#384 - Are we too critical of Apple?
The CultCast
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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week: is the CultCast crew too critical of Apple? Some say yes. We discuss! Plus, we talk about the pros and cons of Apple’s reported modular Mac Pro. And we’ll look at why Samsung’s new folding phone is already breaking! And this fatal flaw might mean its demise...
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Order Leander's new book, signed!
Modular Mac Pro - Apple’s next flop?
Samsung Galaxy Fold vs Flagship Smartphones
Samsung’s folding smartphones break on Day 1
- Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold smartphone has a serious problem with its folding display.
- Multiple early reviewers are reporting that the display has broken after just one or two days of use. It appears that the hinge on some units is defective, causing the screen to be unusable.
- The Verge, Bloomberg, and other high profile reviewers have had the screens on their units break
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| 0:00.0 | If you don't have the largest selection of games on any phone, from your favorite |
| 0:08.7 | classics to the latest and greatest. |
| 0:14.0 | And you don't have Game Center |
| 0:17.0 | where you can find your friends, wherever they are, |
| 0:20.0 | challenge them to a game, and play head to head to head. |
| 0:26.0 | Yep, if you don't have an iPhone, well, you don't have an iPhone. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello! phone. Hello and welcome to the Gold Cass E-Pest 30-plus minute Apple conversation. |
| 0:38.0 | We're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm your host Air Funallizer. |
| 0:42.0 | Join me today as Leander Caney is out partying |
| 0:45.2 | having fun and gallivanting across the globe. He's in the Kolta Mac world |
| 0:50.8 | headquarters keeping the wheels churning. |
| 0:53.8 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 0:56.1 | Hey, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, yes, just chugging right away. |
| 1:00.2 | Leander's in the Big Apple? |
| 1:01.7 | I'm sure Leander's doing some chugging up his own. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah, hanging out with all, I saw him on like Yahoo Finances channel. |
| 1:07.8 | He's doing any reviews with everybody. Oh man, he's all over the place. That book is, it's blowing blowing up it's so you can barely touch it |
| 1:14.3 | burns your fingertips people are starting to get their orders to you people are |
| 1:17.8 | tweeting me the the orders are coming in yeah nice I gotta get Leander to send me a |
| 1:22.3 | few copies to to give away to some listeners. I was thinking we should give some away. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, come on. Bust out the series' copies. Signed, sealed, and delivered. Yeah, that thing is, oh man, what's it called Tim Cook, |
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