MBW 1012: Joining the YOLO Club - Apple's Special Experience Event on March 4th
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
Apple has announced a special experience event occurring in New York, London, and Shanghai. Apple Podcasts is launching new video features. iOS 26.3 is out now. And Apple acquires the rights to the show, Severance, for $70 million!
- Apple's doing something on March 4th.
- Apple wins long-running court battle against Optis over 4G patents in the US.
- Apple makes four promises to developers about fairer treatment.
- Apple Podcasts is launching new video features, looking to keep pace with YouTube and Spotify.
- Apple updates its own iOS version figures.
- Tesla CarPlay held back by need for wider adoption of Apple's iOS 26.
- Find My outage & iCloud issues hit users once again Tuesday evening.
- Apple Creator Studio AI usage limits seem dramatically lower than promised.
- iPhone 18 Pro's new C2 chip will bring three advantages over iPhone 17.
- Apple testing, but still undecided about clamshell folding iPhone.
- iOS 27 'Rave' update to clean up code, could boost battery life.
- Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues.
- iOS 26.3 adds unique new privacy feature, and it's Apple at its best.
- Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices.
- iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day.
- Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware.
- A code snippet in iOS 26.4 shows Apple TV is coming to CarPlay.
- macOS Tahoe 26.4 adds a charge limit slider to preserve your MacBook battery.
- iOS 26.4 has iPhone Stolen Device Protection on by default.
- macOS Tahoe 26.4 warns if your apps won't work when Rosetta 2 dies.
- It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro.
- visionOS 26.4 unlocks new 'foveated streaming' feature for apps and games.
- The new F1 channel has appeared in the Apple TV app ahead of first race.
- Severance' acquired by Apple for $70 million, expect a 4-season run and spinoffs.
- Apple TV is adding MLS for free starting this week, here's the new promo.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Hiver Mac Break Weekly. Jason Snell, Andy and Aknocker here. Dave Hamilton's filling in, |
| 0:04.1 | and we've got a packed show for you. There is an event coming up March 4th. What will Apple announce? |
| 0:11.5 | We'll also talk about some of the new features of iOS 263 and MacOS 264. |
| 0:17.9 | There's some Vision Pro News and Apple buys severance. All that more. Coming up next on |
| 0:24.4 | Mac Break Weekly. Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 112, recorded Tuesday, February 17th, 2026. |
| 0:44.1 | Joining the Yolo Club. |
| 0:46.9 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we cover the latest Apple News. |
| 0:52.1 | Dave Hamilton is joining us. |
| 1:14.5 | Hello, David. Hello, Leo. From Gig Gab and MacGee Gab. Are all your shows named Gab? You know, I tried to call the business show like, I don't know, business gab or something, but no, it's just business brain. So it's got the illiterate. It's got the double letters. So at least it's got something there. Yeah. Great to see you again, David. It's great to be seen. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:20.7 | Thank you for coming back. Andy Anato also here. He comes back every week. Yep. At the Andy came back. It's the very next week. It's nice to have the day. Nice to have the week |
| 1:25.2 | separated into things I need to get done before Mac break and things I need to get done after Mac break. |
| 1:30.3 | It makes Monday, it makes Monday a good amount of, the right amount of pressure on a Monday. |
| 1:35.3 | I like to think this show as your kind of your binder divider in your life. |
| 1:39.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:40.3 | You're the great trapper keeper of Andy Knock Goes life. You are the unicorn leaping over the airbrushed van in the middle that says that, you know what? |
| 1:49.8 | I think we're going to go from math into Western Sift today. |
| 1:54.1 | Wow. |
| 1:55.6 | And last but not least, Jason Snell from Six Colors.com. |
| 2:00.6 | As those of us who do not have regular jobs, having regular podcasts really helps. |
| 2:05.6 | You know what it is. |
| 2:07.3 | It does. |
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