It’s mid-February 2026, and the Macalope continues to be writing “The place does the time go? All issues fade. Quickly we die.” on all his checks.
It’s just a little recreation he likes to play with the Division of Licensing and Registration. The Macalope likes to think about they like it.
Anyway, it’s excessive time we check out what’s developing this 12 months as a result of earlier than you understand it, it’ll be over. Apple bought the ball rolling yesterday when it introduced an occasion for March 4th.
Wait. Excuse the Macalope. Not an “occasion”. An “expertise.” An “occasion” is jejune. Primary. Lowbrow. An “expertise” is elevated. Refined. Probably complicated or perhaps a little terrifying. The colours on the brand accompanying the announcement have satisfied many who the rumored new colourful MacBook lineup shall be introduced.
Gurman floats a number of choices, together with yellow, gentle inexperienced, blue, and pink…
It stays to be seen if “gentle” right here means a lighter shade of an precise shade or extra the obscure idea of the concept of a factor remotely like a shade that Apple tends to default to.
If a less expensive MacBook with a much less highly effective chip excites you, then you definately’ll love what else Apple is predicted to ship quickly! The iPhone 17e is predicted imminently, including an A19 chip and MagSafe charging, one thing the sexy one didn’t understand the 16e didn’t have. A brand new base mannequin iPad and iPad Air are anticipated early this 12 months, however will simply be velocity bumps of the prevailing fashions.
One factor you shouldn’t be anticipating any time quickly is that enhanced model of Siri Apple retains saying is “on schedule” and is “displaying good progress” and is “pondering of taking a spot 12 months to journey round Europe earlier than deciding whether or not to go to varsity or enter the workforce”. Wait, what was that final one?
After planning to incorporate the brand new capabilities in iOS 26.4…Apple is now working to unfold them out over future variations…probably suspending some options till at the very least iOS 26.5, due in Could, and iOS 27, which comes out in September.
Mark Gurman (Bloomberg), Feb. 11, 2026
26.5. 27. No matter it takes.
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Foundry
In Apple’s protection right here, they’re not the one ones struggling to ship an AI function.
[OpenAI] stated its first {hardware} system gained’t ship to prospects earlier than the top of February 2027.
Maxwell Zeff (Wired), Feb. 10, 2026
That factor that no one is aware of what it’s? Seems Jony Ive and Sam Altman don’t know, both.
Apple additionally could have a couple of surprises up its sleeve this 12 months as the corporate is predicted to announce new dwelling merchandise, together with a doorbell digital camera and lock that makes use of Face ID. The Macalope has been advocating for Apple to make its own residence automation merchandise for years, and the timing is nice since Amazon appears to have stepped in something {that a} hypothetical misplaced canine left on its entrance garden.
Following a complete overview, we decided the deliberate Flock Security integration would require considerably extra time and assets than anticipated. In consequence, we now have made the joint resolution to cancel the deliberate integration.
Ring, Feb. 12, 2026
Amazon’s willingness to clean the skids of getting Ring movies into the palms of legislation enforcement is fairly tone deaf. Think about spending hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to purchase a Tremendous Bowl advert for a system that makes use of facial recognition with out folks’s consent within the present setting. Bravo, Amazon. Nailed it.
(In the event you don’t know the distinction between Face ID–a secured system tied to a {hardware} system used solely for authentication–and scooping up everybody’s faces to place in an internet facial system, then please don’t @ the Macalope.)
Whereas you might even see these new merchandise and others from Apple, might there be one annual ritual you gained’t see this 12 months?
“Provide Chain Checks Present Non-Doom Situation has Legs”
Horace Dediu factors out a observe from GF Securities that claims:
Following the earnings name on Jan. 29, 2026, we did a provide chain analysis which signifies robust iPhone construct momentum…
What?! Can spring even come if there isn’t panic about iPhone manufacturing cuts?! Is that even attainable? Anyone get Nikkei on the road. Certainly they will discover somebody prepared to inform us about large iPhone manufacturing cuts.
Regardless, at the very least we must always have some new issues to speak about within the coming months.
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