Here comes the iPhone ULTRA! + the real reason Apple ditched Intel (CultCast #581)
The CultCast
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week:
Details leak about iPhone ULTRA, a higher-end iPhone with a higher price! Plus, Apple execs reveal why they really ditched Intel...
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This week's stories
Apple could launch an ‘Ultra’ high-end iPhone as soon as 2024
- Apple’s Tim Cook told investors that consumers are willing to pay up for the best iPhone they can get, signaling that even more ritzy models may be on the way.
‘iPhone Ultra’ concept envisions what a titanium iPhone might look like
Exclusive: iPhone reverse wireless charging development continues after Apple missed target
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Who will be Apple’s next Jony Ive? Nobody, apparently.
- Apple reportedly stopped looking for a replacement industrial design chief. This is surprising, as it’s a high-profile position once held by Jony Ive, who led the team that created the iconic look of the iPhone, iMac and more.
Apple execs reveal what went wrong with Intel
- What pulled Apple away from Intel? In a new interview, Apple executives Tim Millet and Bob Borchers reveal why the company shifted to making its own Mac chips.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing information on the internet is profoundly changing how we communicate. |
| 0:04.0 | In the near future, using the internet will be as common as using telephone services we have today. |
| 0:10.0 | In some cases, I suspect we'll hardly even notice when we're online. |
| 0:15.0 | To give you an idea of how different things may be in just a few years, |
| 0:20.0 | let's take a look at the future. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to Goldcaste Best 30 Minute App Conversation. |
| 0:29.0 | You're going to hear all week long, I'm your host. |
| 0:32.0 | Here for our lives, join me today. |
| 0:34.0 | You've heard that he has the golden ears, but did you know about his golden nose? |
| 0:39.0 | Yes, sir, no animal on two legs or four can sniff around the forest floor faster to locate those coveted truffles. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a lucrative side hustle that he has. |
| 0:48.0 | He's also the manager of Colt the Mac. |
| 0:52.0 | Ooh, as well as his hair. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, if I could find truffles, that would be awesome. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, man. |
| 1:01.0 | What a lucrative side hustle. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, it's like they have all the pigs going around and then all of a sudden this guy and all forest just comes tearing through the forest floor pushing the pigs out of the way. |
| 1:11.0 | Locating every last mushroom, some kind of werewolf. |
| 1:15.0 | A truffle, a truffle is a mushroom, right? |
| 1:17.0 | Is it fungus? |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, it's a fungus. |
| 1:19.0 | Okay. |
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