This week: two awesome Apple artifacts hit the auction block; Oompa-loompas leak pics of a super-sized iPad; forget headphones, the Beats acquisition could be all about video; Woz sets the FCC straight on net neutrality; iPad is where the Gov-er-na-tuh stores his shirtless selfies; a popular travel app you should definitely download, like, right now; and, is Apple building out their own content delivery network?
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Episode
CultCast #128 – iPads In DA CHOPPA!
On The CultCast this week
Leander Kahney – Cult of Mac Editor-in-Chief, loyal subject of the Queen.
Buster Hein – Cult of Mac writer and community manager.
Erfon Elijah – Cult of Mac writer and host of The CultCast.
Links to this week’s stories
Apple’s original rainbow office signs hit the auction block
iPad selfies gone wrong: Arnold Schwarzenegger edition
Insanely huge iPad Pro dummy part leaks out of China
Apple bought Beats for video, suggests Steve Jobs’ biographer
Google snatches up Word Lens, the most magical translation app for iPhone
Apple to pay ISPs for direct iPhone connection
Microsoft’s ‘iPad killer’ is enormous Surface Pro 3
iOS devs can finally offer promo codes for in-app purchases
Steve Wozniak’s open letter asks FCC to keep the Internet free
