Bad news about Apple AR glasses… (CultCast #684)
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🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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This week: Bad news about Apple’s AR glasses — was another Vision product canceled? The solution to Siri is on the way… just like CarPlay 2, right? Also, you won’t believe this new iPhone case!
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This week’s stories:
Apple kills AR glasses project to focus on Vision Pro’s future
- Apple kills its AR glasses project, an attempt at lightweight specs that connect to Macs. The glasses join Apple Car on the scrap heap.
Mind-melting stats from Apple’s profitable earnings call
- Here are the high points from the Apple earnings call with investors on Thursday as quickly and as interesting as we can make them.
Apple pulls out the big guns to fix Siri and Apple Intelligence
- In a new move to catch up with AI competitors, Apple taps software veteran to fix Siri and Apple Intelligence. She has a good track record.
Apple confirms CarPlay 2 is still coming — but when?
- Despite delays, Apple reaffirms its commitment to next-gen CarPlay and confirms it is working with several automakers on it.
This is the most bananas iPhone case ever!
- The Andy Warhol x Casetify collection turns the pop artists iconic works into whimsical Apple accessories, like a banana-shaped iPhone case.
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| 0:22.9 | The crack of his knuckles is often the last sound writers remember before waking days later in the San Francisco hospital room. |
| 0:29.3 | Thankfully, there's rarely, there's rarely permanent damage, but the forehead imprint of his pinky ring takes weeks to go away. |
| 0:35.3 | He's the managing editor of Coltimore. |
| 0:36.6 | Louis Wells is here. |
| 0:38.8 | No pinky ring. |
| 0:39.7 | No pinky ring. |
| 0:40.6 | Ah, you took it off for the show. |
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