10 years of Apple Watch, Siri leadership shakeup, DMA fines
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance reflect on the history of the Apple Watch on its ten year anniversary. Also, the EU slaps Apple with its first ever fines under the DMA. Rockwell is said to already be making waves with big Siri leadership changes, and Chance appreciates the flexibility of modern Photographic Styles.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Siri’s new boss is already making big internal changes, per report
- Opinion: Apple Watch Series 2 may right enough wrongs to keep it on my wrist
- Comment: Going from a skeptic to an every day user with Apple Watch Series 2
- Rumor: iPhone 17 Pro could launch in Sky Blue
- Apple fined 500 million euros by EU under the Digital Markets Act, forced to make changes to App Store policies
- Commission closes investigation into Apple's user choice obligations and issues preliminary findings on rules for alternative apps under the Digital Markets Act
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, Mayo, I have some more baseball to talk about, talk to you this week about. |
| 0:03.6 | Oh, no. |
| 0:04.6 | Not entirely related to baseball, but the revelation came to me at a baseball game. |
| 0:08.2 | I'll say that. |
| 0:08.9 | So usually I go to baseball games and I sit in like the upper deck, just get whatever |
| 0:14.1 | cheap ticket I can find because I go to so many games. |
| 0:16.3 | I can't be paying $100 a ticket every game. |
| 0:19.1 | Last weekend, my Cincinnati Reds were in Baltimore playing |
| 0:22.2 | the Orioles. So I said, okay, I'm going to splurge for two games. I'm going to sit behind |
| 0:26.2 | home play, get some great seats, take some cool pictures, and just vibe, as they say. So I'm |
| 0:32.1 | sitting behind home play, taking pictures, and Emily is with me, and she took a few pictures and we're just having a good time. And then we get to |
| 0:37.7 | the car after the game and I was like, hey, let's look at our pictures together. I pull my phone |
| 0:42.0 | out thinking, I am the professional iPhone user. My pictures are going to look so much better than |
| 0:46.8 | Emily's. I know how to use this phone's camera. And I'm looking at her pictures and say, |
| 0:51.4 | damn, hers are better than mine. Why her hers better than mine? Her color is so much brighter, so much just like, it just pops more because you have the green, |
| 0:59.3 | you want a lot of color in these pictures, right? |
| 1:01.5 | You have the green grass, the perfectly green grass. |
| 1:05.1 | The reds are wearing the bright red uniforms. |
| 1:07.3 | The Orioles are wearing orange uniforms. |
| 1:09.0 | There's a lot of color. |
| 1:10.2 | Saturation. |
| 1:11.8 | Saturation. Yeah. |
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