Apple’s surprise May 7th event — here’s what’s coming! (CultCast #644)
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
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This week, surprise! iPads are finally coming with an Apple Event — we have all the details! Also, big news for iOS 18, capacitive buttons are making a comeback on the iPhone, and the huge Apple Watch redesign we’re all dreaming for!
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This week’s stories:
Surprise! Apple sets May 7 event to launch new iPad Pro and iPad Air
- Apple just invited the world to a May 7 product-launch event with the theme “Let Loose.”
- What new features to expect in Apple Pencil 3
- Say goodbye to hopes for mini-LED iPad Air
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iOS 18 AI features could run entirely on-device
- Apple’s large language model that will power iOS 18’s AI features could run entirely locally. This would prioritize user privacy and offer faster response times.
Calculator app for iPad might finally launch in iPadOS 18
- In a long-overdue move, Apple reportedly will integrate a Calculator app into the iPad operating system.
Why iPhone 16 might dump physical buttons for capacitive ones
- The upcoming iPhone 16 series will have no traditional buttons at all, according to information leaking out of the company that will supply the capacitive buttons that will supposedly replace them.
Apple Watch Series X concept will make you want it now
- Apple Watch Series X is expected to bring a redesign, new sensors and other changes later this year. A designer created images of a concept device to showcase the leaked/rumored features.
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| 0:00.0 | Stephen Jobs is a 27 year old multi-millionaire whose large fortune is built on something little, the personal computer. |
| 0:07.0 | It is becoming so commonplace that many of us are becoming dependent on it. |
| 0:12.0 | I mean, how many calculators do you own? |
| 0:14.0 | Two maybe? |
| 0:15.0 | Right. |
| 0:16.0 | And you have to use the automatic bank telling machines? |
| 0:18.0 | Sure. |
| 0:19.0 | So life is already seducing you into learning this stuff. |
| 0:21.0 | It's not going to happen at once and it's certainly not an |
| 0:24.9 | 1984-ish vision at all. It's just going to be very gradual and very human and will seduce |
| 0:30.8 | you into learning how to use it. |
| 0:33.0 | Jobs and a partner found an Apple computer a half dozen years ago. |
| 0:37.0 | The company expected to sell $300 million worth of personal computer equipment in 1981, double that in 1982, double that the year after. |
| 0:47.0 | Barry Peterson, CBS News, San Francisco. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome the whole cast the best 30 plus minute apple conversation |
| 0:56.8 | you're gonna hear all week long I'm your host Airfron Lodge join me today |
| 1:00.7 | I witness to say a man fitting his description was last seen with several |
| 1:04.3 | missing cultimac writers but he says he was just giving them an innocent pep talk and |
| 1:08.4 | how to reduce their spelling errors there's no evidence of anything else he's the |
| 1:12.3 | managing editor of Colty Mac. |
| 1:14.0 | Oh, Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. Yes, oh yes. |
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