Apple TV set rumors resurface, AirTag 2, TV+ original movies strategy
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance discuss the merits of Apple returning to the long-gestating idea of an Apple television set, in the context of its refocusing on smart home devices. Also, the second-generation AirTag is rumored to arrive in 2025 with some nice enhancements, and Apple’s original film division continues to waver on strategy.Â
And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance bemoans Apple’s abandonment of accessories like the MagSafe Battery Pack, and gives his thoughts on the new Belkin strap for Vision Pro. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple reportedly releasing AirTag 2 next year with these 3 improvements
- The SwitchBot Wallet Finder Card with Find My support
- tvOS 18.2 beta 3 adds new Snoopy screensaver to Apple TV
- iOS 18.2 beta 4: Here's what's new
- Gurman: Apple 'evaluating' idea of releasing a TV set again
- Apple TV+ will license its movies to other services to reduce losses, per report
- Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone shouldn’t have been a one-and-done experiment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So on Happy Hour Plus last week, Mayo, we talked about your brand new car now that you've got your driver's license. |
| 0:06.3 | And how's it going? |
| 0:07.6 | You said you went on a little bit of a drive today, your first real long drive. |
| 0:12.3 | Any thoughts? |
| 0:13.1 | Yeah, I've like pitted about around my house and stuff. |
| 0:15.6 | But today I went to actually supermarket and did run some errands and stuff on what I would call a decently long drive. |
| 0:22.4 | But I'm sure it pairs in comparison to the American scale because it was like 10 miles, 10 |
| 0:26.6 | miles back, which doesn't even get you across a state in your country. |
| 0:31.5 | Not even cross a city. |
| 0:32.6 | I mean, I think London is like 35 miles across total, so that gives you some sense of scale, I think. |
| 0:43.5 | So, yeah, Britain's smaller. |
| 0:44.9 | But anyway, it was a big drive for me. |
| 0:46.3 | It was fun. |
| 0:47.5 | You know, I'm getting into it. |
| 0:48.6 | The car's nice. |
| 0:49.7 | Nothing crazy. |
| 0:50.6 | It's high under I-10 for anyone that cares. |
| 0:53.1 | Car play's good on it. It has the option to |
| 0:58.0 | choose whether you want left-wheel or right-wheel layouts, you know, left-hand or right-hand layouts, |
| 1:04.0 | which some integrated car play system do not offer, and sometimes they just choose the wrong one |
| 1:09.0 | for some reason. So mine was actually defaulted |
| 1:10.9 | to left-hand drive. So I was like, oh no, please let me. I just change it. But luckily on that |
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