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Apple smart display rumors, new Apple products in early 2025, and cheaper Vision Pro details

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance discuss the latest Apple leaks of the week, headlined by details about Apple’s upcoming smart home display product, expected to launch in 2025. The iPhone SE and iPad Air are also getting refreshes early next year, and component leaks perhaps give us insight into what Apple is planning for its cheaper Apple Vision Pro headset.

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0:00.0

Meo I saw a tweet yesterday that struck a nerve with me and then my opinion seemed to strike a nerve with other people where

0:06.5

You know the back button that appears in the upper left corner on your iPhone when you're switching between apps like for instance if you're in the

0:13.1

messages app and you tap a link that takes you to safari in safari you'll see a

0:17.1

back button in the upper left corner that can take you back to messages the

0:21.4

tweet said that that feature should be removed and that nobody ever

0:24.5

uses it and that it's redundant because you can just swipe between apps with a home bar at the bottom

0:29.2

of your iPhone. That is a sentiment I very much agree with the back button for me. Well for one if you use a pro max phone

0:38.0

Reaching up to tap that back button is like impossible like it's in a different state. Yeah, it's so far away.

0:44.0

And then as someone too who takes a lot of screenshots, having a back button in the upper left

0:49.1

corner is just kind of ugly. It kind of ruins the vibe of the screenshot.

0:52.1

It is probably one of the ugliest buttons they have in the operating system as well.

0:56.0

And it like pushes the clock up into the ear, into the corner even more than normal.

1:01.0

Yeah, because I'm pretty sure that feature rolled out

1:03.8

before the notch phones were here, so it's like, the back button's more

1:07.4

designed for the thing where the time used to be in the center, right? I want to say

1:10.9

it was like an I. 7 thing maybe?

1:14.0

Maybe 8 or 9.

1:15.0

I feel like it like that.

1:17.0

Yeah, I don't think it was 7, but a couple years after that,

1:20.0

yeah, before the iPhone 10, I'm pretty sure.

1:22.0

And obviously with the iPhone, I'm pretty sure.

1:28.0

And obviously with the iPhone, as well as it looking a bit weird design wise, functionality wise, it is a bit redundant because you can just swipe on the home indicator at the bottom

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