Home Hub, iPhone 18 Pro cameras, and Meta VR on the AppleInsider Podcast

Wesley Hilliard (0:03)

Hello, and welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. I'm your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking, and I'm joined once again by William Gallagher. Our sponsor this week is Origin Technology. And if you don't want to hear about sponsors, you can stick around for Apple Insider Plus. If you're a paid member, you can get that through Apple Podcasts or through Patreon.

Apple is working on adding a video feature for our premium edition of the show. So wait on that, it's coming soon. But if you want the video edition now, Patreon is the way to go. But soon podcast subscribers will get it. We actually had a question later in the show I wanna bring up here about how to get the premium edition of the show. When you subscribe, it should just automatically populate you into that feed in Apple Podcasts. Obviously Patreon is a separate website.

So let us know, email us directly if you're still having trouble getting the feed. But that should all be working automatically. Maybe there is some issue on Apple's end, but that should just automatically populate. Anyway, today's topic is going to be on Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Apple Health. I did a review and I wanna dive a little bit deeper into what I'm dealing with the new health app that has not released to the public just yet. So William, how are you today?

William Gallagher (1:22)

Well, actually, you just put something in my head there. Sorry, the thing about the premium version of getting it, if you pay an extra tier, we'll come round to your house and do it live kind of thing. And that extra tier just involves tea.

But actually, otherwise, you called me William then. That's very nice. But would you mind please calling me Mr. Gallagher for the next couple of months? I am now a Royal Television Society Award nominee. And on December the 2nd, that's when I find out I haven't won. But until then, Lord Gallagher, if you wouldn't mind, anything like that would be fine. Okay. I'm obviously buzzing with it. That's how I am. How are you?

Wesley Hilliard (2:01)

Good. Here, a cup of coffee getting into my system, trying to wake up at this early blistering noon, 1230, my time. But yes, very excited to dive in today.

October 13th is the William date.

William Gallagher (2:19)

Yes, is the date William.

Wesley Hilliard (2:20)

Every date.

William Gallagher (2:21)

Every date is William date, isn't it? Yes. Well, I mean, there's William hunting seasons earlier in the year, but yes, October 13th.

Wesley Hilliard (2:29)

No, October 13th, I believe that is also the day we get to start pre-order prep for the iPhone Duo, but-

William Gallagher (2:37)

I've got to say, it's a weird, weird thing, because that is exactly what Apple has said, but I did my pre-ordering stuff two weeks ago. It's like they're suddenly deciding to promote it and give it a date. I don't know what's going on there, but-

Wesley Hilliard (2:49)

You can bookmark your preferred setup, but what this is, is a step further. It's not just adding it to your cart, but it's getting approved for your loan, getting your service selected.

William Gallagher (3:02)

Right.

Wesley Hilliard (3:03)

Basically, if you do this, the only thing you have to do that Friday morning is hit purchase and you're done. You'll have already done everything else, and hopefully Apple's couple of million ready units, one of them will be arriving at my house on the 23rd. We'll see.

William Gallagher (3:20)

Right. I stopped short of that because I was still trying to decide, do I trade in or not? Do I take out the lease option? What's available to us here in the UK anyway? And all of that. So I didn't get to that stage. So, okay. But I'm ready now.

I'll get there.

Wesley Hilliard (3:36)

So October 13th also appears to be the day that Apple's going to finally announce the often-leaked Apple TV 4K update with a 20 processor, the HomePod Mini with three new colors, and the Home Hub, which is a tablet-like device that will react to users in the home, be carried through the home, and attached to various stands. We still have not seen it yet. There's been no leaks of the physical object, but we've been detailed pretty much Apple's pitch for this device. So I'm excited to finally see what it looks like in Apple's pitch for this.

William Gallagher (4:13)

Oh, definitely. It's just, I should say Apple hasn't said October 13th, at least not by the time we've recorded this. That's just now expected. But I'm ever so slightly bothered by it, because October 13th is before October 16th. Look at the quality of information you get here.