Two key Apple executives depart, App Store dealings, and Apple Music Replay 2025
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance react to the departure of not one, but two, key Apple executives this week with the news that John Giannandrea is retiring as SVP of AI, and design VP Alan Dye is leaving for a new job at Meta. Also, Apple finally agrees a deal with Tencent over commission for mini apps in WeChat, India tries to pre-install a state security app on iPhones, and the new Apple Music Replay launches.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- John Giannandrea leaving Apple following AI strategy miss
- Apple design boss Alan Dye departing for Meta
- Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure
- Tencent to apply for Apple's new App Store Mini Apps Partner Program
- Apple launches Mini Apps Partner Program for developers
- India orders Apple to pre-instal a state security app on iPhones
- Apple to refuse Indian government order to pre-install state security app on iPhones
- India says users may delete mandatory state-owned ‘security’ app
- After Apple refusal, India makes U-turn on mandatory iPhone app
- Apple Music Replay 2025 personal listening recap is ready to explore and share
- Spotify Wrapped arrives with a new party feature
- Pluribus is Apple TV's biggest drama series launch ever
- Apple TV’s top 10 list that drove signups reveals big surprises
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo, you tell me that you have a bit of a disconcerting intro you'd like to kick us off with this week. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm curious what that means in this context. |
| 0:08.9 | It's related to Tahoe, I think. |
| 0:10.6 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:11.6 | This morning, I was getting the show ready, doing the notes, closing all the random apps and stuff. |
| 0:16.0 | My computer was running a bit slow, anecdotally. |
| 0:19.5 | Okay. |
| 0:19.8 | So I was like, I'll just check Task Manager |
| 0:21.0 | and check there's no runaway processes |
| 0:22.3 | or anything going crazy. I'm not on 26.2, even though that'll probably be out, maybe today or soon. I'm still on the 26.1. So I was like, I'll just open Task Manager because I have seen a bug on, at least earlier versions of Tahoe where, like, the cat cat cat app ends up using like 90 gigs of RAM. |
| 0:37.5 | You've seen those things flying around, right? |
| 0:39.5 | No, I didn't personally see that, where like the cat-cutter app ends up using like 90 gigs of RAM. |
| 0:39.4 | You've seen, you must have seen those things flying around, right? |
| 0:52.8 | No, I didn't personally see that, but like people put it on threads and stuff. I've seen so many people have like, cat-cler uses 100 gigs of RAM or, you know, this is completely random app, it's got like a memory league or something. But I didn't have any of that. but what I did know is in my task manager or I guess activity |
| 0:54.6 | if you want to give it this proper name |
| 0:55.9 | um |
| 0:57.0 | picks I didn't have any of that, but what I did know is in my task manager, or I guess, activity, if you want to give it this proper name, PixelMator Pro was using two gigs of RAM. Okay. PixelMator Pro was not running. So obviously, apps on the Mac can run in the menu bar, they can run in, you know, as demons that aren't visible. But Pixar Pro isn't like that, right? |
| 1:11.9 | It just lives in the dock. |
| 1:13.1 | And there's an, I don't have it in my dot permanently, so it appears in the dock when it's running, and then when I close it, it disappears. In the UI of the desktop, Pixar was not running. It was shut. but if I went into activity |
| 1:27.0 | mona |
| 1:28.2 | it said it was consuming |
| 1:30.4 | two gigs of RAM actively and I could force quit it from activity monitor. So I don't know what was going on there, but that did, uh, perturbed me slightly. It's not comforting. I mean, I don't, I'm looking in activity monitor now and I don't see anything running that is not |
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