New HomePod! New public betas! New iPhone 16 Pro leaks! (CultCast #656)
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This week, there’s a BRAND NEW HOMEPOD — is it too good to be true? Yes. Also, more iPhone 16 Pro leaks, public betas are out, and an all-new Under Review!
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This week’s stories:
HomePod mini goes to the dark side
- Apple replaced the Space Gray color of the HomePod mini smart speaker with a new Midnight color.
How to download the iOS 18 Public Beta
- Public betas of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia and watchOS 11 are now out.
iOS 18’s Photos app will help recover corrupted pictures and videos
- iOS 18’s redesigned Photos app will gain a Recovered album to help you restore damaged photos or videos. It will show up when the app detects corrupted media not in your photo library.
Rumor: iPhone 16 Pro to use iPhone 15 Pro Max’s 5x telephoto camera
- The upcoming iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max will seemingly use the same 5x tetraprism camera as the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Apple takes back title as world’s most valuable company
- With a market capitalization above $3.6 trillion, Apple regained the title of world’s most valuable publicly traded company.
Under Review: OWC Thunderbay 4
- The ThunderBay 4 by Otherworld Computing is the best option if you want modular, high-speed external storage.
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| 0:00.0 | To create multimedia as easily as this, you'd need to create it. |
| 0:07.0 | Using one please. Please. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the call cast, the best 30 minute apple conversation. |
| 0:21.0 | You're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host. |
| 0:23.8 | Airfrontal Led to join me today. |
| 0:25.5 | With Louis Wallace out of town, he might be going to his town. |
| 0:31.0 | I'd have a abundance of precaution. |
| 0:32.1 | He'll be sleeping in his gilly suit this weekend in a field near his home in rural Ohio. |
| 0:37.4 | He's a writer for Colton Mac. |
| 0:39.0 | Griffin Jones is here. The secure bunker where I where my office is located is on extra |
| 0:47.6 | high alert this weekend. As you should be because I don't even know where Lewis |
| 0:51.3 | is, do you? No, he I mean for all I know he could be on a flight to Columbus as we speak. |
| 0:56.0 | He is on his way there. |
| 0:59.0 | He has his bandana on. |
| 1:00.0 | It's like that scene from Rambo, man. |
| 1:02.0 | He's on his way to come to discuss for the steel bars outside this window he could just burst through at any moment |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, I don't know man. He's pretty strong he's he's pretty stout. He might be able to just rip those bars out the window and come |
| 1:13.8 | climbing through like Jack Nicholas in the Shining but I actually don't know |
| 1:18.8 | where Lewis is for real like do you actually know where he went I don't know |
| 1:21.7 | I have genuinely no idea. I love that |
| 1:26.0 | neither of us even bothered to ask him. I actually feel bad about that Lewis well I |
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