MBW 903: I Was Just Measuring the East Room - The Vision Pro Has a Release Date
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
The wild rumor from last week was true: Apple's Vision Pro headset has a release date set now! Did Apple intentionally put a back door in its last five iPhones? An iPhone survives a 16,000-foot fall from an airplane. And if you signed up for the settlement payment, your 'Batterygate' payment will come soon.
- Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2.
- Did Apple intentionally put a back door in the last 5 iPhones?
- Apple rejects 37Signals calendar app.
- AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory.
- iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282.
- Apple starts sending $92 'Batterygate' settlement payments to iPhone users.
- China says it cracked Apple AirDrop to identify message sources.
- Apple unveils first iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, Jason Snell, Andy, and Aneoco, Alex Lindsay, we're all here and of course the big story is Apple has announced the Vision Pro ordering and availability. |
| 0:11.0 | We will talk about it. Everybody's getting very excited. Vision Pro days, just days away. |
| 0:17.0 | It's also today, the 17th anniversary of the first iPhone announcement. We'll travel down memory lane for that and is Steve Gibson right is that |
| 0:28.0 | backdoor in the iPhone more than just a bug all that more that and more. Coming up next, a Macbreak weekly. |
| 0:34.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:40.0 | This is |
| 0:48.0 | Mac Break Weekly, episode 903, recorded Tuesday, January 9, 2004. I was just measuring the East Room. |
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