Apple’s secret mixed reality headset incoming, + our 2021 Gear of the Year! (CultCast #521)
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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This week: Apple’s much-anticipated augmented reality headset could finally drop in 2022, a new 5G iPhone SE is RIGHT around the corner, and we reveal our picks for 2021's Gear of the Year, part 1!
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Apple’s first AR headset could arrive late next year with super-speedy chip
- Apple’s much-anticipated augmented reality headset could finally drop late next year, according to TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
iPhone SE 3 with 5G could be right around the corner
- Apple is on course to introduce its third-generation iPhone SE early in 2022, according to a market-analysis firm. It’s expected to be the first in this budget line with 5G cellular-wireless networking.
Apple hasn’t given up on making a do-it-all charger for multiple devices
- Apple continues to work on a wireless charger, similar to the abandoned AirPower mat, that will allow users to charge multiple devices simultaneously, according to a new report. The company also hopes to develop truly wireless charging in the future.
GIVEAWAY Choetech is giving away MagSafe charging stands and a 40% discount code [Cult of Mac Giveaway]
Elon Musk: Don’t waste money on ‘silly’ Apple Polishing Cloth, buy our $50 Tesla whistle
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks you should avoid wasting your money on a “silly” Apple Polishing Cloth and instead spend it on his company’s $50 Cyberwhistle.
Gear of the Year, Part 1
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Mac and I'm a PC |
| 0:02.5 | You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not proud. I'm telling you why |
| 0:08.1 | Santa Claus is coming to town |
| 0:11.1 | He sees you when you're in sleep mode. He knows when you're awake |
| 0:15.3 | He knows when you've been better good so buy PC and not a mac this holiday season or any other time for goodness sake |
| 0:23.6 | Come on. Oh what what I thought those were the lyrics. I mean, that's how I learned it |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Cassie Best 30 plus minute. I'm a conversation you're gonna hear |
| 0:37.2 | Oh my god, this is a deep thing is getting so bad. I'm your host |
| 0:41.4 | Everybody lies at Joey's day |
| 0:43.5 | He was San Francisco's favorite mall Santa until the security discovered he wasn't on payroll |
| 0:49.9 | And then found the real mall Santa tied up in a custodian closet now he's doing parties and his rates are fair |
| 0:55.2 | If I do say so myself. He's the founder of Kultamack lander Katie's here. Hello |
| 1:00.6 | So with us people say he's too firm with the Kultamack writers |
| 1:04.7 | But this year he's given them two extra coals for this dough, which will keep the writing room a balmy 45 degrees |
| 1:10.7 | It's gonna be a lot better than last year remember when all those people got frostbite in their fingers. We lost a few fingers |
| 1:16.6 | Really effective productivity |
| 1:18.6 | He's the man you ever called the Mac who is what is here? |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, I was going to question is what did you do with those extra fingers those? |
| 1:28.4 | Snacks and the cult of Mac kitchen holiday snacks |
| 1:34.6 | Maybe me like a necklace of him like it's like Rambo or something who was the guy who had like the necklace necklace full of ears |
| 1:42.2 | Leander has now he's gone completely fuzzy. Oh, did you see that? Wow fuzzy? |
| 1:50.3 | Yeah, your your picture just went totally blurred. We got like a preview of |
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