Macworld Apple, the beleaguered tech giant so far behind in the AI race that it had to ask a rival for help, nevertheless announced startlingly healthy financial results last week, thereby suggesting that, in the tech sector as in Hollywood, nobody knows anything. Maybe customers, who happily spent a record $85 billion on iPhones in late 2025, don’t care about AI as much as we thought. Aside from the eye-watering numbers, however, the most striking thing about Tim Cook’s triumphant earnings call may have been his unwillingness to dwell on the present. Acknowledging that Q1 2026 was “in so many ways a remarkable quarter for Apple,” he went on to stress that the company is “excited for all the opportunities…