iOS 18 is out, iPhone 16 and Apple Watch Series 10 reviewed
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11 and tvOS 18 are finally out for public consumption. Benjamin and Chance go through some of their favorite features from this OS cycle, and initial impressions on how the changes are being received. Plus, they react to the iPhone 16 and Apple Watch Series 10 reviews that dropped this week.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Threads poll on AirPods Pro lanyard use
- Look inside AirPods Pro 2 with new CT scan images
- Apple touts iPhone 16 Pro and Apple Intelligence in new videos
- iPhone 16 Pro reviews: Incredible battery life, camera quality boost, Camera Control quirks
- iPhone 16 review roundup: This year, the base models are almost an iPhone Pro
- AirPods 4 review: big deal, small package
- AirPods 4 reviews: Impressive noise cancellation in an open-ear design
- Hands-on with black titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2
- Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger, thinner, smarter
- Apple Watch Series 10 review roundup: Iterative update, but slim design with big display is like an Ultra Lite
- iOS 18 is here, and it's Apple's most personal iPhone update yet
- Apple releases watchOS 11 with these new features
- Apple releases tvOS 18 for Apple TV and HomePod software update, here's what's new
- These visionOS 2 features aim to make Vision Pro an actually useful computer
- macOS Sequoia now available for Mac with iPhone Mirroring
- iPhone flashlight iOS 18: How it works
- Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro demand lower than expected, iPhone 16 Plus pre-orders up 48%
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo I think you owe quite a few people an apology to start this episode this week because |
| 0:06.1 | last week we were talking about the lack of a lanyard holder on the AirPods 4 case and I said I love |
| 0:12.1 | having a lanyard connected to my AirPots Pro 2 and you basically said no you're an idiot |
| 0:17.3 | Nobody uses that feature nobody you've never seen anybody with a lanyard connected. I think I was slightly kinder than that, but yeah. |
| 0:24.5 | The worst part is I was listening back |
| 0:27.0 | to that part of the show, and I realized that the real bullying |
| 0:30.1 | took place before we were recording when we were on video and we were talking |
| 0:34.2 | about something and I showed you like my lanyard connected to my AirPots |
| 0:36.7 | bro and you just started to... |
| 0:37.7 | Maybe I could you an idiot off at that I was more restrained. I held up my beloved AirPots Pro and you just started laughing at me uncontrollably. |
| 0:46.4 | So I decided to do some research on threads and Twitter and did a poll asking, if you |
| 0:50.9 | use AirPots Pro, do you have a lanyard connected. I got 2,500 responses on threads and 21% of those people said that yes |
| 1:00.3 | they do use a lanyard. So what that's 500 people is? That's pretty good that's |
| 1:06.7 | honestly more than I expected. Yeah that is more. I just wanted to prove that it literally wasn't |
| 1:10.5 | just me. Like two people could have voted yes and I would have been happy. |
| 1:13.6 | When you did that poll I was like okay so obviously when I say just due that's always |
| 1:18.6 | the hyperbolic exaggeration right but if I was trying to think practically speaking |
| 1:22.3 | how many people do I think |
| 1:23.4 | was going to respond to that poll given the normal biases that like if there's a |
| 1:26.9 | power about some esoteric thing only the people that actually use the |
| 1:29.9 | esoteric thing going to reply to it in the first place, right? So with all those stipulations in my |
| 1:34.8 | head, I was thinking, maybe he'll get 10%. But to get 20%? I was like, okay, fair enough. |
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