New M4 Macs — here they come! (CultCast #670)
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This week, don’t call it an event — but M4 Macs are coming next week! Also, the second wave of Apple Intelligence, all the Apple products coming next spring, their expensive Apple Card mistake, and is production ending on Vision Pro?
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This week’s stories:
Apple October Mac event is on… sort of
- Apple let the world know on Thursday that its much-anticipated October event isn’t going to be a traditional one. Instead, it’ll be a week of announcements of new products via press releases.
Apple plans early-2025 M4 MacBook Air refresh, delays next Mac Studio
- While some M4 Macs may arrive in the next week, Apple also gears up for a bigger expansion of its M4 chip rollout, including the M4 MacBook Air coming in early 2025.
iOS 18.2 beta 1: All the new features and changes
- Ahead of iOS 18.1’s public release, Apple released the first iOS 18.2 beta to developers. The second major point release of iOS 18 packs several changes, including new Apple Intelligence features.
Apple and Goldman Sachs hit with $90 million in fines for Apple Card mistakes
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) imposed nearly $90 million in combined penalties on Apple and Goldman Sachs, the agency said Wednesday.
Apple could soon end production of Vision Pro headset
- Apple reportedly might end production of the Vision Pro by the end of the year. That doesn’t mean the mixed-reality headset is about to be discontinued, however.
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| 0:00.0 | Gotham. |
| 0:05.0 | The city that never sleeps. |
| 0:09.0 | Terrific. |
| 0:10.0 | How do we get a purchase order to the city that never sleeps from a town that went to bed an hour ago |
| 0:18.0 | and there's no fax machine in the hotel. Newton communicates. |
| 0:27.0 | Newton communicates. Hello and welcome to the Colcaste Best 30 plus minute up conversation you're |
| 0:37.4 | going to hear all week long I'm your host Airfowl lies join me today |
| 0:42.1 | when not writing for a col-mac you'll find him |
| 0:44.7 | installing security cameras and booby traps around his rural Ohio |
| 0:48.8 | compound just in case Lewis Wallace comes for an unexpected visit. |
| 0:53.0 | He's a writer for Colton Mac Griffin Jones is here. |
| 0:56.0 | Good evening. I'm going to be sad when I lose my first top billing next week. |
| 1:00.0 | I will be gone. |
| 1:02.0 | And also joining us another escaped |
| 1:04.4 | Coltimack rider. His count, his country is tough on extradition laws, |
| 1:08.8 | though, which has spoiled news walls his attempts to bring him back to the Cultimac, |
| 1:12.8 | Writers' Cage for some re-education, quote-unquote. |
| 1:16.2 | I guess former but also current writer of Cultimac, I've learned. |
| 1:20.2 | Grand Bower is here. Hello. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh man, so before we officially started, |
| 1:26.0 | this is the first time that Graham and I have ever spoken to each other. |
| 1:30.0 | And, uh, which I was surprised by because, how long have you been writing with |
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