MBW 988: Clothes by the Pound - A Replacement to FineWoven?

MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

3.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

The MacBreak Weekly panel is patiently waiting for Apple's September event! A story about stolen luggage at LAX being recovered thanks to an Apple AirTag diverges into a spirited discussion on clothing and luggage. And Apple could be prepared to drop its largest case redesign for the iPhone 17, including a spiritual successor to the FineWoven material.

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Apple may be readying the largest case redesign yet for iPhone 17.
New 'Vision Air': Here's how much lighter and less expensive it might be.
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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones.
Apple Music radio stations are now available outside of Apple Music for the first time.
Adafruit Fruit Jam – An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh - CNX Software.
Zoom wins broadcast Emmy.

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Break Weekly, our annual struggle to find something new to say as we approach the Apple event next week show.
0:08.0	But it's always fun because we find lots of things to talk about, including new uses for air tags, what we're expecting with new AirPods,
0:18.2	and a broadcast Emmy for a friend of the show.
0:22.5	All that and more.
0:23.2	Coming up next on Mac Break Weekly.
0:27.5	Podcasts you love.
0:29.2	From people you trust.
0:31.7	This is Twit.
0:36.3	This is Mac Break Weekly. episode 98, recorded Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025.
0:44.2	Clothes by the pound.
0:47.2	It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we cover the latest news from Apple.
0:51.2	And as we get closer, inch closer and closer in a zeno's paradox sort of fashion to the apple event
0:58.4	we have less and less to say but more and more time to say it thank god we've got and not go here
1:04.6	it's good to see you andrew that's my that's one of my favorite paradoxes ever and i'm not even kidding
1:09.1	it's like when i was a kid, I learned about Zeno's paradox.
1:11.2	Like, oh, so if you're always getting halfway closer and halfway closer, you never get, wow. Wow. As a kid, I would often use Zeno's paradox as a reason why I did not take out the trash. Like, well, I kept getting halfway closer to the trash barrel and halfway closer. Dan, I'm getting closer to getting that the trash.
1:08.7	You solve this one.
1:09.7	You're going to win yourself a bulletin for Nobel. Great to see you, Andrew. Have you figured out what the Chinese antler site is doing on your, camping on your name? Oh, no, I haven't. I still have the domain. I don't know what the situation is. Okay. I haven't paid enough to do it. camping out. No, I don't. It's I still I still have the domain. I don't know what the situation is. Okay. They're camping. They're camping out.
1:46.7	No, I don't. I didn't see you. Apparently they sell it's in Chinese, but I've been told that they sell
1:52.0	antler velvet, which I don't even want to know anymore at all about that. Mr. Alex Lindsay from
1:59.5	office hours dot global. So good to see you.
2:02.6	Good to be here.
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