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This week the guys discuss the iPhone 7 event and the new Series 2 Apple Watch.

Did you miss the iPhone 7 event? Get the two hour event condensed down to under ten minutes here or under two minutes here.

This show happened quickly without a lot of our normal preparation so here's a couple of corrections for the episode:

• Apple has 17 million paying customers for Apple Music and Spotify has 39 million paying customers according to some sources.
• Belkin has an adapter that will allow you to charge your iPhone and listen to wired headphones simultaneously.

This week, Brad and Jim (minus Brian) discuss the week's events

• European Commission rules Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros
• Apple slates Sept. 7 for iPhone 7 introduction and the iPhone 7 Rumor Roundup
• Samsung makes waterproof phones but apparently not fireproof ones as new Note 7’s have been spontaneously combusting
• Papa John's Pizza has an Apple TV app
• Instagram is trying to differentiate its Snapchat feature
• We discuss the ESPN Fantasy Sports App
• Jim's fantasy football leagues: #propickem and Bad Mojo Pick Em

• Bloomberg reports that Apple is building a Snapchat competitor
• Pandora aims to compete with Spotify and Apple Music with two new paid tiers.
  • Dalton Caldwell's interview from 2010 in regards to music licensing - https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/imeem-founder-dalton-caldwells-must-see-talk-on-the-challenges-facing-music-startups/
• Brad bought an Amazon Echo this week and is integrating it into his home
• Google has a new OS called  “Fuchsia”
• Paragon Software, maker of NTFS for Mac and EXTFS for Mac, has made a kick-ass disk utility that’s better than Apple's
  • Review from Macworld
• macOS Sierra Code Confirms Thunderbolt 3 and 10Gb/s USB 3.1 Transfer Speeds in Future Macs
• Siri’s error rate has been cut by a factor of two by Apple’s Machine Learning
  • Siri is reportedly held back by the quality of microphones in iOS and Apple Watches
• Pinterest acquires Instapaper from Betaworks
• Twitter now has “night mode” on their official iOS app.
• Apple acquires health startup Gliimpse 

• We might be getting a Space Black iPhone for the first time ever.
  • Jim talk about his new phone case.
• Twitter might be live streaming NFL games on Apple TV
• T-Mobile has brought back the unlimited data plan but HD video is $25/mo extra, tethering is 2G speeds, 5 GB of high speed tethering is $15/mo add on. AT&T is also now throttling rather than charging overage as well.
• 256GB iPhone 7 storage rumor
  • Macrumors
  • iDownload blog
• Google reimagines FaceTime in the new Duo app
• People keep failing at Tesla Autopilot making them consider renaming the feature
  • Uber’s self-driving cars are picking up passengers in Pittsburgh with caveats
  • Ford announced this week they aiming for autonomous ride-sharing by 2021
    
• Microsoft takes a potshot at Apple over the “What’s a computer?” ad we mentioned last week
• Apple Watch 2 will get GPS but no LTE
• Jim goes to see "DJ Hodor"

• Friend of the show, @berial, updated us via Twitter that Xbox One will not be adding DVR functionality for OTA broadcasts, Jim is very disappointed.  Brian points out there’s a pricey alternative. 

• Mark Gurman, formerly of 9to5 Mac and now at Bloomberg, confirms what we already suspect about the new iPhone. 
• New Macbook Pros on the way? 
• Apple reportedly pursues a TV guide of sorts since TV producers want to watch their business erode a bit more before getting on board.
• Brian and Brad pay for Apple Music and Spotify and Jim wants to know why we do it.
  • Great article at Macstories about music curation.
• The Sweet Setup showcased a great iOS app for migrating playlists around called SongShift
• The world is losing its mind at the notion of Apple ditching the headphone port in the next iPhone … well Bluetooth headphone revenue overtook non-bluetooth for the first time in June. Have your opinions ready on bluetooth versus wired. Brian talks about his new earbuds (JLab Epic2)
• Blogger Ben Brooks talks about going iOS only with the iPad Pro and how some liken iOS only computing is analogous to using Linux on the desktop. Meanwhile Apple wants you to look at the iPad as a computer in their new ad. Jim and I have started to use iOS in the iPad Pro more and more. We discuss how that’s going and why we do it.
• Have you seen the Siri cheat sheet? It’s at hey-siri.io 

Recorded August 5, 2016 - The guys talk about Pokemon, Sling TV, securing a webcam & microphone (Cslide - http://amzn.to/2aJGYrX and Micro Snitch - https://itunes.apple.com/usapp/micro-snitch/id972028355?mt=12) , bad Apple retail experiences, iPhone rumors, iOS 10 Beta impressions, Tripmode (https://tripmode.ch) and a lot more!