Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Apple automotive is canceled! [The CultCast’s bye-bye Apple car podcast]

An AI-generated Apple-branded electric car, with The CultCast logo and
After Challenge Titan crashes and burns, Apple goes all in on synthetic intelligence.
Picture: Cult of Mac

This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: Apple pulled the plug on Challenge Titan, its not-so-secret, decade-long effort to construct a self-driving electrical automotive. After spending a reported $10 billion on R&D, the moonshot Apple automotive challenge winds up canceled — in favor of generative AI!

Let’s simply say we now have some opinions.

Additionally on The CultCast:

  • Apple’s FineWoven iPhone instances don’t appear to carry up so effectively. In actual fact, a high-profile journo says hers is “browning like a rotten banana.” What offers?
  • Apple Arcade’s shifting mission means youngsters will likely be winners (however indie devs will likely be losers).
  • Ready for a second-gen Imaginative and prescient Professional that will likely be lighter, brighter and cheaper? You would possibly need to rethink that plan.

Take heed to this week’s episode of The CultCast within the Podcasts app or your favourite podcast app. (Remember to subscribe and depart us a assessment in case you prefer it!) Or watch the video reside stream, embedded beneath.

The CultCast reside stream archive: Our farewell to Apple automotive podcast

Right here’s the archived model of our reside YouTube broadcast:

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This week’s prime Apple information

On the present this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac author D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).

Listed here are the headlines we’re speaking about on this Apple car-dominated podcast:



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