#439 - Our WWDC ’20 hardware predictions plus BIG iPhone 12 leaks
The CultCast
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week: Apple announces WWDC 2020! We talk our hardware and software predictions. Plus: a new leak gives us some exciting new info on the upcoming AppleTV hardware, and the iPhone 12 lineup, including some surprising prices and new features. We wrap up with a look at the new 13” MacBook Pro, so stay tuned sucka!
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This week's stories
Apple’s virtual Worldwide Developers Conference to begin June 22
- Apple announced Tuesday it will host its 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference virtually, beginning June 22. It will be available to view using the Apple Developer app, streamed on the Apple Developer website and free for all registered developers.
iPhone 12 prices rumored to stay close to current models, even with OLED screen upgrades
- Front Page Tech analyst Jon Prosser tweeted Thursday base pricing on what Cult of Mac has reported as four new iPhone 12 models coming later this year.
New Apple TV ‘ready to ship’ with much faster A12X chip
- A new Apple 4K Apple TV with the company’s A12X chip, which made its debut with the 11-inch iPad Pro in 2018, is primed to drop any time, claims Apple tipster Jon Prosser.
New 13-inch MacBook Pro brings Magic Keyboard, double storage and 10th-gen Intel chips
- Apple unveiled a new 13-inch MacBook Pro on Monday, bringing a slew of upgrades to its smaller high-end laptop.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The reason that Lotus is doing this product and the reason that I'm interested in it personally is much the same reason that I originally got involved with the Apple II in 1977. |
| 0:12.8 | It's exciting, it's new, but beyond that, |
| 0:16.4 | we can really do something in software that's a value to people, |
| 0:21.0 | to lots and lots of people, that we simply couldn't do before. |
| 0:24.0 | The technology that's in Macintosh makes it possible, we think, for us to move ahead, |
| 0:30.0 | move the state of the art ahead in software. And that what's exciting and that's why we're in business. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to go cast seat's 30 plus minute alpha conversation. |
| 0:43.0 | You're gonna hear all week long. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm your host, Erefon Eliza. |
| 0:46.8 | Join me today, he's the founder of Colt Mack |
| 0:49.1 | and the one who makes those unmuscular, weak |
| 0:52.2 | P. P. P. Boys over at 95 Mac, Shutter and Fear. |
| 0:55.2 | Later, Kaney is here. |
| 0:57.2 | Oh no, there he is, run! Gee's Lewis! |
| 1:07.0 | Also with those, he's the manager to get her of Colt and Mack, |
| 1:10.0 | and when he's not throwing darts at the dartboard, |
| 1:12.0 | he's hucking them at those Colttamack writers who get their stories in late. |
| 1:16.0 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:18.0 | Yuck! |
| 1:19.0 | Ow! My brain! |
| 1:22.0 | Shut up. |
| 1:23.0 | Keep typing. |
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