MBW 996: The Billion Dollar Scratch - Samsung Releases XR Headset to Compete Against Vision Pro

MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

3.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

Apple held a special developer event for immersive media experiences last week, and some of MacBreak's own were there! Did Apple reduced production levels for its iPhone Air? Apple crosses the $4 trillion market cap. And what's going on with Apple's lawsuit against Jon Prosser?

Apple holds special developer event touting immersive media experiences for Vision Pro.
Samsung takes on Apple's Vision Pro with new Galaxy XR headset.
Apple iPhone Air cuts mean very little in October 2025.
iPhone Air production cut orders may not be true.
The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having "strategic market status", imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition.
US judge decertifies Apple app store class action.
Apple crosses $4 trillion market cap for the first time.
Apple begins shipping American-made AI servers from Texas.
Apple says Jon Prosser 'has not indicated' when he may respond to lawsuit.
Apple readies new framework to let iPhone users migrate app data to and from Android.
iPhone 18 Pro could gain satellite 5G as SpaceX chases Apple partnership.
Apple seeds iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 release candidates.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Break Weekly. Andy, Alex, and Jason are here. Yes, Alex is back.
0:05.5	We'll talk about the iPhone Air. Is it selling well or is it not selling at all? It's unclear.
0:11.0	We'll also talk about more litigation in the UK. Apple Seeds, the latest versions of iOS,
0:19.5	both public betas and developer betas, we think this is the release
0:22.4	candidate, and John Prosser's day in court, not. All of that and more coming up next on Mac Break
0:29.1	Weekly.
0:32.1	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit.
0:40.8	This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 996, recorded Tuesday, October 28th, 2025.
0:48.2	The billion-dollar scratch.
0:51.3	It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we talk about the latest news from Apple.
0:56.3	Alex Lindsay's back.
0:58.0	We missed you, sir.
0:59.4	It's good to be back.
1:00.6	It was a busy couple weeks.
1:02.4	Where were you?
1:03.6	The first week I was, I went, I was in Littitz, Pennsylvania, a place called Rock Littitz.
1:09.7	It's just north of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Is that the famous Studio City, Rock Littitz? Well, Rock Littitz is where basically every tour starts. So it's Taylor Swift or Beyonce or whatever. It's the small venue that they can try stuff out at. Yeah, they have a couple of warehouses, each one big enough to almost hold. said all of Taylor Swift's stage, but they said, well, almost. Jeez. Not quite that big. But, and so, so they, they do that. But what we're working with a partner called Arena 1 that is built a stage. This is what the stage looks like. They said it was okay. I could show a couple pictures. The behind the scenes of the stage holy amolay go go go all so now this stage is
1:48.4	basically the nicest concert stage you're going to have but very small and really just designed
1:52.9	just for theaters so theaters come up on this on this wall here so so if you if we wait a minute
1:58.0	so this the audience is where the wall is yeah so you don't there's nobody in the in the thing so here's this is the verve pipe my oh I
2:04.8	see so this was they're gonna show it on the movie screen exactly exactly
2:09.1	this is the whole control room for these for this day that's like the truck at
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