150: A Mac Pro in Every Pot
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 31 December 2015
β±οΈ 115 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up: Foliage in Apple stores
- Casey gets a new Apple TV
- Casey gets a new RetinaPad Mini
- What plausible/realistic things are we hoping for in 2016?
- Marco β Apple TV: get better
- Casey β App Store: get better
- John β Mac Pro: get newer
- ...and a new 5K Cinema Display
- Marco β Finish the Retina transition
- Casey β Swift on the server
- John β New filesystem (π)
- Marco β Apple Watch: get better
- Casey β Unification of the package management
- John β Apple Pencil for non-Pro iPads
- Marco β iPad Pro: get better
- ...and an Instagram app for iPad
- Bonus: iPhone 7 wishes
- More milliamp hours in the battery
- More secure feeling in the hand
- Casey β iPhone battery: get better
- John β OLED screens in iPhones
- Bonus: non-curved OLED TVs with best-in-class picture quality
- Bonus: TV stations: stop with the logo bugs
- Marco β Apple: show more focus
- John β squash more bugs
- Post-show:
- Fantasy Macs
- John G4 review
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | But I did see Star Wars last night. We can talk about that for a while. |
| 0:02.8 | Yeah, it's old news. |
| 0:04.2 | Oh, me and I missed my chance. |
| 0:06.5 | Now the Marcos scene, it's old news. |
| 0:08.3 | It's all downhill from there. |
| 0:10.0 | Do you want to do some follow-up? |
| 0:12.9 | Sure, we actually have some. |
| 0:14.4 | One person who's not... I don't know if this person lives in Dubai or just knows about the |
| 0:20.6 | Apple Store in Dubai. |
| 0:21.6 | But I'm trying to think of a reason why this person is not like every single person in |
| 0:25.2 | the United States on vacation and not sending us any follow-up. |
| 0:30.9 | But in episode 149, we talked about the Foleygage Walls and the Apple Model Store things |
| 0:37.1 | from the 60 minutes television show. |
| 0:39.8 | They showed like, oh, here's a store where we try out all the different ideas we have for |
| 0:44.0 | Apple Store, isn't they have this one wall of the store that had plants, like real living |
| 0:47.2 | plants just sort of cascading down the wall. |
| 0:49.3 | And I thought that would be funny if they actually put that in a store. |
| 0:51.7 | Well apparently they have... it's just going to show that everything they show in 60 |
| 0:55.8 | minutes has to be something that already exists so there are no secrets to revealed. |
| 0:59.3 | And the Apple Store in Dubai, they have a Foleygage Wall. |
| 1:02.4 | So there you go. |
| 1:03.4 | That's super exciting. |
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