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Apple TV brings Dolby Atmos to Formula 1, starting with the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin
Apple TV is adding Dolby Atmos to its Formula 1 coverage, beginning with the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin later this month.
Until now, Apple’s F1 streams have been carried in 5.1 surround. Atmos is meant to make the broadcast more immersive for viewers whose TVs or audio systems support it, placing engine noise, passing cars, and pit-lane sound around the listener — including overhead — rather than locking them to fixed channels.
The Austin weekend runs October 22–25, with the race on the final day. Apple has not said whether Atmos will cover practice and qualifying or only the race itself. The company has framed Austin as the start of its Atmos plans, but it is not yet clear whether every race after that will get the same treatment.
Apple’s Oliver Schusser told The Hollywood Reporter that sports viewing has seen little innovation and that there is room to improve the fan experience. Dolby’s John Couling told Business of Speed that Apple can draw on Formula 1’s existing trackside sensors and microphones, so circuits do not need new hardware — a setup that should be easier to repeat elsewhere.
Apple already has a track record with race audio. The sound team that won an Oscar for best sound on the Apple Original Film F1: The Movie which worked with roughly 150 microphones placed around tracks. Live Atmos is an attempt to bring some of that presence to the broadcast.
MacDailyNews Take: Of course, Atmos only appears on gear that supports it. Standard stereo setups will sound the same as before. AirPods 3 and newer — including recent AirPods Pro and AirPods Max models — can render the mix as Spatial Audio when paired with an Apple TV 4K.
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Apple CEO Ternus’ $8.5 million stock sale was tax math, not a market call
Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, sold about $8.5 million of company stock on October 2nd. The headline number looks large, and it is his first reported open-market sale since he succeeded Tim Cook on September 1st. The Form 4 filing shows a routine compensation event, not a discretionary exit.
On October 1st, 99,878 restricted stock units from a 2023 performance award vested on a schedule set years earlier. Vesting is taxable income whether or not the executive sells anything. Apple withheld 49,054 shares to cover that tax bill. Those withheld shares are not part of the sale. Of the shares that remained, Ternus sold 25,412, at prices between $331.38 and $334.05, for roughly $8.46 million. After the vest, the withhold, and the sale, he still held more Apple stock than he did before the award settled.
The trades ran under a Rule 10b5-1 plan Ternus adopted on May 21, 2026 — months before he became CEO. That rule lets insiders lock in future sales in advance, so the execution date is not a judgment on news that day. The plan adoption date matters more than the sale date.
The same calendar hit other executives. Under a plan adopted May 28th, Cook, now executive chair, sold 191,753 shares for about $63.8 million after 374,541 units vested, and still held 3,237,843 shares. Senior vice president Deirdre O’Brien sold 46,389 shares for about $15.5 million. Several officers selling on the same day after one company-wide vest is what a shared pay calendar looks like. Those awards also paid above target: Apple’s three-year total shareholder return was 90.67%, ranking in the 76th percentile of the S&P 500.
Apple’s fiscal third-quarter revenue rose 16.4% to $109.42 billion, and earnings per share of $2.02 beat the $1.89 estimate. Net income grew 27.1%, and Services brought in $30.74 billion. Shares closed at $333.63 on October 6, up 0.22%.
Investors who read Form 4s should separate the codes: an “S” is an open-market sale, an “F” is tax withholding. Here the sale was half of a post-tax vest, pre-scheduled under a 10b5-1 plan, mirrored by Cook and O’Brien, and followed by a larger stake than Ternus held the day before. That is compensation mechanics and certainly not a signal to sell.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple stock remains undervalued.
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Apple to report Q426 earnings on Monday, November 2nd
Apple will report FY26 Q4 earnings on Monday, November 2, 2026 after market close, right around 1:30 p.m. PDT / 4:30 p.m. EDT.
Apple’s conference call to discuss fourth fiscal quarter results and business updates is scheduled for Monday, November 2, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. PDT / 5:00 p.m. EDT. It will be the first earnings call led by CEO John Ternus alongside CFO Kevan Parekh.
Join Apple here on November 2, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. PDT / 5:00 p.m. EDT to listen to the conference call live.
Apple’s official guidance in the Q3 2026 (fiscal) earnings conference call primarily emphasized expected revenue growth for the Q426 quarter of 9% to 11% year-over-year. With Q4 2025 revenue of $102.5 billion, that range implies roughly $111.7 billion to $113.7 billion.
