New iPhone 17 case materials, Apple Watch chip leaks, Ask9to5Mac
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance discuss the supposed new ‘TechWoven’ cases coming from Apple for the iPhone 17 lineup, Apple reportedly exits the MLB streaming partnership, and iOS 26 beta 7 shows we are close to launch on Apple’s next bumper product cycle. Also, they tackle some listener questions in another installment of Ask9to5Mac.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- iPhone 17 Pro case has surprising name after FineWoven mess, box hints at new Apple accessory
- iPhone 17 Pro case line may have new leather alternative after flawed FineWoven
- Apple TV+ among ‘final contenders’ for MLB Sunday Night Baseball, playoff games
- Report: Apple strikes out of baseball coverage on Apple TV+, Friday Night Baseball to end
- iOS 26 beta 7 now available
- New iOS 26 and watchOS 26 betas include redesigned Blood Oxygen feature in the US
- Everything new in iOS 26 beta 7
- iOS 26 beta 7 adds toggle for new battery notifications
- Apple Watch regains edge in one key way
- Next year’s Apple Watch could add Touch ID, per leaked code
- Apple’s first Mac with 5G cellular might be coming sooner than we thought
- Leak reveals new Studio Display might have surprisingly powerful chip
- Is the Camera Control button one of the biggest iPhone flops?
- Spotify copies Apple Music's AutoMix feature before iOS 26 even ships
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo, did you watch the Made by Google event yesterday? |
| 0:04.5 | Through great tape. |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah, I didn't watch the whole thing, but I watched enough of it to get the gist of it and read about it on 9 to 5 Google. But the thing, okay, well, first, we're lucky enough we don't have to talk about it because we have 9 to 5 Google so we don't have to talk about it. but the thing I did want to call out was the fact that it was a live event, which is good, not pre-recorded. |
| 0:25.4 | Which Google have done now for the last few years. |
| 0:28.2 | Unlike Apple. |
| 0:29.6 | So live event, good. |
| 0:31.6 | It was hosted by Jimmy Fallon, which is weird. |
| 0:35.1 | I mean, a lot of people have strong, strong, strong feelings about Jimmy Fallon. |
| 0:39.3 | I think he's mostly harmless. I think he's fine. I think he's cringy and awkward, but I think |
| 0:44.2 | that's kind of the stick of him. But putting Google and Jimmy Fallon together for a made-by-Google event, |
| 0:50.5 | announcing new pixels and pixel watches and pixel buds. That was a weird event, I think. |
| 0:57.3 | It wasn't even the fact that they had a celebrity hosting it. It was the way that they did it, |
| 1:01.4 | where it was almost like a, do you have QVC in America? Yep, we do. Yeah, like shopping channel, right? |
| 1:07.0 | It was like, here's a Google person and here's |
| 1:10.9 | Jimmy Fallon, we're going to stand on this table |
| 1:12.5 | together while we show you |
| 1:13.8 | various assortment of our new devices |
| 1:16.3 | and I don't, Jimmy Fallon |
| 1:18.1 | had been briefed beforehand, but he didn't have |
| 1:20.1 | like a fixed script, right? So it was kind of like |
| 1:22.1 | ad-libbing, very weird |
| 1:24.3 | kind of infomercial and |
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