Removable batteries coming to iPhone & iPad + cool features coming to Vision Pro! (CultCast #600)
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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This week: Imagine being able to easily swap out the battery on your iPhone or iPad - the EU is about to force Apple to do just that. Plus, cool new features coming to Vision Pro and the Photos app!
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This week's stories
EU forces removable batteries on iPhone and iPad
- The European Parliament passed sweeping legislation last week intended to make recycling batteries easier. The new rules will require Apple to redesign iPhone and iPad so their batteries can be replaced by users. (Android devices will face the same mandate.)
Devs can now start making apps for Apple Vision Pro AR headset
- Turning the Apple Vision Pro headset from an announcement into a shipping product took a big step forward Wednesday with the release of the visionOS SDK. This includes the software tools developers will use to write applications for the AR headset that Apple unveiled earlier this month.
Lewis: Win a 65W GaN travel charger you can plug in anywhere [Cult of Mac giveaway]
- The Ugreen 65W Nexode GaN Charger packs two USB-C ports along with one USB-A port, making it easy to charge multiple devices simultaneously. Plus, its switchable plugs make it effortless for use when traveling in the United States and Europe. It retails for just $55.99, but you could snag one for free in this week’s giveaway.
8 New Photo Features Coming to iPhone in iOS 17
- When viewing your photos, Apple has enhanced Visual Look Up in iOS 17 in a few ways, one being the ability to find recipes for similar dishes when meals are recognized in the picture.
iPhone media apps can play music on HomePod using Siri with iOS 17
- Apple will finally make playing music from third-party sources on your HomePod easier. Starting with iOS 17, you can ask Siri to play music on your HomePod from music apps installed on your iPhone.
MacBooks make up a whopping 77% of Mac
- If you own a Mac, it’s almost certainly a MacBook rather than a desktop. New data from a market research firm show that Apple’s notebooks made up the lion’s share of macOS sales over the last year.
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| 0:00.0 | Although no historian was on hand to record the event, somewhere between Dallas and New York City, Greg and John began sharing information over the first computer network ever installed at 30,000 feet. |
| 0:24.0 | Only PowerBook makes it so easy to work together. PowerBook from Apple. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to the whole Cassie Best 30 plus Minute Apple Conversation. You're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host, Aaron from Lads, you're joining me today. He enjoys watching mobster movies to gain inspiration on ways that he can properly motivate the Coltomac writing staff. |
| 0:49.0 | He's imagining a Coltomac Lewis Walls is here. Hellywood. Also with us each morning after breakfast he puts on his gilly suit. |
| 1:01.0 | Camo's stick paints his face. In case Lewis Wallis comes looking for him and he needs to make a quick exit. He's the newest writer of Coltomac. |
| 1:09.0 | Grrrr riffing Jones is here. |
| 1:12.0 | It's hard to believe that the three of us have been doing this show for 600 episodes, isn't it? |
| 1:18.0 | Boy, time really flies. You know, it feels like just yesterday we were doing this show with you, Griffin. |
| 1:24.0 | You know, it took us a while to get into the swing of things like, you know, 578, 589 or so, you know, before I really got good. |
| 1:31.0 | But you know, here we are. Almost 12 years. |
| 1:36.0 | That's right. That's right. |
| 1:38.0 | You know, sadly, I don't know if you're coming in at the best time of the show or the worst. I really am not sure. |
| 1:46.0 | Wow. |
| 1:48.0 | Lewis, I always say this and I genuinely mean this. I don't know if the show is getting better or getting worse. |
| 1:53.0 | We've been in it for so long that I just don't know anymore, you know. |
| 1:57.0 | And I barely remember what the show was like. I just know that when we started it was wilder times. Everyone was younger. |
| 2:03.0 | We had Alexy Heath on, you know, going to the bathroom live on air. |
| 2:08.0 | You know, and then that sort of happened to Elcane, but his was involuntary. He just lost control. |
| 2:13.0 | Geez. |
| 2:17.0 | Highlights, Lily. I should go back and listen to episode one. |
| 2:21.0 | Yeah, I should too. |
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