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TEH 253: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

TEH 253: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

Update: 2025-10-01
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In This Episode: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers. 




This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.


(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)


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  • GR: New Apple Stuff


  • 15:20 GR/LN: Why do we suddenly need AI?

    • We don’t. But benefits outweigh the downsides

    • 17:00 Coding (old code book image below)

    • 25:00 Writing

    • 32:00 Copilot & Apple Intelligence forced on people

    • 38:00 Talk to the computer like Star Trek



  • 40:00 LN: When popular operating systems end

    • Windows 10. What “end of support” really means

    • Apple upgrades as well 45:00

    • Hardware implications

    • 54:00 Windows backup



  • 47:00 GR: should software shed old features over time? (Launchpad)



Get Off My Lawn!



  • 55:00 LN: You don’t trust OneDrive, but you trust Microsoft? You realize who controls the OS you use every day, right?


Ain’t it Cool



BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion



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TEH 253: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

TEH 253: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

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