Touchscreen Macs, OLED iPad mini, ads in Apple Maps

Benjamin and Chance react to a bevy of Bloomberg reports about Apple’s future plans, from touchscreen Macs to ads in Apple Maps and a future OLED iPad mini.

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Links

• Apple Music PM to discuss recent features in Reddit AMA (9to5mac.com/2025/10/28/apple-music-reddit-ama)

• Original Reddit thread about the AMA (reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1oh2dry/adam_…)

• iOS 26.1 release candidate now available with these changes (9to5mac.com/2025/10/28/ios-26-1-release-candid…)

• Bloomberg: Apple planning huge MacBook Pro overhaul for as soon as next year (9to5mac.com/2025/10/16/bloomberg-apple-plannin…)

• Report: Apple preparing major display upgrade for three upcoming products (9to5mac.com/2025/10/28/report-apple-preparing-…)

• New iPad mini could solve my biggest complaint (9to5mac.com/2025/10/29/apple-could-solve-my-bi…)

• Report: iPad Pro to gain vapor chamber cooling with M6 model (9to5mac.com/2025/10/26/report-ipad-pro-to-gain…)

• Apple may introduce search ads to Apple Maps starting next year, per report (9to5mac.com/2025/10/26/apple-introducing-searc…)

• I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird. | WSJ - YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so)

• 1X NEO Home Robot (1x.tech/discover/neo-home-robot)