Tim Cook vs Meta, 'Servant' vs a lawsuit, and Home Hub may be delayed, on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 17 January 2025
β±οΈ 65 minutes
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Summary
Just as Meta's Mark Zuckerberg makes another criticism of Apple, Tim Cook gives a very rare candid interview, while Apple TV+ is promoting "Severance" but defending "Servant," and the Home Hub could be held up.
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Links from the Show:
- Meta CEO mocks Apple for 'sitting on' iPhone 20 years later despite doing the same with Facebook
- Apple's 2025 annual shareholder meeting is on February 25
- Apple fights back against shareholders who want to end DEI hiring
- EU may be reassessing billion-dollar Big Tech fines as it waits for Trump
- Apple Camera due in 2026 β but Home Hub may get delayed
- TikTok's ban saga is a mess, with only days before the hammer falls
- Illinois will implement digital IDs and driver's licenses for Apple Wallet in 2025
- CarPlay 2.0 may let users add widgets just like on an iPhone
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- (00:00) - Intro and Tim Cook
- (03:34) - Severance
- (05:42) - Meta vs Apple
- (26:10) - EU
- (44:33) - HomeHub
- (54:04) - CarPlay widgets
- (56:32) - Servant
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm your host, Wesley Hilliard, and I'm joined once again by William Gallagher. |
| 0:13.1 | We're recording a little earlier than usual this week for scheduling issues, |
| 0:16.4 | so maybe something happened on Wednesday or Thursday that we don't get to. |
| 0:20.3 | Don't worry. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll get to it next week. |
| 0:22.4 | But first, I'd like to talk about Apple Insider Plus. |
| 0:25.2 | If you are a paid subscriber, you get an ad-free version and a bonus at the end of the show |
| 0:31.4 | where we're going to discuss something different this week. |
| 0:34.6 | We're going to talk about travel apps, how we plan for travel, that kind of |
| 0:37.7 | stuff should be interesting. William, how are you doing today? I'm all right. Thank you. I mean, |
| 0:43.7 | I'm actually in the middle of traveling, so that's what put the idea in my head. And I haven't |
| 0:48.2 | been traveling quite so much for ages, but I'm off to Ireland in a moment, Geneva in a couple of weeks' time, and I've found all these |
| 0:55.0 | apps I haven't used in ages and how useful they are. And it's also brought back horror stories, |
| 1:00.6 | but that's for later. Other than that, Grant and now feeling a certain bond with Tim Cook, |
| 1:06.7 | because it turns out he and I are both obsessed with dark chocolate. Yes, he was also traveling, |
| 1:12.0 | but in December, he recorded a podcast, apparently, called, well, I don't have the name of |
| 1:19.1 | it. It was Table Manners with Jesse and Lenny Ware. Yeah. Can't say I've ever heard of before, |
| 1:25.4 | but it's running for a long time. It's really good. |
| 1:28.4 | Quite excellent. |
| 1:29.4 | It seems they, um, the theme is they have a meal with someone through an interview and talk |
| 1:34.0 | about food mostly. |
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