April 10, 2019

Essential Apple Podcast 131: It was a quiet week... & then it wasn't!

1 hour 34 minutes

Recorded 7th April 2019

This week was a bit slim on Apple news, or at least until the last minute... Then all of a sudden there were quite a few stories including MagSafe, an ML/AI hire, iTunes rumours and Apple ads on YouTube. Anyway to discuss all of these and whatever else we turn up along the way I am joined by Nick “Spligosh” Riley and original EAP host Mark Chappell.

Also I have to give a big shout out to all the slackers who put in stories - I don't always thank them but every week members post possiible stories into the slack, and without them I would never find some of the great things they turn up. Thanks to all of them.

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On this week’s show:

MARK CHAPPELL

@oceanspeed on Twitter and sometimes puts Essential Apple related stuff on YouTube

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.

Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple

APPLE

Sonnet eGFX Radeon RX 560 Breakaway Puck hits Apple Store, but you don't have to wait – AppleInsider

Apple hires Google AI expert Ian Goodfellow to direct machine learning – VentureBeat

Apple is exploring an updated version of MagSafe, one of its best charging inventions ever – Business Insider

Apple's Ad About a Scrappy Group of Coworkers Is Honestly Better Than Most Sitcoms - AdWeek

Actual video – YouTube

This one is good too - “Homework” – YouTube

Nexflix Removing AirPlay Support is a Strange and Somewhat Consumer Hostile Move – iPad Insight

Rumor: macOS 10.15 may see iTunes broken up into multiple apps – Apple World Today

We tend not to get into “rumours” too much but this is Steve Troughton-Smith we're hearing from here...

TECHNOLOGY

Bad Apple Demo on lots of hardware on YouTube as mentioned by Mark

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Cloudflare announces Warp: a new free VPN service for iOS – 9to5Mac

Understanding Outline – Google’s new DIY VPN service – VPN Pro

Browser choice screen for Android must offer real alternatives – Cliqz

This is an interesting look at the dependencies of browsers etc (based on Android, so hence no Safari etc) but interesting none the less)

Russia blocks encrypted mail service provider ProtonMail – DataBreaches.net

These Chinese sanitation workers have to wear location-tracking bracelets now – The Verge

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

LuLu - the open source Little Snitch “lite” – Objective-See

The paid for Little Snitch is far more comprehensive though – Objective Development

Privacy Pro SmartVPN by Disconnect

JUST A SNIPPET

For things that are not worth more than a flypast

* Apple patents system to help self-driving cars correct slipping tires – Motor Authority

Nemo’s Hardware Store (1:02:46)

iRig Micro Amp – $150 US Direct. Available on Amazon US for $152 US - Not in the UK store at time of writing.

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ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing!

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