Apple Episodes

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Aug. 29, 2019

Thu. 08/29 - Apple Bends On "Right To Repair"

Apple makes nice with repair shops (and saves the date for the iPhone launch next month), an undersea cable mostly already built could be axed cause… China stuff, YouTube says it’s made progress on cleaning up its algorithm,…
Aug. 28, 2019

Wed. 08/28 - Apple Walks Back the Siri Thing

Apple walks back the Siri grading program, Peloton’s S-1 reveals an interesting company, Fitbit’s interesting new smartwatch, don’t travel if you use social media at all, and another new service enters the Google Graveyard. …
Aug. 20, 2019

Tue. 08/20 - Is Apple TV+ DOA?

Twitter suspends a bunch of China-linked accounts, is Apple TV+ dead on arrival? 23 towns in Texas are hit with ransomware, and why isn’t Alexa in your car? Sponsors: DataTribe.com/challenge PixelUnion.net BRD's Longread Abo…
Aug. 6, 2019

Tue. 08/06 - The Apple Card is Here, And It's A... Credit Card...

The Apple Card is here (for some of you), industrial cyberattacks have doubled, are Yelp and Grubhub partnering to hurt restaurants, Amazon’s scoot robots come to Southern California, 5G comes to New York City and what to ex…
Aug. 2, 2019

Fri. 08/02 - Stop Listening To Me, Siri!

Google and Apple suspend their programs where humans listen in on what you say to your voice assistant, Google will let Android users in Europe pick a search engine, Verizon tortures the very definition of words, Amazon dash…
July 31, 2019

Wed. 07/31 - Apple: What, Me Worry?

Apple isn’t selling as many iPhones, but they want you to know that that’s just fine. Samsung isn’t selling as many high end smartphones as they’d like, but seemingly no one is. There’s a new Galaxy Tab, Facebook hasn’t give…
July 9, 2019

Tue. 07/09 - Apple Culls The MacBook Herd

Apple culls the MacBook herd, YouTube returns to FireTV, a weird zero day exploit in Zoom’s video conferencing app, Elon Musk shakes up his autopilot team, and Stranger Things 3 breaks records for Netflix. Sponsors: SVB.com…
July 5, 2019

Fri. 07/05 - Apple Waves the White Flag on Keyboards?

A Superhuman mea culpa, no mea culpa but Apple might be ready to tacitly admit the butterfly keyboards were a mistake, inside Walmart’s turf battles over ecommerce, HQ Trivia lays off staff, and the weekend longreads suggest…
July 1, 2019

Mon. 07/01 - Was Jony Ive Burned Out AT Apple or BY Apple?

Was Jony Ive burned out at Apple or was he burned out BY Apple? Again, Roku as the quiet mega-player in the streaming wars, how TikTok is spending its way to ubiquity (on the backs of those it wants to supplant) and how tech…
June 28, 2019

Fri. 06/28 - Jony Ive Leaves Apple

Jony Ive is leaving Apple, health tech is having its first big IPO, Amazon looks like it is finally ready to kill UPS, I’ve got issues with Google’s new reCAPTCHA’s and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: WeWorkRem…
June 26, 2019

Wed. 06/26 - Apple Acquires Drive.ai

Apple buys Drive.ai, the days of the phone notch might be numbered, the first solar powered electric car, fighting over the streaming rights for The Office, and why streaming music hasn’t been kind to classical music. Sponso…
June 17, 2019

Mon. 06/17 – The 5G iPhones Might Be Both Bigger and Smaller

The 5G iPhones might be both bigger and smaller, both Huawei and the chip industry prepare for tough times, Genius says it caught Google red-handed, is the US making a big 5G mistake and what exactly is farming-as-a-service?…
June 8, 2019

WWDC Debrief With John Voorhees of MacStories

Does what is says on the tin. John Voorhees helps us sum up WWDC, get act dev reaction from the floor of the conference, and pick up some of the stray threads we missed from Apple's biggest week of the year. Sponsors: Capter…
Guest: John Voorhees
June 4, 2019

Tue. 06/04 - What's The Problem With Sign In with Apple?

It looks like Washington is serious about going after Big Tech in a big way, Firefox blocks cookies, why are developers trepidatious about that Sign In with Apple scheme, and why it’s time we really need to talk about the Yo…
June 3, 2019

06/03 - All the WWDC News

All the news and headlines from WWDC, the anti-trust brigade might be coming for Google in the US, a big chip acquisition, big news on the payments front, and a dispatch from the frontlines of the streaming wars… but, c’mon,…