March 4's Apple Experience, color MacBooks, and iOS 26.4 on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It's been a week of finding out just how much there is in the new iOS 26.4 beta, for learning about Apple's video podcast plans, and also for so many rumors of a new low-cost MacBook coming at a March unveiling, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- Apple is having an event on March 4, maybe for iPhone 17e & M5 MacBook Pro
- March madness: What Apple is getting ready to launch
- March 4 international Apple Experiences may follow week of online launches
- Out of the park: The March 4 event may not be all that special
- Siri pendant & AirPods with cameras getting renewed focus
- Apple eyes 2027 for AI smart glasses built around context, not screens
- Colorful MacBook & iPhone 17e launching as soon as March
- Apple's Playgrounds approach to AI is a sign of its larger strategy
- Apple Music Playlist Playground among first new AI features in iOS 26.4
- Apple's upgraded Siri is late but not lost — the real story is timing
- iOS 26.4 has iPhone Stolen Device Protection on by default
- Siri & Apple Intelligence upgrades still coming in 2026 in spite of rumors
- Video won't kill the Apple Podcasts star, but will make them more engaging
- A code snippet in iOS 26.4 shows Apple TV is coming to CarPlay
- AI agents are coming to CarPlay, but they're not getting the keys
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:12) - March 4 experience
- (10:42) - MacBook
- (20:49) - AI smart glasses
- (36:26) - Siri Pendant
- (43:30) - iOS 26.4
- (56:42) - Video podcasts
- (59:40) - CarPlay video
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and William Gallagher, welcome to the Apple Insider podcast, which this week is sponsored by Tempo, Nordsteller and Claude by Anthropic. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm joined, as ever, by Wesley Hilliard in a week where we have a lot to look forward to, at least if leaks us to be believed, and where if iOS 26.4, okay, hasn't brought us a new Siri yet. It has brought us a lot. Now, Wes, this brings up something else, just before we go into the news of the week, as I'm certainly |
| 0:37.6 | remember. Siri wasn't originally invented by Apple. It was acquired about 11 billion years ago, |
| 0:45.9 | something like that. And so much of what we think of as Apple or Apple invented was just |
| 0:51.2 | brought in like this. So your idea this week, Apple Insider Plus is going to be all about |
| 0:56.4 | acquisitions. But what are you thinking about that? Is it important to Apple or just more corporate |
| 1:02.9 | buying trivial stuff? I think we'll talk about just what do they buy? How much do they buy? How much do they |
| 1:10.6 | spend? Recently, they purchased a |
| 1:13.0 | company that was one of their biggest acquisitions in history and nobody's really, there was a |
| 1:18.0 | brief discussion, I think, about it in our space and they moved on because it wasn't this well-known |
| 1:22.8 | brand. It wasn't beats, you know, by Dre. It was this AI chatting this AI chatting thing and, um, just, it just went by |
| 1:30.6 | the wayside because, I mean, three billion dollars in 2014 to buy beats was a big deal |
| 1:36.4 | because it was their biggest acquisition and a big chunk of money for, uh, the company. And today, |
| 1:41.5 | that's a drop in the bucket. It, in such a way that's kind of incredible. |
| 1:45.8 | You know, they have trillions at this point. They can just spend however they feel like. So |
| 1:49.6 | a couple billions on a big deal. |
| 1:52.1 | You know, I can't even remember which company they just bought. That's how it went by. You're |
| 1:57.3 | absolutely right. I should say, Apple Insider Plus, it's the ad-free and expended version of this podcast. |
| 2:02.8 | If you haven't already, you can join us via Apple podcast subscriptions or Patreon, |
| 2:07.8 | and if you have already signed up, well, I knew I liked you. |
| 2:11.2 | But now, we're shockingly near... |
| 2:15.1 | We're kind of in sight of the end of February already, but that does mean we're |
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