This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: The latest rumors point to impressive iPhone upgrades on the horizon. Stacked batteries might deliver the holy grail of longer battery life as early as this year. And in 2024, the iPhone Pro Max camera might graduate to a mind-blowing 12x zoom. Excuse if we’re a little excited!
Also on The CultCast:
- A secret project dubbed “Apple GPT” might make Apple’s products better — even Siri!
- If you’re not taking advantage of Continuity features, you’re doing Apple wrong.
- Sounds like we’ll be waiting quite a while for a truly pro Mac Pro.
- How in the world did Goldman Sachs lose so much money on Apple Card?!?
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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 week’s show:
- Stacked batteries could let iPhone 15 go longer between charges
- 2024 iPhone could get 12× telephoto zoom lens
- 6 mind-blowing Continuity features every Apple user should know
- Apple gets ready to take on ChatGPT with ‘Apple GPT’
- The Mac Pro we all want is 6 years away — at least
- Apple Card contributes to another $667 million loss for Goldman Sachs: ‘We did not execute well’ (9to5Mac)
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