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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

The Keynote For The Rest of Us

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Mac Geek Gab dives into Apple’s Glowtime event, with Jeff Gamet, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton debating their next Apple purchases. Everyone’s eyeing the iPhone 16 Pro, but there’s a tug-of-war between the Pro and the regular iPhone 16. With new features like the camera control button and iOS 18’s Apple Intelligence Summaries, they weigh the pros and cons. AirPods Pro Gen 2 get serious attention too, with their hearing aid features and active earplugs, sparking a discussion on managing hearing loss and breaking the stigma of wearing hearing aids.
The Apple Watch Series 10’s upgrades, including a titanium option and faster charging, are tempting, but the team’s decisions are still up in the air. With the costs adding up, Jeff suggests checking Best Buy Open Box and Apple Refurbs to avoid overpaying. As the hosts navigate their potential purchases, their advice is clear: don’t get caught buying the wrong tech for your needs.

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1054 for Monday, September 9th, 2024

September 9th: Wonderful Weirdos Day
Special Guest Co-host: Jeff Gamet


00:02:01 Apple’s Glowtime Event
00:02:57 Do We Think We Know What We’re Buying?

Adam: iPhone 16 Pro
Pilot Pete: iPhone 16 Pro Max (Maybe), Apple Watch Series 10 (Daughter), AirPods Pro 2
Jeff: iPhone 16 Pro (Probably), Apple Watch S10 (Maybe)
Dave: iPhone 16 Pro (Probably), AirPods Pro Gen 2 (Probably)


00:06:47 iPhone 16 & iPhone 16 Pro

Camera Control Button (What about left-handed people?)
Cases need to accommodate the capacitive nature of the Camera Control button


00:15:56 QT-Create shortcuts so the Action button does different things at night vs. during the day
00:17:54 Adam’s reasons for the iPhone 16 Pro
iOS 18’s Apple Intelligence Summaries for Notifications
00:25:50 iPhone 16 vs. 16 Pro — Which to Buy?

Computational Photography
Personal Symantec Index (local LLM on iPhone)


Sponsors

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00:37:47 AirPods Pro Gen 2

Hearing Aid, Hearing Test
Active EarPlugs
Managing Hearing Loss
Tinnitus
Reducing the Stigma of Wearing Hearing Aids
TheRightOne.com for replacement AirPods


00:50:14 AirPods Gen 4 & AirPods Max

Comply Foam for AirPods
The Keynote For The Rest of You (also, Cermen is Not to Be Shared)


00:56:45 Apple Watch Series 10

Titanium: $300 surcharge
Health and Fitness forefront
Apple Watch S10 Gets a Speaker
30minutes to 80% charge


01:05:06 AppleCare+ Month-to-Month
01:06:33 Do We Still Know What We’re Buying?

Check Best Buy Open Box and Apple Refurbs
Adam: Still iPhone 16 Pro,

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geek Cab because there was a keynote today and we have a lot of things to talk through new

0:08.1

iPhones 16 and pro new Apple watches new AirPods, Gen 4, and lots of software tweaks that really

0:17.8

seem to enhance existing hardware and

0:25.0

maybe that will we be buying and maybe that'll help you decide what you'll be buying

0:30.0

all of this today on Mac Geekab, 1054 for Monday, September 9th, wonderful weirdos day.

0:38.8

Boy, are we in the right place?

0:40.1

2024. Thanks folks and welcome to Matt Geek Cab the show where we usually answer your questions and share your tips and cool stuff found.

1:04.6

As I said today, we are going to be talking about the Apple event and digging into all of that.

1:10.4

Sponsors for this episode include one password extended management at the number one

1:15.6

password.com slash MGG as well as BB at barebones.com. We're going to talk

1:22.0

more about each of those in a little bit.

1:24.0

For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

1:28.0

And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.

1:32.0

And here in Boulder, I'm Jeff Kammett.

1:36.0

And here are also New Hampshire.

1:38.0

It's Pilot Pete.

1:39.0

Good to be with all you guys today.

1:41.0

This is cool.

1:42.0

Yeah. Here we are. Nine nine. The last time there was a

1:46.3

major apple thing on nine nine or maybe not the last time but one time there was a

1:51.6

major apple thing on nine, it was when the Beatles

1:54.2

catalog came to Apple Music, right? Wasn't, didn't that happen on a September 9th?

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