MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

This Week's Stories

• Apple 2019 September Event Preview
• Apple Cards for everyone!
• What's next for the Apple Watch?
• Apple TV Dongle coming in September?
• Apple TV+ pricing and content
• Apple Arcade preview
• HomePod / AirPod Pro?
• 16 inch MacBook Pro in September or October?
• Apple worried about Trump tariffs
• Siri is listening - and so are people at Apple
• Tim Cook shares amazing iPhone photos for World Photography Day
• Apple celebrates our national parks
• What to do if you are declined for an Apple Card
• Porche Taycan will be the only car with Apple Music

Picks of the Week:

• Andy's Pick: LightPix Labs FlashQ Q20II
• Rene's Pick: Little King Goods
• Lory's Pick: Poke Ball AirPods case

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

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This Week's Stories:

• Apple at Black Hat / Def Con
• Apple locks battery health for 3rd-party repairs
• Apple Card Review
• If you have an Apple Card, make sure you don't lose your iPhone
• What makes the iPhone 11 Pro "Pro"?
• iPad Pro with 3-lens camera coming in October
• Apple working on gaze tracking for AR
• iPhone gesture control possibilities
• Apple partners with ethical gold miners
• Student ID on iPhones coming to more colleges

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: Domke Protective Wraps
• Rene's Pick: LG UltraFine 5K Display
• Lory's Pick: AirSnap for AirPods in twill

Hosts: Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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This Week's Stories
• Apple Card starts rolling out
• Apple Q3 Earnings
• Apple spends big on R&D
• Apple stops talking about AR, starts talking about tariffs
• 16" MacBook Pro will have up to 8 cores
• Apple patents FaceID on Macs
• TouchID coming back to iPhone in 2021?
• FileMaker changes name back to Claris

Picks of the Week:
• Leo's Pick: Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator
• Andy's Pick: Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski
• Rene's Pick: Samsung X5 portable SDD
• Lory's Pick: Journey for iOS
• Alex's Pick: AudioKit Pro

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

Guest: Alex Lindsay

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• Apple buys Intel's modem business for $1B
• Xbox Creator, VR/AR expert joins Apple
• Siri listens to you. Duh.
• 16" MacBook Pro with improved keyboard coming this fall, new iPads as well
• Your iPhone is not as private as you think
• Google finds six security flaws in iOS
• Apple Fiscal Q3 Results, Q4 Forecast
• Could Apple make products in the USA?
• Where is the Apple Card?
• iPadOS beta fits more icons on screen
• Apple Stores launch [AR]T augmented reality walks
• Jony Ive trademarks Lovefrom Jony
• Huawei, reeling from trade war, only sells 31% more phones in China

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

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This Week's Stories

• Apple in talks to acquire Intel's modem business in a $1B deal
• iOS 12.4 is here, along with watchOS 5.3 and tvOS 12.4
• Third update to the Catalina public beta! And iOS 13 public beta 3!
• Latest iOS beta fixes really bad password bug
• Is Catalina going to be too "safe" for our own good?
• MacRumors gets its hands on a complete collection of "dummy" 2019 iPhones
• 2020 A14 and A14X CPUs will be 5 nm?
• 2020 iPhones will have ProMotion 120Hz displays and laser beams?
• Bloomberg profiles Apple SVP Jeff Williams and dubs him Tim Cook's heir apparent
• Sales of the gold Apple Watch were really, really bad
• Group discussion: HOW AWESOME WAS THE COMICON "PICARD" TEASER TRAILER?!?!?!

Picks of the Week

• Lory's Pick: Satechi Dual Smart Outlet
• Doc's Pick: Lit Solar PowerBank
• Andy's Pick: ZMI USB PD Backup Battery & Hub
• Rene's Pick: How Many Batteries Does It Take To Power A Desert Island?

Hosts: Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

Guest: Doc Rock

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This Week's Stories
• Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dragged to Capitol Hill
• Apple fixes Zoom vulnerability (again)
• Is Apple giving up on AR glasses?
• 2019 MacBook Air SSD slowdown
• Apple disables Watch Walkie Talkie function for fix
• Apple TV ramping up
• Apple Card coming any minute
• Hong Kong protesters use Apple AirDrop
• OurPact is back

Picks of the Week
• Andy's Pick: Default Folder X
• Dave's Pick: AppTamer
• Lory's Pick: Midsommar

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Lory Gil

Guest: Dave Hamilton

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This Week's Stories
• Apple kills MacBook, updates MacBook Air and Pro
• Improved keyboard coming with 16-Inch MacBook Pro
• Apple drops Mac storage prices
• 10.2 Inch iPad coming this month?
• The App Store turns 11
• Apple re-releases Texas Hold'em app
• FaceTime will fake eye contact
• Students get 6 months of free Apple Music, free Beats headphones, $100 off MacBook Air
• Huawei wants to be as private as Apple
• Xiaomi "Mimoji" obviously rips off Apple's Memoji
• Bill Gates admits he wasn't as good of a wizard as Steve Jobs
• Apple congratulates US Womens World Cup Soccer Team
• Original Apple 1 operation manual can be yours for only $10,000
• Zoom vulnerability lets others spy on your webcam, secretly reinstalls Zoom

Tips and Picks
• Leo's Pick: Anker PowerPort Atom PD 1 and 2 with gallium nitride
• Andy's Tip: Take a break between tasks
• Rene's Pick: Nike (Yes! Nike!) Air Shoes
• Lory's Pick: mophie Powerstation Hub

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

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• Jony Ive Leaves Apple
• Tim Cook vs The Wall Street Journal
• Jony Ive and Apple's Greatest Design Mistakes
• What We Want from Jony Ive's Design Studio
• Hopes for the Post-Ive Era
• Apple Moves Mac Pro Production from Texas to China
• MacBook Air Logic Board Failures
• OpenID Foundation Wants Apple to Fix Sign In with Apple
• Apple Kills Back to My Mac
• Six Kinds of Malware Hit Mac in June
• The iPhone Turns 12
• iPhone 11 will look just like the Pixel 4
• Apple News+ is Failing Publishers
• Apple TV Will Not Be Netflix
• 60 Million Apple Music Subscribers

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

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* Apple's latest OS beta has been released
* The iPad and improved productivity
* SideCar turns your iPad into a second screen
* Alex's thought on the MacPro
* Apple is considering moving a percentage of production out of China
* Apple is partnering with Best Buy
* Guess who is the 4th largest gaming company in the world?
* Apple has 47% share in the premium smartphone market
* More details on the Apple credit card
* Now you can use your iPhone to sync your Apple TV
* Hackers use macOS Gatekeeper to exploit adware company
* New features for the Apple watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Lory Gil

Guest: Alex Lindsay

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• Genius catches Google 'red-handed'
• New MacBooks on the way!
• Where's the 16" MacBook?
• 5G iPhones coming in 2020
• Apple stores redesigned to make shopping easier
• Foxconn could make all US iPhones outside Canada
• Why are people buying the Mac Pro?
• Cellebrite can unlock any iPhone
• iOS 13 hidden features
• Apple TV gets picture-in-picture, loses Bad Robot
• Tim Cook talks privacy at Stanford
• Twitter uses Project Catalyst to return to macOS

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

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