Foldable iPad rumors, iOS 18 home screen updates and AI privacy details
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Zac discuss the curious rumors about a 20-inch foldable iPad/MacBook, and the latest Vision Pro content developments. iOS 18 may let users change the icons of the apps on their home screen, but how exactly? We also have more insight into Apple’s AI plans and its approach to handling user data privacy while remaining feature competitive.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin and Zac talk more about the genuine utility of ChatGPT in daily life.
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Links
- Apple’s WWDC opportunity: why iOS 18 may prove pivotal to taking AI mainstream
- iOS 18 Siri will better understand people, events, locations – report
- Vision Pro Marvel app reviews: ‘Best experience’ or ‘flimsy and meh’
- OpenAI is helping Apple fix Siri, and that has Microsoft worried
- Apple’s artificial intelligence servers will use ‘confidential computing’ techniques to process user data while maintaining privacy
- Apple’s WWDC opportunity: why iOS 18 may prove pivotal to taking AI mainstream
- Apple confirms WWDC keynote details for AI-focused iOS 18, Platforms State of the Union, and more
- Customizing iOS app icons could be more impactful than it seems
- Apple may label iOS 18 artificial intelligence features as a beta preview, signaling Apple is still playing catch-up
- Rumor: iOS 18 will let users create custom emoji using generative AI
- Report: iOS 18 will let users recolor app icons, and place them wherever they want on the home screen
- Apple elaborates on rare iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos
- Welcome to the Ultra era, where Apple is making iPhones, MacBooks, and iPads more luxury than ever
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | in an incredible return to form, almost a year since the last time we have the one and only |
| 0:06.8 | Zachary Hall. How you do? |
| 0:09.6 | Hello. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi. How was that intro? |
| 0:14.0 | Where did I go? |
| 0:16.0 | Was that ever addressed? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, yeah, you were left on a cliffhanger, I think. |
| 0:21.0 | But we'll pick up when you left off. Yeah, we got some good stories today. Yeah, I agree. I agree. |
| 0:27.8 | Just some behind the scenes. We hit record and I just ran with the show. |
| 0:32.8 | It's just like old times. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, so now I don't know what to do because what I did do was was the first topic and |
| 0:40.6 | now we've got this situation so you know do the first topic do the first topic okay okay |
| 0:46.5 | I'll do the first topic Apple Vision Pro there's a a new episode of their immersive content, the whole reason to buy Apple Vision Pro. |
| 0:57.1 | And it's their adventure series and the episode is called Parkor. |
| 1:01.4 | And they've updated the like, Susan Real Trader thing. and they're |
| 1:02.8 | like see's a real trailer thing so you know like you can go in and see like there's like two minute |
| 1:08.6 | thing they show it in the Apple store demo as well but like you can get to it in the |
| 1:11.7 | app that's different now they do not know yeah |
| 1:14.9 | they've well I haven't got one either Zach so but this is yes his value right |
| 1:19.9 | is yeah exactly yeah chance is, it's our virtual, it is real reality. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, the, yeah, so they've updated the Cicero, so it's got some clips from like the |
| 1:29.8 | NBA and a lot more sport content in there. I'm assuming they've updated the trailer in preparation |
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