MBW 1022: Ultra Expensive - The Apple Rumor Mill
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
The panel can't stop talking about John Ternus becoming the next Apple CEO! Is the iPhone Ultra the official name of Apple's folding iPhone? Apple's product timeline for 2026 and beyond. And Apple's Q2 2026 earnings report is this Thursday, and Jason will be ready with the charts!
- Time to serve some delicious claim chowder regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO transition.
- Apple's 'Ultra' roadmap confirmed: iPhone, MacBook, and more on the way.
- OpenAI set to redefine smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare key to its AI agent phone.
- iPhone 18's new specs might bring subtle regressions to cut costs.
- M6 MacBook Pro: Six new features coming later this year.
- Apple taps Samsung for 20th-anniversary iPhone's quad-curved display.
- Google teases Gemini-powered Siri upgrade during Cloud Next keynote.
- What to expect from Apple's Q2 2026 earnings on April 30.
- Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones.
- New Mac malware goes straight for developer keys.
- NASA shares iPhone video capturing Earthshine from Orion during Artemis II.
- Pluribus' & 'Come See Me In The Good Light' win Peabody awards for Apple TV.
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- Leo's Pick: Oversight
- Christina's Pick: PowerPhotos
- Andy's Picks: Free Comic Book Day 2026 & The Outer Limits Comic Book Store
- Jason's Pick: TextSniper
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. Jason and Andy and Christina are here. |
| 0:03.9 | We will talk about all of the rumors and stories about John Turnus, Apple's next CEO, |
| 0:11.0 | who's going to get to announce some pretty nice products. |
| 0:13.8 | We'll talk about those. |
| 0:15.6 | We'll also talk about a smarter Siri, maybe. |
| 0:19.7 | And a big award for Pluribus, all of that and more coming up next. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:27.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:29.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:31.8 | This is Twit. |
| 0:36.4 | This is Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:38.7 | Episode 1222 recorded Tuesday, April 28, 2026. |
| 0:44.5 | Ultra expensive. |
| 0:46.8 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we cover the latest Apple News. |
| 0:50.7 | Say hello to Christina Warren from the fabulous GitHub where she's a developer relations hi christina |
| 0:56.9 | hello leo you'll be glad to know that the uh founder and uh CEO of uh framework joins us tomorrow |
| 1:03.2 | oh fantastic should i ask him about your 13 you should you should know you shouldn't ask him about |
| 1:08.3 | that you should ask him about the keyboard about all the the pro and all the new stuff they announced because that's super exciting. I think that's why he wants to come on to talk about the pro, but I want to talk about the framework desktop, which everybody still says is probably the best choice for a local inference. I mean, it's one of the few, I mean, even with the price increase, like that Strix Halo that AMD came out with is a very good machine. |
| 1:28.3 | If you, I mean, especially, and it's interesting, it's like the studio, Mac studio is obviously great, but, you know, it's almost impossible to get. |
| 1:36.3 | You can't get one because everybody's buying them. |
| 1:38.3 | Actually, they're all buying the minis. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, the minis. |
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