{"id":230327,"date":"2026-02-02T05:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/apples-historic-quarter-doesnt-change-the-need-for-ai-reckoning"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:02:53","slug":"apples-historic-quarter-doesnt-change-the-need-for-ai-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/apples-historic-quarter-doesnt-change-the-need-for-ai-reckoning","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Historic Quarter Doesn\u2019t Change the Need for AI Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apples-historic-quarter-doesnt-change-the-need-for-ai-reckoning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-29\/apple-sales-trounce-estimates-after-iphone-fuels-record-quarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">blockbuster holiday quarter<\/a> was impressive \u2014 but it shouldn\u2019t give cover to avoid an AI reckoning. Also: A new MacBook Pro is planned for the macOS 26.3 release cycle; the company explores a clamshell follow-up to its upcoming foldable phone; and an updated AirTag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-26\/apple-announces-new-airtag-with-longer-range-louder-speaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">finally rolls out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week in <em>Power On<\/em>: Inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-01-25\/inside-apple-s-ai-shake-up-ai-safari-and-plans-for-new-siri-in-ios-26-4-ios-27-mktqy7xb?srnd=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Apple\u2019s AI shake-up<\/a> and its plans for two new versions of Siri powered by Gemini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s blockbuster holiday quarter was impressive \u2014 but it shouldn\u2019t give cover to avoid an AI reckoning. Also: A new MacBook Pro is planned for the macOS 26.3 release cycle; the company explores a clamshell follow-up to its upcoming foldable phone; and an updated AirTag finally rolls out. Last week in Power On: Inside Apple\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}