#435 - Here come new AirPods and the 14-inch MacBook Pro 💋
The CultCast
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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week: a tipster says the new 14-inch MacBook Pro is right around the corner! We’ll tell you what we know... Plus: Apple is readying their secret over-the-ear headphones, and a mysterious little product called the AirPods X. We discuss! And we wrap up with a USB-C charger that can charge it all, Logitech’s new Streamcam, and a double duty iPhone/Apple Watch stand in an all-new Under Review.
And stay tuned for Erfon's Corona virus update....
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On the show this week
@erfon / @lkahney / @lewiswallace
This week's stories
iOS 14 could bring new wallpaper settings, Home screen widgets
- The latest iOS 14 leaks hint that new wallpaper settings and Home screen widgets are coming to iPhone and iPad.
Apple readies new headphones, AirPods X; plans to ‘phase out Beats’
- Apple is readying new over-ear headphones and “AirPods X” for 2020 as it plans to slowly “phase out Beats,” a tipster claimed Tuesday.
Apple expected to deliver new 13-inch MacBook Pro in May
- Apple’s much-anticipated 13-inch MacBook Pro refresh will arrive next month, according to one popular tipster.
Apple reveals COVID-19 Face Shield details in new support doc
- Tim Cook revealed last weekend that Apple is making 1 million face shields a week for medical workers and thanks to a new support document, we finally got a good look at how they work.
Under Review picks!
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| 0:00.0 | Then you're content being the inventor, the tinkerer, the rather than the great brilliant |
| 0:09.9 | businessman marketing genius. |
| 0:12.6 | Do you know anything about that part of the business? |
| 0:14.8 | Based on backgrounds that other companies I'd worked for |
| 0:16.7 | and how they had treated and basically the management had stated that it was |
| 0:20.0 | okay to be an engineer your whole life. |
| 0:22.0 | To those of us who that was the most pure thing in the world, |
| 0:24.0 | designing the perfect circuit, writing the perfect program, doing all the optimizations, |
| 0:28.0 | you want to do that your whole life. I decided when we started becoming successful that I would not go into management at Apple. |
| 0:33.8 | I am not a run-the-company type person. |
| 0:36.1 | I just, because I made the choice. |
| 0:37.4 | I just want to be an engineer and I want to sit down and write my own code and come up with |
| 0:40.7 | clever algorithms and even play games on the computer. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:48.0 | Cassie Best 30 plus minute Apple conversation. |
| 0:50.8 | You're going to hear all week long. I'm your host Air Final Liza. |
| 0:54.1 | Join me today. He's always been a little off, but now that he's been locked in for |
| 0:58.2 | weeks with the whole Kaini clan, he's totally lost it. |
| 1:03.0 | The founder of Colta Mac, Leander Cany is here. |
| 1:06.4 | His eyes twitching. |
| 1:07.7 | Should know what he's gonna do next. |
| 1:10.2 | Funny, yeah, I don't have a little break, |
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