Big changes coming to iPhone + 6 must-know Continuity features! (CultCast #604)
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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This week: Big battery and camera improvements are coming to iPhone! Plus: the Continuity features every Apple user MUST know; Apple preps their own version of ChatGPT;
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This week's stories
Stacked batteries could let iPhone 15 go longer between charges
- Apple will put batteries that could last up to 10% longer in the upcoming iPhone 15 series, according to an unconfirmed report. These will be stacked batteries rather than wound ones.
2024 iPhone could get 12× telephoto zoom lens
- While this year’s model reportedly will introduce a new periscope lens, the iPhone 16 Pro Max could come with an ultra-long telephoto periscope lens capable of 12× optical zoom.
6 mind-blowing Continuity features every Apple user should know
- Nothing illustrates the power of Apple’s ecosystem like the Continuity features that help your Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch work seamlessly together.
Apple gets ready to take on ChatGPT with ‘Apple GPT’
- Apple reportedly developed its own generative AI chatbot that’s very similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While it might never be released, the underlying tech is already going into the company’s applications and services.
The Mac Pro we all want is 6 years away — at least
- Similar to how the M1 Ultra was comprised of two M1 Max chips interposed together for double the power, when the tipster talks about “the quad chip,” he or she is referring to the rumored M1 Extreme that would have been comprised of four M1 Max chips.
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Apple Card contributes to another $667 million loss for Goldman Sachs: ‘We did not execute well’
- The exact amount of losses Goldman Sachs has seen with its Apple partnership isn’t quite clear, but since 2020 it’s somewhere in the ballpark of $1-3 billion.
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| 0:00.0 | The highway of the future will have no speed limit. |
| 0:15.4 | Shouldn't you be driving the fastest machine on the road? |
| 0:24.0 | Or Macintosh is here in the future is better than you expect. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Polcast the best 30 plus spin-up conversation. |
| 0:37.4 | You're going to hear all week long, I'm your host. |
| 0:41.3 | Care for Elijah? |
| 0:42.3 | Join me today. |
| 0:43.3 | He loves darts of all kinds, but especially blow darts with poise and tips, which he uses |
| 0:48.7 | to put down the Kultamack writers escaping from the Kultamack world headquarters. |
| 0:54.1 | He's the manager of Kultamack Lewis Walls is here. |
| 0:57.1 | Stop poison, it's a sedative. |
| 1:00.3 | Also with us, he's spending his free time crafting a false floor in his home, so when Lewis |
| 1:07.1 | Walls shows up in a fit of spelling error rage, he and his family can quickly disappear |
| 1:12.5 | until the coast is clear. |
| 1:14.2 | He is. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm not going to say the newest. |
| 1:16.8 | He is a writer at Kultamack, Griffin Jones is here. |
| 1:23.8 | Good evening. |
| 1:24.8 | I want to get chastised again, but no, he is a noist and I know we got all mad about it. |
| 1:30.0 | You know what I did a little research and when I realized it's kind of half true and |
| 1:35.2 | half not because yes, Rajesh started writing for Kultamack after you. |
| 1:41.1 | However, he wrote for Kultamack Android for a long time, and so I was slightly wrong |
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