This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: After pulling the plug on an ambitious project — creating a self-driving car — Apple sets its sights on making … home robots?!? Say it ain’t so, Tim!
Also on The CultCast:
- New iPhone 16 dummy units bring the rumors to life. But as for those long-predicted fancy new iPads, we’re still waiting. Get used to it!
- The next-gen Apple processor could give Macs a serious performance boost. Erfon talks specs and speculation.
- Vision Pro’s new Spatial Personas aren’t creepy at all … 👻
- Griffin serves up some tips on how to take a proper photo during the upcoming total solar eclipse.
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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:
- With car junked, Apple robots could be Cupertino’s next moonshot
- iPhone 16 ‘dummy’ units give us glimpse of upcoming changes
- New iPads won’t arrive until May and we can’t stop crying
- Redesign could give Apple M3 Ultra processor wicked performance boost
- Free-floating Spatial Personas arrive in visionOS 1.1 for Vision Pro
- How to take solar eclipse photos with iPhone
