M2 MacBook Air impressions + Jony Ive is DONE with Apple (CultCast #553)
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🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week: we discuss M2 MacBook Pro performance, first impressions, and reviews. Plus: the end of an era, Jony Ive leaves Apple for good.
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This week's stories
M2 MacBook Air review roundup: The fast and the beauteous
- The M2 MacBook Air is easily the most important notebook Apple will release in 2022, and it’s a winner.
Jony Ive slips Apple’s golden handcuffs
- Jony Ive’s 30-year partnership with Apple is over.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I told him you can't hide from computers forever. |
| 0:03.0 | He got burned once. |
| 0:05.0 | I've already got one big expensive computer system in the store room. |
| 0:08.0 | The only guy that could work to move L.A. |
| 0:09.0 | Look at the computer if nobody uses it. |
| 0:11.0 | I hear he's working on a new system. |
| 0:13.0 | He said he won't let his people work on anything he can't use himself. |
| 0:16.0 | Maybe this computer's different. |
| 0:18.0 | Macintosh has the power to change the way you feel about computers. |
| 0:22.0 | The power to be your best. |
| 0:25.0 | Help. |
| 0:26.0 | I'll be. |
| 0:27.0 | I'll be. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello. |
| 0:30.0 | And welcome to HolcastyBest30 plus an app conversation you're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm roast. |
| 0:39.0 | Everybody watch, join me today. |
| 0:41.0 | Where is he? |
| 0:42.0 | When he's not disciplining Colt and Mac writers. |
| 0:44.0 | Where is he? |
| 0:45.0 | For typos and grammar mistakes. |
| 0:47.0 | He has them taking turns as his personal ottoman. |
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