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🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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This week: iPhone 13 has a secret satellite trick that will give you signal anywhere on earth! Plus: sorry, Apple Watch Series 7 might be a much smaller update than we’ve been told… And a radical new South Korean law is forcing Apple to open up their app store, and other countries are now sure to follow. And, sadly, it couldn’t last forever.... It sounds like our beloved Tim Cook is eyeing his retirement from Apple. So who at Apple will take the reins next? We got it all figured out!
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Rumored iPhone satellite communications could be for serious emergencies only
’No chance’ Apple Watch Series 7 will pack blood pressure monitoring
Get organized with a PadFolio from tomtoc [Cult of Mac giveaway]
South Korea is first to say App Store must allow third-party payments
Apple agrees to relax App Store rules for ‘reader’ apps like Netflix, Spotify
Submissions fall to all-time low as devs lose interest in Mac App Store
Apple AR glasses launch could mark end of Tim Cook era
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0:00.0 | Helen, I just looked at these numbers. |
0:04.0 | Pretty grim. |
0:05.0 | Those are computer costs. |
0:07.0 | Didn't we pay for those systems last quarter? |
0:10.0 | We did, but those are training costs. |
0:12.0 | Let me get this straight. |
0:14.0 | We're spending more on training than we did on the computers. |
0:18.0 | Boston doesn't show these costs. |
0:20.0 | They use a different system. |
0:22.0 | So? |
0:24.0 | Apparently, with their computers, the people can train themselves. |
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0:37.0 | All week long, I'm your host. |
0:39.0 | Everyone likes to join me today. |
0:41.0 | Fans worldwide love reading his many Apple bugs, but in the Cult of Mac world headquarters. |
0:47.0 | The heartbacks are mainly used to study the legs of wobbly tables, building forks, Lewis can play in. |
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0:55.0 | He's the founder of Cult of Mac that we're now in all there. |
0:59.0 | We're going to Katie's here. |
1:01.0 | There's not a lot of papers left in the paperback. |
1:04.0 | What's that cheap stuff? |
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