Home
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Welcome to the Applenside podcast. I'm William Gallagher. A sponsor this week is Nord Stella, but then if you're a subscriber, you want to know anything more about that. And I am joined after my week away by Wes Hilliard, who I understood the last week's podcast twice. |
| 0:26.4 | He liked it so much. |
| 0:27.4 | I may be exaggerating there. |
| 0:29.7 | But Wes, all is sorted and fixed, and is there any news this week? |
| 0:34.0 | Or should I've taken this week off as well? |
| 0:36.6 | Well, Mike did a great job last week it was |
| 0:38.5 | the weather that was against us we recorded for five whole minutes before he had a power |
| 0:42.5 | outage but now everything's going well here slowly putting this office together I think |
| 0:48.2 | it's coming together I will say William you're going to be disappointed to hear that |
| 0:53.7 | Mike shared in the Apple Insider |
| 0:55.9 | Plus segment. So we should share here that we are going to video very soon. We don't have an exact |
| 1:01.6 | date yet, but Mike already blew up the news. So we might as well go ahead and share it. |
| 1:07.7 | But I haven't comb my hair or anything.. Okay, you gotta build up to this stuff. |
| 1:11.6 | I might have to get a suit. |
| 1:13.6 | Okay, definitely got a tiny... |
| 1:14.6 | We're working on it. |
| 1:15.6 | We're working on our offices. |
| 1:16.6 | William took time off to literally reconstruct his office from scratch. |
| 1:20.6 | I believe he started from the foundation and just built around it. |
| 1:24.6 | Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out ways to get foam pads to stick to walls |
| 1:28.5 | because mine keep falling off. I'll tell you, look, I'll just say this, because this is |
| 1:34.0 | desperately important Apple News. My office is in mid-disarray because this is the most |
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