Apple smart doorbell, next-gen CarPlay MIA, TV+ weekend promo
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance kick off the new year with a catch-up on Apple missing its deadline for next-gen CarPlay to be released in an actual vehicle, and assess the response to picking the Vision Pro as 9to5Mac’s Product of the Year. There’s also rumors of an Apple-branded smart doorbell to discuss, and TV+ tries a new marketing gimmick with a free weekend promotion.
And in Happy Hour Plus, the duo make some fun predictions about Apple-related news headlines that could happen sometime this year.
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Benjamin Mayo
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| 0:00.0 | Happy 2025, Mayo. |
| 0:01.6 | Hey. |
| 0:02.6 | Did you have a good break? |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, it was nice. |
| 0:05.0 | Didn't do much. |
| 0:05.8 | Jilled out. |
| 0:06.4 | You? |
| 0:06.9 | Not too bad. |
| 0:07.6 | A lot of traveling, lots of traveling. |
| 0:09.1 | And you know, like the holidays you have, I don't know how it is for you, but for me, |
| 0:13.5 | have like my family, Emily's family, friends, cousins, sisters. |
| 0:17.4 | You end up doing like six different versions of Christmas. |
| 0:22.1 | That's always draining. |
| 0:27.3 | And to do all that, then have a 10-hour drive home, it's a bit much, but I'm nice and recuperated, had a nice day off yesterday for New Year's and ready to conquer 2025. |
| 0:32.8 | Let's go. But before we do that, let's jump back to 2024. |
| 0:42.2 | I think it was on a plus segment last year, a couple weeks ago, where we talked about picking the 9 to 5 Mac product of the year for 2024. |
| 0:46.5 | And me and you kind of debated whether it should be Vision Pro, the iPad Pro, the Mac Mini. |
| 0:52.3 | Then we had a separate internal debate with the rest of the team between basically those three devices. |
| 0:57.7 | And ultimately, we settled on Apple Vision Pro as the product of the year. |
| 1:02.9 | And I expected some backlash just because I think a lot of people have written off Vision Pro. |
| 1:09.6 | There's been a lot of up and down and big swings in |
| 1:12.1 | like the new cycle and the sentiment regarding Vision Pro over the year. And we got some of that |
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