MBW 912: MacBook Air Heritage Club - Epic Games Saga Continues, Meta Quest 3, Apple TV+ Ad Tier?
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Jason Snell is leading MacBreak Weekly as Leo Laporte is out this week. Apple initially blocked Epic's return to its App Store due to Tim Sweeney tweeting about Apple, then reversed their decision. Zuckerberg defends the Meta Quest 3 after someone criticized the headset on Threads. And could Apple TV+ follow a similar path to other streaming services and offer an ad-tier service?
- DMA be damned, Apple cuts off path to Epic Games Store, Fortnite on EU iPhones.
- Epic's App Store developer account restored in Europe once again.
- More options for apps distributed in the European Union.
- Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer's website, in latest EU App Store rule change.
- visionOS 1.1 improves Personas, adds MDM support.
- Zuck insists Quest 3 is also a computer and not just for games in latest Vision Pro criticism.
- No currently available camera is high-res enough for Apple Vision Pro.
- M3 MacBook Air Review: More of a good thing.
- Hector Martin: "So the M3 can now drive 2 exte..." - Treehouse Mastodon
- Why ads on Apple TV+ are as inevitable as a 'Ted Lasso' spinoff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Jason Snell sitting in for Leo on this Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:03.4 | Oh, there's so much. There's new Macbook airs. |
| 0:05.4 | Apple is doing weird stuff in Europe. The Vision Pro got some updates and you know we're still |
| 0:09.6 | going to talk about it because Leo's not here. |
| 0:11.2 | Ha ha, we can talk about the Vision Pro. Apple's going to do a bunch of ads in Apple TV plus maybe |
| 0:16.4 | all that and more coming up next on Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:20.3 | Podcasts you love from people. Weekly. |
| 0:23.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:24.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:26.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:29.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:30.0 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 912 for March 12, 2024. |
| 0:37.0 | Macbook Air Heritage Club. |
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