The Rebound

The Rebound

A technology-ish podcast from Apple geeks Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Lex Friedman.

Episodes

June 18, 2025 48 mins

We discuss other, weirder phones, iCloud storage tears and Dan's beta experiences.

Please enjoy a CAT-branded flip phone.

Apple finally lets developers use promo codes.

Tim Cook and Brad Pitt showed up at Apple’s 5th Avenue store to promote “F1, The Movie”.

Apple’s new transcription system is apparently really good.

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Lex has the big news then, if we have time, we'll talk about WWDC and whether or not Apple's funny.

Dan talks about Liquid Glass.

Apple updated all the operating systems.

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June 4, 2025 56 mins

Car insurance, WWDC angst and which of us is on the take with Apple.

Apple will not be at The Talk Show Live this year.

WWDC 2025 is a "Sleek Peek".

The next macOS will reportedly be named "Tahoe".

Laurene Powell Jobs did an interview alongside Jony Ive.

Our thinks to P, a different kind of water app. Just tap a button when you pee. That's it! It’s a free download, so try it today and see how great you feel after just a week. A...

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May 28, 2025 51 mins

Lex’s kid gets a phone, Jony Ive gets $6.5 billion and Apple is back on the smart glasses project.

Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff because Tim Cook won’t travel with him.

Jony Ive’s io gets acquired by OpenAI.

The next big thing is apparently a lanyard.

Ive doesn’t think much of Humane and Rabbit.

Jason has some thoughts about it all.

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AI makes up summer activities, Siri is a four-letter word and there is such a thing as a free lunch.

Oops, we made up a bunch of things that don’t exist and then published them in newspapers.

404 Media tracked down the person responsible.

Mark Gurman discusses Apple’s AI woes.

Google’s new AI can now make actual words so that’s great.

No one wants to buy expensive art in this economy.

Fortnite is using an AI version of Jame...

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May 14, 2025 51 mins

We discuss Dan's appearance on Jeopardy and Apple's accessibility nutrion labels before going to a famous arcade place we can't tell you the name of.

Apple teases it's upcoming accessibility nutrition labels.

Get ready to control iOS with your brain.

Dampersand that damn Dave & Buster's bug!

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This week we weigh in on the ruling against Apple's anti-steering policy, how that's changed some apps you might use and what all the good sandwiches are.

So, yeah, a judge has ruled against Apple's anti-steering policy.

Amazon has since added a "get book" button.

Want to get a good sandwich in New Jersey?

Star Wars is coming to Destiny 2.

The place Moltz gets Watch bands that he couldn’t remember the name of is Clockwork Syner...

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Dan has feelings, Moltz hasn't been able to pre-order and Lex screws up Duolingo.

The EU fines Apple 500 million Euros.

Good news! The rich are a trillion bucks richer!

Duolingo goes AI-first.

Nilay Patel argues Amazon now has to show the amount Trump tariffs have increased prices.

Tom Paris doesn’t like big screens in cars.

Land Rover brings CarPlay to 15-year-old Range Rovers.

Perplexity plagiarized a story about Perplexity.

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Synology and Sonos disappoint, Apple Intelligence is no longer available now and an iPhone 17e seems to be in the cards.

Apple removes "available now" from Apple Intelligence.

Looks like there will be an iPhone 17e.

Synology says you can only use certain drives they support in future products.

The Sonos CEO stepped down in January to the tune of $1.9 million.

You can pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2 starting tonight. Paul R...

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April 16, 2025 51 mins

The oldest thing in instant cameras, iPadOS 19 will cure what ails ya and, sure, we'll talk about tariffs for a second.

Babe, wake up, the new Polaroid just dropped.

Ken Griffey Jr. is now a professional photographer.

Comcast cares… about locking you into a long-term deal.

iPadOS 19 will certainly fix everything.

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April 9, 2025 54 mins

Trump's tariffs, planes full of iPhones and kings of Denmark and Norway.

Apple is reportedly flying planes full of iPhones to the U.S. to get ahead of Trump's tariffs.

More purported details of iOS 19.

Numbers got some new functions.

Trump increased the tariff on China… because reasons.

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We talk about Apple's OS updates, AI and April Fool's Day pranks.

Apple's AI isn't the disappointment, AI is the disappointment.

The industry chasing AI is a failure of imagination.

Jason Snell can't stand Netflix's ad tier.

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March 26, 2025 53 mins

What to expect at WWDC, the horrible state of printing and getting rid of furniture.

Please take our survey! Really!

The dates for WWDC 2025 have been announced.

Apple could have done a lot more to nurture good will with developers.

Lex placed an ad on Daring Fireball.

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March 19, 2025 47 mins

We discuss our preferred toilet paper placement, the delay of enhanced Siri and the general state of things at Apple.

John Gruber says Something is Rotten in Cupertino.

Tim Cook did apologize for Apple Maps.

The Pebble is back, baby!

Pedro Pascal’s Apple ad would be great in another Apple era.

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March 12, 2025 46 mins

How many Macs does Moltz own and will Lex make it through the ad read without passing out?

The new Macs arrive this week and Jason has a look at the new MacBook Air and Mac Studio.

Mark Gurman says Apple's next OS releases will feature a big design change.

John Gruber continues to needle Gurman.

Moltz loves the song "Expert In A Dying Field" by The Beths.

Check out Adam Selby’s gorgeous “Severance” merch.

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March 5, 2025 47 mins

Moltz is back, Lex gets angry and Dan is Slovenia-curious.

There are new iPads. (And other things but we recorded yesterday.)

Apple has won a lawsuit about iCloud storage.

Apple is challenging the (alleged) UK encryption order.

Apple’s C1 modem is actually pretty good.

Lex fears fan death.

We don’t want this guy becoming pope because he’d have to change his name.

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February 25, 2025 58 mins

Dan likes the Dekopon orange. Lex likes Pink Lady apples. We also talk about technology.

Apple's investing in a new server farm in Texas. But it might not actually be new

This week would have been Steve Jobs's 70th birthday. Would he still be Apple's CEO if he were still alive?

We feel for anyone who bought the Humane AI Pin. We wonder who will buy Rabbit.

And we still have thoughts about the iPhone 16e and Apple Intell...

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February 19, 2025 58 mins

Dan predicts today's iPhone will definitely not be named the 16e, Moltz continues to play around with old hardware (wink) and Lex loves him some John Gruber.

We were wrong! Again. It is the iPhone 16e.

John Gruber goes deep on renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Moltz still has a Griffin PowerWave. And it works.

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February 12, 2025 51 mins

Moltz welcomes the robot apocalypse, Dan flips off the UK government and Lex is still talking about the Super Bowl.

Apple demoed an adorable lamp robot.

How about that scorebug?

iOS 18.4 is coming with new features.

Apple is not going to integrate with DeepSeek.

Elon Musk offers to buy OpenAI. Sure.

Tim Cook was partying it up in New Orleans.

Lex found this bit of standup amusing.

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February 5, 2025 45 mins

We have complaints about Invites, among other things.

Apple launches Invites, somewhat rockily.

Congrats on your porn app, EU.

Tapestry is now out.

Is Tapbots considering doing a BlueSky app?

John Gruber points out an open source sharing protocol.

We are slightly intrigued by the Trmnl.

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