Apple OS redesigns, Apple Watch sales decline, smart glasses plans advance
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance talk about everything Apple in the run-up to WWDC, including news that watchOS and tvOS should also expect major design changes this cycle. Also, Chance used his phone as his ID at the airport, Apple’s smart glasses plans advance and Apple Watch sales are reportedly struggling.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Mayor, I took a trip for the long weekend this past weekend, and I flew out of BWI Airport here in Baltimore. |
| 0:09.5 | And BWI, well, and Maryland is one of the, it was one of the first and still one of the only few states to support digital IDs in Apple Wallet. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:22.4 | And I hadn't flown since I got my ID all set up in Apple Wallet. |
| 0:26.6 | So this was my first time hitting the airport and trying it out. |
| 0:30.6 | First, I noticed that they have a lot of signs throughout the airport promoting that they |
| 0:34.5 | support digital IDs in Apple Wallet. |
| 0:36.7 | They seemingly really want you to use it. |
| 0:39.3 | So I was worried going into it that I would go to use it and be like, what the hell |
| 0:45.9 | are you doing? |
| 0:47.1 | Just hand us your physical driver's license because you never know how many people actually |
| 0:51.5 | use a feature like that. |
| 0:52.7 | Like even in the early days of Apple Pay, you would go to tap your phone on the card reader and they'd look at you funny. |
| 0:59.4 | Like you would know, you would recognize the credit card reader and say, okay, this probably supports Apple Pay. |
| 1:04.2 | But the person who owned the business didn't know that the credit card reader supported Apple Pay. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, that was slightly less of an issue in the UK because just contactless debit and credit |
| 1:13.0 | cards are a lot more popular when Apple Pay arrived. |
| 1:16.0 | Like it was less novel. |
| 1:17.3 | But still, I think there were like clerks and, you know, stuff at the retailers who didn't |
| 1:22.8 | know that Apple Pay was just normal contactless under the hood, right? |
| 1:26.9 | So you bring the phone bill, oh, it doesn't work, but like, yeah, it's the same. |
| 1:31.0 | It's just, it just appears to the terminal as a card. |
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