Space Javelin

This is a short, special Space Javelin minisode created to celebrate today's 47th anniversary of the day mankind landed on the first world other than our Earth. Special correspondent Duane Sibilly takes us through this remarkable achievement in human history.

Welcome back to Space Javelin episode two, the one we *almost* called "Pokémon are GO!" This week Charles and Mike spend some time looking at the new casual gaming phenomenon from Niantic with our old buddy Michelle, tackle the latest iPhone 7 rumors (what's old is new again), celebrate the Apple Watch getting a JD Power Satisfaction award, wander off to reminisce about older iPhones, before corralling ourselves back to cover Microsoft's big win in court over foreign data servers. All this and a bit more from the new, more diverse Space Javelin! Tune in, cadets!

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast. In this one we try to set a tone for Space Javelin, including a brief explanation of the name and of course tackling some serious issues before getting into something lighter, like the latest Star Trek controversy. Mike and Charles also explore some false claims from Android manufacturers that recently got caught out, Apple's settlement with Mirror Worlds, the latest malware (mostly not) threats, our first impressions of the macOS Sierra and iOS 10 (and watchOS 3!) betas, and more. We're boldly going to infinity and beyond, so come along on our rocketship ride, won't you?

Welcome to the final episode of The MacNN Podcast -- we regret to say that the site is shutting down after 21 years, but the good news is that we will be creating a new podcast in this same space starting in mid-July, so keep your bookmarks here and an ear out for that. This last episode features a lot of reminiscing, shout-outs, thank yous, and yes -- some actual tech commentary of the sort you've previously enjoyed, including some digs at BlackBerry, Thunderbolt Display rumor believers, our last App of the Week, and a few of our favorite things. Enjoy your Canada Day or Fourth of July holiday, and we'll meet back here without our MacNN work smocks in a couple of weeks. Thanks.

So it's episode 44 and we're calling it by the now obscure journalism term for the end of a piece – 30 – but it's about Error 53 and it's about 7.1mm thin. We don't think we can cram any more numbers in this, but that's never stopped us trying. Alongside one other number, then, this One More Thing does a little number on iPhone 7 headphone rumours and a US iPhone court case. It has one politically charged Thingy of the Week from Malcolm and it has one couch-loving Thingy of the Week from William.

This week's episode is an unusual one: not only does Charles have a cold, but he and Managing Editor Mike are kind of the Oscar Madison and Felix Unger of a number of issues, and yet when it comes to the mass shooting in Orlando (which we focus on at the top of the show), we're on the same page. Around the nine-minute mark, we turn to what happened at the WWDC, and then on to a cool new use for Wallet, the ten-second iPhone "ban" in China (and the perils of bad reporting), a special report on the Developer Preview of iOS 10 from our guest Sanjiv Sathiah, and of course William Gallagher's App of the Week. Opinions! We have 'em!

You already know what was announced at this year's WWDC. True, if you didn't watch the keynote or read our analysis then there's likely to be a lot you didn't catch but overall, you know. So this week's One More Thing laboriously details everything all over again. Oh, yes. We'll read out every one of Apple's slides. That'll be good. Or we can do this instead: look at what we think mattered and what we know mattered to us. Co-hosts Malcolm Owen and William Gallagher disagree almost entirely on what was important but they've each got evidence to back their opinions up.

We're putting this up a little early because this episode may have something of a short shelf life. Charles and Mike boldly (read: foolishly) talk about what has been rumored for WWDC, and what ideas among those we like (an OLED function bar for the MacBook Pro? Yes please!) and those we're not too sure about (how the MBP crowd will react to USB-C/Thunderbolt 3) and those we're pretty sure ain't happening (iTunes dropping the selling of digital music). But there's more to life than just WWDC, so we also tackle the latest controversies (from Gawker filing for bankruptcy to the idea of a blue iPhone) and feature a first-of-its-kind App of the Week. All this and more, grab it quick before the keynote goes and spoils it all with facts and such!

Next week's Worldwide Developer Conference is not exactly Apple's first WWDC: it's actually the 33rd. In the latest MacNN One More Thing podcast, host William Gallagher takes you through the history of this event as it grew into the compelling form we know today. You'll hear the famous moments we remember, the less-famous ones Apple would have us forget, and you will step into Steve Jobs's reality distortion field.

This week, Mike and Charles (all rested up from the Memorial Day holiday) take note of new patches from Apple for the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and iTunes, explain why we don't run some of the sketchier reports and rumors, plug our new Summer Project of maxing out old Mac Pros, discuss Apple's new wireless offer for the Back to School promotion, marvel and/or drool over a 19-port Thunderbolt hub, speculate on why Tony Fadell has taken wing from Nest, report on Elon Musk's view of Google and Apple getting in on his act, move on to expressing an appreciation of how technology is still innovating wildly, and of course wrap it up with our pick for App of the Week. You just can't go wrong with this one.