The Rebound

We discuss our preferred toilet paper placement, the delay of enhanced Siri and the general state of things at Apple.

John Gruber says Something is Rotten in Cupertino.

Tim Cook did apologize for Apple Maps.

The Pebble is back, baby!

Pedro Pascal’s Apple ad would be great in another Apple era.

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How many Macs does Moltz own and will Lex make it through the ad read without passing out?

The new Macs arrive this week and Jason has a look at the new MacBook Air and Mac Studio.

Mark Gurman says Apple's next OS releases will feature a big design change.

John Gruber continues to needle Gurman.

Moltz loves the song "Expert In A Dying Field" by The Beths.

Check out Adam Selby’s gorgeous “Severance” merch.

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Moltz is back, Lex gets angry and Dan is Slovenia-curious.

There are new iPads. (And other things but we recorded yesterday.)

Apple has won a lawsuit about iCloud storage.

Apple is challenging the (alleged) UK encryption order.

Apple’s C1 modem is actually pretty good.

Lex fears fan death.

We don’t want this guy becoming pope because he’d have to change his name.

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Dan likes the Dekopon orange. Lex likes Pink Lady apples. We also talk about technology.

Apple's investing in a new server farm in Texas. But it might not actually be new. 

This week would have been Steve Jobs's 70th birthday. Would he still be Apple's CEO if he were still alive?

We feel for anyone who bought the Humane AI Pin. We wonder who will buy Rabbit.

And we still have thoughts about the iPhone 16e and Apple Intelligence. Lex has CarPlay frustrations. Dan still listens to the radio for one very specific reason.

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Dan predicts today's iPhone will definitely not be named the 16e, Moltz continues to play around with old hardware (wink) and Lex loves him some John Gruber.

We were wrong! Again. It is the iPhone 16e.

John Gruber goes deep on renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Moltz still has a Griffin PowerWave. And it works.

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Ads may be coming to Maps.

Mark Gurman says the new Siri could be running behind.

Apple has resumed advertising on ex-Twitter.

One developer is at least trying something.

Moltz thought Apple was going to name the iPhone 16e something else.

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Moltz welcomes the robot apocalypse, Dan flips off the UK government and Lex is still talking about the Super Bowl.

Apple demoed an adorable lamp robot.

How about that scorebug?

iOS 18.4 is coming with new features.

Apple is not going to integrate with DeepSeek.

Elon Musk offers to buy OpenAI. Sure.

Tim Cook was partying it up in New Orleans.

Lex found this bit of standup amusing.

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We have complaints about Invites, among other things.

Apple launches Invites, somewhat rockily.

Congrats on your porn app, EU.

Tapestry is now out.

Is Tapbots considering doing a BlueSky app?

John Gruber points out an open source sharing protocol.

We are slightly intrigued by the Trmnl.

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Dan discusses e-books, Moltz laughs about Deepseek and Lex has a crazy MacBook battery solution that just might work. (It's charging it.)

Bookshop.org now has e-books.

Joe Rosensteel has thoughts on Tim Cook and they’re not favorable.

The Pebble smarwatch may be making a comeback.

But who needs that when you can play Asteroids on a watch? For a price.

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Dan has an AirPods problem and Lex doesn't want to hear about it. Moltz is ready for the Switch 2.

The purported camera setup for the iPhone 17 Air is... different.

IGN has some speculation on Mario Kart for the Switch 2.

Dan recommends the series "Ludwig".

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Lex gets too many refunds, Dan doesn't get enough payments and Moltz gets just enough from a settlement.

Pixelfed launches a new app.

Is John Gruber being sarcastic here? All signs point to yes.

Mastodon has a new non-profit structure.

The CEO of Sonos finally faces the music, something difficult to do with their new app.

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