What's up? What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to the show. It's the Apple Bits XL,

Brian Ton here, your host, doing the most for everything good and bad inside the world

of Apple. Welcome everybody. It is episode 251. I actually forgot to celebrate the fact

that 250 had passed, but that's kind of a crazy accomplishment. And thank you so much

for all of you who have been riding with me. So 251, what a perfect time to kind of turn

the corner because Apple obviously just dropped major announcements that people really did

not see coming with new M2 Pro, M2 Max chips, the new M2 Max MacBook Pro, the new M2 Pro

Mac mini and and a home pod. The home pod is back. So guess what? I always bring special

guests to talk about. So let's just dive right into this one without further ado. Here's

my main man, Ray Wong and I talking all about this and we're going to give you a little

introspection on maybe what Apple could do with their future heads at this year. I think

we started connecting the dots and really say, hmm, this could be one way that they could

absolutely go. So sit back, relax and enjoy. All right, everybody. This is a real important

show this week. Apple dropped all these new announcements on us. I had to get the most

important guests returning for yet 2023. First guest of the year. Ray Wong.

Hey, wait, am I your first guest of the year of the year? Yes. I'm first. Loving first.

Yes, dude. Thanks so much for coming on. Always appreciate your time. It's a big deal

to you know, it's always fun. So, hey, let's let's jump into this. Apple dropped some

bombs on us. And this is what I like about this. Although maybe people that are journalists

or get, hey, some early information, I liked how no one talked about this until the day

before. So I felt like although we might have had an idea was coming for the general audience,

it was kind of a surprise. Super surprise. Like, post yes, nobody was expecting that. In

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