Merry CultCast boys and girls! This week: Santa gets a little “grabby”; Apple wins a major lawsuit; our iPhones deserve "rollover" data plans; the incredibly low payouts artists get from Spotify; and the high-end gifts we really want but will never get on an all-new Get To Know Your Cultist.
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Links to this week’s stories
Apple wins at last: iTunes DRM was ‘genuine improvement,’ jury finds
Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/306320/apple-just-won-1-billion-ipod-lawsuit/#UiLVQyJJBqkLYx8W.99
T-Mobile’s Un-carrier 8.0 plan is rollover minutes for your data
Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/306304/t-mobiles-un-carrier-8-0-plan-rollover-minutes-data/#LmLZQq3vYRJ4wmFJ.99
Bose plans to take on Beats with its own music streaming service
Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/306275/bose-plans-take-beats-music-streaming-service/#By8zxRZ3eKmZI4Im.99
The expensive Christmas gifts we’ll never get
Leander is drooling over this $16,000 road bike: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/road/performance_race/emonda/
Alex and Erfon want to find this $1300 Fuji X100T camera under their tree: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x100t/
Buster wants the new $2000 full-frame A7 II from Sony: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/sony-alpha-a7-mark-2/
This $3000 electric bicycle Erfon wants will have you blasting up hills like rocketman: http://www.currietech.com/eflowebikes/eflow-e3-nitro-l-4
Leander wants a 4K tele but needs to convince his wife:
Erfon drove the BMW i3 at CES this year, and if can muster $40,0000 he’s gonna buy it: