REDESIGNED Apple Watch incoming, + new *cheaper* Apple TV (CultCast #544!)
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week: Apple Watch Series 8 getting the redesign we’ve ALL been waiting for, a cheaper smaller Apple TV is in the works, Apple’s mixed reality headset is ALMOST ready, and working from home vs the office — how much would YOU need to get paid to go back to the office full time? We reveal our numbers!
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This week's stories
Sound familiar? Apple Watch 8 display might be flat
- Remember last year when rumors were flying that Apple Watch Series 7 would feature a flat display and squared-off edges? DIDN'T HAPPEN. But a new rumor suggests those traits might define this year's Apple Watch Series 8.
More affordable Apple TV might launch soon
- A new Apple TV streamer will launch in the second half of 2022, according to a trusted analyst. And there’s a hint in the prediction that the device will cost less than its predecessors.
Apple shows off AR/VR headset to board of directors
- Although Apple's VR/AR headset is still supposed to be a secret project, the company's board of directors reportedly got a look at the device recently. This could be a sign the product is moving close to a release.
COVID-19 throws off Apple’s return-to-office plan yet again
- Apple reportedly slowed the pace at which it will require its corporate employees to return to the office. They were scheduled to be back at their desks three days a week starting later this month, but rising numbers of COVID-19 cases supposedly pushed that back.
Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
- Apple's director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from his role a little over four years after he joined the company after previously being one of Google's top AI employees, according to The Verge's Zoë Schiffer.
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| 0:00.0 | It's an idea so powerful it can transform your business it's an idea so |
| 0:07.6 | personal it can transform your life it's an idea so intelligent it can |
| 0:18.4 | transform itself introducing power book duo from Apple |
| 0:30.4 | hello |
| 0:34.4 | you're gonna start beating box in there you're gonna hear a week log on your |
| 0:38.9 | host airfinalized you're joining today I haven't heard from Lander Cainian a |
| 0:43.9 | while and I'm beginning to suspect he's keeping him in a hole in his |
| 0:49.0 | basement where he's being made to rub lotion on his skin twice a day he is the |
| 0:54.2 | managing editor of coltomac second command soon to be first I hear oh it was |
| 0:59.3 | was this here yeah you know I actually saw Lander I actually saw it was he was he |
| 1:05.9 | was he was he putting lotion in a basket and let me you pull it back up on a |
| 1:10.2 | rope no he was he's hiding out of the office scared oh he was up the office doing |
| 1:14.9 | what he was kind of scared of COVID I guess oh does he look does he well for |
| 1:22.3 | those of you that don't know which do a quick update here so our our wise and |
| 1:28.2 | brave founder Lander Caini has he's gonna be taking a break from the show he has |
| 1:33.5 | some stuff going on I mean it's not I make it sound like it's like a legal |
| 1:38.5 | case or something by stuff going on I mean he found a enormous bag of cannabis |
| 1:44.3 | products in a dumpster outside the coltomac world headquarters and if you guys |
| 1:48.6 | don't know Leander likes to go dumpster diving in the dumpster outside of the |
| 1:53.1 | coltomac world headquarters building he's found all sorts of stuff like high-end |
| 1:56.3 | speakers this is in San Francisco mind you so lots of tech startups and they throw |
| 2:00.6 | away all sorts of expensive stuff because like I don't know what to do with this |
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