MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

This Week's Stories:

• Movie studios releasing first-run movies direct-to-stream to fight coronavirus
• Streaming services, online concerts, and Sick Burn on the roof
• Lots of leaks and rumors, but will Apple release anything soon?
• WWDC 2020 will be online-only
• Apple is donating $Millions, hoping to help
• 7 Bay Area counties issue shelter-in-place orders
• Apple launches new Powerbeats 4 headphones - Lory has an early review
• Apple stores are closed. Here's hoping there are alternate ways to get your Apple products fixed.
• Is Tim Cook sick? Uncertainty crashes Apple stock
• Apple TV+ shows shutting down production
• Apple TV and other streaming services offering great deals on streaming entertainment
• Apple Card offers users to skip March payment
• iOS 13.4 did not come out today. What happened?
• How is Apple dealing with privacy, security, and secrecy with all its workers at home?
• Apple NOT working on an "Apple Prime" TV+Music+News bundle
• Sacre Bleu! Apple fined $1.2 billion in France
• Apple pays $454 million to patent troll VirnetX
• Patent troll tries to shut down coronavirus tests
• iPhone 9 + iPhone 12 rumor alert! bigger screens and faster processors
• Apple patents an iMac with a built-in projector

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: iBoy retro toy figure from Classicbot
• Andy's Pick 1: Joyce DiDonato streams "Werther" excerpts from her living room
• Andy's Pick 2: Free Korg and Moog apps this week
• Rene's Pick: EDITH
• Lory's Pick: Animal Crossing / Doom Eternal crossover memes

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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Stories of the Week:

• Coronavirus: Apple tells employees worldwide to work from home
• Coronavirus: Apple gives retail employees unlimited sick leave
• Coronavirus: iPhone 9 and 12 delayed
• Coronavirus: App Store rejects coronavirus apps
• Coronavirus: Irish Apple employee infected
• Coronavirus: Apple loses $100B in value in one day
• Coronavirus: Apple TV+ premieres canceled
• Coronavirus: Good news: you CAN use Clorox wipes on your iPhone.
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: iPad mouse support, new smart keyboards with trackpad
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: over-the-ear AirPod / EarPod headphones icon
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new iPhone 9 and iPad Pro with new triple-lens camera array and time-of-flight 3D sensor
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: improved Express Travel tap-to-pay. Plus: Andy Ihnatko explains how to steal free transit codes!
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new Apple TV remote with Find My Remote scream
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: AirTags Trackr competitor with user-replaceable batteries
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: HomeKit will recognize your face, Atmos soundbar
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: Apple Watch will have a tachometer, blood oxygen sensor
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: Siri voices customizable by developers
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: AliPay App, wallpaper app, kids mode, more
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: homescreen list view with Siri suggestions
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new Apple AR app codenamed "Gobi"
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new sleep tracking app, fitness app codenamed "Seymour," GymKit
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: massive improvements to Apple Pencil
• Good Apple: iPad Air 3rd generation get free repairs for screen blanking issue
• Bad Apple: Apple lets developers put ads in notifications
• Ugly Apple: ex-Apple tech support worker steals billionaires' identities, cops nab 55 stolen iPhones valued at $80k, and more in the MacBreak Police Blotter
• Apple Pay available in Mexico
• New jailbreak lets you install Android on an iPhone 7
• iPhone can do whaaaat?
• HUGE iPhone 12 leak: bigger battery, 64MP camera, and 120Hz display
• Lory Gil and Apple celebrate International Women's Day
• Apple Music, Spotify, and others sued for music industry conspiracy

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy turns 42
• Rene's Pick: Logitech Brio
• Lory's Pick: The Apple War. Max Von Sydow died on March 9th, 2020. Among his many legendary performances, Sydow starred in "The Apple War," a 1971 German film about Jean Volkswagner, a businessman who comes to Sweden to build Deutschneyland, a gigantic amusement park for German tourists. Roy Lindberg, played by Sydow, does not like the idea, and with the help of a little magic, his family starts scheming against it.
• Alex's Pick: Screen
• Leo's Pick: Subscribe to Hands-On Mac!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories

