Mac and iPad price hikes hit hard

This week, with special guest Mikah Sargent: Apple’s big price hikes hit hard, what iOS will look like on the folding iPhone, changes in iOS 27 beta 2, what to do if you’re stuck on Siri AI waitlist, and all about how you can podcast and livestream from a Mac.

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Links:

• Ouch: Apple’s Mac and iPad price hikes are brutal
  • From the MacBook Neo to MacBook Pro to Vision Pro, Apple is raising prices across the board as soaring memory costs squeeze its margins.
  • Check out the best Amazon Prime Day deals on our favorite Apple gear
• Resizable iPhone apps show what the folding iPhone will be like
  • Now that you can resize iPhone Mirroring to any arbitrary size, you can stretch the screen to the dimensions of Apple’s folding iPhone.
  • Extra Ordinary: Hidden In Plain Sight—A History of iOS Foreshadowing iPhone
• iOS 27 beta 2: All the new features and changes
  • iOS 27 beta 2 introduces several hidden changes, including smarter HomeKit camera notifications, Write with Siri, and other quality-of-life improvements.
• Hack to skip the Siri AI waitlist no longer works — but there may be another way
  • The hack that some Mac users were using to try out the new Siri AI, skipping the waitlist, no longer works — but there may be a new way.
  • How to file Apple bug reports (and why you should do it ASAP)
• Podcasting and live-streaming from a Mac
  • Dell UltraSharp U2719D Display
  • Elgato Prompter Display
  • Sony ZVE10 II mirrorless camera
  • Elgato Stream Deck MK.2
  • Heil PR 40 microphone
  • Sound Devices MixPre-3 II Audio Interface
  • Ecamm for Mac
  • Restream
  • Audio Hijack
  • Hazel
  • TextExpander
  • Keyboard Maestro

Creators and Guests

Host

D. Griffin Jones

Extra Ordinary writer, formerly at Cult of Mac

Guest

Mikah Sargent

TWiT.tv and Relay podcaster

What is Cult of Mac?

The official podcast of the long-running Cult of Mac blog.

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