#510 - iPhone 13 and iPad mini - The good, the bad, the ugly!
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🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This week: the early reviews are in—let’s talk about the best and worst parts of iPhone 13, 13 Pro, and the iPad mini. Plus: Apple is prepping yet another great feature coming soon to your HomePod—it ain’t dead yet, baby!
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| 0:00.0 | The real genius of Macintosh, Apple's newest personal computer, isn't it's 32-bit microprocessor, |
| 0:09.0 | or that it captures the power of a main frame on a board 10 by 10 inches, |
| 0:14.0 | or even that it costs half as much as computer's half as powerful. |
| 0:19.0 | The real genius of Macintosh is that you don't have to be a genius to use it. |
| 0:25.0 | Macintosh, the computer for the rest of us. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, and welcome to Hookass Eat Best 30 plus an up conversation you're going to hear. |
| 0:36.0 | All week long, I'm your host. |
| 0:39.0 | Airfront Elijah, show me me today. |
| 0:41.0 | He spent the last week whipping the Cult of Mac writers into shape, |
| 0:45.0 | and I do mean whipping. |
| 0:46.0 | He's got a collection of whips in a glass case. |
| 0:48.0 | Sometimes he uses the short one, the horse crop. |
| 0:50.0 | Sometimes he goes for the long one if he needs to hit a writer at the end of the cage. |
| 0:54.0 | Gotta keep those stories cranking out. |
| 0:57.0 | He's managing a Cult of Mac. |
| 0:58.0 | Ooh, it swallows us here. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, yeah, I just... |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, no comment. |
| 1:04.0 | You did a dress up like... |
| 1:06.0 | You did a dress up like... |
| 1:07.0 | You did a dress up like... |
| 1:08.0 | What? |
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