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The CultCast

iPhones in Space — It Almost Didn’t Happen! + iPhone Ultra BIG Price Leaks (CultCast #744)

The CultCast

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Tech News, Society & Culture, News, Technology

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Send us a text! This week: iPhones are officially in SPACE! 🚀… but it almost didn’t happen. We break down the wild story of how the iPhone barely made it onto a NASA mission and the insane approval process behind it. Plus: Apple’s cooking up something just as shocking—a folding “iPhone Ultra” that WILL cost over $2,000. Plus plus: Apple’s long-term iPhone strategy and the strange struggles of the iPhone Air. From Cupertino… to the Moon 🌕—this one’s a ride. Sponsors Squarespace If ...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the locusty past 30 plus minute Apple conversation.

0:07.7

You're going to hear all week long.

0:11.2

I'm your host, Aaronford, Elijah.

0:12.7

Join me today.

0:13.8

Oh, there's no one else here.

0:16.5

Just your old pal, Papa E.

0:20.7

Here again to talk about this week's best Apple store is in.

0:25.3

Maybe a few extra things.

0:28.4

I don't know about you all, but I have been absolutely glued to the details surrounding

0:34.2

Artemis II and everything that has been going on around the space flight to the moon and back.

0:42.3

Is it just me?

0:43.4

I'm dazzled by it.

0:45.8

I just...

0:47.0

And you know, I don't know how this happened.

0:48.9

I think I mentioned this on a prior show.

0:51.2

But the entire thing caught me completely by surprise. Like one of the most significant,

0:57.5

I don't know, scientific, but space events of our time happened by surprise. I somehow,

1:07.6

even though I use social media constantly, I somehow did not know that we were going

1:13.9

back to the moon. Well, I mean, we're flying around it. We're not landing, but, you know,

1:17.8

I somehow didn't know this until I think I mentioned this. I was in the atrium in my office,

1:26.4

and there were a bunch of people gathered around,

1:29.2

and they had the screen down,

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