MBW 933: Giant Bill Gates - Q3 2024 Results, Distraction Control, DOJ Antitrust
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Apple's Q3 2024 results are out, and Jason Snell produced his signature charts to cover the results. A look inside Apple's instructions for its Apple Intelligence. Apple has filed a motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit. And Ziff Davis buys back CNET for $100 million.
- Disney+ Vision Pro app adds Iceland environment.
- SpongeBob Squarepants immersive environment now available for Vision Pro.
- tvOS 18 will soon let Apple TV users open web links on iPhone.
- Apple results: Quarterly record, all-time high in Services.
- Existential thoughts about Apple's reliance on Services revenue.
- 'You are a helpful mail assistant,' and other Apple Intelligence instructions.
- Apple debuts new 'Distraction Control' feature for Safari, launching today with iOS 18 beta 5.
- How iOS 18's Web Eraser content-blocker morphed into a distraction-hiding tool.
- Apple files motion to dismiss DOJ antitrust lawsuit, citing harm to innovation and user experience.
- Our audit of Homebrew.
- Apple now sending up to $395 payments to butterfly keyboard MacBook owners.
- CNET to be sold to Ziff Davis in sign of possible media deals to come.
Picks of the Week:
- Jason's Pick: Flighty 4.0
- Andy's Pick: Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose
- Alex's Picks: Kandao EGO & Spatialify
- Leo's Pick: Apple's Superdrive
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, our last episode in the Eastside Studio, and we've gathered the gang. |
| 0:05.6 | Jason Snell is here, Andy, and not go, and of course, Alex Lindsay, we will talk about Apple's results, |
| 0:11.7 | including colorful charts, |
| 0:13.7 | don't you worry, thanks to Jason Snell. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll also talk about Apple Intelligence. |
| 0:19.1 | Apparently, it's been told, whatever you do do don't hallucinate. |
| 0:23.4 | Well that's a relief. |
| 0:25.2 | And will Google's lawsuit loss to the DOJ |
| 0:30.4 | hurt Apple Services Business. |
| 0:33.0 | All that and more coming up next on Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:36.0 | Podcasts you love |
| 0:40.0 | from people you trust. |
| 0:42.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 933, |
| 0:51.6 | recorded Tuesday, August 6, 2024. |
| 0:55.5 | Giant Bill Gates. |
| 0:58.4 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, |
| 1:00.0 | the show we cover the latest Apple News on which we cover the never should in a |
| 1:05.8 | sense with the preposition. |
| 1:08.1 | Hello there Jason Snell thank you for being with us on Sunday on our last |
| 1:12.8 | Twit in the studio. You are now on the last Mac Break weekly in the East Side. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes, except I'm not there. I'm here. So it's a preview. |
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