New Pride wallpapers, $599 Mac mini goes away, Apple earnings call tidbits
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance give their opinions on the new Pride wallpaper and watch band lineup for 2026, as well as talk about a new watch face supposedly coming with watchOS 27. Also, in our seemingly-recurring segment on Mac desktop supply constraints, Apple stopped selling the $599 Mac mini altogether this week. Also, the company shares some curious tidbits about its future strategy in its first quarterly earnings call to feature incoming CEO John Ternus.
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- iOS 26.5’s new Pride wallpaper revealed, plus Apple Watch face
- Apple unveils Pride Edition Sport Loop for Apple Watch, order today
- iOS 26.5 adds beautiful wallpapers for your iPhone, here’s what’s new
- Here’s the next Apple Watch face coming in watchOS 26.5 and how to customize it
- How Will John Ternus Run Apple as CEO? With More Investments, Fewer Buybacks - Bloomberg
- Apple discontinues base Mac mini, now starts at $799 with 512GB storage
- Apple's most powerful Mac Studio loses its last remaining RAM upgrade option
- John Ternus joins Apple’s Q2 2026 earnings call, touts ‘incredible roadmap ahead’
- Apple says iPhone 17 lineup is officially the ‘most popular’ in its history
- Tim Cook says iPhone 17 demand is 'off the charts', but supply constraints impacted sales
- Apple’s R&D spending hits new record as AI investment ramps up
- Apple considers Intel and Samsung to diversify chip manufacturing away from TSMC
- iOS 27 will let you choose between Gemini, Claude, and more for AI features: report
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So you know last week when I was talking about my iPhone air battery thing? |
| 0:04.4 | Yes. |
| 0:05.0 | And I said I would maybe let it run to zero and find out if it does it again. |
| 0:09.4 | Well, I forgot about that completely. |
| 0:12.2 | But just by complete chance, last night I forgot to plug my phone in when I went to bed. |
| 0:18.4 | And I woke up and it was out of battery. |
| 0:20.7 | And do you know what happened? |
| 0:21.6 | I put the cable in and it turned on immediately. So it was just a one off fluke hopefully for you. Hopefully. Yeah. Literally, I didn't mean to do this. I didn't, I thought, I, on the show last week, because, oh, yeah, I'll do it on purpose. And I'll do some testing. And I completely forgot it. my mind was wiped on that |
| 0:37.0 | and then last night |
| 0:37.8 | for whatever reason |
| 0:38.5 | I just literally |
| 0:39.0 | oh I plugged my |
| 0:39.8 | AirPods in |
| 0:40.6 | because they needed charging. And then I, like, went to bed or whatever, and I just completely forgot to plug my phone in. So my phone woke up dead. Because that's the thing with the air. Daily usage, I get through the day. But it needs plugging in overnight, right? if you don't plug it in overnight, it's dead in the morning for me. So that's what happened this morning. |
| 0:56.1 | But then I plug the phone in with the cable |
| 0:58.1 | and it immediately turned on, as it always has done, apart from last week where it went crazy. |
| 1:02.8 | And I assume it still had like the battery logo and the like find my like all that that like |
| 1:08.6 | low power state that it didn't have when it completely died you still |
| 1:12.2 | had that yeah and this was i mean i don't know exactly when it died during the night but it must |
| 1:16.8 | have been off for hours right yeah whereas the experience we had which we talked about at length |
| 1:20.6 | for last episode it literally died for like less than two minutes and it wouldn't turn back on so |
| 1:24.9 | definitely something weird because you'd think if like the battery would like permanently degraded, where it could never supply voltage at that level, it would do it like every time, you know, but this time it worked perfectly normally. So I don't know what's going on. And although they feedback to that post, got quite a lot of agreement, there has been no like, Apple didn't say they're going to fix it. There's no like inclination of anything of anything wrongdoing or you know a weird Apple support article that's been updated. So they're a bit mum on the subject. But it definitely seems to be a thing. I mean like I said last week, it's probably like they literally just don't know how to fix it. Like it's the yeah the battery continues to be the biggest bottleneck for iPhones in general, |
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