Elon Musk takes on Apple, Apple Music Replay updates, Mastodon gains steam
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Zac react to the double-180 Elon Musk pulled on Apple this week. Mastodon gains steam, with Tapbots announcing plans to launch a Tweetbot-like client. Zac reflects on the Apple Watch Ultra, after spending some time with a Series 8. Apple Music Replay has been overhauled for 2022 and Apple TV+ has some cool new premieres coming up next.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon to you Benjamin Mayo. This is very formal introduction for this show. |
| 0:13.0 | How are you doing? I'm good. |
| 0:15.0 | Do well. What time is it for you right now? |
| 0:18.0 | It's 4 o'clock. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh Jesus, 10 o'clock here. |
| 0:22.0 | A.m. Wow. |
| 0:24.0 | I like how you're saying this as if it's a new revelation. |
| 0:26.6 | We've literally been doing the show for five years |
| 0:28.7 | across two timeshomes. |
| 0:30.1 | I just don't think about it. |
| 0:31.2 | Well, anyway, good afternoon. |
| 0:35.0 | Do you get the reference? |
| 0:39.0 | No. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, so you must not have seen Spirited on Apple TV Plus. I haven't. Okay, okay. Well, if anyone who has seen it, good afternoon. |
| 0:49.3 | Just a few things I'll say, because it's an Apple TV plus movie, they show, they do like a little bit of like a time change, and they include I think at least third generations of iMac designs. |
| 1:05.0 | It's those it's those things that you think that you probably wouldn't see that if it wasn't for this being an Apple TV plus movie. |
| 1:13.4 | So, is it one of the movies where they just made it and bought it from Apple? |
| 1:18.3 | Or did it, was that in mind when they made the movie? |
| 1:21.3 | Oh, is it's the latter for sure. |
| 1:25.0 | Because it was ordered in a, it was ordered like 20-20, |
| 1:29.0 | and it was like a hundred million dollar bidding war, |
| 1:32.0 | Apple bought it, and then, so it was produced after they bought it. See what I mean so yeah and this is it's not it. Yeah, because Coda was like made for Sundance and Apple bought it out of Sundance, but this was commissioned by Apple up front. |
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