Hands on with the new HomePod, Apple executive changes, no M2 Mac Studio expected
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Benjamin shares his hands-on thoughts with the new second-generation HomePod after about a week of testing. Apple changes up the executive ranks with a new Chief People Officer, and news that they won’t replace the industrial design position when Evans Hankey leaves. There is also a report that Apple isn’t planning on releasing a new Mac Studio for the M2 generation.
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| 0:00.0 | I have an air drop story from over the weekend. |
| 0:04.5 | I was in New Orleans in the French Quarter at a Mardi Gras parade on Saturday night and I was |
| 0:09.7 | with our colleague Seth, he was in town visiting, and he received an air drop from a stranger. |
| 0:20.6 | It's like someone sent a picture of the person next to them to Seth's iPhone and I was |
| 0:28.6 | I probably misclicked or something. Uh-uh. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was just like, because then it went to me. |
| 0:37.5 | But I was perplexed because I was like, wait, how's that possible? |
| 0:41.1 | Like, did you turn on a Air Drop for everyone for 10 minutes? |
| 0:45.0 | And then this just happened to happen? And he said, no, I just haven't been in my iPhone in a while. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, okay. So then I turn on an |
| 0:57.2 | eardrop for everyone, but also I look around on the |
| 1:01.1 | air drop because I was like, how many people are doing this and I found at least |
| 1:08.8 | 16 phones in my Air Drop range that had air drop on for everyone which I now take to me |
| 1:17.5 | that they have it updated their iPhone and isn't that like around January or so when that came out? Like the rule changed? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. It might have been mid-December. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. So people don't update their iPhones and I mean there |
| 1:35.9 | haven't been to emoji yet I guess which kind of explains it but I was really |
| 1:41.6 | surprised by that. |
| 1:42.6 | It was like, you know, it was kind of like stepping back |
| 1:46.6 | into the old way before and just seeing all these people's names |
| 1:50.4 | and you can air drop strangers and they can accept it and you know I liked that |
| 1:56.4 | before then you know just as a ease of use. I do feel like the iOS policy has changed somewhat and is far less aggressive on |
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