• Woz is NOT Patient Zero!
• Google has canceled I/O due to Coronavirus. Is Apple's WWDC next?
• Tim Cook addresses Coronavirus concerns in shareholder meeting
• Bad guys can't use iPhones
• How to steal malware from advanced nations
• Kuo: Apple is working on 6 mini-LED products
• Kuo: Apple is working on a 14.1" laptop
• How to set up a second screen for a Mac
• Apple tells Chinese game developers to get a license
• Plague, Inc. banned in China
• Apple must pay $25 per iPhone for battery kerfuffle
• Apple accused of using Chinese forced labor
• How to put your iPhone or iPad into DFU mode
• Your AirPods will die in 2 years
• Eero gets HomeKit support

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick 1: Notion
• Leo's Pick 2: Retroactive
• Andy's Pick: Filson Medium Rugged Field Bag
• Rene's Pick: Tot
• Lory's Pick: Binging with Babish
• Alex's Pick: Ntwrk

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories:

• JIF vs GIF: The peanut butter weighs in on the pronunciation debate of the ages
• Let's just get rid of animated GIFs and use animated PNGs instead!
• COVID-19: Apple moves production to Taiwan, stocks down, but iPad purchases up
• Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Tech Deep Dive
• Warren Buffett finally switches from flip phone to iPhone
• Apple might maybe think about letting you use Chrome on your iPhone
• Safari requires 13-month HTTPS certificates
• Apple wants you to secure your router with HomeKit, but only 3 routers use it
• Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple-designed ARM Macs coming in 2021
• COVID-19: Apple asks shareholders to follow CDC coronavirus quarantine measures
• Steve Jobs would have been 65 yesterday
• Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy and paste, dies at 74
• Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
• Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician dies at 101
• How often does your TV set off your HomePod, Echo, Cortana, and Home?
• Supreme Court: Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
• Apple will soon let you text someone your car keys
• Bob Iger resigns from Disney

Picks of the Week:

• Andy's Pick 1: Agrippina - Metropolitan Opera in HD
• Andy's Pick 2: Spend Stack
• Rene's Pick: Sachtler Flowtech 75: the world's fastest tripod legs
• Lory's Pick: Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition
• Alex's Pick: Leica BLK360 LIDAR Imaging Laser Scanner

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories

• Get a facemask you can wear without losing FaceID
• Apple warns of revenue loss due to COVID-19 coronavirus
• iPhone 9 / iPhone SE2 still on track for late March announcement?
• Is Apple launching "AirPods Pro Lite" March 31st
• Will Apple make a foldable iPhone Samsung Galaxy Z Flip competitor?
• What's the market for an inexpensive iPhone?
• Related: what are convolution kernels?
• Where will the next China competitor be? India? Malaysia?
• BlueMail sues Apple for stealing their features, gets kicked out of the App Store
• Apple: no push notifications on App Store apps, unless they are for Apple products
• Is Sign in with Apple a success?
• Rene Ritchie: what to do if you lose Pokemon Go access due to a job change
• MalwareBytes: malware threats on Mac increased exponentially last year
• Jason Snell's sixcolors.com: Malwarebytes is full of crap
• California court: Apple stores must pay employees for the time spent checking their bags for stolen merchandise
• The real reason there is no iPad Instagram app
• Apple Music Replay's new 2020 Replay playlist is still in beta
• Sonic The Hedgehog movie redesign pays off: best video game movie opening weekend haul in history

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: Lego Lunar Lander
• Rene's Pick: Cairo Throw
• Lory's Pick: Logitech StreamCam
• Alex's Pick: LumaFusion
• Alex's Pick 2: TheMcDubbys on Tik Tok

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay

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This Week's Stories:

