This week: The iCar rumors are swirling. Is Apple preparing to give Tesla a run for its money? Plus: The industries we want Apple to conquer next; why we need Cupertino to get into the space game; college kids love iPhones more than sexy time; we tell you our favorite packs for toting about your Apple and DSLR gear; and stay tuned to the end for our new segment, “Cross the Streams,” where we’ll cover the shows we can’t stop binge-watching.
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This week’s links
Intro: Why Microsoft is better than Mac!!
Apple working on something to ‘give Tesla a run for its money’
If you like The X-Files, you need to watch Fringe – On Netflix
Apple now the most valuable company in history
College students crave iPhones more than sex
Sling TV, the Netflix for cable, opens doors to all subscribers, with new channels coming
Our favorite packs to tote your DSLR and Apple gear
Street Walker HardDrive backpack
Think Tank’s roller bags (great for serious travel)
All the shows we’re currently streaming
Leander’s been watching Boardwalk Empire but he thinks it’s gone off the rails (available on Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go and, you know, the internet).
Alex liked Better Call Saul (TV or internet if you’re savvy).
The Sopranos (available on Amazon Instant Video and HBO Go).
Luther is a cop tracking down serial killers, and Buster likes it (Netflix).
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3 responses to “Why an Apple car makes more sense than you think, this week on The CultCast”
Proposition: If you want to “own the home,” you need a hub IN the home. That Jeff Bezos is a smart guy. His Echo concept is great: Home is where the hub is.
But it’s Apple’s to do: Call it SiriUs, a hand-free, voice-run, seeing, hearing gizmo that sits on a side table, with these features: * Proximity awareness * Signals and verbalizes messages, etc. * Wolframs at will. * Monitors movements and sounds and sends alerts to your phone, relative, or the police. * Commands the Nest and many such gizmos: washers, garage doors, locks, music, lights, smoke and gas alarms, TV, cars * Acquires your HealthKit vitals from watch or wristband. * Contains a more than decent Sonos level speaker.
SiriUs doesn’t need an screen or much storage; a normal Apple price will still encourage Apple’s soon 1,000,000,000 credit card carrying adult users to buy several units per home; the hub resides in the software technologies, not in the hardware. How about a unit in every room with “speakered hardware”? I have five speakered rooms presently. And there are just two of us at home.
Will Apple do it? I think it will: SiriUs is still a computer and Apple is still the company that it was thirty years ago, making “computers for the rest of us.” Apple this year has introduced the component technologies: HomeKit, HealthKit, Continuity. And Siri’s an old acquaintance. In fact, it’s time Siri grew up and starting paying its way.
SiriUsly.
That hub you talk about is the upcoming Apple TV.
RE: iCar – if Apple was going to do this they would have bought Tesla two years ago when it was still dirt cheap. I think they will add something to cars, but not be the car itself.
I’m thinking of a watching, not a watchable or watch, computer. In fact, several per home, visually and auditorily monitoring the space and routines.