This outlook factored in foreign-exchange headwinds and supply constraints on iPhone, Mac, and iPad, while assuming iPhone revenue growth in the mid-teens. Other elements included:
• Gross margin in the 47–48% range (down from the prior quarter, which had benefited from tariff refunds).
• Continued pressure from higher memory pricing.
The September quarter ran from June 28th through September 26th, so the results will include the first nine days of sales for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, which went on sale September 18th, along with Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. The iPhone Duo, set to go on sale October 23rd, will not be in these numbers and will fall into the December quarter instead.
Investors will be listening for holiday-quarter expectations, comments on supply and memory costs, and Ternus’ first read on the business as CEO.
MacDailyNews Note: As usual, we’ll bring you Apple’s results as soon as they are released, right around 1:30 p.m. PDT / 4:30 p.m. EDT on Monday, November 2, 2026 and then follow with live notes from Apple’s conference call at 2:00 p.m. PDT / 5:00 p.m. EDT.
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Next-gen Apple TV 4K expected to pair an A20 Pro-class chip with Siri AI
Apple’s long-delayed Apple TV 4K refresh is widely expected to arrive as a software-and-silicon upgrade rather than a redesign, with reports centering on Siri AI and a much faster processor — possibly as high as an A20 Pro — after nearly four years on the current A15 Bionic model.
The third-generation Apple TV 4K launched in October 2022 with an A15 Bionic and 4GB of memory. Since then, Apple has held the set-top box while it prepared Apple Intelligence and a rebuilt Siri. Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman has described the new Apple TV, along with a refreshed HomePod mini, as being in advanced testing, with the delay tied to shipping the hardware alongside the new assistant rather than as an incremental box.
Chip reports have moved upward as the wait stretched. Early expectations focused on the A17 Pro, the oldest chip that can run Apple Intelligence. In September 2026, code uncovered by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris pointed to model identifier AppleTV18,1 and an A19 or A19 Pro, which would imply 8GB or 12GB of memory. Some later reporting has gone further and named the A20 Pro used in the iPhone 18 Pro line as a possible fit, arguing that Apple may want extra headroom for on-device models and games after such a long gap. Apple has not confirmed the chip.
Either way, the jump from the A15 would be large. A modern A-series chip brings a more capable Neural Engine for on-device AI, hardware-accelerated ray tracing for Apple Arcade and other games, and more efficient video decode. Extra memory is the practical requirement for Siri AI.
Siri AI is the feature for which Apple appears to have been waiting. Code in tvOS 27 and the tvOS 27.2 beta has referenced foundation models, Siri data collection for model improvement, and a Siri Messages framework that could support Smart Replies and reading messages from a linked iPhone. On the television, the practical pitch is simpler: better content search, app launching, recommendations, and world-knowledge questions, plus tighter ties to HomeKit. Recent betas also hint that a HomePod in a home-theater group could pass Siri AI requests to the Apple TV.
Other expected changes sit under the same polished black chassis. Leaked product images show a familiar exterior. Connectivity reports point to Apple’s N1 wireless chip, which would add Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread. A revised Siri Remote, internally referenced in code, is also expected; whether it gains Ultra Wideband or Find My support is unclear.
Timing is the other open variable. Several reports have pointed to an October 13th home-product push that could include the Apple TV 4K, a new HomePod mini, and Apple’s smart-home hub. Pricing is unconfirmed. Apple raised the current Wi-Fi model to $199 and the Ethernet model to $249 earlier in 2026, and those figures are the baseline most observers are using.
MacDailyNews Take: None of this is official. The consistent thread across leaks is that the next Apple TV 4K is meant to make the living-room box an Apple Intelligence device, with a newer chip — A19-class in the strongest code evidence, A20 Pro in some reports — and its attendant increased memory as the hardware that makes Siri AI possible.
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Mac admins are shipping AI-written code and configs at machine speed, but taking days to undo the mess
Enterprise Mac administrators are embracing AI to write scripts, troubleshoot problems and create device configurations, but the systems they rely on to manage those changes aren’t keeping pace. New research from Fleet Device Management finds a widening gap between how quickly AI can help IT teams make changes and how long it takes to recover when something goes wrong.
