Apple turns to Google for iOS 18 AI features, new AirPods with noise canceling, anti-reflective iPad screens
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance react to the news that Apple is partnering with Google to use their Gemini models to power some AI features coming in iOS 18. Also, there’s more details about the two new AirPods models set to debut later this year. There’s also rumors about anti-reflective matte screens for iPhone and iPad, and Walmart announces that it is selling Macs for the first time, starting with the cut-price $699 M1 MacBook Air.
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Links
- Walmart begins selling the Mac for the first time: M1 MacBook Air for $699 [Updated]
- Mass production of two new AirPods models to start in May, targeting fall release
- iOS 18 to include new 'hearing aid mode' for AirPods Pro, report says
- Apple might use Google Gemini to power some iPhone AI features
- Apple says DOJ ‘threatens who we are’ as it vows to ‘vigorously defend’ against iPhone antitrust lawsuit
- NYTimes echoes report of AI partnership talks between Apple and Google
- Apple to be sued by US Department of Justice for antitrust as soon as tomorrow
- Rumor: iPhone 17 to have new anti-reflective display
- New iPad Pro could be available in new matte screen option, rumor claims
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So Mayo last week after we finished recording a few hours later I got an email from |
| 0:05.0 | Walmart PR saying they had an Apple related product announcement they were going to make on Friday. My first hope was that it was Apple Pay. They were finally going to adopt |
| 0:14.7 | Apple Pay. Apple Pay was coming to Walmart stores. But they still don't use |
| 0:18.1 | Apple Pay. No, they're like the biggest holdout in the United States is Walmart. |
| 0:22.0 | Because remember they did Walmart pay |
| 0:24.4 | which is like a QR code thing. Yeah. scan the code and... Were they a currency |
| 0:30.0 | person or was they always go out on their own? I think they went out on their own? I think that's the whole thing. They don't |
| 0:35.5 | want to be tied down by a monopolistic company like Apple. Well, um, shortly they might be |
| 0:42.1 | able to exploit the older loosening the rules and have their own |
| 0:45.8 | NFC access. That's true. That is true. They can have full access to the phone. They can have |
| 0:51.1 | warm up pay at a system level. That is a possibility, but what the news was last week, |
| 0:57.2 | unfortunately, but when my expectation was Apple Pay, then I got the email |
| 1:02.2 | after I agreed to the embargo saying that they were going to start selling the Mac |
| 1:05.6 | I was like oh whatever who cares but then I looked into a morning I didn't realize Walmart didn't sell Macs. Yeah me neither I thought they were just starting to sell the M1 Macbook Air and I was like, okay, cool, like you've sold Mac for years, right? Apparently not. So this is actually kind of a big deal. Walmart now sells the M1 Macbook Air which Apple just discontinued for $6.99. |
| 1:26.8 | $300 cheaper than Apple was selling it for, what, three weeks ago? |
| 1:31.2 | It's hard to, I don't know know this is a good deal there's not much |
| 1:34.4 | bad to say about this yeah this is just more a surprise that Walmart |
| 1:37.8 | didn't have an Apple relationship before they had an Apple relationship for the |
| 1:41.1 | iPhone the iPad and the |
| 1:42.8 | the iPhone and yeah roundly no Mac sold at Walmart before and at least right now |
| 1:47.7 | it's only the mamamamapagos like it's like Apple just dumped all the |
| 1:51.2 | Matt Baguair stock to to Walmart but yeah, 699. I mean that's aggressive pricing and there's so much like |
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