M3 MacBook Air arrives, Apple Vision Pro stays, and Apple Car goes on the AppleInsider podcast
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AppleInsider
4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
One month with Apple Vision Pro, strange days with the EU and Epic Games, plus the M3 MacBook Air, all on the AppleInsider podcast.
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LINKS FROM THE SHOW:
MacBook Air with M3
- New M3 MacBook Air arrives with faster Wi-Fi and better performance
- Early M3 MacBook Air benchmarks aren't surprising
Apple Car just can't die, at least in the news
- Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees
- Apple's failed 'Project Titan' was a Full Self Driving gamble
- Apple sat at a crossroads of indecision that led to Project Titan's slow death
The terrible, no good, very bad, DMA
- Apple stresses security risks of complying with EU's Digital Markets Act
- Apple cites bevy of scared users to back up its case against the EU DMA
- Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU
- Setapp announces beta of iOS app store for the EU
- Spotify, Epic complain again that Apple won't be in compliance with the DMA
- European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming
- Apple updates rules surrounding EU DMA compliance to address developer concerns
- 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple
Apple Vision Pro - one month in
- Apple Vision Pro one month review: a new reality is setting in
- A software engineer wore Apple Vision Pro to his wedding, much to his new bride's chagrin
- Three things Apple got wrong with the Vision Pro launch
- Capturing spatial video: Apple Vision Pro vs iPhone 15 Pro
Misc
- 20.3-inch foldable MacBook expected in 2027
- Watch 51 classic movies for free on Apple TV+
- You can now save up to $1 million in your Apple Card Savings Account
- Apple Card, Savings data now available in more third-party budget apps
- The next Apple CEO: Who could succeed Tim Cook?
- (00:00) - Introduction
- (00:32) - Apple Car lament
- (01:14) - MacBook Air
- (08:24) - Mac desktop salkes
- (11:56) - Tales of the Apple Car
- (24:34) - Epic Games
- (34:36) - EU
- (38:54) - Epic Games again
- (47:10) - Spotify
- (01:01:54) - One Month with Apple Vision Pro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | our sponsors this is Wesley Hilliard speaking and our sponsors this week are |
| 0:10.0 | backblaze and fast-growing trees. |
| 0:12.0 | It's been a weird week in Apple News with everyone folks are Backblaze and fast-growing trees. |
| 0:12.8 | It's been a weird week in Apple News, |
| 0:14.3 | with everyone focused on Applecar and the very quiet arrival |
| 0:17.5 | of a new Mac. |
| 0:19.0 | How you feeling, William? |
| 0:21.2 | Apple abandon your dream project and kind of a disappointment announcement |
| 0:25.8 | week we haven't really had the the Monday through Friday revealing of |
| 0:29.6 | everything we've ever wanted how's it going over there? Yeah, I'm going to admit I cried last |
| 0:35.2 | night. Yeah, it was the apple. Actually, no, yesterday I worked out yesterday I was driving to |
| 0:40.7 | London and Oxford and all sorts of things. I drove for about five and a half, |
| 0:44.7 | maybe six hours and it was murderously boring in traffic except carplay was brilliant. |
| 0:50.9 | So every now and again I was thinking, |
| 0:52.8 | that's good enough for me. I'll never be able to afford an up a gun anyway. |
| 0:56.4 | They've made the right decision. Let's have Apple car, excuse me, a car play improved, |
| 1:01.8 | make my life better, and also maybe if I could cut down in the |
| 1:05.0 | driving a bit but I don't think that last bit's down to Apple. Right yeah it could be |
| 1:09.5 | decades before we are just relaxing in our car taking naps and playing with our iPads but |
| 1:14.8 | let's get this new Mac out of the way it's it's kind of interesting that it's |
| 1:18.8 | there's nothing really to talk about here there's a couple of new features |
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