Reactions/impressions of Vision Pro! Plus: iOS 17 hidden features! (CultCast #598)
The CultCast
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🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
This week: We're talking all the best announcements at WWDC 23, reactions to the Vision Pro and "Spacial Computing", iOS 17 hidden features, and we reveal the winner of last week's WWDC '23 predictions!
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This week's stories
First looks at Vision Pro: Apple nails the hardware (and the experience)
- The headset, which Apple says will launch in 2024 and with a $3,499 price tag, represents the company’s first foray into what it calls “spatial computing.”
iOS 17 Tidbits: Enhanced Siri Suggestions, Multiple Timers, Recipe Visual Look Up, and More
- If you have an Apple Watch paired to your iPhone, Apple has added an optional button in Control Center that enables you to ping your watch if you have misplaced it.
Enter to win a clever AirTag bike reflector mount [Cult of Mac giveaway]
- For this week’s giveaway, we teamed up with Device Therapy, which makes a clever disguise to keep an eye on your bicycle. Three lucky winners will receive an awesome Bike Reflector Mount that can help foil thieves who want to steal your two-wheeler.
Mac Studio updated with ‘most powerful chip ever made for a personal computer’
- The desktop machine now comes with Apple’s new M2 Ultra chip — the “most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer,” according to Apple.
Mac Pro finally gets updated to Apple silicon, is 3X faster
- The new Mac Pro features the “most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer,” and is up to 3x faster than the previous-generation Intel-based model.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's more sophisticated, yet less complicated. |
| 0:05.0 | It's more powerful, yet less cumbersome. |
| 0:09.0 | It can store vast amounts of yesterday, |
| 0:12.0 | or tell you what's in store for tomorrow. |
| 0:16.0 | It can draw a picture, or it can draw conclusions. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a personal computer from Apple, and it's as easy to use. |
| 0:25.0 | Is this Macintosh, the computer for the rest of us? |
| 0:33.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Cassie Best 30! |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, submit an app conversation you're in here. |
| 0:39.0 | Always let my host, Airfront Lodge, join me today. |
| 0:41.0 | He'll soon be using Vision Pro to visually |
| 0:43.0 | to visualize new discipline techniques for the Kultamack writers, |
| 0:47.0 | and identify areas of potential escape in the writer's cage. |
| 0:51.0 | He's imagining everything else in Macintosh! |
| 0:54.0 | No, thank goodness. What a week! |
| 0:57.0 | What a last time we see his eyes. |
| 0:59.0 | Kind of slept all week. |
| 1:00.0 | Also with us, he's been typing non-stop since Monday's keynote |
| 1:04.0 | without sleep or food, nothing but a bottle of water, |
| 1:07.0 | and a Monoman's friend. |
| 1:10.0 | The laugh of it! |
| 1:12.0 | I thought I would get Lewis on that with nothing! |
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