MBW 974: Lyle Who? - Apple's Satellite Ambitions
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Apple had plans to launch full satellite services. President Trump is threatening Apple with a 25% tariff on iPhones manufactured overseas. Former Apple designer Jony Ive enters a new partnership with Sam Altman of OpenAI. And what is 'Solarium,' Apple's rumored unified interface that the company could announce at WWDC25?
- Apple's satellite ambitions threatened by Elon Musk, internal resistance.
- Trump threatens 25 percent tariff on iPhones manufactured overseas.
- Tim Cook's 'off-ramp' to placate Trump.
- Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices.
- Apple & Epic agree no in-person court necessary after 'Fortnite' restored to App Store.
- Sam and Jony and skepticism.
- Apple prepares iOS 19, macOS 16 'Solarium' UI overhaul for WWDC.
- App Store protected users from $9 billion in fraud over five years.
- Tap to Pay on iPhone lands today in eight new countries.
- Global wearable band market up 13% in Q1 2025 as Xiaomi takes top spot.
- Apple absolutely cannot miss its smart glasses swing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac break weekly, Alex, Andy and Jason, all in the house. |
| 0:04.8 | We're going to talk about Apple and Epic making nice, and now the Fortnite is in the iOS store. |
| 0:12.6 | Tim Cook's no good, very bad week has continued to get worse and worse. |
| 0:18.6 | And why Apple probably won't be talking about AI in a couple |
| 0:22.1 | of weeks. All of that and more. Coming up next on Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:28.4 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:37.3 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 974, recorded Tuesday, May 27th, 2025. |
| 0:45.3 | Lyle who? |
| 0:47.2 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:49.0 | Yes, indeed, this show where we talk about the latest Apple News, all and down this great fruited plane with mr. |
| 0:58.0 | jason snell of six colors dot com hello jason hello leo it's good to be here yes welcome also with us |
| 1:05.1 | andy and knocko of the library that's fine i like that i'm not to live. Library man. Soon to have a website. Any minute now. And of course, from Office Hours. Global, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Alex Lindsay. Hello, hello. Hello. How are you, sir? I'm doing quite well. Doing quite well. So it turns out Elon tried to blackmail Apple. |
| 1:29.3 | Wait a minute. |
| 1:30.3 | What happened to me? |
| 1:31.3 | I know. |
| 1:32.3 | Am I in the window? |
| 1:33.3 | I'm in the witness. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, now you show my friends. |
| 1:37.3 | I didn't, I thought that he was on the outset of the administration. |
| 1:40.3 | I didn't think he had still had access to that kind of. |
| 1:43.3 | This is all part of our plan, all part of our plan to take, secret plan to take over the show from |
| 1:47.5 | Leo. We're very gradually facing him out. That was step one. So this from the information, |
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