It's about to get a lot harder to buy Apple products + trouble on Apple's Industrial Design team... (CultCast #568)

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week: it's about to get a lot harder to buy Macs, iPhones, AirPods and more. Get'em while you can! Plus: Apple's about to make it even easier to accidentally turn on Siri, and the strange story no one's talking about: Apple's industrial design team is falling apart right before our eyes.

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This week's stories

Bad news for Xmas: Apple’s largest factory forced into ‘total lockdown’

Days after reports of Foxconn employees hopping fences and fleeing from their jobs, a report from Taiwan News says Apple’s biggest iPhone factory is now on “total lockdown.” These new restrictions could have a big impact on Apple’s sales during the crucial holiday period.

Apple wants to shorten ‘Hey Siri’ trigger phrase to simply ‘Siri’

Apple is working on changing the “Hey Siri” hotword to just plain “Siri,” and the change could roll out as early as next year.

Apple News will be shoved into the Weather app

In the latest beta of iOS 16.2, certain cities have an additional section for weather news, slotted between the 10-day forecast and the air quality meter. On iPadOS and macOS Ventura, this section occupies an even larger widget in the corner.

Apple's Product Design Team Reportedly Focused More on Costs in Recent Years

Apple's efforts to replace its former design chief Jony Ive have been hindered by increased turnover within the company's product design team over the past few years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The report claims that Apple has lost the majority of senior designers who worked under Ive, with many of them jumping ship to his new design firm LoveFrom, which he started after leaving Apple in 2019.

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0:00.0	Put Macintosh in the middle of your company, and some remarkable things start to happen.
0:11.4	Those who shoot from the hip suddenly show signs of organization.
0:16.0	And those who live by the book show glimmers of creativity.
0:20.2	Ideas surfers from people you thought had retired.
0:25.0	Reports that could bore the dead sparkle with graphic clarity.
0:29.5	Or 8th floor will actually communicate with your 7th.
0:32.8	Presentations begin to border on the flamboyant.
0:36.4	And your most tireless worker will actually have time to take an afternoon off.
0:42.6	And a budding genius will be found this, where once a face was seen.
0:46.7	It's very good.
0:47.7	But not heard.
0:48.7	Very good.
0:49.7	And one by one, each and every person in your company will begin to discover the power
0:55.5	of Macintosh, the power to be your best.
1:00.2	Hello, and welcome to the cocast the best 30 plus minute op conversation you're going
1:07.1	to hear all week long.
1:08.1	I'm your host.
1:09.1	Here for Elijah, join me today.
1:11.4	Once Italian officials discovered he was connected with the Keeney family crimes
1:15.5	into kid.
1:16.5	Of course, he issued him a one week stay.
1:19.9	He's got to get out of there out of the country, I must say.
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