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We begin our second year of The MacNN Podcast by screwing up everything you knew and loved about the site (just kidding, it's a site redesign, please don't freak out). We talk about the whys and solicit thoughtful feedback, we talk about some milestones reached by Apple Pay, move on to a couple of new repair issues, and then discuss general tech world items, like the Seagate HD lawsuit and the possibility of Amazon opening bookstores. All that plus App of the Week on our anniversary edition!

Neither William Gallagher nor Malcolm Owen would describe themselves as corporate types or even really what you might call intense businessmen. Consequently they're not sure that you should listen very closely to their news or observations about big business this week but there is also Billy Mays, and there is Steve Jobs.

This is a treat of a find. When you've got a major motion picture budget, you can do some research and the makers of the film Steve Jobs uncovered VHS videos that were believed lost. VHS videos of Steve Jobs revealing the NeXT computer, and we talk about it.

Neither William Gallagher nor Malcolm Owen would describe themselves as corporate types or even really what you might call intense businessmen. Consequently they're not sure that you should listen very closely to their news or observations about big business this week but there is also Billy Mays, and there is Steve Jobs.

This is a treat of a find. When you've got a major motion picture budget, you can do some research and the makers of the film Steve Jobs uncovered VHS videos that were believed lost. VHS videos of Steve Jobs revealing the NeXT computer, and we talk about it.

This week, we welcome back Managing Editor Mike, freshly dug out of the snow, and live in the virtual studio, One More Thing's William Gallagher. We talk of course about Apple's somewhat-mixed fiscal Q1 (good results this time, bad news on the horizon), the continued decline of the iPad, rumors of a new iPad Air 3 (along with the "iPhone 5se"), the many new features and columns we're doing, and the new Filemaker Pro tutorial project in particular, and of course our App of the Week (this time, live!). Another fun hour of jokey nerdy jiggery-pokery. Give us a listen!

This week, we welcome back Managing Editor Mike, freshly dug out of the snow, and live in the virtual studio, One More Thing's William Gallagher. We talk of course about Apple's somewhat-mixed fiscal Q1 (good results this time, bad news on the horizon), the continued decline of the iPad, rumors of a new iPad Air 3 (along with the "iPhone 5se"), the many new features and columns we're doing, and the new Filemaker Pro tutorial project in particular, and of course our App of the Week (this time, live!). Another fun hour of jokey nerdy jiggery-pokery. Give us a listen!

Is Tim Cook happy? If you listen to analysts and financial experts then no, as Apple is doomed, but in One More Thing's simple, homespun way, we think he might be. There is the small matter of Apple making some excellent products that we all love: it's got to be nice being the ones to make them. Then there's also the tiny matter of the extraordinary amount of profit and the sheer number of iPhones that have been sold since you started reading this.

Is Tim Cook happy? If you listen to analysts and financial experts then no, as Apple is doomed, but in One More Thing's simple, homespun way, we think he might be. There is the small matter of Apple making some excellent products that we all love: it's got to be nice being the ones to make them. Then there's also the tiny matter of the extraordinary amount of profit and the sheer number of iPhones that have been sold since you started reading this.

This week, we welcome special guest Terry Jarrell of MaxYourMacs.com and Udemy, where he is an instructor for webinars that teach you how to, well, max your use of your Macs! We talk about a great free offer from Udemy for MacNN readers, security backdoors and how stupid it is to legislate them, Google paying Apple a cool billion (or more) a year, the now-biweekly flood of betas from Apple, the latest rumors on a scale of "dumb" to "maybe," and of course William's App of the Week, which is Netflix. He's officially the last person on the planet to get it.

This week, we welcome special guest Terry Jarrell of MaxYourMacs.com and Udemy, where he is an instructor for webinars that teach you how to, well, max your use of your Macs! We talk about a great free offer from Udemy for MacNN readers, security backdoors and how stupid it is to legislate them, Google paying Apple a cool billion (or more) a year, the now-biweekly flood of betas from Apple, the latest rumors on a scale of "dumb" to "maybe," and of course William's App of the Week, which is Netflix. He's officially the last person on the planet to get it.

Forget editor Charles Martin, forget managing editor Mike Wuerthele, he's back: Malcolm Owen returns to One More Thing with a song in his heart – and a bugbear on his mind. It's to do with his enforced month-long absence and you'll hear about that in the Thingies of the Week which for once gets a bit political and a bit musical. It's complicated.