MBW 954: Lickable Interface - 25 Years of OS X, $95M Siri Settlement, Bad AI Notification Summaries
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
The MacBreak Weekly crew celebrates the 25th anniversary of Mac OS X, discusses Apple's $95 million settlement over Siri privacy concerns, and shares their thoughts on new gaming capabilities coming to the Vision Pro headset. The hosts also debate the future of Google search in light of the US government's antitrust case and touch on the possibility of non-invasive glucose monitoring coming to the Apple Watch.
• Release of iOS and iPadOS 16.3.1 with important bug fixes and security updates
• 25th anniversary of Mac OS X and its importance in providing a modern, Unix-based foundation that became the basis for Apple's other operating systems
• Apple's $95 million settlement over Siri privacy concerns related to accidental recordings, while maintaining that user data was never sold or used for marketing
• Speculation on why Apple is unlikely to create its own search engine, particularly due to its lucrative deal with Google and the economic risks involved
• Concerns over Apple's AI-generated news summaries sometimes being wildly inaccurate, prompting calls for the company to suspend the feature until it can be improved
• Expansion of Apple Fitness+ with new workouts and integration with the Strava workout tracking platform
• The gang discusses the ethical implications of Apple potentially securing exclusive rights to non-invasive blood glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
• Nvidia announcing upcoming support for its GeForce Now game streaming service on the Vision Pro headset, plus the ability to use the device for capturing movement to train AI for robotics
• 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu used Apple Vision Pro during the film's post-production process
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• Andy: Anker's new 140W 4-port charger, offering fast charging capabilities for multiple devices simultaneously
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. Reassembled for 2025, Andy, Alex, and Jason are all here. |
| 0:06.8 | We're going to celebrate a very important birthday for Mac users. |
| 0:11.1 | We'll talk about Apple's $95 million fine. |
| 0:14.8 | They agree to nothing, admit nothing, and a couple of new Vision Pro ideas ideas all that coming up and a whole lot more |
| 0:23.2 | next on mac break weekly podcasts you love from people you trust this is twit this is macbreak weekly episode 954, recorded Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. |
| 0:44.5 | Lickable Interface. |
| 0:46.8 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we covered the latest appell news with Mr. Jason Snell of Six Colors.com. |
| 0:56.5 | Occasionally you'll see his stories at Macworld and I'll swear. |
| 1:00.0 | Happy New Year to you, Leo, to everybody. |
| 1:03.0 | Happy New Year to you and your brain and your many visits this year to a Sky Harbor Airport. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh yeah, so many flights it's |
| 1:12.6 | great to have you at home today I hope you had a wonderful holiday uh also you uh mr |
| 1:19.4 | annanaco you're celebrating the uh except it's called little christmas is this little boxing day |
| 1:26.1 | there should be i didn't i use I use the I use the |
| 1:30.1 | I use the use little Christmas as an excuse to like have a nice dinner but actually now I |
| 1:33.2 | have an excuse to do some shopping excellent thank you very much I had to you |
| 1:37.0 | not go from WGBH in Boston who celebrates Christmas twice and from office hours |
| 1:44.0 | global mr. Alex Lindsay. |
| 1:46.7 | Happy New Year, Alex. |
| 1:48.0 | Hello, hello, good to be here. |
| 1:49.9 | 2025. |
| 1:52.8 | Welcome to the Gulf of America. |
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