May 17, 2019

Essential Apple Podcast 135: A Pragmatic Approach to a Lack of News (Part One)

1 hour 26 minutes

Recorded 12th May 2019

Alright – it is late again, mea culpa! However in my defence this show took quite a lot of creative editing as I split it in to two parts. This week stories were a bit thin on the ground (as so often happens in the lead up to WWDC). However I was joined by John Chidgey of Bubblesort and The Engineered Network (home of Pragmatic, Analytical, and more) and we had a good old chat about a variety of technology topics. Actually we recorded so much material that I have split the show into two episodes...

So here is “Part One” and “Part Two” will follow as the next edition of the show. The power of “post” has allowed me to make it sound like this was how it was intended; but I can promise you that isn't how it happened at all!

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On this week’s show:

JOHN CHIDGEY

@johnchidgey on Twitter

@[email protected] on the Fediverse

One of the Bubblesort Podcast members

Head of The Engineered Network home of podcasts such as Causality and Pragmatic and more

APPLE

Moving Apple's assembly out of China to avoid tariffs will take 'multiple years,' analyst warns - AppleInsider

Apple shares new 'Inside Joke' ad promoting iMessage encryption – The Apple Post

Tim Cook Talks Digital Wellbeing, Apple’s Focus Privacy In New Interview – Redmond Pie

Simon and John talk about the “Right to Repair” – Fortune

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