CultCast #227 - Viking steel - a podcast by Americas favorite Apple Podcast

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This week: how Steve Jobs and the industrial design team saved Apple. Plus: the reason Jony Ive now has a chauffeur; one year with the Apple Watch; and we reveal the strange cultural phenomenon we’ve been secretly loving in an all-new What We’re Into.

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On the show this week

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Intro - Steve Jobs intros the iMac DV

https://youtu.be/ngW5qCBRwxk?t=35m24s

Is this the Apple Car????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQnfLLHyKo

Why the departure of Apple designer Daniel Coster matters

http://www.cultofmac.com/422916/why-departure-of-apple-designer-daniel-coster-matters/

A year after its launch, it’s now clear that pretty much no one needs an Apple Watch

http://qz.com/658010/a-year-after-its-launch-its-now-clear-that-pretty-much-no-one-needs-an-apple-watch/

Apple Watch shipments predicted to fall 25 percent this year