iPhone 15 going Thunderbolt + insane Black Friday deals + GOBBLE GOBBLE YAALL! (CultCast #570)
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week:
- iPhone 15 going Thunderbolt
- Insane Black Friday deals
- More!
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This week's stories
iPhone 15 Pro could feature significantly faster wired data-transfer speeds
- 2023 iPhone 15 Pro models could feature faster data-transfer speeds over a wired connection. Rumors indicate Apple will transition to USB Type-C connectors across its entire iPhone lineup next year. But the faster data-transfer speeds could be limited to the Pro models.
Rounded corners and edges plus titanium case rumored for iPhone 15
- A leaker with a pretty good track record for accuracy said Sunday the upcoming iPhone 15 series will feature rounded corners and edges, plus a titanium case. Rounded corners would harken way back to earlier iPhones and a titanium case would be a first for Apple handsets.
See also Leander's piece from Cult of Mac Today newsletter: "Next iPhone might be titanium
- In the newsletter, he talks all about Apple's alternating "Extrudo" and "Sandwich" design styles. It's been switching between the two from the very beginning!
- Three lucky winners in this week’s giveaway will be able to cast aside the Siri Remote forever. We’re giving away three Function101 Button Remotes for Apple TV.e
- But even if you don’t win, you can still free yourself from one of Apple’s most divisive devices. Retailing at just $29.95, the Button Remote is a deal for everyone who doesn’t like the Apple TV’s Siri Remote.
The best Black Friday deals on AirPods, MacBooks, iPads and Apple Watch
- Black Friday is just around the corner, and that means you can get hefty discounts on Apple products. While the shopping event is a few days away, Black Friday deals have already gone live across various retailers.
Mondo drops ‘innie’ and ‘outie’ vinyl soundtracks for Severance
- Collectibles seller Mondo will release a soundtrack Wednesday for Apple TV+’s Severance season 1 in two versions, both on vinyl: Innie Edition and Outie Edition.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My family got a digital camera for Christmas and we took all the pictures of everybody unwrapping gifts and you know holding up sweaters and everything. |
| 0:07.5 | My dad has a PC and he plugs the camera in and it comes up and it's like so it gets on the internet and start downloading things for about an hour. |
| 0:15.1 | Who wants to sit on Christmas afternoon and download Windows drivers on my power book. |
| 0:20.5 | I just took the camera and put a cord from the camera to the computer and automatically downloaded all the pictures. |
| 0:27.5 | My name is Janie Porsche and I saved Christmas. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello and welcome to look at us the best 30 plus minute app conversation here. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm going to stay fun watching. Wow. Join me today. |
| 0:44.5 | Thursday night you'll be serving the Cultivac writers a wonderful feast of turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry. |
| 0:50.5 | Scraps and other half eaten food products all mixed together lovingly in a bucket before being dumped into their trough. |
| 0:56.5 | It's going to be a meal to remember. He's the manager of Cultivac. Oh, it smells here. |
| 1:03.5 | We're going on a robot to automate this. I'm going to call it the slot master 3000. |
| 1:08.5 | That sounds like a commercial product that probably exists. I want to launch today and no joke. |
| 1:16.5 | They had a automated like Wally robot cart driving around can be people desserts. |
| 1:22.5 | I've heard about this driving itself around and now it's like this seems a little excessive. |
| 1:27.5 | Like do you need to have a robot doing this? Like the desserts like really tiny and you could just it seems like you could probably just pick these up on your own. |
| 1:34.5 | Did they have they had regular waiters and waiters, but they're for the rest of the day. |
| 1:39.5 | That humans 10 robots. It was one of those those COVID prevention robot things. |
| 1:44.5 | Is that a real thing? Maybe they bought it for that and now that it's passed or whatever. |
| 1:52.5 | Yeah, relaxed. Yeah, relax. Well, we spent $3,000 the robot. |
| 1:58.5 | Oh, this robot was far more than $3,000. We spent $5,000 the robot. We got to use it for something. |
| 2:05.5 | But it was just it was just like a robot on two big wheels and it had two shelving units on the front of it. |
| 2:11.5 | It was just carrying food around and the server was just like, Oh, here's your food, sir. |
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