MBW 865: Honking Down Their Snorkel - Katie Cotton, Apple Unions, Apple CarPlay
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
- Former Apple PR chief Katie Cotton has died.
- Apple continues efforts to keep retail stories from unionizing.
- German antitrust regulator opens door for curbs on Apple.
- Here's why macOS has the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its files.
- iPhone 15 Pro design reveals new buttons, giant camera bump, colors, and more.
- Rivian CEO attempts to justify why the company refuses to offer CarPlay.
- Burglars steal $500K from Alderwood Mall Apple store after cutting hole in adjacent store.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Mac break weekly. I'm Micah Sargentim subbing in for Leo Laport while he's on vacation and we have a great show ahead first. |
| 0:08.2 | Rosemary orchard is here in person. So excited to have her here to join us for Mac break weekly. |
| 0:14.5 | Plus your regular cast of characters, Andy and not co Alex Lindsay and Jason Snell. |
| 0:19.4 | We start the show off by talking about Katie cotton former Apple PR chief who died just this last week. |
| 0:29.1 | We talk about Apple PR during the Steve Jobs era how things have changed over time and share a few stories about interacting with Katie cotton. |
| 0:38.1 | Then we move on to talk about Apple's efforts to keep those retail stores from unionizing after Apple has seen one of its retail stores actually make the choice to unionize. |
| 0:49.1 | We talk about iPhone 15 rumors what we could expect there. |
| 0:53.4 | Rivian GM and other electric car companies talking about how they don't want car play and Android auto in their vehicles and how some burglars used an espresso machine store to break into an Apple store and make off with $500,000 worth of iPhones iPads and more. |
| 1:14.3 | It's all that and then some coming up on Mac break weekly stay tuned. |
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| 1:25.8 | This is Detroit. |
| 1:30.7 | This is Mac break weekly episode 865 recorded Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, honking down their snorkel. |
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