M1X MacBook Pro, incoming! And remembering Steve... (CultCast #513)
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
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This week: M1X MacBook Pro is coming soon! We discuss. And remembering Steve Jobs, we miss him. Plus: it's back—an all new Under Review! We're revealing our favorite new gadgets.
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New MacBook Pros Likely to Launch at Apple Event This Month, Says Gurman
- In his latest newsletter, Gurman says Apple y is poised to announce the M1X powered MacBook Pros within the next month, noting that "Apple typically does its major new Mac introductions in October. So stay tuned."
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Today in Apple history: Steve Jobs dies at 56
- October 5, 2011: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56 in his home in Palo Alto, California. Jobs’ official cause of death is respiratory arrest arising from complications related to a rare type of pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed with the cancer eight years earlier, and officially stepped down from his role as Apple CEO in August 2011.
Tim Cook reflects on Steve Jobs’ legacy on 10th anniversary of his passing
- This week, Tim Cook sent a memo to all employees about his former boss and friend. In it, he says that Jobs’ passion to change the world for the better lives on in the company.
Apple pays touching tribute to Steve Jobs a decade after his passing
- Apple today commemorates its co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs ten years after he passed away from pancreatic cancer. The company’s homepage has been adorned with images of Jobs throughout his years at Apple, as well as an official film and a statement from the Jobs family.
Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs
- My memories of that brutal, heartbreaking day 10 years ago are scattered and random. I cannot remember driving down to his house. I do remember a hazy October sky and shoes that were too tight. I remember afterwards Tim and I sat quietly in the garden together for a long time.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's computer problem at Cape Canaveral was distressing, perhaps, but for most Americans |
| 0:05.6 | not totally surprising. |
| 0:07.8 | As a society, we'd become used to computer problems of one kind or another, just as we'd |
| 0:12.3 | become used to computers. |
| 0:14.3 | We're so used to them, in fact, that few of us stop to think of the extent to which they |
| 0:18.4 | now play a role in our everyday lives, a role that shows every sign of growing even bigger. |
| 0:23.9 | The personal computer boom has been a boom to one company in particular. |
| 0:27.6 | It has become the big apple in this land of high technology. |
| 0:31.0 | Since the Apple Computer Company was founded five years ago, its sales have skyrocketed |
| 0:35.1 | from about $100,000 to more than 100 million. |
| 0:38.8 | Stephen Jobs helped build the first Apple Computer in his garage. |
| 0:42.4 | He is now 26 years old and is chairman of the board, and he sees his computer's future |
| 0:47.6 | as the future of mankind. |
| 0:49.6 | This is a 21st century bicycle that amplifies a certain intellectual ability that man has. |
| 0:56.4 | And I think that after this process has come to maturity, the effects that it's going |
| 1:04.0 | to have on society are actually going to far outstrip even those that the petrochemical |
| 1:08.6 | revolution has had. |
| 1:10.6 | Hello, and welcome to the Best 30 Plus Spent Apple Conversation you're going to hear. |
| 1:19.6 | All week long, I'm your host, Airfront Elijah, join me today. |
| 1:22.3 | He's been tased by Apple Security. |
| 1:24.6 | Not many times it doesn't even work anymore, so now they're trying cattle prods. |
| 1:28.4 | I heard they're considering blow darts, but he's quick, and he's made it on site several |
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