New AirPods, New iMacs, new MacBook Airs! (CultCast #503)
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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week: we got hot new intel on AirPods 3, new ‘Pro” iMacs, and MacBook Air. Plus: Apple’s planning to bring FaceID to EVERYTHING, and we discuss the most insane parts of Apple’s latest financial call.
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On the show this week
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Twitter leaker @dylandkt reports bad news for iMac, good news for Airpods 3 https://twitter.com/dylandkt
AirPods 3 https://twitter.com/dylandkt/status/1419103317683212290 https://twitter.com/dylandkt/status/1414645969216495619
iMac M1X https://twitter.com/dylandkt/status/1418602808010584066
Smile! Face ID may come to Mac in the next couple of years
Apple aims to bring Face ID to Mac within the next couple of years, reports Mark Gurman in his weekend “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg.
Markus Gurman: Face ID Coming to the Mac, All iPhones and iPads Within ‘Couple of Years'
In his latest edition of “Power On,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple plans to bring Face ID to the Mac in another super vague, strange timeframe. Okay, in all seriousness, he says the next ‘couple of years.’ Let’s just be happy that’s not the ‘next few decades.’
Mini-LED MacBook Air likely to arrive in mid-2022
- Apple’s new MacBook Air with 13.3-inch Mini-LED display will debut in mid-2022, says respected TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a new note to clients, seen by Cult of Mac.
Smashed records, short supplies and other takeaways from Apple’s record Q3
- Apple just revealed that its made heaps of money last quarter. It broke all kinds of revenue records, and Mac, iPhone and iPad contributed strongly to the total.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm a Mac and I'm a PC. They are Mac. Oh, thanks PC. Microsoft Office 2008 just came out for Mac |
| 0:05.8 | So you're gonna be doing a lot more work. I figured you need one of those babies. Great |
| 0:09.6 | What is it exactly? That's a stress toy. I've never seen a stress toy |
| 0:12.3 | Just give it a squeeze and something stresses you out like right. Oh, Mac just got the latest version of Microsoft Office |
| 0:17.1 | Now Mac can do all the office stuff you can do |
| 0:19.3 | PC this is a good thing. You sure release you and Mac are so compatible. I want to transfer all my files over to Mac |
| 0:25.9 | Squeeze |
| 0:30.6 | Hello |
| 0:33.3 | And welcome to cocast the best 30 plus minute up conversation. You're gonna hear all week long. I'm your host |
| 0:39.4 | You're from a large join me today |
| 0:41.6 | We're my notes when he steps into an apple keynote all the journalist bow and reverence when he goes into a pub the bar tender |
| 0:48.1 | Pights behind the bar. He's the founder of Cultivac fully under cany is here |
| 0:52.4 | It's like one of those scenes from the old westerns. It's like the door swings open violently like you step in and then he's like |
| 1:02.1 | Trimbleing hide behind the bar. Yeah |
| 1:05.0 | Sully, but it's like and then you just see his hand come on. He just pulls a couple of drinks like this |
| 1:09.6 | Then he goes back down again. He's like I'll just wait until later. He's done breaking chairs over people |
| 1:15.5 | Well, um for those of you who are uh |
| 1:18.0 | We're trying to join us live. God start for the roof start. So leaner and I were trying to |
| 1:22.7 | Do the show and I don't know what happened, but it got totally borked |
| 1:27.2 | We lost Leander's audio no one can hear him and we tried to troubleshoot it |
| 1:31.9 | But uh he just wasn't working. So we're doing the show as usual and if you're watching this video |
| 1:36.0 | Well, you're watching it after we recorded it if you're listening you don't care because you just listen and and you you miss the the debauchery |
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