Powerbeats Pro 2 hands-on review, Android Apple TV app launches
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance talk about the long-awaited launch of the Apple TV app on Android, Apple partners with Alibaba for AI in China, and Apple adds a better-late-than-never feature for merging Apple Accounts. Also, Chance kicks off the show with a hands-on review of the brand new Powerbeats Pro, with heart rate monitoring.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Follow-up from Steve Troughton-Smith
- Review: Powerbeats Pro 2 tick all the boxes with heart rate monitoring, slimmer design, H2 chip, more
- The Apple TV app is now available on Android: watch Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass
- Hands-on: Apple TV finally comes to Android phones, tablets
- Alibaba chairman officially announces Apple partnership to bring iPhone AI to China
- Report: Apple strikes deal to bring AI to China, rejects DeepSeek option
- iPhone 16 sees stronger sales than iPhone 15—thanks to Apple Intelligence?
- Apple now lets users migrate purchases between Apple Accounts
- Here’s why Tim Cook says not to worry about huge iPhone miss in China
- These Apple product announcements coming across next few weeks
- (AFTER we recorded the episode): Apple teases special product launch coming February 19
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So last week we talked about the hot tub controversy on Altstore. Hotub is the adult |
| 0:04.9 | entertainment app that made its way to Alt Store the third party at Marketplace in the European |
| 0:09.2 | Union. And a lot of our conversation was focused on Altstor describing it as the first |
| 0:14.0 | Apple approved porn app for the iPhone. And I think we got a little bit mixed up when we're |
| 0:20.2 | talking about the notarization process in the European Union. |
| 0:24.6 | We got some feedback on it from a few people, including Steve Trouton-Smith and Mayo. You have some clarity on what exactly that notarization process entails. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, because we basically said offhandly that notarization for i also internet marketplace apps does not include |
| 0:39.7 | a human review right just purely automated that is just wrong um the notarization process |
| 0:46.2 | apple says through a combination of automated checks and human review it helps ensure apps are free |
| 0:52.0 | of no malware viruses are the security threats functions and promise and don't expose users to egregious fraud. |
| 0:56.9 | So, and I think this has come up before, maybe with Delta and something where a Raleigh |
| 1:01.8 | Testup was upset. The Apple had like seen the app, but they weren't allowing it. And then, |
| 1:05.8 | oh, they conveniently allowed it after they changed the, um, app still rules to allow emulators globally, right? |
| 1:12.5 | So like it wasn't, it wasn't just like, oh, an automated process was then sitting there. |
| 1:16.4 | They was like hanging on a queue where at some point some human eventually says yes or no, right? |
| 1:21.0 | And they can essentially delay the rollout of these alternatives, these apps on these alternative stores, |
| 1:25.0 | because Apple still has the pressure to say yes with a human at some point |
| 1:28.2 | and obviously at the moment there aren't that many apps that go through this process so it doesn't |
| 1:33.1 | seem like you should take that long but at least on some cases it's taken like months for an app to get |
| 1:38.2 | the human approval to go through even though this is technically the the app store that has nothing |
| 1:43.4 | to do with Apple at all. |
| 1:45.3 | So with Hotub, somebody Apple did look at it. |
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