This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: Apple pulled the plug on Undertaking Titan, its not-so-secret, decade-long effort to construct a self-driving electrical automotive. After spending a reported $10 billion on R&D, the moonshot Apple automotive mission winds up canceled — in favor of generative AI!

Let’s simply say we now have some opinions.

Additionally on The CultCast:

• Apple’s FineWoven iPhone instances don’t appear to carry up so properly. In reality, a high-profile journo says hers is “browning like a rotten banana.” What provides?
• Apple Arcade’s shifting mission means children will likely be winners (however indie devs will likely be losers).
• Ready for a second-gen Imaginative and prescient Professional that will likely be lighter, brighter and cheaper? You may need to rethink that plan.

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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 Apple car-dominated podcast: