MBW 889: International Oranges - China, Apple Search Engine, Gold Apple Watch
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
The iPhone 15 Pro overheating is due to an iOS 17 bug, not hardware design, per Apple. Apple continues to cave into China's demands as it begins to enforce checks on its App Store in China. Plus, if you bought the original Apple Watch, especially the $17,000 gold version of the watch, you are out of luck as it is no longer eligible for any services at Apple stores.
- watchOS developer beta adds double tap support.
- Apple doles out fourth visionOS beta to developers.
- Tim Cook interview: Apple boss talks trillion-dollar transformation and reveals his 'aha moment'.
- Apple enforces new check on apps in China as Beijing tightens oversight.
- Apple Says iPhone 15 Pro overheating due to iOS 17 bug, not hardware design.
- How a hidden bar code in iPhone screens saved Apple hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Apple asks Supreme Court to reverse App Store ruling won by Epic.
- Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020.
- Satya Nadella tells a court that Bing is worse than Google — and Apple could fix it.
- Original Apple Watch is now obsolete, including $17,000 gold model.
- You can now add PayPal and Venmo credit or debit cards to your Apple Wallet.
- Mac trade-in changes may indicate new model to launch this month.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac break weekly. The gang is here. Alex Lindsay and Yanako, Jason Snell, |
| 0:06.3 | Apple caves to China. Tim says we work in China, not because they're cheap, but because they're |
| 0:13.3 | better than anybody else. And did you buy the original $17,000 gold Apple watch? Uh-oh, I got |
| 0:19.0 | some bad news for you. It's all coming up next. Mac weekly. podcast you love from people you trust. |
| 0:27.8 | This is tonight. This is Mac break weekly episode eight hundred eighty nine recorded Tuesday, |
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| 1:35.5 | news with Alex Lindsay from office hours dot global hello Alex. Andy and not cool from WG BHA |
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