Is your iPhone about to change forever?
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of Tim Cook's resignation and the future of the iPhone under new leadership, alongside a look at the engineered nature of online trends in the music industry and Maine's data center ban.
Tim Cook resigns: what does a new Apple boss mean for your smartphone? Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down later this year, with John Ternus — a long‑time hardware leader — named as his successor. We look past the boardroom drama and asks what this means for the thing most of us hold all day: your phone. Apple’s design choices set the tone for the entire industry; when Apple shifts, everyone else tends to follow. And if the next era is led by a hardware engineer, does that point to a different kind of iPhone future — in how it looks, behaves, and what Apple chooses to prioritise (or drop)? Also this week: Geese — psyop or marketing? A band called Geese seemed to come out of nowhere - and now they’re playing Coachella. But alongside their rise, a bigger question has caught fire: how much of what we think is “organic” online is actually engineered? A WIRED report digs into “trend simulation”: networks of accounts, seeded clips and manufactured discourse designed to push an artist up the algorithmic ladder. None of this is entirely new - the music industry has always shaped what we hear - but the machinery is now quieter, faster, and harder to spot. And that changes the emotional…
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