iPhone 15 goes buttonless! + Backlit Apple logo making a comeback! (CultCast #567)

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week: CultCast is talking iPhone 15 going buttonless, backlit Apple logo making a comeback, and our review of Apple's weird workplace drama Severance!

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This week's stories

iPhone 15 Pro could use solid-state volume and power buttons

Apple could switch to solid-state volume and power buttons on the iPhone 15 Pro series. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has made this claim based on his latest supply chain checks.

Don’t expect new MacBook Pro or Mac mini before 2023

Apple is done introducing Macs in 2022, according to a reliable source of insider information. The MacBook Pro models with the M2 Pro and M2 Max allegedly won’t be out until late in Q1 2023.

Backlit Apple Logo Could Make a Comeback on Future MacBooks

The first Mac laptop with a lit-up Apple logo was the third-generation PowerBook G3 launched in 1999, and the glowing symbol proved a mainstay through consecutive Apple notebooks for the next 16 years. The only change in that period was that the logo got flipped upright, so that it no longer appeared upside down to onlookers when someone was sat in public with the lid open.

New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability

Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the rules will apply to tech giants that meet its "gatekeeper" criteria and force them to open up their various services and platforms to other companies and developers.

Filming begins on Severance season 2 with 8 new stars

Fans of the hit Apple TV+ series Severance can rejoice that production on season 2 started this week. More of what Stephen Colbert called a “dystopian workplace sci-fi mystery black comedy psychological thriller” is on the way.

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0:00.0	As it possible to call in love with a computer, oh yes, oh yes, I'm sure in this.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to co-cast the best 30 plus minute conversation you're going to hear all week long.
0:38.0	I'm your host and for Elijah joining me today, where is he? There he is.
0:42.0	He's currently in Italy where he's taking classes on how to make offers.
0:46.0	People can't refuse. Of course, be using this new knowledge to ensure the
0:50.0	ultimate writing team is properly motivated.
0:52.0	He is the managing director of the Mac.
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1:54.0	very simple. It's actually simpler than every other time we've come to Italy, immediately
1:58.6	go to like a tin store, you know, basically a Verizon store and get a card and take out
2:05.6	your old card. Or you can buy them in advance, but you know, it's always like fiddling
2:10.1	around with the cards. This is so much easier. It's like boom done on no cards, nothing.
2:14.2	I thought I was going to be a driver. I mean, it's crazy. You're streaming live on a
2:18.7	phone hotspot and iPhone is a hotspot from a from a small town in the middle of Italy.
2:23.6	I mean, I mean, you're dropping some frames here and there, but in the lag is maybe a little
2:28.4	bit longer than normal, but other than that, it actually looks good. It sounds good. I mean,
2:32.4	it's amazing that it works as well. Yeah, I'm using AirPods on my book, you know, so we'll see.
2:38.4	Yeah, and you're using AirPods, which introduces, yeah, no, it probably will. So we might,
2:44.0	if Lewis just starts talking and then he freezes and his phrase is contorted into some expression,
2:49.0	that doesn't go away. It's probably because he froze. We might have to drop his video, but we're going
2:52.8	to try and make, we're going to try and make it through as much as we can. If you hear that
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