Foldable iPads, AR headset user-generated content, new HomePod lands
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Benjamin and Zac process some new Apple rumors including foldable iPads in 2024, the availability of the periscope zoom lens on iPhone 16 and beyond, and how Siri will maybe help users make content for the upcoming Reality Pro headset. Plus, we digest the official reviews for HomePod (second-generation).
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| 0:00.0 | I had a box left on my front porch yesterday, a little cube, a cube box from the UPS people. |
| 0:06.8 | You got a G4? I got a G4. Yeah, I got a G4, no, I got a game cube. No. |
| 0:13.0 | They were good cubes. |
| 0:15.0 | They were good cubes. |
| 0:16.0 | I was, uh, it's kind of like, I was in my bedroom and the bedroom window is right by the front door and like I was notified that |
| 0:24.8 | the is the Macminium too that it was delivered I was notified by like a |
| 0:29.5 | text message from the Apple store and because I had on my like headphones I couldn't hear anything and it was like oh it's out there |
| 0:37.7 | There it was so that was that's pretty cool opening up a Mac committee M2, clean up right out of the box. Having that here. |
| 0:46.4 | And this is for like a house like, for like general house use, right? |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, this is like the family Mac and I definitely like I've thought about it more |
| 0:55.1 | I totally would not have just bought one for my own use I would just feel like it was too |
| 1:01.2 | redundant I mean it is the exact same computer as my |
| 1:03.6 | Macbook Air just the desktop version. Yep. Same chip, same ram everything. |
| 1:09.3 | Same sort. So, but the fact that it is like, it's the family Mac, you know, for, for me to have the benefit of like offline storage for I cloud photos so I can actually do a backup of my I club photo library always and then for the |
| 1:26.4 | kids to have access to their own profiles. |
| 1:28.9 | So if it was just me and just for the storage I would think oh even you know five or six hundred dollars that's |
| 1:34.1 | too much for that but to have the benefit of also having the kids have their own you |
| 1:39.9 | know Mac profiles is kind of cool and I have I don't have second Mac or anything Mac |
| 1:44.2 | and it's kind of cool and I don't have a second Mac or anything I just have one just in my laptop it |
| 1:46.9 | suits me I had all the peripherals too I had the LG |
| 1:49.4 | ultra fine display and mouse and keyboard and all that stuff so didn't have to do anything extra for it. |
| 1:57.0 | I just had all of it already. |
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