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Welcome to this, another fine episode of the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm your host Victor and joining me is Magic Mike Wirthley.

Hello again. Welcome back. Now there's some interesting things that have come up

in just the past couple of days and so we're going to talk about those and then

later on at the end of the episode we're going to talk about those and then later on at the end of the

episode we're going to be joined by an interesting person a fellow named Chaves

who is the creator of some mechanical wrist watches and he's going to talk to us about what

it's like to be a mechanical watchmaker, a Swiss mechanical watchmaker, in an

Apple watch world. So I'm looking very much forward to that. I'm looking forward to that and we will

Hope that you make it to the end of the episode with us for that

Mike. Yes, the one of the big pieces of news was all about an iOS update.

Yeah, this week Apple has released updates to nearly everything except High Sierra, but the big ticket

item is the iOS 11.4 update.

What's an 11.4?

What makes it such a big update for a point release?

The biggest update to this is, I'm going to to say is going to be Airplay 2 and with a secondary release of messages in iCloud.

The Airplay 2 is the advancement of Apple's Airplay technology and really what it's allowing people to do on

iPhones and iPads and iOS devices in general is it's allowing you to use Airplay to multiple

speakers at the same time. So instead of before where you're limited to you know one

home pod or you're limited to one sonos one speaker or something like that now

if you have a whole house full of devices that are compatible with Airplay 2, then you can play

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