Our WWDC 2024 Keynote predictions! (CultCast #650)
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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This week, $NVDA has overtaken $AAPL, iPhone 16 Pro could have some crazy new display tech, last minute iOS 18 rumors, and we lay out our WWDC predictions!
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This week’s stories:
Marvel’s What If…? shows off the promise of spatial gaming
- Marvel Studios’ new What If…? An Immersive Story is a free app for Apple’s Vision Pro headset that combines interactivity with storytelling in a brand-new way.
iOS 18 leaks:
- Expect Settings revamp, Control Center tweaks in iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS 15
- iMessage could let you animate words in texts in iOS 18
‘I’m a Mac’ actor returns with lamest PC ad yet
- In the new Qualcomm ad, which promotes the company’s new Snapdragon X Elite chips, Long works on his MacBook at a kitchen table. Notifications keep popping up all around his head. He swats them away with irritation. Then he types in a Google search: “Where can I find a Snapdragon-powered PC?”
- Watch the ad on YouTube
Fight over blood oxygen feature cuts into Apple Watch sales
- Apple Watch shipments dropped almost 20% year over year in the first quarter of 2024. Market analysts blame some of the decline on Apple being temporarily forced to halt sales.
iPhone 16 Pro’s display could sport seriously small bezels
- The iPhone 16 Pro could sport the world’s slimmest bezels on a smartphone. Its borders will apparently measure just 1.2mm, with the iPhone 16 Pro Max having even slimmer bezels at 1.15mm.
Apple’s market cap passes $3 trillion … but so does Nvidia’s
- Apple, which spent years as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, is now in third place.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. |
| 0:02.5 | Ready to get started? |
| 0:03.5 | Well, not quite. |
| 0:04.5 | Got a lot to do. What's your big plan? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm not to make a home movie or maybe create a website, try at my built-in camera. |
| 0:10.0 | I can do it all right out of the box, so what about you? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, at first I got to download those new drivers and I got to erase the trial software that came on my hard drive. |
| 0:17.0 | Sweet. Then I've got a lot of manual stream. |
| 0:19.0 | You know it sounds like you have a lot of stuff to do before you do any stuff so I'm just going to get started let me know when |
| 0:24.2 | you're ready actually the rest meets in some other boxes so I'll meet up |
| 0:29.2 | with you later. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello and welcome to the whole cast the best 30 plus minute app conversation. |
| 0:37.3 | You're gonna hear |
| 0:38.6 | all week long I'm your host here for Elijah oh here we go every Sunday he dumps a fancy |
| 0:46.8 | breakfast bucket into the cul-to-mac rider's trough including eggs bacon |
| 0:52.2 | pancakes and so many other scraps that he and Leander couldn't possibly finish. |
| 0:56.4 | What a guy! |
| 0:57.4 | He's the man who editor of Kolta Mac. |
| 0:59.8 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:01.0 | Got some freedom toast in there this week. |
| 1:04.0 | Also with us, he just upgraded his television to a 28-inch CRT. |
| 1:09.0 | Sure, the thing weighs 125 pounds and took two neighbors to lift but the |
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