First look at iPhone 17 Pro + the best and worst of 2024! (CultCast #678)
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re looking at the RADICAL new design of the iPhone 17 Pro! Love it or hate it? Also, when to expect the first folding iPhone, Apple’s bad AI summaries ruin headlines, and more picks for the best (and worst) of 2024!
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This week’s stories:
iPhone 17 Pro Max renders give early glimpse of next Apple flagship
- With purported details of the iPhone 17 Pro Max appearing online many months before the device’s launch, a Russian YouTube channel prepared renders that reveal what Apple’s next top-tier handset could look like.
First folding iPhone could arrive by 2026
- Hoping to boost sales, Apple could launch its first folding iPhone as soon as 2026, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Apple faces pressure to drop AI news summaries after false headline
- International journalism organization Reporters Without Borders is calling for Apple to remove its new artificial intelligence-powered news notifications, following a complaint from the BBC over a bogus news summary.
Best and Worst of 2024:
- Erfon: Camera Control
- Lewis: AirPods Pro 2
- Griffin: HEETA Scalp Massager
- Erfon: AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Santa, I guess someone your age hasn't heard about the cool new Apple computers with |
| 0:05.3 | free built-in TVs, but I'd like one of my very own, so I'll make it easy. |
| 0:10.2 | Call this number now and they'll tell you where to get one. |
| 0:12.7 | Go to see them and they'll give you this book from Apple called the Menu of Life. |
| 0:16.9 | Anything in it will be except, except, fine. |
| 0:20.0 | There are amazing prices on Apple computers and a mega range of software. |
| 0:23.6 | You can even call them from the North Pole. |
| 0:26.6 | Love Miles. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello! And welcome to the Colcaste Best 30 Plus. |
| 0:34.6 | I've been in an Apple conversation you can hear. All week long, I'm your host out the conversation. You're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm your host, everyone has to join me today. |
| 0:40.6 | Every year he dresses like Santa with a big gift bag. |
| 0:43.2 | And he heads to the writer's cage, hands out gifts like new socks, clean wipes, MREs, |
| 0:48.8 | and other goods the writers typically go without for the remainder of the year. |
| 0:53.5 | He's the manager. |
| 0:54.2 | Hold the Mac. He's a manager. Holtermac, Lewis Walz is here. |
| 0:56.7 | So great to be back. |
| 0:58.0 | So great. |
| 0:59.1 | I agree. |
| 1:00.1 | Also with us, when he goes to the mall, |
| 1:02.0 | children often confuse him for one of Santa's elves. |
| 1:05.8 | Probably doesn't help that he wear his shoes with pointy curled tips and bells on the end. |
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