MBW 956: Asparagus Chips - TikTok, Apple Card, One Year of Vision Pro

MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Iphone, Apple, Ipad, Macintosh, Ios, Twit, Mac, Imac, Technology, Mac Os X

3.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is back up but unavailable for download in the App Store and Google Play Store. Could Apple be making Wi-Fi routers again? Is Goldman Sachs eyeing an early exit from Apple's partnership with the Apple Card? And it's been nearly one year since the Vision Pro was available for pre-order.

TikTok is partially back online in the US, but it's not back in the App Store yet.
Apple might start making Wi-Fi routers again, but in a way you wouldn't expect.
Redesigned Apple Mail app coming to Mac and iPad in April.
Apple Card's future in question as Goldman Sachs CEO eyes early exit.
'Severance': Apple TV+ series has made more than $200M for streamer.
He didn't respond... so they kicked the door down – Tim Cook reveals how the Apple Watch saved his father's life.
Tony Fadell wanted Apple to buy Sonos; Steve wanted to sue it.
Apple makes it easy to donate to Red Cross's LA Wildfire relief efforts.

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Break Weekly. Andy Anacos here. Jason Snell, Alex Lindsay.
0:05.0	Of course, we're going to talk about TikTok.
0:07.0	None of the bite dance apps are on the app store again.
0:11.0	Why is Apple holding back when everybody else is saying, yay, TikTok has been saved?
0:17.0	Did you know that Tony Fidel wanted Apple to buy Sonos and Steve Jobs said,
0:23.3	buy him? We're suing them. We'll talk about that anecdote. And Apple intelligence,
0:29.2	somebody's got to tell Apple intelligence, Joanna Stern, does not have a husband. All of that and
0:34.2	more coming up next on Macbreak Weekly.
0:39.0	Podcasts you love.
0:40.8	From people you trust.
0:43.3	This is Twit.
0:47.8	This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 956, recorded Tuesday Tuesday January 21st 2025
0:55.6	Asparagus chips
0:57.4	It's time for Mac Break Weekly the show we cover the latest Apple news from Apple and others
1:05.4	Hello Andrew Andrew Anato is here from the library wearing a crew neck.
1:11.5	You look like you're on your way to the quadrangle.
1:14.1	Oh, if I were walking to the quadrangle in 12 degree weather, yes, absolutely.
1:18.9	Yeah, how is it?
1:19.9	It's 12?
1:20.9	It's this is the time where even when Englanders stop saying, no, this isn't cold, this is crisp, and start saying, yeah, this is cold.
1:28.0	Yeah, this is cold.
1:29.2	Here in a polar vortex.
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