Guest episode: Cult of Mac podcast #4

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This week: Siri’s growing up as a proper chatbot, Apple copies the raging success of the Humane Ai Pin, why your next Mac might cost even more, how you can make your Mac hot, and a truly bizarre prison-inspired user setup.

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• Apple may reinvent Siri as a conversational AI in iOS 27
  • Forget the old, nearly useless Siri — Apple will reportedly upgrade the iPhone’s voice assistant into an AI-powered chatbot with iOS 27. Users will supposedly be able to converse with the new Siri, not just give it orders.
• Apple works on AI wearable with mics, cameras and more
  • An AI pin is reportedly on the drawing board at Apple. The hands-free device might may change the future of wearable technology.
• Why Apple faces new pressure to raise iPhone and Mac prices
  • Apple is likely to struggle to get a critical component for all its products this year, which might force it raise prices.
  • MacBook Pros disappear from stores — here’s why
• Speed up your Mac workflow with Hot Corners, the feature pro users swear by
  • Hot Corners on the Mac work like shortcuts for your mouse. Just throw your mouse cursor to the corner of the screen to trigger a shortcut.
• Listener Question
  • Hands-on with a folding iPhone mock-up: This thing is weird
• How these brilliantly lit setups strike a mood for work or gaming
  • Proper desk lighting can make or break a Mac setup when it comes to boosting productivity, setting a mood or gaming like you mean it.
  • RGB hues bathe Beatles-themed retro Apple rig in otherworldly light

Chapters

• 0:00 Start
• 4:01 Conversational chatbot Siri
• 14:58 Apple's own Humane Ai Pin
• 27:34 Apple prices go up
• 34:21 Listener Question
• 37:51 Mac Hot Corners
• 44:29 Setup of the Week