Bad week for Apple Watch — HUGE news for HomePod (CultCast #655)
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re talking potentially huge news for the iPhone 17, the latest changes in iOS 18, disappointing news for the Apple Watch — but the latest evidence the HomePod with a screen is real!
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This week’s stories:
iPhone 17 may get cutting-edge 2nm chip from TSMC after all
- Apple’s chip-maker TSMC will begin trial production of 2 nanometer processors next week.
Apple Watch Series 10 could lack advanced new health features
- The upcoming Apple Watch Series 10 could sport a thinner design with a bigger display, but it sounds like new health sensors won’t arrive this year.
- How to customize Apple Watch widgets for easy access to your favorite apps
Code for HomePod with large touchscreen found in tvOS 18
- A bit of the user interface for a rumored HomePod smart speaker with a large touchscreen reportedly turned up in the latest beta for tvOS 18.
- How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time
iOS 18 beta 3: All the new features and changes
- The third beta of iOS 18 is here, almost a month after Apple dropped the first developer build.
Catch a scary glimpse of Severance season 2, coming in January
- Word of a season 2 air date arrived Wednesday, along with a spooky teaser trailer.
Under Review: Wombat Willow Pro
- The Willow Wombat Pro is a low-profile backlit mechanical keyboard that packs a full set of keys in a compact layout.
- Griffin’s Model F keyboard
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| 0:00.0 | You've been staring out there all day. |
| 0:03.0 | What are you doing? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm trying to figure out which computer is the most powerful. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, that's easy. |
| 0:10.0 | The one with the most memory, megahertz, mtz, you know. No, I don't think so. |
| 0:15.0 | There we go. I think, the most powerful computer, |
| 0:18.0 | and the one that people actually use. |
| 0:20.0 | Macintosh has the power to change the way you look at computers. |
| 0:25.0 | That's not really a fair comparison. |
| 0:27.0 | People like using the Mac. |
| 0:29.0 | And welcome to the H cast, the best 30 plus minute apple conversation. |
| 0:35.8 | You're gonna hear all week long, I'm your host, Airfront Lives, |
| 0:39.0 | joining him today. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, I haven't given him enough credit. |
| 0:42.3 | He's beyond cogent. |
| 0:43.8 | In fact, he's better than he's ever been intellectually. |
| 0:48.8 | Analytically, analytically. |
| 0:50.2 | I would even go as far as saying this is the best version of Lewis Wallace that I've ever experienced and if you can't handle that truth then F you |
| 0:58.0 | Manging under a |
| 1:01.0 | Lewis Wallace is here |
| 1:05.0 | Perfect between the hours of 8 and 4. We got him, right? |
| 1:07.0 | It is peak. |
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