CultCast #357 - Major Mac updates in October?
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🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
- Why Apple’s October event could be totally insane!
- Something very strange is going on with the Mac… we’ll talk about it.
- MacBook Pro Touch Bar: our brutally honest opinions
- Surprise! Apple’s planning to give away its $1 billion TV shows
- And stay tuned for an all-new CultCast 2nd Hour: Siri Shortcuts, explained!
- The third quarter of this year wasn’t a particularly good one for Apple, with Mac sales dropping a significant amount, even though the new MacBook Pros debuted this summer.
- Apple shipped 4.9 million laptops and desktops in the July-to-September period, according to preliminary figures from market-research firm Gartner. That’s an 8.5 percent decline from the same quarter of last year.
- But Q3 is supposed to bring fairly strong sales, as it includes the back-to-school shopping season. Not so much this year. At least not for Apple. Its three biggest rivals all saw increases in laptop/desktop shipments.
- Apple’s new TV streaming service will allegedly debut in early 2019
- Some have suggested the company would bundle it in with Apple Music for an extra fee or that it would create it as a separate subscription option like Netflix.
- But according to a recent report, Despite planning to spend more than $1 billion on original content this year, Apple will supposedly give away its original content to customers that already own an iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.
- Because Apple is giving the shows away for free it’s aiming to create “PG” quality content that has wide audience appeal. Apple is currently making TV shows that are free from gratuitous sex, profanity or violence, although some shows may break this standard.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's not a notebook. It's a power book. What's a difference? Well, this thing is like nothing never was. |
| 0:05.0 | It had my whole life in it. What do you mean? |
| 0:07.0 | So wherever we go, we always stay connected. Everyone in sales has one now. |
| 0:10.0 | My expense reports, invoices, order phones. |
| 0:13.0 | It's a great way to meet girls. |
| 0:15.0 | That resolution on that. |
| 0:16.0 | I like it. |
| 0:17.0 | Hard always anything? |
| 0:18.0 | I can fax from any phones. |
| 0:20.0 | Fair company. |
| 0:21.0 | This lets me do it. |
| 0:22.0 | Whole nine yards. |
| 0:23.0 | Everything else is a dinosaur. |
| 0:25.0 | Can I try? |
| 0:27.0 | No. |
| 0:28.0 | Power book from Apple. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Kolkassi Beth 30 plus minute op conversation you're |
| 0:37.7 | going to hear all week long. I'm your host Airf on Elijah join me today |
| 0:41.3 | coming to us live from Kultimac World Headquarters in the |
| 0:45.7 | heart of the beautiful Pooe City USA. Leander Candy is here. |
| 0:50.8 | Hello, welcome. Also with us. |
| 0:55.1 | He's also in the cul-de-mac office and he's likely the only one actually doing any work. |
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