Apple acquires Pixelmator, iOS 18.2 beta 2, Apple movie glasses
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance discuss Apple’s surprise acquisition of Pixelmator, all the new features and changes in the latest OS betas, and the rumors around Apple’s indecision for the future of wearables on your face.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple reaches deal to acquire Pixelmator
- iOS 18.2 beta 2: Every new feature and change
- visionOS 2.2 adds new Wide and Ultrawide settings for Mac Virtual Display, more
- macOS 15.2 lets users add a Weather widget to the Menu Bar
- Apple is 'seriously considering' Vision device that offloads compute to your iPhone
- Apple launches internal study focused on building smart glasses
- Apple could face EU's first-ever DMA fine as soon as this month
- EU commission assessing whether the iPad offers sufficient interoperability with third-party headphones and 'smart pens'
- Apple reportedly releasing 'total redesign' for MacBook Pro in 2026
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So this has been election week here in the United States. |
| 0:02.2 | I don't know if you've heard, heard all of the news that's happened. |
| 0:04.9 | I think I noticed, you know. |
| 0:06.3 | It doesn't. |
| 0:07.2 | I saw it on, I saw it passed me by, you know. |
| 0:09.4 | You saw it a couple days late, courtesy of the Threads algorithm, I'm guessing. |
| 0:13.6 | No, I did watch, I did watch a decent amount of it through BBC news. |
| 0:17.4 | I just had that one a bit before I went to bed. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah. ABC News. I just had that one a bit before I went to bed. Well, obviously, anybody who knows me and |
| 0:21.3 | follows me knows that I am not particularly happy or happy at all with the result of the election, |
| 0:25.2 | but that's not what I wanted to talk about with you today, Mayo. I wanted to praise Apple News and |
| 0:30.4 | praise how Apple News like handled and featured the election this week because it was so, so, so good. |
| 0:37.4 | They had the live activity that |
| 0:38.7 | you could opt into that showed in literally real time, like before the news networks would talk |
| 0:44.3 | about one of the Trump or Harris winning a state and getting those electoral votes. You'd get |
| 0:50.1 | the notification in the live activity first. Like whatever data source Apple News was using for that or doing their own data or whatever was so fast. I didn't look good. Yeah. Good you on it looked great. It looked great. Yeah. And like on the lock screen, you would see Trump and Harris. Then also the Senate and Congress see the results for all four sides of it. Just the attention of detail and the amount |
| 1:12.3 | of data that they fit in that interface was so good. And I think Apple News gets like a bad rep for |
| 1:17.4 | some reason. And rightfully so for things like ads, the Apple News ads are terrible. They're like |
| 1:23.1 | chumbox ads. But for things like this, having such a good news app built into every iPhone, |
| 1:28.9 | like they knocked it out of the park. Yeah, the news app struggles when it's just in its like |
| 1:35.5 | algorithmic default layout, right? Where like, yeah, I think people struggle to find articles that |
| 1:40.3 | are relevant to them a lot of the time. And so it's kind of like a luck of the draw if you open |
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