Let's talk Apple April event hardware predictions! (CultCast #488)
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🗓️ 16 April 2021
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This week: This week: what hardware will be announced at next week’s Apple event? We got it all figured out!. Plus: Apple’s got a zany new HomePod under development, and Apple TV+ is about to get some big upgrades.
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| 0:00.0 | The future, where people may not be compatible, but your Macintosh will be. |
| 0:15.5 | Power Macintosh is here, and the future is better than you expect it. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello and welcome to CoCast the Best 30 Plus Minute Outcomesation, you're going to hear |
| 0:27.6 | all week long, I'm your host, Aaron Elijah, join me today, oh well he's not here, never |
| 0:32.8 | might spend. |
| 0:33.8 | This really, this ruined my whole bit, I'm going to do it anyway, when Apple announces |
| 0:37.7 | a new keynote, he brings his pillow and Blake eats you to the couch because when his wife |
| 0:42.3 | finds out how much he spent on new hardware, he knows that's where he'll be sleeping for |
| 0:46.2 | at least the next week. |
| 0:47.8 | He's the founder of CoCast the Mac, Leandro Caini is not here, another one bites, dush, |
| 0:56.1 | RIP order. |
| 0:57.5 | Also with us speaking of couches, now you see why I had to do that, speaking of couches, |
| 1:01.3 | he just added one to the CoCast the Mac, writing room, where perched from his new vantage |
| 1:06.0 | point, he can insure the writers keep typing and aren't tempted to pick their leg lox |
| 1:10.0 | and get away. He's the fair but strict managing editor of Coltomack. |
| 1:14.2 | Oh, it was Wallace. Yeah, I am apparently responding better to the COVID vaccine than our |
| 1:24.3 | fearless founder. Yeah, we understand a little under the weather today. Yeah, and soon he'll be |
| 1:29.7 | under the ground. We had a nice race. Oh, excuse me. |
| 1:33.8 | Soon it'll be 100% fully vaccinated. Well, you guys both got, was it shot too? Yeah, |
| 1:39.8 | okay, and you're feeling all right now because you said you were feeling a little crummy as well. |
| 1:43.3 | Felt a little dodgy yesterday. Yeah, I just went to sleep for 12 hours woke up feeling fantastic. |
| 1:48.9 | Did you actually sleep for 12 hours? I didn't sleep for 12 hours. |
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