iOS 17 beta 3 changes, Threads bursts onto the scene, Vision Pro rollout
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance reminisce on the 15th year anniversary of the App Store, discuss all the changes in iOS 17 beta 3, and analyze Meta’s successful launch of Twitter alternative Threads. There are also details about the planned retail rollout for Apple Vision Pro and Apple TV+ ramps up its theatrical distribution strategy for original movies.
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Hosts
Chance Miller
- @ChanceHMiller on Twitter
- @chancehmiller@mastodon.social
- @ChanceHMiller on Instagram
- @ChanceHMiller on Threads
Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- iOS 17 beta 3: Here's what's new
- Threads hits 100 million users in just 5 days, toppling record set by ChatGPT
- Apple has arrived to the Threads party as new platform approaches 100M users
- Threads now available to download: Meta’s new microblogging
- Confirmed: That's the real Apple Fellow Phil Schiller on Threads
- Porsche unveils revamped CarPlay experience with climate controls and more
- GM dealers aren’t happy future EVs won’t support CarPlay
- Vision Pro launch at retail stores is Apple's most complex rollout ever, will require appointment to buy
- Apple shares official trailer for 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' in theaters October
- Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' arriving in theaters worldwide in November before streaming on Apple TV+
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So Mayo I want you to take a step down memory lane and think about 15 years ago. |
| 0:07.0 | So that would have been 2008. |
| 0:09.0 | Were you alive? |
| 0:10.0 | I was alive, I was, but I was a ripe what 11 years old I think so yeah I'd have been 14 I think 14 I think |
| 0:20.1 | or 15 okay okay yeah so 2008 was the launch of the App Store. July 10th, 2008, so 15 years ago |
| 0:29.0 | Monday. So I wanted to know, Maya, what were the first apps you downloaded from the App Store and well I guess I guess I'll start by asking you did you actually have an iPhone at the time did you have it not only when you're. No not in 2008. I was not there on day one. Same, same. I was not there for a long time actually. |
| 0:50.3 | Oh really. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I got my first iPhone to five or five S one somewhere in that range. |
| 0:56.0 | So when was your first App Store download then? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, before we had the iPhone, we had the iPod touch. |
| 1:02.0 | Yep. |
| 1:03.2 | So that is the entrance point. |
| 1:05.4 | But that iPod touch wasn't even mine at the time. |
| 1:08.9 | So the first App Store downloads are actually on my mum's account, but because she, it was like her iPod touch, but like she |
| 1:15.8 | shared it around, it was like the family kind of thing situation. |
| 1:18.9 | So, and I, we didn't even get like the first iPod touch. |
| 1:21.7 | So when the App Store launched 2008, we bought nothing because we didn't even get like the first iPod touch. So when the App Store launched 2008, |
| 1:23.2 | we bought nothing because we didn't have an iPod Prodigy at the time. |
| 1:27.1 | I believe that our introduction to the whole world |
| 1:30.5 | was the fourth, no, the second generation iPod touch which we got |
| 1:34.7 | as a hand-me-down from somebody else like a year or so after the second generation came |
| 1:39.2 | out so you never had like an iPod nano or a shuffle or anything? |
| 1:43.0 | We, okay, we did have iPod shuffles. |
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