Fleet’s “Apple in the Enterprise” report, which surveyed more than 250 enterprise IT practitioners managing Apple devices, finds that Mac administration has evolved into an engineering discipline, while legacy device management infrastructure struggles to keep pace.
According to the report, 86% allow AI-written output to reach production devices following some form of review. In the past 30 days, 61% have used AI to author a mobile device management (MDM) profile or configuration, 62% to write scripts and code and 68% for troubleshooting or log analysis.
At the same time, nearly 70% are unable to roll back a bad configuration change within an hour, and 43% need more than a day. About a quarter (26%) can recover the same day but only with manual intervention.
“AI can help push changes out in seconds, while a mistake can drain hours of valuable IT time and resources,” said Allen Houchins, CIO, Fleet, in a statement. “Automating work with AI isn’t inherently bad, but human accountability and judgment is still critical. Teams need a clear record of what changed and a fast way to undo it when something goes wrong. Speed is only an advantage if the pace of recovery matches.”
As AI plays a bigger role in device management, Fleet argues that managing configuration as code gives IT teams greater control over changes and makes mistakes easier to reverse. Some teams are already working this way: 28% use human review for AI-generated changes and version control to track them, creating a clear record and path to rollback.
The report also shows that the shift in Mac administrators’ roles increasingly resembles software engineering: 57% of respondents regularly use LLM assistants, 46% use a code editor and 42% work with CI/CD runners. AI assistants are now used even more frequently than MDM consoles (53%). As a result, nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents already see a defined career path from administrator to senior and staff engineer.
“Mac admins are basically engineers now, whether their job description calls them that or not,” said Mike McNeil, CEO and co-founder of Fleet, in a statement. “They’re writing code, using AI and shipping changes to production, but they usually don’t have the safety net engineers take for granted. Software teams have Git. They can see what changed, review it and revert it. Device management should work the same way. Then, IT can actually take advantage of AI without relinquishing control.”
MacDailyNews Take: Seems like having instant rollback in place before pushing profiles would be prudent.
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Critics call Apple TV’s new comedy series the year’s quietest triumph
Apple TV’s strongest new arrival this year may not be an original at all. “Small Prophets,” the six-episode comedy from “Detectorists” creator Mackenzie Crook, landed on the service on October 7th after a celebrated run on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, and early American reviews are treating it as the streamer’s standout of 2026.
The Hollywood Reporter says the series “may be the finest show to hit Apple this year,” with the caveat that the ranking depends on how one feels about “Widow’s Bay.” The Verge called it “extremely strong in basically every regard,” a low-key mix of sweet and silly that has no real equivalent elsewhere. Elsewhere it has been described as a “jewel-like, unhurried masterpiece” that is funny, profound, and capable of breaking and mending the heart in the same stretch. It holds a rare perfect critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and earlier won Best Series in the International Panorama at Series Mania.
The premise is small on the surface and strange underneath. Pearce Quigley plays Michael Sleep, a Manchester-area hardware-store worker whose life has stayed on hold since his partner, Clea, disappeared seven years ago. He visits his father, Brian (Sir Michael Palin), spars with a nosy neighbor and a difficult boss, and keeps a house still full of Clea’s boxes. Then an old alchemical recipe enters the picture: tiny prophetic homunculi, grown in jars, that may be able to tell him what happened to her.
Lauren Patel plays Kacey, the co-worker who becomes an unlikely ally. Crook writes, directs, and co-stars as Gordon, Michael’s boss. Sophie Willan, Jon Pointing, and Paul Kaye round out the ensemble.
What reviewers keep returning to is the tone. Crook’s show is droll rather than broad, whimsical without tipping into twee, and grounded in ordinary grief even as the alchemy grows stranger. Quigley’s performance is being singled out as one of the year’s best: sarcastic and shut-in on the surface, funny and oddly lovable once the show lets him in. Palin’s turn as the father has drawn similar praise. Episodes run about half an hour, which suits the unhurried pace.
The pickup itself is unusual for Apple. Rather than commissioning the series, the streamer acquired worldwide rights after the BBC run, the first time it has bought an existing English-language show this way. In Britain it was the year’s biggest new scripted launch for the broadcaster, drawing as many as 9.2 million viewers, and the BBC has already ordered a second series, due in 2027 and moving to BBC One. Outside the U.K., the first two episodes are streaming now, with the rest arriving weekly through November 4. British Apple TV subscribers will have to wait until 2027.
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