AirPods Max, MacBook Neo, and Family Sharing on the AppleInsider Podcast
AppleInsider Podcast
AppleInsider
4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Apple unexpectedly launched yet another device, the very long-awaited AirPods Max, plus the MacBook Neo gets more real-world testing, and Family Sharing gets a great update, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- AirPods Max 2 vs AirPods Max: Premium personal audio compared
- AirPods Max 2 arrive with better ANC, Live Translation, and more
- iPhone 17e review: Welcome improvements
- iFixit MacBook Neo teardown confirms that it is Apple's most repairable laptop since 2012
- Tim Cook denies imminent retirement rumors, 'can't imagine life without Apple'
- Tim Cook dashes over to China for the latest Apple anniversary concert
- Apple scales up its partnership with Save the Music
- Tim Cook continues Apple's 50th anniversary victory lap in new interview
- Family Sharing no longer means sharing a credit card in iOS 26.4
- Staff departures do not mean Apple will abandon Liquid Glass
- Siri and refined Liquid Glass controls on the docket for WWDC 2026
- Liquid Glass is divisive now, but Apple knows where it's going
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:37) - AirPods Max
- (11:42) - MacBook Neo and iPhone 17e
- (38:39) - Apple celebrations
- (46:30) - Staff exit
- (51:15) - Family Sharing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | This is your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking. |
| 0:13.4 | Our sponsors this week are Masterclass, Nordsteller, and bartender. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm going to be joined by William today. |
| 0:20.7 | It's going to be a regular episode. |
| 0:22.1 | We're going to discuss Apple's surprise product drop from earlier this week and maybe a |
| 0:27.5 | little bit about Tim Cook. |
| 0:28.5 | But the after show, Apple Insider Plus, we're going to dive into a broader topic of what |
| 0:33.7 | does this Apple CEO even do? |
| 0:35.8 | Do we even need this guy? |
| 0:39.5 | What is he just a face? Does he actually make decisions that affect the company as a whole? Obviously, yes, to an extent, but maybe not |
| 0:45.3 | as much as we think. So, uh, we're going to be talking about Apple CEO and the history behind that and |
| 0:51.8 | how other companies kind of look like with that component. William, |
| 0:55.9 | how are you today? Well, good, but you just, the way you just said that about CEOs and things, |
| 1:01.6 | I'm suddenly brought in mind of the Peter principle. If you don't have to know that, we must discuss |
| 1:05.9 | it in the after show. Business thing, it's going to be funny. It be great i'm fine i'm playing with stream decks i'm |
| 1:12.4 | having a good old time but i don't know you are in a brand new situation at office and i kind of |
| 1:18.5 | envy how it looks yeah i'm i'm happy that last week's audio did not sound terrible it was obviously |
| 1:25.7 | different there's probably a few moments where the |
| 1:27.7 | blanket rubbed against the microphone or something. There was audible fuzz static, like a room |
| 1:34.6 | noise. And I'm not sure where that came from. So I will have to investigate. If that's here |
| 1:39.5 | this week, it's probably because, again, this is a new office, a new space that we're going to have to |
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