Ranking Apple’s 2023 Hardware, RCS Coming 2024, iOS 17.2 Personal Voice, Apple Music Replay
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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Apple Music Replay requires some HomePod finagling, Personal Voice short film, Apple announces RCS coming in 2024, and your hosts rank some of Apple’s 2023 hardware.
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Links from the show
- David Attenborough - Wikipedia
- Apple's 2023 Device Hardware Ranking
- How to get your 2023 Apple Music Replay playlist
- Apple Books Classics - Book Series on Apple Books
- Apple issues 2023 charts for Podcasts, Apple Books
- Apple seeds iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2 dev beta 4
- Personal Voice on iPhone | The Lost Voice | Apple - YouTube
- Apple unveils App Store Award winners, the best apps and games of 2023 - Apple
- You're still going to be bullied for being a green bubble with RCS
- Apple Card statement doesn't clarify matters at all
- Apple's US chip manufacturing pipeline just got a big boost
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:37) - Apple Music Replay
- (05:11) - Apple Books Replay
- (12:29) - iOS 17.2 Personal Voice
- (27:12) - Sponsor: Magic Lasso
- (28:48) - Sponsor: Babbel
- (30:20) - Apple + RCS
- (38:05) - Apple Card
- (45:20) - U.S. Chip Packaging
- (51:56) - Sponsor: Notion
- (53:37) - 2023 Rankings
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Robles. |
| 0:08.0 | And today we're going to talk about Apple Music, Replay, Personal Voice in iOS 17, and beta 4 that came out. |
| 0:14.0 | Apple's apps of the year, Apple Card developments, and I want to do some of my Apple device ranking at the end of the show. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode is brought to you by Magic Lasso, Notion AI, and Babel. |
| 0:24.0 | And joining me this week, two of my good friends, Wes Hilliard, how's it going? |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, this isn't where I'm part of my car. I'll be right back. |
| 0:30.0 | All right. And my other good friend from across the pond, William Gallagher. How's it going, William? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I thought it was fine, but you've just lied to everybody about what we're talking about. We're not doing any of that. |
| 0:40.0 | We're just going to you about how to stop you from walking out and going on to better things else. |
| 0:46.0 | No, no, no, no, no, no. That's it. |
| 0:48.0 | All right. So this is a five-hour podcast. It's an intervention. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay. It's about a 12-hour drive from here to Stephen. So if you just keep riffing, will you? |
| 0:56.0 | Riffing, William. I'll get there soon enough to time to a chair. |
| 1:00.0 | Time me to a microphone. |
| 1:02.0 | Right. Funny story. |
| 1:04.0 | William is alluding to if you did not hear last week's episode or you didn't stay till the very end. |
| 1:08.0 | This is actually my last episode on the Appling Sider podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | As host, I'm passing it on to the very capable and wonderfully talented Appling Sider staff, William, and Wes, Mike. |
| 1:18.0 | And it has been a wonderful ride. |
| 1:20.0 | And so this is my last episode. I'll probably be back in the future. |
| 1:22.0 | Maybe sometimes if they will have me as a guest in the in the distant future. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, we'll think about it. Yeah, please. You don't need. |
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