Apple gives up on MLS, the Mac Pro, and an iPhone designer on this week's AppleInsider Podcast
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4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Apple's sports media strategy is up in the air, the Mac Pro may actually be dead this time, and Apple's doom won't be found in a single employee departure on the AppleInsider Podcast. This week's bonus segment in AppleInsider+ covers podcasts William and Wes listen to.
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Links from the Show:
- Tyler, the Creator seals his biggest year yet as Apple Music Artist of the Year
- Joe Rogan beats The Daily to top Apple Podcasts' Top Charts for 2025
- Apple TV subscribers will get Major League Soccer games for free in 2026
- MLS & Apple TV deal ends in 2029, years ahead of schedule
- Apple TV will offer Friday Night Baseball through 2028, contrary to rumors
- iOS 26.2 Side button virtual assistant settings were actually meant for Japan
- Mac Pro may never be updated, Apple backs Mac Studio instead
- In with a bang, out in silence — the end of the Mac Pro
- Expect big changes in iPhone release timing in 2026 and 2027
- iPhone Air isn't annual, iPhone Air 2 was never coming in 2026
- Next Apple Watch refresh may not happen until 2028
- Industrial designer & iPhone Air video narrator departs Apple for AI startup
- How Pixar avoided becoming 'Sillywood' when Steve Jobs took over
- HidrateSpark Pro 2 review: motivational drinking with lights, chimes, & Find My
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (08:47) - Apple Podcast charts
- (26:31) - Apple Sports strategy
- (36:59) - Siri changes in Japan
- (41:49) - RIP Mac Pro?
- (50:38) - Apple's new product schedule
- (01:00:47) - Apple DOOM™
- (01:08:12) - Pixar and Toy Story
- (01:12:47) - Closing comments
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Appensider podcast. I'm William Gallagher. |
| 0:11.2 | As sponsors today, there are a few. This is clearly the place to be. |
| 0:15.3 | A Nord-Stella, Udacity, Aura, Frames and Ruler. More about those later. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm joined by Wesley Hilliard, who frankly has |
| 0:22.5 | come to accept that I will always have questions for him that are just my own personal nosiness, |
| 0:28.8 | such as today when I'll tell you, I really want to know about the hydrate Spark Pro 2 smart |
| 0:34.3 | water bottle, which I already have, but he is reviewed, and we're going to come to that later. |
| 0:40.1 | But for now, Wes, I'm assuming, yeah, we're both fully hydrated or whatever, but I think you are also |
| 0:46.9 | extraordinarily excited by Apple's music artists of the year. Am I right? |
| 0:51.5 | I wouldn't say super excited. I'm aware of Tyler the creator. I've |
| 0:56.6 | definitely heard his music. It's actually funny. It's just outside of my wheelhouse enough that I |
| 1:02.0 | didn't go to my way to listen to him, but it started to come into my recommendation algorithm |
| 1:06.7 | and my playlists, a very notable album artwork and sound. |
| 1:12.2 | So I started to notice him more over the past year and have saved a few of his songs |
| 1:16.4 | to my library. |
| 1:18.2 | So I actually really enjoy, I think one's called Darling Eye. |
| 1:23.6 | That one's very fun. |
| 1:25.2 | Definitely has a classic sound. |
| 1:28.1 | A lot of his music sounds like the rap and R&B music that I grew up hearing. |
| 1:33.7 | So just a fun throwback artist and I think well deserving of the artist of the year. |
| 1:39.2 | Unless for a year this has been slipping into your playlists, |
| 1:43.8 | you think Apple has been seeding this |
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