Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home from Monday, October 18th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, all the headlines from Apple's event today, the Bitcoin Futures E.T.F is real as of tomorrow.

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All right, I'm going to try to write this chronologically in real time as I'm watching, so hopefully you'll be able to hear my genuine delight if and when we hopefully get the Macbook Pro of my dreams. Yes, the Apple Macbook Pro event

was today and it started out in a garage with an old Bondi Blue iMac and someone using

garage band which of course all of that was speaking directly to me, I'd like to think.

Then Tim Cook seemed to speed-talk us into the first agenda item.

This led to a discussion of Apple Music.

There's a new Apple Music plan that they're calling the

voice plan. It costs $4.99 a month and the catch is you only get to use

Siri to use it which which is, someone's going to have to explain that to me.

How is that something I want?

Like, that's weird.

It's a one-person plan only, and it does work on all Apple devices so I guess this is

Pandora-ish I guess I don't know need to dig more on that one

Then it was on to the Home Pod mini. The Home

Pod Mini is getting some new colors and then the big news or at least the

first big news of the event the new Airpods which are getting spatial audio. That's right new Airpods not Airpods, which are getting spatial audio.

That's right, new Airpods, not Airpods Pro.

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