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It's time for Mac break weekly the show week over the latest news from Apple. And on the news beat this week, the usual suspects. Hello Jason Snell from six colors dot com. Good to see you.

I walk the beat every day, checking in. Hey, Mrs. Macintosh, how are things going on? How's young Newton doing in school? And then I moved down the street now in front of the bar. I'm like, oh, here's iPhone and iPad. What are you guys up to?

When I was a kid, there was a job, a TV show called the whistling policeman and he had a baton, which he tore, which is actually an eyesight little threatening. And it whistle and he'd go around through that exact thing. He'd be covering his beat. That's right. Why do they call it a beat is he beaten his feet on the street? Maybe that's it.

Andy and I co probably knows he's a word Smith. And appears regularly on WGBH in Boston. Hello, word Smith. Thank you very much. I haven't keeping up my guild dues. Are you in the WGA? No, I'm not. I am sag after. And so I'm leaving right now. No, because I think because first of all, I'm in. I'm on a dance because it was for the radio show. And as soon as I retired from the radio show, I said, I don't want to pay dues anymore. It's like 30%.

And I said, can I just be on a dance? And they said, yes. So maybe I don't have to strike. And secondly, we're not a signatory. So I, I wouldn't be striking. I'd be striking myself. I mean, just just to be safe, like Jeff, like you should probably just do this, like as Jeff Myers, not as you're Leo.

Like, like, like when Calvert to forest, like had to stop being Laurie Butt Melman when when Letterman went to CBS. That's hysterical because they own Larry Butt Melman, right. Holy cow. I didn't know that. That's interesting. Also with us. Alex Lindsay. He's a video Smith, zero nine zero dot media is his day job. Well, I shouldn't even say that. He spends some time there. But most of the time he said office hours.

Still my day job. It's a day job. It's still a solid, a solid full-time job on top of the other. Yes. Exactly. He's got two. That's the key. Yeah.

Was this an error or just as we, we came on the air. I was told that big sir was updated. And I mean, I really scatted it. What? I understand.

That would be a security update if it's anything. Yeah.

So public betas are out now. They came out. In fact, I think as we ended the show last week.

And I put it on my, I put, I foolishly put it on my iPhone, iOS 17. It's a few things don't work, but it's not bad.

I just, I look, I have written many paragraphs over the years warning people in various ways about not installing betas on their main systems because they might regret it later.

And I'm kind of over it now. Apple certifies this as a public beta. Right. So Apple is like, yep, go to it if you want. And so, you know, I, all I've reduced it to is check to see if the thing that you depend on for your livelihood.

Make sure that that still runs beyond that. If you want to get the stuff early and you're willing to deal with a few bugs, go for it. Have fun. Apple says it's okay, basically.

A few of my witches went blank and then I re-added them and they came back and just a few little weird things like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. It's a good thing. Also, iPad OS 17, I should do that because I have a couple iPads. And now Sonoma is out. He's out in, in his public beta as of July 12th.

And same thing. Same rule. I guess so. Yeah. Yeah.

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