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    #569: We Need More Rock Stars

    June 23rd, 2025 · 99 minutes

    Can Apple buy its way out of trouble? We discuss the promise and pitfalls of Apple acquiring an AI powerhouse... or literally anything else.

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    Links and Show Notes

    Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One – Six Colors
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    Logitech's Flip Folio: A Modular iPad Keyboard for Occasional Typing - MacStories
    F1 The Movie | Rotten Tomatoes
    Let Brad Pitt Take You For a Ride in an F1 Car – The Enthusiast
    iOS beta code includes new references to Apple's upcoming smart display home product - 9to5Mac
    Design interactive snippets - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
    iPhone 17 Pro's Alleged Vapor Chamber Cooling System Partly Revealed - MacRumors
    Apple Debates a Deal With Perplexity in Pursuit of AI Talent - Bloomberg
    The Curious Case of Apple and Perplexity: Do They Need Each Other? | Parker Ortolani
    The Curious Case of Apple and Perplexity - MacStories
    What Siri Isn't: Perplexity's Voice Assistant and the Potential of LLMs Integrated with iOS - MacStories
    From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac - MacStories
    Apple’s built-in transcriber blows away Whisper – Six Colors
    Hands-On: How Apple's New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Lightning-Fast Transcription - MacStories
    Jason Snell: "Whisper's large-v3-turbo is definitely quite a bit slower than Apple's new onboard transcription model..." - The Incomparable
    Shane Whatley - YouTube