Apple modem roadmap, Apple Watch satellite connectivity, OLED MacBook Pro

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0	Mayo, did you see there's a dramatically redesigned brand new iPhone case available from our friends at Beetz?
0:06.2	Not two months after the first cases were released.
0:09.2	How have they already redesigned them?
0:11.6	In their defense, they're not dramatic.
0:13.5	They're not huge redesigns.
0:14.6	They're just new colors.
0:15.5	But the worst part, the thing that they did change is they moved the little beats logo that was on like the side rail
0:21.8	of the case smack dab in the middle and the back now so there's a big beats logo so everybody
0:27.3	knows you're using a beats case after everybody compliment the first cases for being subtle
0:31.9	it's like yeah now here's ones with the fat off logos I don't know know why Apple's like Beats guy make cases, but I guess someone's buying them.
0:43.0	They're good cases.
0:44.1	I have the first iteration of them.
0:47.0	The only reason that I think we even talk about the Beats cases is because Apple's own cases are so basically non-existent.
0:53.9	Well, they didn't even bother doing it.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	They got rid of farm woven.
0:57.0	They didn't bother trying to know.
0:58.0	So you have silicone, you have clear, then you have the beats cases.
1:02.0	I don't like the silicone cases. The clear case is nice.
1:05.0	That's a good option. Then you have the beats cases.
1:08.0	But now the beats cases have a beats leg on the back, which reduces their appeal quite substantially.
1:13.1	I just wish Apple hadn't given up on fine...
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