The biggest update yet — Apple Watch X! (CultCast #628)
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week, it’ll be the biggest update since the original — here comes Apple Watch X… Plus, app sideloading might be coming to the US next and we pitch our favorite shows, movies and stuff in an all-new What We’re Into!
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This week’s stories:
What to expect from Apple Watch in 2024: Series X
- 2024 looks like a big year for Apple Watch. The world’s most popular wearable could get the biggest redesign in its 10-year history in the form of a device potentially called “Apple Watch Series X” or simply “Apple Watch X.”
- Everything (else) Apple Will Announce in 2024
9to5Mac: US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is ‘firing on all cylinders’
- The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the Department of Justice unit responsible for policing breaches of competition law.
Inside Apple’s massive push to transform the Mac into a gaming paradise
- Gaming on the Mac in the 1990s until 2020, when Apple made a big shift to its own custom silicon, could be boiled down to this: Apple was in a hardware arms race with the PC that it couldn’t win.
- “Apple silicon has changed all that,” Keppel tells Inverse.
- D. Griffin Jones on Extra Ordinary: The Weird, Cyclical State of Mac Gaming
What We’re Into
- Griffin: Sausage with bell peppers and onions
- Erfon: Fujifilm X100V rumored successor
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm learning to use an apple for text editing which is useful. |
| 0:03.2 | Some of my texts could use some editing. |
| 0:05.1 | You can edit right here on the screen. |
| 0:06.8 | It can add words like this or you can remove words like that |
| 0:11.1 | or you can move whole paragraphs around to anywhere you want them. |
| 0:15.0 | It's amazing. |
| 0:16.0 | You can use the very same apple to do a zillion other things. |
| 0:20.0 | You could say that the apple is mightier than the pen. |
| 0:23.2 | Apple, the personal computer. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:31.2 | the best 30 plus minute apple conversation you're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm your host. |
| 0:37.1 | Airfront lies to join me today. |
| 0:39.2 | His 2024 resolution is to not get caught by one Mr. Lewis waltz. |
| 0:44.6 | So he's spending his free time learning how to apply makeup and |
| 0:47.3 | crafting his own facial prosthetics. |
| 0:49.5 | Wow, sounds complicated. |
| 0:51.9 | If Lewis comes searching, D. Griffin Jones will be hiding in plain sight. |
| 0:55.1 | He's right at Colton Mac. |
| 0:57.2 | D. Griffin Jones is here. |
| 1:02.1 | Good evening, you know, I haven't been caught yet, but maybe Lewis has gone because he's not actually at the vet. |
| 1:08.0 | Maybe he's actually on a California flight to Columbus. |
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