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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance are thrilled to see Apple switching it up a bit for this end-of-month video event streaming, for the first time, in the evening. They talk about what they expect to see at the start of the M3 Apple Silicon Mac generation. iOS 17.1 has shipped with some cool new additions to Apple Music, meanwhile Apple is said to be hard at work integrating AI features into all parts of iOS 18. Plus, TV+ price rises and the rumored 2024 roadmap for new AirPods models.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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0:00.0 | So I thought we were going to have like a happy opening this week. |
0:02.6 | We're just going to talk about the event and all of the new Mac hardware that's supposedly coming. |
0:07.4 | But Mayo, you added this to the note and just to maybe make some Twitter fans angry. |
0:11.8 | You say that Threads has been feeling a little bit better. makes some people |
0:15.0 | angry you say that threads has been feeling a little bit better recently this is a happy opening I think I think the |
0:17.5 | for some people well I think the last time we spoke about threads I was a bit more |
0:21.9 | downbeat on it right yeah well we were upbeat on it when it first |
0:25.2 | launched then I think we did like a little follow-up thing and we were like it's kind of |
0:29.3 | slowing down and and I think my big complaint was like all I would see was they didn't have they |
0:34.4 | didn't have the following feed did they so it was only algorithmic yeah and |
0:38.0 | my recommendations are like garbage of just you know completely irrelevant stuff that I have no |
0:43.4 | interest in whatsoever just complete spam left or right and center and and there |
0:49.4 | wasn't many other people they ever really communicating not that much so it felt a bit deadish. I think |
0:55.4 | recently it's had a bit more an upswing like the vibe's pretty good like I |
0:59.8 | think it helps that Musk has said some stupid stuff recently so we've had another like |
1:05.1 | round of people like my you know moving ship or whatever and coming in they've also |
1:09.4 | Facebook itself has been a bit more aggressive in promoting threads like cross-promotion or |
1:14.4 | Instagram and on like the Facebook app and they've added like recommendation |
1:19.4 | like friend follows that show up a lot more frequently I think in like the Threads |
1:22.6 | app itself so you know I've got a Fliry new Follows recently and I think a lot of people |
1:27.2 | have and I you know the raw numbers like the absolute count is I don't |
1:32.1 | really care like genuinely but I just want it to be like a |
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