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Ho Ho Hooo! This week on a very merry CultCast:

• Next-day delivery of iPhone X is a sprinkling of Christmas magic
• Updated AirPods are supposedly coming in 2018
• How the iPhone almost never was
• HOT Tips:
  • How to listen to Youtube videos when your iPad or iPhone screens are off
• • How to picture-in-picture Youtube videos on your iPad
  • And how to keep those pesky ads out of your Youtube videos for free
• And we wrap up with our favorite shows of 2017!
• To all our Cult friends, meeeeerry Christmas, happy (belated) Hanukkah

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• It’s a Christmas Miracle!
• All models are available in the U.S. Apple Store, marking something of a Christmas miracle for Apple — when you consider that the majority of pre-release reports suggested that the iPhone X wouldn’t be shipping to most customers until some time in 2018.

  Listen up: Updated AirPods are supposedly coming in 2018 https://www.cultofmac.com/519555/updated-airpods-2018/

• Did you know AirPods are among the most beloved new products that Apple has launched in years, with around 98 percent of customers describing themselves as either “very satisfied” or “satisfied” with Apple’s wireless buds.
• Apple is planning to release an updated version of its AirPods wireless earbuds in the second half of 2018, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims in a new note to clients.
• While he doesn’t share too many details about what the new AirPods will do differently, he does suggest that they will adopt a smaller quartz component — quite possibly making them even smaller than the first-gen model currently available.

  Today in Apple history: iPhone may have to seek new name https://www.cultofmac.com/519065/apple-history-iphone-new-name/

• The original iPhone wasn’t an iPhone at all. 
• Back in 1998, a company called InfoGear showed off an “iPhone” at CES. Costing $499, with extra charges for internet access, the device made very early use of touch technology, visual voicemail, basic apps and more.
• Even though it got go