Zuckerberg takes on Apple, AI takes on Steve Jobs, and Ask Apple Developer launches - AppleInsider

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If you lone perceive to 1 podcast, perceive to this week's AppleInsider Podcast. But, if you perceive to two, you've got to cheque retired the amusement that uses AI to marque it dependable arsenic if Steve Jobs is live again.

After each the launches, pre-orders and yet shipping products we've had from Apple lately, it was a quiescent week for caller devices — but from Meta.

This week Meta launched a $1,500 VR headset and Mark Zuckerberg has chosen to support the terms by saying, well, it's cheaper than Apple's is bound to be, truthful there. He besides insists the satellite needs VR to beryllium an unfastened system, truthful he's collaborating with Windows.

Even without clicking that Play button, you tin already perceive your AppleInsider podcast hosts saying to Zuckerberg uh-huh, sure, "open" system, we judge you.

What you won't believe, contempt the top efforts of an AI company, is that determination is simply a brand-new interrogation with the deceased Steve Jobs connected a podcast. For immoderate reason, helium didn't amusement up and neither did "host" Joe Rogan - yet it sounds arsenic if it they were some there.

It does and it doesn't. But this benignant of deep-fake audio enactment raises immoderate rather scary questions for the future.

Speaking of questions, though, if you are a developer and you person one, Apple is listening. In what seems to beryllium an fantabulous experimentation to reproduce the yearly developer sessions astatine WWDC, a caller Ask Apple work has launched.

It's lone getting a abbreviated run, which does suggest it's a pilot, but it's a promising one. Developers astir the satellite volition beryllium capable to talk with Apple unit astir circumstantial coding problems, oregon possibly details of Apple's iOS APIs, and more.

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