We sidetrack into movie land due to The Last Jedi release, but quickly return to the tech track, with Apple breaking security on HomeKit and fixing it rather quickly. And diving into security and privacy in the current day and age.

Also, Windows PC on SnapDragon chips, the iMac Pro, Jony Ive returns from this Architecture leave to design actual Apple products, and the interesting and surprising acquisition of Shazam.

 

Hosts

• Greg Morris - @GR36
• Nati Shochat - @natisho

 

Follow up

• Apple bug
• • Another showstopper of a bug
  • iOS 11.2.1 to the rescue

 

Topics

• Apple acquires Shazam
  
• • Rumored
  • Confirmed
  • Hound could be a great acquisition, adding some talent to the Siri team as well

• Jony Ive returns to manage the ID team full time
• • Alan Dye and Richard Howarth are no longer in the Management/ leadership page

• The iMac Pro arrives
• • First impressions
  • 14 & 18 cores to arrive early next year
  • A special black lightning cable for the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard
  • T2 chip is real
• The WinCom alliance
• • First computer to run on Windows 10 and Qualcomm’s SnapDragon 835 chips
  • Asus, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, Vaio, and Xiaomi will supply the hardware.
  • Beyond all-day battery life
  • Running mainly Windows 10 S
• Keyloggers in Windows. Again!