RCS coming to iPhone, Apple Black Friday, Ask9to5Mac
9to5Mac Happy Hour
9to5Mac
4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance react to the shocking news that Apple is adopting RCS for iPhone messaging, likely with iOS 18 next year, and its implications on the ecosystem at large. We also answer your begging questions in #Ask9to5Mac, on this special holiday episode. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!
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Hosts
Chance Miller
- @ChanceHMiller on Twitter
- @chancehmiller@mastodon.social
- @ChanceHMiller on Instagram
- @ChanceHMiller on Threads
Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple extends free period for iPhone 14 satellite features
- Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
- What color bubbles will RCS messages be? Here's Apple's answer
- RCS is coming to iOS, but will it change anything for iPhone users?
- Apple's RCS announcement date wasn't coincidence
- Apple Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals revealed
- Apple aims to make holiday shopping easier with 'Order By' deadlines
- Black Friday Apple deals: M3 MacBook Pro, AirPods, more
- Apple Music Classical is now available on the iPad
- Is Craig Federighi a Taylor Swift fan?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Meo, do we need to conduct a deliberate review process of your behavior and see if you've been serving the |
| 0:06.1 | interest of the board? Have you been fulfilling your duties? |
| 0:11.3 | Oh, what a hilarious for eight hours in the world of open AI. |
| 0:17.7 | He's gone, he's back, he's gone. |
| 0:20.1 | Microsoft's acquiring everybody, but then apparently he's coming back. |
| 0:23.2 | Yeah, it's said that he's open to coming back of the board all resigns. |
| 0:27.0 | This will be out of date by the time it's released, but... |
| 0:29.3 | Any story on this is out of date about an hour after it's posted. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, pretty much. |
| 0:33.0 | It's pretty rapidly evolving, but easily one of the biggest, like corporate coups of recent years. |
| 0:41.0 | I saw a lot of people comparing it to the Steve Jobs situation in the 90s. |
| 0:45.0 | The open-air situation is that because they are a supposedly not- profit entity. |
| 0:52.8 | Members of the board are upset that the company's done so well in the last year |
| 0:56.4 | that they're now monetizing everything they can in many different ways and they basically got rid of Sam Altman and co-conspirators were giving him about |
| 1:08.8 | 20 minutes of notice on Friday. So that was crazy weekend and there was so much suffering around and at least |
| 1:14.4 | of right now it seems like Microsoft have stepped up to give them the |
| 1:19.0 | golden parachute and basically said anybody who's leaving can come join |
| 1:22.0 | Microsoft's new AI division instead |
| 1:25.0 | which would be led by Sam Altman but if the board do decide to resign then |
| 1:29.5 | maybe they'll go back to how it was before. But yeah, pretty mental. |
| 1:33.0 | In the world of Apple we have some crazy news. |
| 1:36.0 | Free satellite connectivity for the iPhone 14, |
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