Apple’s next CEO + Dialing back Liquid Glass? (CultCast #707)

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Send us a text! This week, Leander and Griffin are joined by Graham Bower to talk about the latest iPhone 17 leaks, Jeff Williams stepping down and what that means for Apple’s next CEO, toning down Liquid Glass in iOS 26, how to vibe code to make your next iOS app, a perplexing user setup, MacBook Pro buying advice… and a review of an exciting handheld video game console! This episode supported by: The Cult of Mac Today Newsletter. Get all the top stories, Leander’s daily musings, top tweets,...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the cult cast, the best hour-long Apple podcast you're going to hear all week long.
0:12.2	Join me today, we have Dee Griffin Jones coming in from Ohio. Hey Griffin. Good evening.
0:18.0	And our friend, our good friend, Graham Bauer from Barcelona.
0:21.3	Hey, Graham.
0:21.9	Hello.
0:22.3	Good to be here.
0:23.5	You know, last week we got a lot of really lovely, positive, kind words from our listeners
0:29.0	who appreciated the new format of the show and said, you know, oh man, like the combination of
0:34.7	Leander, Lewis, and Griffin, that's a really great set of hosts.
0:37.4	And to everybody who wrote in, Lewis, and Griffin, that's a really great set of hosts.
0:43.1	And to everybody who wrote in, sorry, because Lewis is now on a four-week vacation as well.
0:46.1	He'll be back, though, yeah.
0:47.5	Rotating panel of guests.
0:48.8	He'll be back.
0:49.3	He'll be back.
0:50.3	I know, yeah, we miss Lewis.
0:51.3	We miss Lewis a lot.
0:58.5	His E.R. style depressed sighing and and and cynicism but he'll be back he'll be back so we're going to discuss we've got three news items
1:04.4	to discuss some new iPhone 17 that you know the lineup is coming into focus we're going to talk
1:10.8	about Jeff Williams stepping down.
1:12.3	He was probably the most likely candidate for the next CEO, but no more.
1:15.9	And the other thing we're going to discuss is, oh, the new beta features in iOS 26.
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