This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: After nearly a week with Apple’s new hardware, we’re serving up our first hands-on impressions. Is the iPhone 15 Pro Max too big — and/or too hot — to handle? Is Apple Watch Ultra 2 worth the upgrade? What about Apple Watch Series 9?
And seriously, Apple … you call that pink?
Also on The CultCast:
- Griffin runs us through some of the coolest new features in macOS Sonoma.
- OMG we’ve already got iPhone 16 rumors.
- And we wrap up with a couple of big fat bummers from our favorite source of Apple insider info and tech haikus.
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This week’s top Apple news
On the show this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Here are the headlines we’re talking about on this week’s show:
- Apple Watch Series 9 is a surprising package of new features [Review]
- Apple offers 2 fixes for watchOS 10 Weather complication bug
- iPhone 15 Pro overheating may arise from Apple ‘compromises’
- Next year’s standard iPhone won’t get a hand-me-down chip
- iPhone 16 could feature a new capacitive Capture Button
- Lots of rumors for iPhone 16 Pro models already (Joe Rossignol on X)
- The 36 best macOS Sonoma features you should try after you update
- Kuo: Low-cost Apple Vision Pro might be canceled
- Kuo: Development of Apple car has ‘lost all visibility’
Lewis Wallace is the managing editor of Cult of Mac and author of our weekly newsletter, The Weekender.
He’s a San Francisco-based writer and editor specializing in technology and culture. He loves his iPhone, hates Siri, and appreciates any hardware that combines form and function.
Prior to Cult of Mac, he juggled words and ideas as culture editor at Wired.com, homepage editor at TechTV, news product manager at NBCi, copy editor at PC World, reporter at The (Hayward) Daily Review and editor in chief of EveryBody’s News in Cincinnati.
He earned a bachelor of general studies degree with a journalism certificate from the University of Cincinnati. While in school, he worked as the entertainment editor of The News Record and as editor in chief of Clifton Magazine.
He’s also a bass player, who’s recorded and performed around the United States with Those Darn Accordions, The Electric Boogie Dawgz and The Mad Maggies. When not writing, editing or laying down bass lines, he plays darts and serves on the board of the San Francisco Darts League.
