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HomePod with screen rumored, Apple exec turnover, AR/VR headset market fit

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin bought a new keyboard, and talks about the ‘magic’ found within. Zac is excited for a new rumored HomePod model coming next year with a 7-inch display. And the pair evaluate whether it makes sense for Apple to enter the AR/VR headset market now, or whether the company should have held off, as some members of Apple’s design team purportedly argued for internally.

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0:00.0

Do you see me on Macbrick Weekly? I did, I did. Yeah, that is a long podcast show.

0:06.4

That is, yeah. Yeah, a good two and a half hours, pretty much every single week.

0:12.1

Yeah, with a little... hours pretty much every single week. Yeah with Lealaport and Jason Snell who I admire a lot and

0:18.8

Andy and notko who is really a master of coming up with things to stay on the spot.

0:25.0

And you've done Twit before but not Mac Break, right?

0:29.0

I've done Twit before but not Mac Break, and I've podcasted with Snell a few times, but not with

0:35.0

with video and it was my first time podcasting with Andy

0:38.0

but I've listened to Andy for years and so it was cool and it was last minute too so it like half an hour before was kind of an emergency

0:46.8

fell in for someone else and it was fun it was really cool.

0:51.6

Yeah and at the end they do like those little like pick stuff and you had like five because you had some songs and you had some bands and

1:01.4

and then you've shouted a happy hour, which is always good.

1:05.0

Yeah, so if you're listening to this for the first time from that, eh?

1:08.0

Yeah, no, it was, yeah.

1:11.0

All I was going to say, it was was like I wasn't prepared for a pick and so it was it was mentioned to me

1:16.6

and just in a moment we're going to do picks if you have one cool if you don't it's all right. And I was like,

1:20.9

what's one thing I should do? So I looked at my safari browsing history

1:24.0

and I was like, what are the things I've been interested in this past week?

1:26.0

And couldn't know it down to just one.

1:28.0

So yeah, there were five or six.

1:30.0

Yeah, you wrote them off and one of them was talking about an Apple Arcade game, which was a surprise to me?

1:34.3

Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm a big game. What's it called? Simple crosswords? What's the app called?

1:39.7

It's called Super hard crossword puzzle.

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