Balancing Design and Functionality in Smartphones

Perplexity voice assistant can now interact with your iPhone, and it’s better than Siri, iPhone 17 Air models reveal an ultra-slim design, Google loses two trials and what it means for Chrome, Search and OpenAI, plus Apple Watch celebrates 10 years since launch.

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Links from the show

• Nintendo Switch 2 preorders: everything you need to know to nab one | The Verge
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• Perplexity Voice AI
• Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine | WIRED
• Apple’s New Siri Chief Mike Rockwell Overhauls Management to Start Turnaround - Bloomberg
• Apple Intelligence | Clean Up Photos: Flex | iPhone 16 - YouTube
• Low Glare | Mac does that | Apple - YouTube
• iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed in New Video - MacRumors
• Apple Sports scores another win with new Game Card Sharing feature
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• Instagram Launches 'Edits' App to Replace CapCut - MacRumors
• Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI | The Verge
• Sam Altman Just Trolled Everyone, and It’s The Smartest Idea I’ve Seen Yet
• Apple fined 500 million euros by EU under the Digital Markets Act, forced to make changes to App Store policies - 9to5Mac
• Did Tim Cook finagle a special tariff deal? Senator Warren wants to know | The Verge
• Bluesky launches blue check verification | TechCrunch
• Review: Apple Watch is beautiful, but rough around the edges | AppleInsider
• Apple Watch Series 7 review: Bigger than you think | AppleInsider

• (00:00) - Intro
• (02:54) - Switch 2 Pre-Order Chaos
• (11:25) - Membership Poll!
• (13:49) - Humane Ai Pin LIVES
• (15:55) - Perplexity Just Beat Siri
• (21:07) - Plagiarism and Perplexity
• (26:21) - Shifts in Apple's Siri Team
• (31:00) - Weird Apple Intelligence Ads
• (34:10) - Sponsor: Insta360
• (36:40) - Sponsor: Notion
• (38:30) - iPhone 17 Air
• (44:18) - Apple Sports App
• (49:35) - Threads Got Ads
• (50:42) - Instagram Edits App
• (53:16) - Google Lost in Court, Now What?
• (01:01:21) - EU Fines Apple $500M
• (01:04:30) - Tim Cook Jukes Tariffs
• (01:05:53) - Bluesky Blue Checks
• (01:12:24) - Watch Turns 10