Siri, Bono, and the iPhone 17e on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Siri is getting worse before it gets better, Bono is getting a film, and the Apple Vision Pro is at last getting Apple Intelligence, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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- @WGallagher on Twitter
- William's 58keys on YouTube
- William Gallagher on email
- Wes on Bluesky
- Wes Hilliard on email
Links from the Show:
- iPhone 16e review roundup: an okay, if compromised, device without a market
- Apple could have sold me an iPhone SE 4, but it won't sell me the iPhone
- Rumors about a 2026 iPhone 17e have already started
- New in iOS 18.4 developer beta 1: Apple Intelligence changes, Apple News+ food more
- Recipes, restaurant reviews, and kitchen tips coming to Apple News+
- Hands on with Apple Intelligence on Apple Vision Pro
- iPhone 17 Pro Max leak shows redesigned camera layout
- iPhone 17's rumored camera bar may solve Apple's internal space dilemma
- Analyst repeats 12GB RAM rumor for iPhone 17 Pro models, which may at least be half correct
- Apple's smart doorbell to utilize MagSafe, ring AirPods Pro
- Siri in iOS 18.4 is getting worse before it gets better
- Apple Vision Pro gets Bono documentary for first feature-length immersive video
- Apple's board gets the DEI and AI results it wanted at the annual shareholders meeting
- Tim Cook says Apple's DEI program may change in the future, but only if required by law
- President Trump is irritated about Apple not completely killing DEI initiatives
- No, Apple isn't subliminally calling Trump a racist with its iPhone dictation feature
- Apple to build AI servers in Houston, invest $500B in U.S. economy
- Apple's $500 billion US investment announcement is business as usual
- Susan Kare's Esc Keys add pricey art to your keyboard
- More than a name change: iPhone 16e isn't the iPhone SE 4
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:50) - iPhone 16e
- (18:37) - iOS 18.4
- (19:41) - Apple Intelligence in Apple Vision Pro
- (26:52) - Apple News+ Food
- (34:59) - iPhone 17
- (47:34) - MagSafe Doorbell
- (51:26) - Siri, Bono and Apple Vision Pro
- (54:20) - Controversy Corner
- (01:07:48) - Susan Kare
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I am your host, Wesley Hilliard, and I am joined once again by William Gallagher. |
| 0:14.9 | This week, if you're a paid Apple Insider Plus subscriber, we're going to be talking about the future and the past and everything |
| 0:22.5 | that's went wrong at Apple. Actually, more specifically, is this the future that we were promised? |
| 0:29.5 | You know, the Jetsons with Rosie wandering around doing the dishes for us, AI, voice assistance, |
| 0:34.4 | smart homes. What exactly went right? weren't wrong and why why even bother with |
| 0:40.0 | any of this anyway like did voice assistance actually change the world is the smart home as smart as |
| 0:45.4 | we wanted it to be we're going to go into this a little bit and maybe get into our wish list of what |
| 0:49.7 | actually should be coming from sci-fi and not these things. Otherwise, I think we got a pack show |
| 0:57.3 | this week, a lot of stuff going on. William, how you doing? Well, actually, I'm coming from the UK, |
| 1:02.5 | so I am unencrypted. Yeah. Do I sound different or anything yet? I want, did it turn off for you? Or do you have is it just the toggle to do it is gone. |
| 1:14.2 | So now if you ever turn it off, it'll never come back. |
| 1:17.2 | I went into the section and it was saying basically times up kind of thing. |
| 1:21.3 | But yeah, I'm a little unclear over A, whether or not we ultimately will have to do it or |
| 1:25.9 | B, whether or not the UK will cave in and just say, never mind, we're sorry kind of thing. |
| 1:31.4 | Guess which way I'm rooting for? As a Brit, I'm not on Britain's side in this one. |
| 1:37.1 | I feel like this is one that'll go by pretty quickly. I mean, I think other countries, even the United States, have tried similar |
| 1:45.6 | things and Apple's just said no. And it just, they move on eventually. They have other things to do. |
| 1:51.6 | In all seriousness, a few years ago, I thought it was very funny that the then Prime Minister |
| 1:55.5 | Boris Johnson, he did this thing of saying, and we're talking to Apple about, I don't think |
| 2:00.6 | he used, he wouldn't use encryption backdoor, but that's what he meant and we're talking to Apple about, I don't think he used, |
| 2:01.1 | he wouldn't use encryption backdoor, but that's what he meant. We're talking with Apple. |
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