iPadOS 19 rumors, Tim Cook prioritizes AR glasses, Earth Day Apple Store promo
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance talk about the news and rumors of the week, including a report that iPadOS 19 will gain Mac-like productivity and multitasking features, the claim that Tim Cook is laser focused on beating Meta to AR glasses, and there’s profiles about some of the internal management dysfunction in the AI groups. Also, Apple has kicked off a rare sales promo at its stores in celebration of Earth Day.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin used public EV charging for the first time this past weekend, and hit a rather unfortunate snag. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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Links
- Apple launches 10% discount on 16+ products when you recycle old tech
- Report: iPadOS 19 to be 'more like macOS' in major overhaul
- Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right - MacStories
- Tim Cook is dead set on beating Meta to 'industry-leading' AR glasses: report
- Apple reportedly planning 'lighter and cheaper' refresh for Vision Pro, more
- Apple Vision ‘Air’ will use titanium to cut weight and come in black, per leak [U]
- This is how Apple’s big Siri shake-up happened, per report
- Craig Federighi’s leadership has already resulted in this major Siri pivot, per report
- Tim Cook approved big AI investment in 2023, but Luca Maestri slashed it: NYT
- New Siri features in iOS 19 are coming sooner than we thought, per NYT
- Apple details on-device Apple Intelligence training system using user data
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So do you know to head to our respective Apple stores this week may have and just carry in a whole bunch of printers and other old technology? |
| 0:08.3 | You can bring in an iPod. |
| 0:10.1 | Yeah, that's not even, I understand the iPod, but like bringing in a printer or scanner to an Apple store to trade it in. |
| 0:17.6 | That's weird. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, what was weird. |
| 0:19.6 | It was before you could bring a printer into |
| 0:21.3 | the Apple store and they just take it off your hands and recycle it and you get nothing. So, |
| 0:24.8 | this promotion at least gives you something back. So this is Apple has launched a 10% discount |
| 0:30.8 | on some of their products when you recycle old tech. So this is in celebration of Earth Day, |
| 0:36.6 | which I think is April 22nd, so next week. |
| 0:40.2 | So starting this week and ending on May 16th, you can bring an old piece of technology into an Apple store and get a 10% discount on a handful of different things. |
| 0:50.7 | Most of these are accessories, so you can save 10% on like Apple Watch bands, iPhone cases, chargers, cables, that kind of stuff. |
| 0:58.7 | Or you can also save 10% on AirPods 4, Air Tag, Apple TV 4K, HomePod Mini, some of the smaller, lower-end products. |
| 1:07.9 | This is rare in a lot of ways because Apple never runs these types of promos except around |
| 1:14.1 | Black Friday. |
| 1:15.2 | And for Black Friday, you just get a gift card. |
| 1:17.8 | So this is Apple giving you a discount, a 10% discount just to bring in some of your old |
| 1:23.6 | technology and recycle it. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, bring in the oldest mouse, you know. |
| 1:30.2 | You can get like a, you can buy it. |
| 1:32.0 | This would be really stupid. |
| 1:32.8 | You go on Amazon or like eBay and buy like a two pound mouse that just take you |
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