iOS 16.2 features, HomePods are good, OLED MacBook Air rumors
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
iOS 16.2 is out with a raft of new features, including Advanced Data Protection in the US, the Freeform app, HomeKit architecture changes, and more. Also, Zac and Benjamin praise the incomparable-yet-discontinued OG HomePod, Tesla cars get Apple Music and there’s rumors of an OLED MacBook Air coming in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | I had a new Apple Store experience yesterday. |
| 0:02.0 | It isn't like something I've ever had before. |
| 0:05.0 | I had a new Apple Store experience yesterday. |
| 0:10.0 | That isn't like something I've ever had before. |
| 0:13.0 | You're on a roll with Apple Store experiences. |
| 0:15.0 | You went to that new store, what about a month ago? |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:19.0 | Now you got this thing. |
| 0:21.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:22.0 | It's a very nice store, a very beautiful store at the New Orleans Apple store. |
| 0:24.8 | Uh, uh, I, uh, but, but here's what happened. |
| 0:28.3 | I placed an order for pickup on an item at 6 p.m. and I was a couple hours away the time and it's like |
| 0:42.1 | so good I have time to make it like, oh, it's so good. |
| 0:43.0 | I have time to make it to the store before they close, no problem. |
| 0:46.6 | And the item was an iPhone. |
| 0:48.9 | I was like, you know, gift iPhone. |
| 0:51.7 | And like adding a line of my account you know pretty standard stuff and |
| 0:57.0 | when I placed the order it was also one of those things where I was like shipping |
| 1:01.8 | is January and there's like no inventory at carrier |
| 1:05.4 | stores or best buy. |
| 1:06.6 | I was like 14 pro. |
| 1:08.6 | It's like, yeah, to have an Apple store with inventory is like, oh, wow, this is the exact thing that I was looking for, cool. |
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