Awe Dropping, iPhone 17, AirPods, and Apple Watch Ultra on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Apple has announced its "Awe Dropping" event which will doubtlessly center on the iPhone, but there's also going to be new Apple Watches -- and maybe also AirPods Pro 3.
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- Torrent app removal proves that third-party app stores will not be free of Apple control
- Inconsistency between TechWoven & iPhone 17 crossbody strap makes everything look fake
- Camera Control is being redesigned for iPhone 18, not abandoned
- Recharged rumor: iPhone 17 Pro may get reverse wireless charging
- Big changes rumored to be coming to the iPhone for the next three years
- Another executive departs Apple for Meta even as a hiring freeze begins
- Gemini could join other third-party AI systems in boosting Siri Intelligence
- Cue vs. Federighi: Executives differ on if Apple should buy their way out of AI crisis
- Apple's climate progress faces pressure from artificial intelligence
- Apple threatens UK with delayed features if EU DMA-like regulations introduced
- Apple Music migration tool will finally help U.S. Spotify users switch
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:42) - Awe Dropping
- (07:48) - AirPods Pro 3
- (16:50) - Apple Watch Ultra 3
- (23:14) - iPhone 17
- (35:36) - Camera Control lives
- (42:03) - Reverse wireless charging
- (47:30) - Three years of iPhone redesigns
- (50:55) - The state of AI
- (01:07:56) - AI and the environment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Wesley Hilliard, and I'm joined once again by William Gallagher. |
| 0:15.0 | Our sponsors this week are Masterclass and Constant Contact. |
| 0:18.6 | And if you're a paid subscriber, you will not hear anything about ads. |
| 0:22.3 | You will hear about Apple Insider Plus, our post show, which this week will be about the awe-dropping event. |
| 0:29.6 | We're going to get into that soon, the technical details, but we're going to be discussing an Apple Insider |
| 0:34.5 | Plus, kind of our wish list. This week, it's going to be about the non-Iphone |
| 0:38.5 | products. And next week, being the last episode before the event, I know we're so close, we're |
| 0:44.4 | going to be discussing the iPhone wish list specifically. So these next two weeks, we're going to be |
| 0:50.4 | talking about this whole ordeal. William, are you excited? Are you awed |
| 0:55.2 | yet? Are you, what's going on? I have spent a ridiculous amount of time this week trying to find |
| 1:00.2 | puns on or some and all fall and things like this. And I've got nowhere, really, with it. But you threw |
| 1:07.3 | me there by saying the ordeal. This isn't the ordeal. This is one of the best times of the year. |
| 1:12.0 | I nearly said the best, but I like WWDC a little bit more. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm looking forward to this. |
| 1:17.0 | Isn't it under 10 days until we find out everything? |
| 1:23.8 | It's great. |
| 1:26.3 | So the first is Monday, right? and then so the fifth yeah so we are wow we are so |
| 1:33.4 | we are so next we record next thursday and then suddenly monday is the event and my goodness so |
| 1:40.2 | are you going through the um 30 days have sept, April, June, and trying to work... |
| 1:45.9 | No, that's just me. |
| 1:46.9 | Okay. |
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