This week on The CultCast: Apple plans new, improved AirPods, HomePod and over-ear headphones; Apple finally acknowledges its new MacBook keyboards suck, and they’re going to make it right; a top Apple analyst drops a bunch of details on Apple’s 2018 product pipeline; and how Apple is trying to solve a fascinating issue their autonomous car.
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CultCast #342 – New AirPods! New iPhones! New HomePod!
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This week’s stories
Apple finally acknowledges its new MacBook keyboards suck
- The butterfly keyboards on the new MacBook and MacBook Pro are officially defective.
- After months of outcry from angry customers, Apple has finally acknowledged that the new keyboards have some serious problems. The company says the issues are limited to a small percentage of MacBooks, but its offering free repairs.
Apple plans new, improved AirPods, HomePod and over-ear headphones
- Bloomberg has a new report out that says we could have some exciting new Apple audio products in 2019.
Top Apple analyst drops a ton of details on Apple’s 2018 product pipeline
- First: Ming still expects three new iPhones in 2018: a second-generation iPhone X, a massive 6.5-inch version dubbed the iPhone X Plus, and a 6.1-inch version that will essentially be a budget iPhone X.
- Engineer and popular YouTuber Mark Rober is, accordingly Variety, working for Apple as an engineer in their special projects group.
- More specifically, Rober has been working on Apple’s virtual reality projects, including “using VR as on-board entertainment for self-driving cars.”
- His most recent patent addresses an interesting problem:
- “Many passengers in vehicles may experience motion sickness. Typically, this is not the case for the driver. However, with the arrival of autonomous vehicles, the driver becomes a passenger, and thus may want to occupy themselves while, for example, riding to work. Passengers in conventional or autonomous vehicles may, for example, want to read a book, or work on their notebook computer.
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