AI, desks, and January to June 2025 in review on the AppleInsider Podcast

It's been a busy year for Apple and alongisde this week's news, it's time to look at just what happened when -- from Apple Intelligence woes to brand new devices.
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Links from the Show:
• Apple's AI team is bigger than reported & strategy reinforced with latest restructure (appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/23/apples-ai-t…)
• iPad Pro & Nintendo Switch 2 are perfect companions with a portable dock (appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/23/ipad-pro-ni…)
• iPhone Fold crease-free screen glass may not be ready yet (appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/22/iphone-fold…)
• Inside Final Cut Pro — How Apple abandoned Hollywood (appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/19/inside-fina…)
JANUARY TO JUNE
January
• Apple fails to make its 2024 CarPlay promise (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/01/next-genera…)
• Unreliable leakers agree on unlikely 'iPhone 16E' name (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/01/unreliable-…)
• Apple agrees to $95M settlement to end Siri recordings ... (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/02/apple-agree…)
• Apple again dominates CES without even showing up (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/06/apple-again…)
• Dell rebrand shamelessly rips off Pro iPhone marketing (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/07/start-your-…)
• Indonesia welcomes Huawei but wants still more from Apple (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/07/indonesia-w…)
• Apple employees fired over charity donation matching fraud (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/08/apple-emplo…)
• Twenty years of the Mac mini, the little Mac that could (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/10/twenty-year…)
• OK Go creates manual visual effects with 64 iPhones (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/17/ok-go-creat…)
• Apple has more than 2.35 billion active devices, up 550 million since 2022 (appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/30/apple-has-m…)
February
• AppleCare+ moves to subscription-only model (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• 'Doom' can even run on Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Rumored Apple Invites app is now live on the App Store (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Lufthansa now embraces AirTags, since it couldn't ban them (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on users worldwide (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Apple Sports app adds Nascar support just in time for ... (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Apple now lets you migrate Apple Account purchases (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Indonesia wins as Apple considers manufacturing iPhone ... (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Indonesia set to lift five-month iPhone 16 ban (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• Tim Cook's tweet hints at new name for iPhone SE 4 (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
• iPhone 16e replaces iPhone SE, iPhone 14, and ... (google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&a…)
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