AirPods Max! The Good. The Bad? The CASE... (#471)
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🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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This week: the $549 AirPods Max—we got them, here’s what we think!
Plus: Jony Ive might’ve just landed a new job, as the CEO of... Ferrari?
And we wrap up with more of our favorite stuff of 2020!
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THIS IS MY FACE HEARING AIRPODS MAX
- I recorded AirPods Max with a $1,000 mic so YOU can hear what I'm hearing!
Apple leaps to the defense of its crazy AirPods Max case
- A goal was to make a case that’s not too bulky. “We travel a lot, so we know how important it is to fit in a bag. So it’s extremely storage efficient,” said Hankey (in a machine translation).
Jony Ive is reportedly in the running to take the driver’s seat at Ferrari
- Since leaving Apple in the middle of last year, Sir Jony Ive has launched a new design agency, LoveFrom, and taken on clients including Airbnb. Now he could be headed for the figurative driver’s seat at Ferrari — as the Italian luxury carmaker’s next CEO. Possibly.
Strong demand for iPhone 12, new Apple TV on the way in 2021
Our favorite stuff of 2020!
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| 0:00.0 | The Apple 2C is the perfect computer to give your kids because apples are the leading computers used in schools. |
| 0:08.0 | This should be good. |
| 0:10.0 | Yet it can run thousands of business and home finance programs and it's so simple to set up and use. |
| 0:16.0 | Virtually anyone can do it. |
| 0:18.0 | Another Christmas miracle. available at |
| 0:25.0 | strawberry and clothier, six convenient locations. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Co-Cast's The Best 30 Plus Minute Upcomberation. |
| 0:36.8 | You're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm your host Airfinalized. |
| 0:40.3 | Join me today, the new Airpods have inspired him to go maximum cany which I was concerned to hear because |
| 0:45.6 | Max cany has landed him in the slimmer on at least three separate occasions |
| 0:50.6 | he's the founder of cold to Mac. Later, Katie is here. |
| 0:54.0 | Speaking of Max, he got excited when he saw the Max case look like a brassiere. |
| 0:58.6 | He was thinking, hey, I might be able to use those. My gym's been closed for a while. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm able to work out, I could use a little |
| 1:04.1 | extra support in the old top region. |
| 1:06.2 | The managing owner of the Mac Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:08.3 | That part's true enough. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm just joking, Louis, you don't need a bro. |
| 1:15.0 | Geez a man's ear. |
| 1:17.0 | You don't need one of those. |
| 1:20.0 | Look at that. |
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