MacBook Neo review, Apple leadership changes, iPhone Fold rumors
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Chance and Zac talk through changes to Apple’s leadership website and what they signal for the future. There’s also a pair of new Bloomberg reports focused on Apple’s delayed Siri smart display product, plus the looming iPhone Fold’s software interface. Finally, they go in-depth on MacBook Neo, discussing Chance’s review and answering some Ask9to5Mac questions.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple adds Steve Lemay and Molly Anderson to its leadership page
- Apple reportedly targeting smart home display release around iOS 27
- iPhone Fold expected to include new app features, including side-by-side multitasking
- MacBook Neo review: A truly great Mac at an unbelievable price
- Julia Krist’s MacBook Neo Review
- 'World’s most advanced flight simulator' will soon work with Apple Vision Pro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did you see Eddie Q's new photo? |
| 0:01.8 | He looks good. |
| 0:03.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.2 | Eddie Q is living his best life, I think. |
| 0:06.8 | It's like, it's a real glow-up. |
| 0:11.7 | And so we're talking about Apple's leadership page update from this past week. |
| 0:18.5 | And there are a few new faces. |
| 0:21.5 | One, sort of new the company, two, not so much. |
| 0:24.1 | But Eddie Q, who's been at Apple, I think longer than Apple's existed, has a new photo. |
| 0:31.5 | And it looks great. |
| 0:33.6 | And it comes with sort of a title addition. |
| 0:36.0 | So Eddie Q is the senior vice president of services, which is, you know, ICloud, all the |
| 0:41.0 | subscriptions, you know, through App Store and everything. |
| 0:43.4 | But the addition is now SVP of services and health. |
| 0:46.4 | And I think it's just, you know, it fits that he has this glow up both in reality. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.2 | It isn't just like a new photo that's like enhanced. |
| 0:53.9 | It's like, you know, he's been every time he pops up in in reality. Yeah. It isn't just like a new photo that's like in hand. It's like, you know, he's been, every time he pops up in, in an event or, you know, |
| 0:59.0 | in the audience or in a briefing about something to do with Apple TV sports, he looks great. |
| 1:05.3 | And so, so does this new photo. |
| 1:06.9 | And it just goes as well with the health title, which health mood from what from Jeff Williams, |
| 1:12.8 | who was chief operating officer to Eddie Q, which is a sign of like not leaving anytime soon |
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