January 06, 2025

545: The Bee Bonnet Company

1 hour 36 minutes

A new year dawns! We consider what it has in store for Apple and why the company's A.I. features need to be judged critically. Then we turn back the clock to 2000 and consider the moment when Mac OS X changed everything.

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