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🗓️ 15 October 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Zac gives his first round of hands-on thoughts with the Apple Watch Ultra. Apple launches a new Ask Apple Q&A series for developers, as well as a bunch of TV+ news to discuss. And take note, Apple has changed how it refers to its laptops.
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Zac Hall @apollozac
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a laptop or a notebook? I have a MacBook Pro, what does that count? |
| 0:13.4 | You have a MacBook, okay, so it's a book, not a Mactop. |
| 0:18.6 | No. |
| 0:20.6 | And it is using Apple Silicon, so it doesn't burn me if I put it on my lap. |
| 0:24.0 | I was saying... |
| 0:25.0 | Some people speculation about this name change. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, now that they switched to Apple Silicon, they can call them laptops for legal reasons that they couldn't before. |
| 0:33.4 | So what's this story about? This is something that you uncovered. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, I thought nobody would care about it, but it's actually relatively popular. |
| 0:40.3 | But basically I just, there's a Twitter account that follows the Apple support |
| 0:47.2 | knowledge base and it tweets if there's changes to the articles and usually we use |
| 0:50.5 | it for like if there's a new article we might have some information in it like |
| 0:53.6 | Navi Pro high power mode or something like that but in this case over the last |
| 0:57.8 | week or so I just saw so many of these things come up and have the the tweets have a little diff like so you can click on the |
| 1:04.9 | screenshot and it shows you what's changed and these were like years old |
| 1:08.3 | articles like sometimes 10 year old articles talking about the heart bleed |
| 1:12.3 | exploit in intel chips from five years you know like |
| 1:14.7 | complete stuff that is so far in the archive no one's ever going to look at anymore |
| 1:18.0 | because it's not even relevant and all Apple was doing was changing the words notebooks to laptops or sometimes Mac laptops. |
| 1:25.8 | I was like, oh, that's weird because obviously in presentations, Apple has always used the word |
| 1:32.2 | notebook and I've always attributed it to like a |
| 1:34.5 | Phil Schiller thing like it would seem like he liked the word notebook but I don't know if |
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