iPhone 17 leads Apple earnings record, new MacBooks near, and a mysterious $2B acquisition 

Benjamin and Chance speculate on Apple’s mysterious acquisition of Q.ai, the company’s second biggest acquisition ever. The iPhone 17 is a veritable smash hit, leading to an all-time quarterly earnings record. And Apple redesigns the order flow for buying a new Mac, with new MacBooks just around the corner. 

And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin realizes he has some overdue spring-cleaning to do on his Desktop folder. 

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Links

• Apple acquires secretive Q․ai startup for $2 billion
• Apple reports record-breaking Q1 2026 earnings
• Apple revamps how you buy a Mac online
• New MacBook Pro release date: Here’s when M5 Pro and M5 Max might debut
• Latest macOS 26.3 beta adds to signs that new Macs are imminent
• Will the Studio Display 2 have this key upgrade?
• Studio Display refresh looms with three key upgrades
• Apple announces agentic coding in Xcode with Claude Agent and Codex integration
• CarPlay Ultra coming to at least one new car later this year, per report
• Tesla still working on CarPlay support, here’s what we know

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