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New Apple Pencil, cheaper Vision Pro details, iPhone 15 sales stumble

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin and Chance analyze the good and (mostly) bad of the Apple Pencil lineup, following the announcement of the new USB-C model this week. Also, there are details about what Apple will cut from a cheaper Vision Pro model; how critical is EyeSight to the product, really? Listeners back up Chance’s poor CarPlay GPS experiences, more iPhone camera testing at ACL, and Apple TV+'s new film strategy begins today.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

Mayo I don't know if I've ever gotten as much feedback about a story or a podcast episode as I got about carplay.

0:07.0

A lot of people drive. A lot of people drive, a lot of people have carplay, and apparently a lot of people have the GPS sample maps

0:14.0

location problem that we talked about last week pretty much right after we

0:18.3

published the episode I started hearing from people who listened so then on

0:22.4

Monday I wrote about it on the site and oh my

0:26.2

God the post has 140 comments most of which are from people saying they have

0:32.3

the same problem.

0:34.0

I've gotten like at least a dozen emails directly from readers

0:38.0

and then a bunch of d'ams on Twitter.

0:41.0

So it seems clear that this is a problem that needs to be addressed and it's definitely not just the maki

0:47.6

Definitely not just Ford definitely not just Evies

0:51.6

But pretty much every carmaker in some form or fashion people say they have this problem, including even like the aftermarket carplay head units, you know that you install in older cars to give them carplay support

1:03.6

which tends to lean more on it being like an apple side bug if it affects like

1:09.1

every manufacturer that's that's what I'm thinking.

1:13.0

Yeah.

1:14.0

And it's funny too, the only carmaker I couldn't really find like complaints from people about was GM.

1:20.0

We love GM.

1:21.0

GM.

1:22.0

They're totally not dropping car play next year.

1:25.0

Well you know why they're dropping car play because they're getting so many complaints from the customers that people can't navigate with it?

1:30.0

Yeah, exactly. No, it's...

1:32.0

One thing we did get some feedback about, we talked about it a little bit last week, but we weren't quite sure.

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