# AI, desks, and January to June 2025 in review on the AppleInsider Podcast Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/appleinsider-podcast-546249/ai-desks-and-january-to-june-2025-in-review-on-the-appleinsider-podcast Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/appleinsider-podcast-546249/ai-desks-and-january-to-june-2025-in-review-on-the-appleinsider-podcast.md Podcast: [AppleInsider Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/appleinsider-podcast-546249) Published: 2025-12-26T09:24:20+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a0964ab6 Audio file: https://2.gum.fm/mgln.ai/e/802/op3.dev/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/a0964ab6/88cf213d.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/appleinsider-podcast-546249/episodes/ai-desks-and-january-to-june-2025-in-review-on-the-appleinsider-podcast Duration seconds: 4033 ## Resource 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. Contact your hosts: @williamgallagher_ on Threads @WGallagher on Twitter William's 58keys on YouTube William Gallagher on email Wes on Bluesky Wes Hilliard on emai l Sponsored by: MasterClass : Get 15% off annual memberships at MasterClass.com Rula : Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at rula.com/appleinsider Links from the Show: Apple's AI team is bigger than reported & strategy reinforced with latest restructure iPad Pro & Nintendo Switch 2 are perfect companions with a portable dock iPhone Fold crease-free screen glass may not be ready yet Inside Final Cut Pro β€” How Apple abandoned Hollywood JANUARY TO JUNE January Apple fails to make its 2024 CarPlay promise Unreliable leakers agree on unlikely 'iPhone 16E' name Apple agrees to $95M settlement to end Siri recordings ... Apple again dominates CES without even showing up Dell rebrand shamelessly rips off Pro iPhone marketing Indonesia welcomes Huawei but wants still more from Apple Apple employees fired over charity donation matching fraud Twenty years of the Mac mini, the little Mac that could OK Go creates manual visual effects with 64 iPhones Apple has more than 2.35 billion active devices, up 550 million since 2022 February AppleCare+ moves to subscription-only model 'Doom' can even run on Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter Rumored Apple Invites app is now live on the App Store Lufthansa now embraces AirTags, since it couldn't ban them UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on users worldwide Apple Sports app adds Nascar support just in… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/appleinsider-podcast-546249/episodes/ai-desks-and-january-to-june-2025-in-review-on-the-appleinsider-podcast/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/appleinsider-podcast-546249/ai-desks-and-january-to-june-2025-in-review-on-the-appleinsider-podcast.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.