#424 - Why everyone's upset about AirPods Pro
The CultCast
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🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week: it’s not your imagination, Apple changed AirPods Pro and it made them worse—we’ll tell you what’s going on… Plus: a new report says Apple caved to FBI pressure to keep your iCloud backups less safe. And stay tuned to hear about about Tim Cook’s favorite new… shower tech? Rub a dub dub yaaaaaaaall!
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This week's stories
Apple reportedly dropped iCloud encryption plans amid FBI pressure
- Apple ditched plans to let users fully encrypt backups of their devices using iCloud, a new report by Reuters claims. Apple reportedly made the decision after the FBI complained that this would make it harder to carry out future investigations.
AirPods Pro noise cancellation spoiled by firmware updates, users say
- A growing number of users say their buds aren’t blocking out background noise as effectively as they once did. And testing confirms that to be the case.
Now you can shower like Tim Cook without getting soaked
- Nebia, the eco-friendly shower head company adored by Tim Cook, unveiled a new version of its shower system today. Unlike the previous two-generations, this one is priced to sell.
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| 0:00.0 | If only businessman can afford something, it makes it kind of sterile. |
| 0:04.0 | If it can get into the hands of artists and musicians and 12 year old kids, |
| 0:09.0 | that's what really excites us. |
| 0:10.0 | So we kind of set up, you know, Lisa set a standard something. It blew my mind when I saw it. God, this is incredibly |
| 0:16.1 | great and easy to use, but it was a little too expensive. And so we set out to capture the greatness of Lisa |
| 0:22.3 | in something affordable to individuals. to |
| 0:23.0 | capture the greatness of Lisa in something affordable to individuals rather than corporations. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the whole cast the best 30 plus minute album conversation you're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm your host Air from Liza join me today. |
| 0:39.6 | The strut, the swagger, the bravado. |
| 0:43.0 | He's like Mick Jagger of the Apple journalist community. |
| 0:46.6 | The founder of Colta Mac, Leander Caney is here. |
| 0:50.0 | Do they do that little rooster thing when you walk around the office? He's surprised that. Hello. They're so soft. Managing editor of Delta Mac, |
| 1:03.0 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:04.0 | Give me one of those big beautiful size. |
| 1:07.7 | My blood pressure just went down about 10 points, Louis. |
| 1:11.1 | You just start your own... |
| 1:11.8 | It's got to be easier than yoga your own AS a tomorrow channel. I know one guy that will listen to it he's sitting in your office |
| 1:20.0 | Although he's got some sick erotic fetish with ASMR so might make things weird |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, I don't know if I won't even get near it |
| 1:29.8 | I wouldn't so welcome to the cult cast everyone. You're probably thinking to yourself there's no way |
| 1:34.7 | They found anything to talk about this you know what you're close |
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