All the best iOS 16 features + Apple’s incoming October event! (CultCast #562)
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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This week: iOS 16's best features + our hardware predictions for Apple's definitely-gonna-happen October event!
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This week's stories
16 Hidden iOS 16 Features You Didn't Know About
- Other than the headlining features, there are a number of quality-of-life changes, improvements, and new capabilities baked into iOS 16 that help improve the iPhone experience.
Enter to win a shiny new elago iPhone 14 case of your choice [Cult of Mac giveaway]
- This week’s giveaway is to ensure your glossy new iPhone 14 is protected the best way possible. elago, one of our favorite Apple accessory-makers, just launched its new iPhone 14 cases, and we are giving three lucky readers a chance get their hands on one of them.
- The best bit is, if you win, the case choice is yours.
Apple Releases New HomePod 16 Software
- Alongside iOS 16, watchOS 9, and tvOS 16, Apple today released new software that's designed for the HomePod and the HomePod mini.
iPhone 14 Pro wait times already stretch into October
- If you procrastinated on ordering one of the new iPhone 14 Pro models, there’s a good chance you’re looking at a lengthy wait for it to be delivered.
Kuo: iPhone 14 Plus Pre-Orders Worse Than iPhone 13 Mini, Product Strategy 'Fails'
- The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus have seen "bad" pre-order results, indicating that Apple's positioning of the two new standard models may have failed, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Steve Jobs' Daughter Shares Then Deletes Meme Mocking iPhone 14's Modest Upgrades
- After Apple's iPhone 14 launch event, Steve Jobs' daughter Eve Jobs shared a meme on Instagram that mocked the new iPhones as basically unchanged compared to last year's iPhone 13.
Elon says Apple's in talks with StarLink...
- His tweet: We’ve had some promising conversations with Apple about Starlink connectivity. iPhone team is obv super smart.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my man. |
| 0:00.8 | All right, and I'm a PC back. |
| 0:01.9 | It's been kind of a rough quarter, |
| 0:02.9 | so I brought in a trainer to get me back on top of my game. |
| 0:05.7 | God, get started, you're bucking a bolts. |
| 0:07.6 | PC-mag rated Mac number one accustomed to support. |
| 0:10.6 | Are you just gonna take that? |
| 0:11.9 | No. |
| 0:12.6 | PC World's readers called Mac number one in reliability. |
| 0:15.4 | He's laughing at you. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm not laughing at you. |
| 0:17.5 | He's number one accustomed to satisfaction. |
| 0:19.7 | What are you? |
| 0:20.3 | I can't wait. |
| 0:21.2 | Maybe we could try some positive reinforcements this way. |
| 0:23.2 | Sure. |
| 0:24.8 | You're doing a good job, Mac. |
| 0:26.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Cassie Best 30 Plus |
| 0:34.5 | from the Optical conversation. |
| 0:35.4 | You're gonna hear, all week long. |
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