This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: An fascinating new gadget referred to as the Flexbar takes Apple’s doomed Contact Bar thought and runs with it. As a substitute of being mounted in place like on the MacBook Professional, this customizable OLED strip connects to Macs and PCs through USB-C.

It seems to be fairly cool! However can it succeed the place the Contact Bar failed?

Additionally on The CultCast:

• Nearly as stunning because the Contact Bar making a comeback: An organization discovered provide aftermarket SSDs for the Mac Studio, at way more reasonably priced costs than Apple’s upgrades. (OK, that final half’s not stunning.)
• The primary M5-powered iPad Execs reportedly will arrive within the second half of subsequent yr. And it feels like that loopy hybrid iPad/HomePod may change into a actuality in 2025, too.
• And at last, Erfon tells us all a couple of candy aftermarket CarPlay show in a brand new “Below Evaluation” section.

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The CultCast stay stream archive: The Contact Bar lives!

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This week’s prime Apple information

On the present this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac author D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).

Listed here are the headlines we’re speaking about on this week’s present:

Below Evaluation

Carpod Go T3: Erfon says the Carpod Go T3 is a handy method so as to add a wi-fi CarPlay display to your automobile. It comes with a responsive 8.9-inch, 700-nit show.