Reactions! AirTags! New iMacs! Apple TV! iPad Pro! (CultCast #489)
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🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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This week: our reactions and first impressions to all the hardware announced at Apple's Spring Loaded keynote event!
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Apple AirTag tracking tags will help you find all the things
- AirTags appear in a new Items tag in the Find My app. This allows users to order a tracking tag to play a sound, making the device easier to find. But that’s just the start. The software uses an onscreen pointer to guide the user to the exact location of a misplaced item. The accuracy of UWB should really come in handy here.
M1 iMac is faster, thinner and more incredible than ever
- The world’s most popular all-in-one now runs on Apple Silicon. The all-new and beautifully colorful iMac, unveiled today at Apple’s Spring Loaded event, packs a blazing-fast M1 chip into an aluminum form factor that’s just 11.5mm thick.
2021 iPad Pro boasts M1 processor, beautiful mini-LED display
- The 2021 iPad Pro is built around an Apple M1 processor that brings a tremendous speed boost. Apple is saying 50% faster CPU and 40% faster GPU.
Apple TV 4K gets speedy A12 chip and sweet new Siri Remote
- Apple took the wraps off the new sixth-generation Apple TV 4K on Tuesday. The upgraded set-top box boasts Apple’s A12 Bionic chip, which should bring a welcome performance boost. But perhaps more importantly, Apple redesigned the controversial Siri Remote.
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| 0:00.0 | Now departing for exotic ports of call, the faster, sleeker, quieter, redesigned and even |
| 0:16.1 | easier to use, I'm Mac. Presenting our newest internet cruise line, Bon Voyage. |
| 0:33.1 | Hello and welcome to the whole Cassie Best 30 Plus Minute Upcom station. You're going to here all week long. I'm your host. |
| 0:39.1 | Here at Finalize, you're joining me today. It took emergency medics 30 minutes to revive him after this week's spring loaded event. |
| 0:45.1 | He was so overwhelmed with the keynote, he went full-catatonic and we almost lost him. But he's back from the dead. He's the founder of Call of the Mac. We had a candy as here. |
| 0:53.1 | Also with us, he should definitely buy one of those new IMAX but he probably won't because then he couldn't complain every single week that his ancient MacBook takes too long to load stuff. |
| 1:03.1 | And well, that just wouldn't feel right. He's the manager of Call of the Mac. |
| 1:07.1 | Ooh, as well as this here. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, I'm not going to do it. |
| 1:13.1 | Lewis, you can get one of the red IMAX that matched that really beautiful watch that you have on. |
| 1:19.1 | You know, I did see that and I thought, hmmm. |
| 1:22.1 | I just really wouldn't have pegged you as a red guy. You just don't strike me as a red guy. It's a very bold choice. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah, you know, I think bold to see that's the only word you can use. |
| 1:35.1 | Stupid, you wouldn't use stupid. |
| 1:38.1 | Bold choice for a bold man. |
| 1:41.1 | Well, we're going to talk about the IMAX, we're going to talk about air tags, let's see, or what's screaming my own. |
| 1:46.1 | We're going to talk about it all and there is a lot of stuff to talk about, right? Because we got so much stuff at this event. |
| 1:51.1 | This is going to be our reactions and first impressions to everything. |
| 1:55.1 | And if we have time, we'll also talk about the updates to the podcast app and the new podcast subscription stuff. |
| 2:01.1 | I don't know if we're going to have time to get to that story. We'll see because we got a lot of stuff packed in here. |
| 2:05.1 | But the podcast stuff was also really interesting. |
| 2:08.1 | And I know it's exciting for me because I make podcasts and this is going to make us all extremely wealthy. |
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