Switching to the Mac and iPhone on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
PC users are switching to the Mac and even high-end Android owners are turning to the iPhone, and it's not just because of Apple's peculiar gift of Clash of Clans gems.
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- Apple walks away empty handed at the Oscars
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- (00:00) - Introduction
- (00:58) - M3 MacBook Air
- (05:08) - Messages storage
- (12:34) - MacBooks vs Chromebooks
- (24:21) - Switchers to iPhone
- (28:35) - Marker 6
- (39:39) - OmniOutliner and Notes
- (40:37) - TikTok
- (48:25) - Clash of Gems or something
- (49:47) - Apple AI ads
- (53:39) - Oscars
- (54:49) - EU
- (57:55) - Apple as a company
- (59:11) - Epic
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and William Gallagher, welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm sponsors this week a NOMNOM and Sainbox. |
| 0:09.8 | More about those later. |
| 0:11.2 | This week seems to me to be a very reversey kind of week. People who |
| 0:16.2 | were for and against Tik-Tok now have seemed to be well against and for Tik-Tok. |
| 0:21.0 | Epic games will never let go of anything and Apple keeps saying no and back and forth. |
| 0:26.8 | And then there's the M3 Macbook Air. |
| 0:29.8 | It's finally out. |
| 0:31.6 | It's actually in people's hands. it's been tested, and what seemed like it was going to be the absolute best |
| 0:37.6 | MacBook ever, well there's a strong argument that at least a certain type of audience for it should ignore it completely and go |
| 0:45.4 | for the Macbook Pro. Maybe it was ever thus. Where's Hilliard? As an avid |
| 0:51.5 | Mac user, how do you stand now that we've had the test and results of the |
| 0:56.0 | Macbook air? |
| 0:57.0 | Well it is a M3 Macbook air, which is basically a label swap internally. |
| 1:02.4 | We saw I fix it tear it down and it is identical to the M2. |
| 1:06.6 | But that M3 brings a lot and I can say that I don't need it. |
| 1:10.8 | I thought about it briefly switching from my M1 pro |
| 1:14.4 | Macbook pro to an M3 Macbook air but it's honestly just not worth the effort |
| 1:19.8 | of trying to sell something. |
| 1:21.9 | I was tempted as well I mean I think I can't remember if I have an older |
| 1:25.6 | map of pro than you but I have 14 each one I was thinking is 15 better and given what I do would it be better but then Apple |
| 1:35.3 | inside I ran a piece that just laid it out comparing the statistics and the |
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