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Last minute Apple event rumors, plastic Apple Watch SE appeal, and new Mac mini

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance get hyped for Apple’s upcoming ‘Glowtime’ September event, discussing some last-minute rumors and leaks about the products on deck. They discuss the market for the rumored plastic body Apple Watch SE, the latest on the M4 Mac mini redesign, and the iOS 18 Sports app gets a feature it should have had from the beginning.

And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin checks in with Chance’s Vision Pro usage and rallies against the narrative that “AI” has somehow supplanted “AR”.

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0:00.0

Last week we did our sort of event preview running down the iPhone, the Apple Watch Series 10,

0:04.7

the Apple Watch Ultra 3, AirPods 4, all of that good stuff. But one thing we missed and forgot to talk about,

0:10.7

and actually we got some feedback from Johann about it. The rumors of a plastic Apple

0:15.9

watch SE. So this is something Bloomberg SmartGerman has reported on saying that Apple is exploring

0:22.2

a new Apple watch SE design made from plastic instead of

0:25.7

aluminum. In my reading of Mark's reporting, I didn't read this as something that's necessarily

0:31.6

coming this year. I read it as more of a long-term

0:34.7

thing because Apple, I don't think Apple prioritizes the Apple Watch SE.

0:38.7

I feel like German was particularly ambiguous on timing on that product as if it could come next week or it might be a next year thing like he the way he wrote it was very careful

0:51.2

but it would be about time for an SE update because there wasn't one last year right so

0:56.5

It would there's been two SE so far right where I'm the second generation right now. Yeah

1:06.4

I don't think it was 2022 22 yeah it's probably a about on schedule for an SE update and obviously the you know german didn't

1:11.6

say it's necessarily but he mentioned that you know

1:13.4

plastic might appear to like kids or something and like people have gone down to

1:16.4

that as maybe it's more of a kids watch like that angle to me doesn't really make

1:21.4

sense because if the screen is still glass, it's still not going to be very

1:27.2

kid-friendly in the scheme of things. Like, there's a different, and when I say kids, I mean like

1:31.8

younger kids, right? Like teenagers are different, they I say kids I mean like younger kids right, like teenagers

1:33.2

are different, they can get along with it and they'll still break the screens but they

1:36.8

just want they want like. I feel like if you're like making a plasicky product

1:39.8

that is like angled at kids you also need the screen to be a different material because the

1:44.1

ironx glass if you're not careful it gets dinged and bashed up sapphire is better and

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