Best 100 albums, iOS 18 Music features, and more on the iPad Pro on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How and why Apple Music chose its Best 100 albums, plus what's coming to the Music app in iOS 18, and getting into the details of the nano texture iPad Pro.
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Links from the Show:
- Apple Music's best 100 albums list is done, and it's controversial
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/100-best-albums-radio/id1743037216
- New Music & audio enhancements plus a mysterious 'Passthrough' feature are coming at WWDC
- Future emoji could include Eye Bags & Shovel
- iPad Pro hands on: Luxury technology in an impossibly-thin package
- M4 iPad Pro teardown shows copper logo, highly repairable internals
- OLED iPad Pro owners discover grainy display problem
- If you want an iPad Pro Magic Keyboard that matches the Siri Remote, it'll cost you
- If you're buying a new iPad Pro, your old magnetic stand won't work
- Apple Pencil Pro casts a fake shadow based on which tool you're using
- Apple plans a thinner and more expensive iPhone 17 for 2025
- Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro replacing blue with rose titanium color
- Apple Vision Pro's next 'adventure' experience is Parkour in Paris
- Marvel's 'What If...? - an Immersive Story' coming to Apple Vision Pro on May 30
- BTW case review: Waterfield Shield Case for Apple Vision Pro review: Way better for travel than Apple's case
- Buyer taken for $1,000 by fake Apple badge on eBay
- Hands on with the new Sonos Ace headphones
- Sonos Roam 2 portable AirPlay speaker gets surprise release
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:50) - Best 100 albums
- (06:42) - Number 1
- (12:26) - Logic Pro
- (15:50) - iTunes and albums
- (21:35) - iOS 18
- (28:58) - Emoji
- (34:39) - iPad Pro
- (45:05) - iPadOS 18
- (50:45) - iPad Pro questions
- (52:17) - iPhone 17
- (57:51) - Apple Vision Pro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. This is your host |
| 0:07.3 | Wesley Hilliard and I'm joined by William Gallagher. Our sponsors this week |
| 0:11.2 | are Notion and Fast Mail. In addition to ad free episodes, paid |
| 0:16.2 | subscribers get the bonus Apple Insider Plus segment. This week we're going to talk about |
| 0:20.4 | how we decide between digital and fiscal media when we buy something. |
| 0:24.7 | Are we going to buy a DVD on Blu-ray? Are we going to buy it on iTunes, if that even exists |
| 0:30.1 | anymore, and how we manage those collections and what goes behind that kind of thinking. |
| 0:34.2 | So that should be an interesting topic. |
| 0:36.0 | What do you think, William? |
| 0:37.0 | I'm looking forward to that because I have a complicated confession to make about my next Blu-ray purchase considering I don't have a Blu-ray player. |
| 0:47.0 | But you're right, we have to leave it to then. |
| 0:48.0 | Yes, okay. |
| 0:49.0 | Of course. |
| 0:50.0 | But speaking of media, I wanted to start off the episode with some really interesting news. |
| 0:56.0 | It was kind of happening as we recorded the previous episode, but it kind of flew by me. |
| 1:01.0 | But the Apple Music announced that they were going to announce the |
| 1:06.6 | 100 best albums of all time and the entire concept is funny to me because it's such a subjective concept, but we've seen this before. |
| 1:17.0 | Top 100 lists from Rolling Stone and various magazines have tackled this mtev has tried similar lists but |
| 1:26.6 | Apple Music seems to be taking a very different approach and I wonder have you |
| 1:31.7 | been paying attention to this at all? |
| 1:33.0 | I have yes but it's different approach code for they got it wrong you don't agree with them. |
| 1:40.0 | It's not that no I think it really is just a different approach and I'm |
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