• Taika Waititi blasts MacBook keyboard at the 2020 Oscars
• Samsung Galaxy S20 announcement - that's a lot of megapixels
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is a laptop in your pocket
• Are all premium phones going to cost $1000+ from now on?
• Is Mobile World Congress 2020 doomed? Coronavirus fears may shutter this year's show
• Foxconn closed for Coronavirus - iPhone production delays
• Apple adds universal purchase for iOS and macOS apps - buy an iPhone app, get a Mac app for free!
• macOS kernel extensions (KEXTs) out, security in
• Catalina is breaking Mac apps left and right
• Apple joins FIDO alliance
• France fines Apple 55 minutes of revenue for slowing down iPhones
• You can now find your iPhone with your Android phone
• CIA used Crypto AG to spy on the world
• Apple Watch sells more than all Swiss watches put together
• T-Mobile Sprint merger clears final hurdle

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: How to turn off Netflix Autoplay Previews
• Andy's Pick: Sony NW-A55 Walkman
• Rene's Pick: Swift Playgrounds for Mac
• Lory's Pick: Locke & Key on Netflix
• Alex's Pick: Kabaq Augmented Reality food
• Alex's Pick #2: 090 Media

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay

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This Week's Stories:

• Election tech nightmare in Iowa
• Apple's record quarter - almost 8 billion dollars a month
• 5G is still not going to work in 2020
• Apple grows in Europe and India
• 1.5 Billion Apple devices
• Don't try to trick Tim Cook
• Coronavirus hits Apple production until February 9th
• Blackberry phones are finally dead
• Russia's law against Apple
• Hamilton is coming to Disney+
• EU votes to kill Lightning plug
• Cal Tech gets 1.1 Billion from Apple and Broadcom for patent infringement
• Apple figures out how to make two-factor authentication better
• Apple TV's 'Foundation' is the largest ever production in Ireland
• LG TVs get Apple TV

Picks of the Week:

• Lory's Pick: SpellTower+
• Rene & Leo's Pick: Fantastical
• Andy's Pick: Amphetamine for MacOS
• Alex's Pick: Calvary

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories:

• Apple Quarterly Report expectations
• Could Coronavirus slow iPhone production?
• Apple TV+ still needs a hit
• Apple in talks to buy MGM
• RottenTomatoes AppleTV+ ratings
• Apple surging in India with lower-priced phones
• iPhone SE 2 coming this spring?
• iPad turns 10
• Lack of multitasking is still holding the iPad back
• iOS 13.3.1 update
• Neil Young thinks MacBook Pro audio sucks

Picks of the Week:

• Rene's Pick: DoubleTake
• Andy's Pick: rsync
• Lory's Pick: Nomad Rugged Case for AirPods Pro
• Alex's Pick: Byte

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories:

• Did Apple drop plans to fully encrypt iCloud at FBI request? Or is it more complicated?
• Why banning face recognition misses the point
• Blueberry-scented AirPods take 71% of the wireless headphone market.
• Tile, Sonos, and Pop Sockets vs Apple, Google, and Amazon in Congress.
• Tim Cook talks Augmented Reality and healthcare in Ireland.

Picks of the Week:

• Andy's Pick: DxO camera on clearance
• Rene's Pick: JibONE
• Lory's Pick: Twelve South AirSnap Pro
• Alex's Pick: Sonic Atom

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories:

• CES 2020 was the Concept Electronics Show, full of toilet paper bots and cars that will never be made.
• What will we do with computers in the future? Apple's 1988 vision.
• At CES, Apple talks privacy, encryption, and child abuse.
• Apple fights back against DOJ attempts to kill encryption.
• Apple Accessories were everywhere at CES 2020.
• Robots at CES 2020: from scary robot dogs to a real-life Terminator.
• Apple steps up their recycling efforts, working toward a fully-recycled phone.
• Rack-mounted Mac Pro now available.
• Will Apple ever ditch Intel for AMD?
• Apple's services score $1.4 Billion from Christmas - New Years.
• "Pro Mode" coming to Macs.
• The EU wants to kill Lightning ports.
• Location-based data trackers angry at Apple.
• Apple now accepting donations for Australian fire relief efforts.
• Apple offers replacements for defective battery cases.

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: How I Rip DVDs and Blu-Rays
• Andy's Pick: XLD audio converter for Mac
• Rene's Pick: Quasar Science Lights
• Lory's Pick: Brydge Pro+
• Alex's Pick: Reality Converter & 2020 - A Decade of Predictions

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay

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