Touchscreen MacBook Pro details, deep red iPhone 18, US Mac mini production
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance are back, with a news-packed episode just before an exciting week of Apple hardware launches. But first, iOS 26.4 beta is here, a deep red color is rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro, and Bloomberg details some of the software affordances coming to macOS to support the touch screen MacBook Pro. Also, Samsung surprises with a clever dynamic privacy display on their new flagship phones.
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Benjamin Mayo
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- New Apple product launch starts Monday, Tim Cook confirms
- Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display is the best new feature in years
- iOS 26.4 beta 2: Here's what's new
- iOS 26.4 beta 2 adds support for testing encrypted RCS between iPhone and Android
- Apple testing 'deep red' color for iPhone 18 Pro, but iPhone Fold may skip the fun: report
- iPhone 18 Pro design could include an exciting first
- New M6 MacBook Pro details revealed, including Dynamic Island, touch, more
- Apple announces plans to manufacture some new Macs in the United States this year
- Apple shares more details, photos, and video of US Mac mini plant
- Apple’s low-cost MacBook might lack these features
- Apple battling rising component costs in low-cost MacBook production
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Right as we hopped on to Zoom this morning, Mayo, Tim Cook hopped onto Twitter to tease a week of product announcements starting next week. |
| 0:07.6 | So Tim's tweet just says, a big week ahead. |
| 0:10.6 | It all starts on Monday morning. |
| 0:12.5 | We already kind of knew like the gist of this based on the reporting for Mark Garman that Apple was going to have press releases multiple days next week, |
| 0:20.1 | culminating in the Apple experience at 9 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, |
| 0:25.0 | which I will be at in New York City. |
| 0:27.1 | Then there'll be separate, simultaneous experiences in London and Singapore. |
| 0:32.7 | Shanghai. |
| 0:33.3 | Shanghai. Yes, not Singapore. |
| 0:34.6 | Shanghai. |
| 0:35.1 | Tim Cook Sweet just confirms that the fun starts Monday morning, that it's not just going to be Wednesday. It's going to be a multi-day event, multiple announcements. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, and people are going to read into the whole week thing. |
| 0:44.8 | But when Apple says a week, they quite often mean Monday to Wednesday. |
| 0:47.8 | And I'm pretty sure when they did the similar thing for the iPad announcements and that week and stuff, |
| 0:52.7 | which was Monday to Wednesday, they had Greg Joswiak tweets, a very similar thing. |
| 0:56.3 | And it was like, we'll see you next week. |
| 0:58.2 | Hashtag Apple launch and it run Monday through Wednesday. So it'll probably be Monday through Wednesday. And then either the stuff goes up for sale immediately as they announce it or it's |
| 1:02.1 | for sale on that Friday, right? And then Wednesday for me and everyone else at the events |
| 1:06.4 | will probably be hands on with stuff, maybe? And then Wednesday for me and everyone else at the events will probably |
| 1:10.7 | be hands on with stuff, maybe some briefings, maybe just some photo opportunities and stuff. |
| 1:11.6 | I wonder if Apple executives will be split between all three of the locations, like they were |
| 1:16.9 | for the M4 iPad Pro event, remember? Yeah, where's the future CEO going to be? I think for that, |
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