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Unsurprisingly, a good chunk of this week's episode focuses on Apple's 40th anniversary, which happened last Friday ... unless they've been pranking us for the last four decades ... and a bit about our own 20th anniversary year, which wraps up this June. There's also been new developments in the fight between Apple and the DOJ and FBI to go over, new rumors about the iPhone 7 (and beyond!) to be a bit skeptical about, the return of the Bundlecult scam, the ongoing Oracle vs Google case (which has taken a new turn), the tragedy of not preparing your digital files for your -- rather than their -- end of life, the debut of the affordable Tesla 3 vehicle, and of course our usual App of the Week. All jam-packed into a info-cramming hour. Take a listen!

We can tell you right up front what Malcolm Owen would like to make his Thingy of the Week – but can't. It would be a new iPad Pro but at the moment, that's at best the Thingy of the Week for some courier company and throughout this One More Thing you're going to picture Malcolm looking out of the window for them to arrive.

We can tell you right up front what Malcolm Owen would like to make his Thingy of the Week – but can't. It would be a new iPad Pro but at the moment, that's at best the Thingy of the Week for some courier company and throughout this One More Thing you're going to picture Malcolm looking out of the window for them to arrive.

This week, Mike and Charles discuss the new products and minor (but pleasant) surprises to emerge from last week's "Loop You In" event, and the impact of the new iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro. We also ramble over how Apple tech often "blooms" rather than "hits" with stuff like CarPlay and Apple Pay, the history of OS X on it's 15th birthday and the future for the Mac, the iOS 9.3 issue with older iOS devices, the FBI blinking in their Apple fight, Intel abandoning the "tick tock" cycle of chip development, and all the latest rumors before handing it over to William Gallagher for his "App of the Week" pick, which again involves the word "Omni." A very beefy episode to make up for us skipping last week.

This week, Mike and Charles discuss the new products and minor (but pleasant) surprises to emerge from last week's "Loop You In" event, and the impact of the new iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro. We also ramble over how Apple tech often "blooms" rather than "hits" with stuff like CarPlay and Apple Pay, the history of OS X on it's 15th birthday and the future for the Mac, the iOS 9.3 issue with older iOS devices, the FBI blinking in their Apple fight, Intel abandoning the "tick tock" cycle of chip development, and all the latest rumors before handing it over to William Gallagher for his "App of the Week" pick, which again involves the word "Omni." A very beefy episode to make up for us skipping last week.

Nobody predicted that the FBI would blink at this point in their dispute with Apple. Certainly Apple didn't: it broke a habit the day before by addressing the issue at its product launch. William Gallagher and guest Charles Martin, editor of MacNN look at what happened and use some first-class hindsight to see why it probably had to happen this way, this time. They're still not buying it, though.

Nobody predicted that the FBI would blink at this point in their dispute with Apple. Certainly Apple didn't: it broke a habit the day before by addressing the issue at its product launch. William Gallagher and guest Charles Martin, editor of MacNN look at what happened and use some first-class hindsight to see why it probably had to happen this way, this time. They're still not buying it, though.

There have been countless developments in Apple vs the FBI but they're going to remain uncounted because One More Thing is declaring a week off from all that. You know where you stand, whichever side you're on, and you've heard the arguments but the case is so obvious that no one can believe everyone doesn't think the same about it. They do. They're all sick of it. So instead of focusing on this week, One More Thing zooms back and forth across time.

There have been countless developments in Apple vs the FBI but they're going to remain uncounted because One More Thing is declaring a week off from all that. You know where you stand, whichever side you're on, and you've heard the arguments but the case is so obvious that no one can believe everyone doesn't think the same about it. They do. They're all sick of it. So instead of focusing on this week, One More Thing zooms back and forth across time.

Wow, this episode runs all over the map like a five-year-old high on sugar. Somehow we manage to get from the ongoing Apple-FBI dispute to Donald of Orange, from a comparison of top smartwatches to Broadway musicals, from jailbreaking to Douglas Adams, plus you can hear Mike get all riled up and William Gallagher wax lyrical about Omniplan 3 for iOS. Something for everyone, this week, for sure.