MBW 1006: Unemployable - Apple's Plans in 2026
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
A look back at what Apple did, and did not deliver in 2025. What will Apple do in 2026? Could Apple benefit from Alan Dye, former design lead for Apple, leaving the company? And you can watch an upcoming NBA game, live, in the Vision Pro!
- 2025 will be remembered for what Apple didn't deliver.
- And Stay Out!
- It's hard to justify Tahoe icons.
- Wish List: A more flexible Apple display strategy.
- AppleVis announces winners of the 2025 Golden Apple Awards.
- Los Angeles Lakers games on Spectrum Front Row in Apple Immersive tip off January 9.
- Apple scores at the Critics Choice Awards with top wins for global hit feature "F1" and Best Comedy Series "The Studio".
- Pluribus season 2 isn't happening for a while, says Vince Gilligan: 'We're working on it'.
- Steve Jobs' Desk, Bow Ties, 8-Track tapes, and other personal ephemera featured in Apple 50th Anniversary auction
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:01.7 | Shelley Brisbane from the Texas Standard Radio Show. |
| 0:04.4 | It joins us as we talk about, well, 2026. |
| 0:08.4 | What is Apple going to do in 2026 with AI, with Macs, and with iPhones? |
| 0:14.4 | Apple's future on this show next. |
| 0:18.4 | Every year at this time, we'd like to survey our audience to find a little bit more about you. |
| 0:22.6 | As you may know, we respect your privacy. We don't do anything. In fact, we can't do anything |
| 0:28.7 | to learn about who you are. And that's fine with me. I like that. But it helps us with advertising. |
| 0:35.7 | It helps us with programming to know a little bit about those of you who are willing to tell us. |
| 0:40.0 | Your privacy is absolutely respected. We do get your email address, but that's just a case there's an issue. We don't share that with anybody. |
| 0:47.4 | What we do share is the aggregate information that we get from these surveys. Things like 80% of our audience buy something they heard in an ad on our shows, |
| 0:56.5 | or 75% of our audience are IT decision makers. Things like that are very helpful with us. |
| 1:01.7 | When we talk to advertisers, they're also very helpful to us to understand what operating systems you use, |
| 1:07.1 | what content you're interested in. So, enough. Let me just ask you, if you will, go to |
| 1:13.4 | twit.tv slash survey 26 and answer a few questions. It should only take you a few minutes of your |
| 1:18.9 | time. We do this every year. It's very helpful to us. Your privacy is assured. I promise you. |
| 1:24.9 | And of course, if you're uncomfortable with any question or you don't want to do it at all, that's fine too. |
| 1:28.8 | But if you want to help us out a little bit, twit.tv slash survey 26. |
| 1:34.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:38.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:39.9 | From people you trust. |
| 1:42.4 | This is Twitter. |
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