Apple executive tumult continues, Apple Studio Display leaks, Fitness+ AI dubbing
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance talk about two more Apple executive departures since last week’s episode, and a rumored third that appears to be staying for now. There’s also exciting details about the next Apple Studio Display, Apple might be able to enlist Intel to manufacture Apple Silicon chips, Fitness+ is using AI for language dubbing, and more.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Meta Partners with iHeartMedia to Bring Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour to Meta Horizon
- Apple announces departure of two more top executives
- Report: Johny Srouji contemplating leaving Apple, considering career elsewhere
- Apple Silicon chief Johny Srouji reportedly commits to staying at Apple for now
- New Apple Studio Display rumored to upgrade three key features
- Apple TV previews new F1 streaming deal, confirms driver onboard cams will be included
- Apple announces biggest Fitness+ expansion ever with help from AI
- Apple and Google team up to make iPhone and Android switching easier
- EU says easier iPhone-Android switching is proof the DMA is working
- Apple might turn to Intel for its upcoming M-series chips, per report
- Future iPhone chips might be produced by Intel, per report
- Netflix is buying HBO Max, Warner Bros. in blockbuster $83 billion deal
- Netflix plans to keep selling Warner shows to Apple TV, like Ted Lasso
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Back in either August or September, Mayo, we talked about how some of Coldplay's concerts at Wimbley Stadium in London over the summer had been filmed with Apple's, or, well, not apples, with black magics, like immersive video camera. |
| 0:16.1 | And the natural speculation at the time was that, oh, maybe Apple and Colplay are working something |
| 0:20.9 | up and you'll be able to watch these Wembley shows in immersive video on Apple Vision Pro. |
| 0:25.6 | As a Vision Pro user, as a big Coldplay fan, I was very excited about that possibility. |
| 0:31.6 | I think I said I would buy you a Vision Pro if it happened, so you could enjoy it. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh, I forgot about that. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.0 | Now you just made this news 10 times worse for me. |
| 0:39.5 | So the news this week is that meta has partnered with Coldplay to bring the music of the |
| 0:44.5 | Sphere's tour to the quest headsets. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm a little bit confused about what exactly this means because it doesn't sound like |
| 0:53.2 | it's the full concert. |
| 0:55.1 | It sounds like it's some of the hit songs from the shows. |
| 0:58.4 | So not everything, but the big songs most people care about. |
| 1:01.5 | And it's done in partnership with IHeart Media. |
| 1:04.4 | So there's a lot of different collaborations and probably exclusivities going on here. |
| 1:10.4 | But the gist of it is you'll be able to |
| 1:12.8 | watch Colplay's Wembley shows, or at least parts of them, in immersive video on MetaQuest headsets. |
| 1:19.3 | I should probably know the answer to this. On Quest, do they have it in the same, like, |
| 1:22.7 | resolution? I do. I know, well, the Quest 3 is 4K, right? |
| 1:27.7 | So, yeah. |
| 1:30.1 | But is it like, because Apple makes, obviously, when immersive video fest came app, |
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