EU App Store sideloading and commission changes, Vision Pro reviews, iOS 17.4 features
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance deep dive into all the App Store changes announced in response to the EU Digital Markets Act, and debate whether anyone is incentivized to make the leap. Also, the first Apple Vision Pro reviews have dropped ahead of its Friday release, and iOS 17.4 brings some fun new features and code references look ahead to iOS 18's AI integration.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple Vision Pro review roundup
- Nine problems with Vision Pro passthrough: 'VR trying to be AR'
- New Vision Pro tidbits and MKBHD's full hands-on video
- You can't edit your Apple Vision Pro home screen: visionOS apps are arranged alphabetically
- Vision Pro won't let you save web apps to your home screen
- Can you cook with Vision Pro? Here are the pros and cons [Video]
- Here's what it's like using Vision Pro as an external Mac display
- Apple announces support for third-party iPhone app stores in the EU, coming with iOS 17.4
- Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit'
- Apple announces reduced commission structure for apps in Europe
- Apple now allows game streaming apps in the App Store
- Apple shares more details about the new default web browser prompt in iOS 17.4
- iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more
- Apple will prompt users to set default browsers and allow third-party web engines on iPhone in the EU
- Spotify CEO slams Apple's App Store changes; Apple fires back [U]
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says latest App Store changes are an 'anticompetitive scheme rife with junk fees'
- Fortnite coming back to iOS (in the EU) through new 'Epic Store'
- Microsoft calls Apple's proposed App Store changes a 'step in the wrong direction'
- Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4
- iOS 17.4 beta 1: Here are all the new features and changes
- Apple Music SharePlay control expands from CarPlay to HomePod and Apple TV
- iOS 17.4: Apple continues work on AI-powered Siri and Messages features, with help from ChatGPT
- iOS 17.4 beta hints at new iPad with landscape Face ID camera
- Gurman: New iPad Pro and M3 MacBook Air already in production, set for end of March release
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We finally have a picture of Tim Cook in his office wearing Vision Pro. |
| 0:06.0 | And Mayo, what do you think of this picture? |
| 0:08.0 | He looks happy. |
| 0:09.0 | He looks like he's having a nice time in Vision OS life. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, look Tim Cook, he could be having the best day of his life and he has a |
| 0:17.8 | a muted expression, let's put it that way, but he looks good, yeah, like there was a bit of a stigma obviously because, you know, why haven't we seen a picture of an |
| 0:26.6 | up executive wearing the thing ever since it's been out since last June? And based on how he looks in this |
| 0:32.2 | photo I feel like they kind of set themselves up for no reason. |
| 0:36.4 | They could have done a profile last June 23 and everyone had been like, cool, right, let's go for it, you know, like, the only thing I would say |
| 0:44.4 | is the, and this is something that you'll see from the reviews in general that came out this week, |
| 0:49.4 | the rendering of the eyes on the eyes site, like, it's not even the fact there is obviously a screen right |
| 0:54.8 | it's like the actual just rendering is like all the eyes are almost like slits more like they're |
| 1:00.9 | slightly too big slightly slightly too narrow. |
| 1:03.2 | Like at first glance, I didn't even know that eyesight was like |
| 1:07.6 | turned on in this picture of Tim Cook. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, because he's in the mode where he's in an immersive environment, but he's breaking through. |
| 1:15.0 | So he's got like the combination of the haze and his eyes. |
| 1:20.0 | So yeah, like, I don't know if that's like a weird thing with the way the lenticular displayed renders on a camera if that is actually what it looks like. |
| 1:28.6 | It's just because it's not like the issue that I'm raising with it is not something that I feel like they |
| 1:34.1 | couldn't have fixed in software over the last three years you know like they just |
| 1:37.8 | maybe I was slightly smaller almost and like less wide. I mean you obviously saw someone with I, say, oh, and like, do you remember that from now? |
| 1:47.0 | I thought it looked okay, but I'm remembering now that the room was very, very bright. |
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