This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: Apple pulled the plug on Project Titan, its not-so-secret, decade-long effort to build a self-driving electric car. After spending a reported $10 billion on R&D, the moonshot Apple car project winds up canceled — in favor of generative AI!
Let’s just say we have some opinions.
Also on The CultCast:
- Apple’s FineWoven iPhone cases don’t seem to hold up so well. In fact, a high-profile journo says hers is “browning like a rotten banana.” What gives?
- Apple Arcade’s shifting mission means kids will be winners (but indie devs will be losers).
- Waiting for a second-gen Vision Pro that will be lighter, brighter and less expensive? You might want to rethink that plan.
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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 Apple car-dominated podcast:
- Killing the Apple car is depressing and sad
- Canceling the Apple car is a sensible move we should celebrate
- Behind Apple’s doomed car project: False starts and wrong turns (The New York Times)
- Apple to wind down electric car effort after decade-long odyssey (Bloomberg)
- Not-so-FineWoven iPhone case ‘browning like a rotten banana’ (MacRumors)
- John Gruber’s FineWoven poll on X
- Apple Arcade’s future: Kids win, but devs fear ‘smell of death’
- Don’t expect Vision Pro 2 or Vision Air before 2027
