MBW 916: Cars Into Robots - Automattic Acquires Beeper, Apple Home Robots?
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
When will new iPads be announced? Apple confirms layoffs are coming to the company, hitting the former Apple Car division and other sectors. Apple's App Store now allows for gaming emulators. Apple is also challenging ITC's ban on the Apple Watch pulse oximetry feature.
- When will Apple release the new iPad Pro?
- Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing' after car fizzles.
- Apple cut at least 600 workers when car, screen projects stopped.
- Beeper is joining Automattic.
- Apple teaching an AI system to make sense of app screens – could power advanced Siri.
- App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more.
- Apple challenges ITC's ban on Apple Watch pulse oximetry feature.
- Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple.
- Teenagers still overwhelmingly want iPhone and Apple Watch more than any other brand.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:02.0 | Jason Snell has the day off. |
| 0:04.0 | He was down watching the eclipse in Texas, |
| 0:06.0 | but joining us from the Texas Standard, |
| 0:08.0 | Shelly Brisbane, love having her on. |
| 0:10.0 | Alex Lindsey's here, Andy Anako. |
| 0:12.0 | We will talk about the layoffs coming to Apple. |
| 0:15.3 | What's happening to the car team? It looks like robots are on the horizon and a very cool 3D printed classic Mac. It's all coming up next a Mac break weekly |
| 0:31.6 | podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:35.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:38.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 916, recorded Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Cars into Robots. |
| 0:51.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we talk about the latest news from Apple. |
| 0:55.6 | Jason Snell is off pitching for the San Francisco Giants, so he's not here. |
| 1:01.3 | No, actually that was yesterday. He was at the he was at the eclipse. So he's on his way back from the eclipse. We'll hear from him about that next week. But that gives us a great opportunity to get Shelley Brisbane in. Hello Shelley! |
| 1:13.0 | Hi Leo, thanks for having me. I was at the Eclipse as well, but I got home quicker. |
| 1:17.0 | Did you? Oh, you're in Texas, of course. That's right. We have a lot of totality |
| 1:21.0 | happening around here. What was it like? Was it spooky? |
| 1:24.0 | It was not spooky. We were with a lot of people. |
| 1:27.0 | We were at an Eclipse Festival. |
| 1:28.0 | We were covering it for the Texas Standard. |
| 1:30.0 | And so it was actually the band that was playing before totality was very sort of |
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