CultCast #342 - New AirPods! New iPhones! New HomePod!
The CultCast
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🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
- The butterfly keyboards on the new MacBook and MacBook Pro are officially defective.
- After months of outcry from angry customers, Apple has finally acknowledged that the new keyboards have some serious problems. The company says the issues are limited to a small percentage of MacBooks, but its offering free repairs.
- Bloomberg has a new report out that says we could have some exciting new Apple audio products in 2019.
- First: Ming still expects three new iPhones in 2018: a second-generation iPhone X, a massive 6.5-inch version dubbed the iPhone X Plus, and a 6.1-inch version that will essentially be a budget iPhone X.
- Engineer and popular YouTuber Mark Rober is, accordingly Variety, working for Apple as an engineer in their special projects group.
- More specifically, Rober has been working on Apple's virtual reality projects, including "using VR as on-board entertainment for self-driving cars.”
- His most recent patent addresses an interesting problem:
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- "Many passengers in vehicles may experience motion sickness. Typically, this is not the case for the driver. However, with the arrival of autonomous vehicles, the driver becomes a passenger, and thus may want to occupy themselves while, for example, riding to work. Passengers in conventional or autonomous vehicles may, for example, want to read a book, or work on their notebook computer.
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| 0:00.0 | The hard part of test driving a Macintosh isn't taking it home. |
| 0:07.0 | The hard part isn't plugging it in. |
| 0:12.0 | The hard part isn't plugging it in. The hard part of test driving a Macintosh isn't even learning how to use it. |
| 0:18.0 | The hard part of taking Macintosh out for a test drive is bringing it back. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello! |
| 0:27.0 | And what? Hello and welcome to the whole cast need past 30 plus minute apple conversation you're |
| 0:38.6 | going to hear all week long I'm your host Airfon Eliza join me today. He's buff. He's rough. He's so tough. |
| 0:47.0 | He lives in a van and he writes stories for a living. |
| 0:50.0 | Apple stories that is. |
| 0:51.0 | Buster. He Tiny is here. |
| 0:53.7 | Oh, hey. |
| 0:54.9 | Just the two of us. |
| 0:56.9 | Man, I wish I could take a whole summer off of work. |
| 0:59.2 | Dude, seriously. |
| 1:00.2 | Lucy and Leander. |
| 1:02.0 | Lewis is on vacation. |
| 1:03.0 | For those of you that didn't know, he is in Portugal! |
| 1:07.0 | Leander is in Alabama. |
| 1:10.0 | I saw him get a picture posted on his Instagram of his kids being total |
| 1:14.7 | weenies, they were in the water and they're scared of some shark. Do you see the |
| 1:18.6 | size of that shark? It was tiny. That was awesome. So Leander is out swimming in the ocean have a delightful time and I realize that I don't think either of that either of them are going to be back for at least a couple weeks. We'll see they might back. We might get one of them back next week. |
| 1:33.7 | I would just like to point out we're on episode 342 and I have never missed a single one. |
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