Our most wanted Apple car features plus the new and notable of iOS 8.3 on the CultCast

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This week: Apple might be eyeing 2020 for their first car, but you can catch our most wanted features and price expectations right now. Plus: Cupertino pay massive bonuses to poach top talent; the insane acceleration of Tesla’s new electric car; the new and notable from iOS 8.3 beta; Toyota says “no thanks” to CarPlay; and finally, your listener questions, answered!

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This week’s links

Intro – It’s 1985, can Apple survive?

Happy birthday song in 3-part french horn

Watch these folks react to the insane acceleration of Tesla’s new P85D

Emojitype translates your texts into relevant emojis

Ste Smith reviews the Tesla P85+

Simon Phoenix is gonna be super happy about his new emoji icons

John Spartan doesn’t know how to use the three seashells…

Apple wants first cars on the road by 2020

Siri speaks 7 new languages in iOS 8.3

Apple adds 300 racially diverse emojis to iOS 8.3

Toyota vehicles won’t support CarPlay anytime soon

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