New Mac mini & MacBook Pro, new HomePod features, iOS 17 Wishlist

AppleInsider takes a brief trip to London where William Gallagher got to meet the "Slow Horses" team from Apple TV+, and brings back tales of the gorgeous Apple Brompton Road store.

Meanwhile, the brand new MacBook Pro models and especially that lower cost new M2 Mac mini are proving to be very attractive buys. You probably don't need an M2 Mac mini if you have the previous M1 version, but based on the first reviews, you will want one.

While not everyone pops over to London, and not everyone has bought the new Macs, what everyone did get this week was a slew of updates including iOS 16.3. It's one of those releases where there are significant improvements, but most are not immediately visible, so Stephen Robles explains what's really new.

That includes how iOS 16.3 also includes updates for the HomePod and HomePod mini. More than two years after the HomePod mini shipped, Apple has now enabled the temperature and humidity sensor that has always been in it.

Listen for what you can now do with that — and for what Stephen, William, and listeners truly hope will come in iOS 17.

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Links from the show

• Inside Apple Brompton Road: A gorgeous slice of calm in London
• Apple Stores in Remote Locales - Basic Apple Guy
• iOS 17 Wishlist - Tweet
• Five best security keys for iOS 16.3
• iOS 16.3 now available with support for new HomePod, security keys
• Apple's iPadOS 16.3 is out with support for security keys
• About Security Keys for Apple ID - Apple Support
• Apple gearing up to re-release revamped HomeKit architecture
• HomePod software version 16.3 is here alongside tvOS 16.3
• M2 Pro and Max MacBook Pro review roundup: Impressive spec bump
• Apple Mac mini M2 Packs a Performance Punch for Under $600
• M2 Mac mini review roundup: Tiny, but mighty
• New 'Today at Apple' and video launch for Data Privacy Day
• iPhone 15 could be the first iPhone to feature Wi-Fi 6E
• New Mac Pro may not support PCI-E GPUs

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