AirPods Max 2 shock and disappoint, plus OpenClaw! [Cult of Mac podcast No. 12]

This week on the Cult of Mac podcast: The shock launch of AirPods Max 2 offers us lots to speak about (together with all of the issues Apple didn’t repair concerning the high-end headphones).

Plus, particular visitor Christina Warren (developer advocate at GitHub and co-host of the MacBreak Weekly podcast) joins us for a deep dive into one in every of Leander’s favourite subjects — OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that’s acquired everybody snapping up Mac minis, and the rise of agentic coding.

Additionally on the Cult of Mac podcast:

• Extra on the MacBook Neo, together with why each Mac proprietor must be thrilled that it comes with simply 8GB of unified reminiscence.
• Griffin evaluations the brand new Studio Show XDR and iPhone 17e.

Hearken to this week’s episode of the Cult of Mac podcast within the Podcasts app or your favourite podcast app. (You’ll want to subscribe and depart us a evaluation should you prefer it!) Or watch the video model, embedded under.

Cult of Mac No. 12: AirPods Max & OpenClaw

This week’s high Apple information

On the present this week: Your host, Cult of Mac Writer and Editor in Chief Leander Kahney (@lkahney), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace), Cult of Mac author D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones) and particular visitor Christina Warren (@film_girl).

Listed below are the subjects we’re speaking about on this week’s present:

Lewis Wallace is the managing editor of Cult of Mac and writer of our weekly publication, The Weekender.

He’s a San Francisco-based author and editor specializing in expertise and tradition. He loves his iPhone, hates Siri, and appreciates any {hardware} that mixes type and performance.

Previous to Cult of Mac, he juggled phrases and concepts as tradition editor at Wired.com, homepage editor at TechTV, information product supervisor at NBCi, copy editor at PC World, reporter at The (Hayward) Each day Evaluate and editor in chief of EveryBody’s Information in Cincinnati.

He earned a bachelor of normal research diploma with a journalism certificates from the College of Cincinnati. Whereas in class, he labored because the leisure editor of The Information Report and as editor in chief of Clifton Journal.

He’s additionally a bass participant, who’s recorded and carried out round the US with These Darn Accordions, The Electrical Boogie Dawgz and The Mad Maggies. When not writing, enhancing or laying down bass strains, he performs darts and serves on the board of the San Francisco Darts League.