iPhone Waits, Tech Force, and GM's Apple Music App - MOSK: 12.16.2025

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Ken Ray

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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- Waits for This Year's iPhones Longer Than Last Year's Last Year - UK Wants iOS and Android to Block Nudity Absent Age Verification - Apple Among ~20 Companies "Supporting" US Tech Force - GM Rolls Native Apple Music Support to Recent Cadillac and Chevrolet Models - Apple Wallet Car Keys Coming to Unspecified GM Models at Unspecified Date - Apple Seeds First Developer Betas of blankOS 26.3 - Sponsored by CleanMyMac: Use code MACOSKEN20 for 20% off at clnmy.com/MACOSKEN - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @macosken@mastodon.social - Send Ken an email: info@macosken.com - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.9	Waits for iPhones, LinkedIn.
0:10.9	Apple's supporting a new government agency.
0:13.9	And GM is going carplay adjacent.
0:17.5	It is Tuesday, the 16th of December, 2025.
0:20.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news. It is Tuesday, the 16th of December 2025.
0:26.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:31.9	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Clean My Mac.
0:43.5	Try seven days free and use my code MacOS Ken 20 for 20% off at CLNMY.com slash macOScan.
0:50.8	This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.
0:59.3	Find out more and add your support at patreon.com slash macOS can.
1:06.7	Somebody has noted something interesting about iPhone wait times and I wish I could tell you who it was.
1:08.6	I mean, Apple 3.0 noticed somebody noticing it.
1:12.8	The problem is they did the same thing with a note they got on Monday that they did a couple of weeks ago.
1:17.8	Listed news coming from Evercore analyst Samik Chatterjee.
1:22.6	Problem is Samik Chatterjee is the J.P. Morgan analyst on Apple.
1:29.0	Evercore's Apple guy is Ahmedit Daryanani. Apple 3.0 is a one-person operation. I know how taxing that can be.
1:38.2	I'm assuming that Philip L. Mardwick keeps making the same copy-paste error anyway. Either J.P. Morgan's Chatterjee or Evercores Deryanani
1:47.5	has noted something interesting about iPhone wait times.
1:52.3	They are longer for this week this year than they were for this week last year.
1:58.3	The posted note indicates that wait times for week 14 of iPhone 17 availability currently
2:03.9	stand at about five days.
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