iOS 17.5 beta 2, M4 Mac schedule, Humane Pin reviews
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance discuss the latest in Apple news, including Web Distribution for EU users launching in iOS 17.5 beta 2, we get our first sense of the M4 Mac release scheduled and the company opens up its third-party repair policies further. Also, the Humane Ai Pin debuts to a very mixed critical response.
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Links
- Game Boy emulator now available on the iPhone following App Store rules change [update: gone]
- iPhone 'iGBA' emulator removed from App Store, but we aren't sure why
- Here's why Apple removed the first Game Boy emulator from the App Store
- The Verge’s Humane AI Pin review
- MKBHD’s AI Pin review
- iOS 17.5 beta 2 coming today with new Web Distribution sideloading feature in the EU
- Apple will relax repair policy to allow used genuine parts with select iPhones
- Apple's John Ternus defends iPhone parts pairing as 'not evil'
- Here's when to expect the first M4 Macs to launch
- Apple aiming to release first M4-powered Macs this year with a focus on AI
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So Mayor, our first Members Only Bonus episode is now available. |
| 0:06.0 | We watched the Blackberry movie, the 2023 movie, it's the rise and fall of Blackberry and |
| 0:11.8 | how Apple kind of played into that. |
| 0:13.6 | I think we both thought it was a pretty good movie, but we had a |
| 0:16.8 | lot to discuss about the accuracy and some of the portrayals of the |
| 0:21.6 | characters and the actual Blackberry people people but I think we kind of got into all of that in the bonus episode. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, I thought it came out well. Nice little, you know, we're not professional movie review. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah. We gave our opinion and there's definitely more |
| 0:36.4 | Apple crossover than you might think. Obviously the iPhone took down the BlackBerry but |
| 0:40.4 | even throughout this and parallels to how the company got started and |
| 0:43.6 | how it kind of developed over time and you know in the film there's some nice |
| 0:46.6 | callbacks with you know you see part of the Steve Jobs doing the iPhone keen |
| 0:50.4 | out because that's part of the narrative and you know how the |
| 0:54.0 | Blackberry was meant to react to the iPhone and stuff so yeah we get into all of |
| 0:57.8 | that into the special which you can get if you're a Happy Out Plus subscriber. |
| 1:03.3 | Thank you to everybody that subscribes. |
| 1:05.2 | And even if you don't subscribe, do check out the movie. |
| 1:08.1 | It's Blackberry came out last year. |
| 1:10.6 | It's a good film. |
| 1:12.0 | And that's 9 to 5 Mac.com slash join, $5 a month, $50 a year. |
| 1:17.0 | You also get add free episodes and some post show content every week. |
| 1:22.0 | So, this week we have some follow-up. Last week we talked |
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