Vector

Follow up on the Apple Watch and Apple Pay announcements. What we got right and wrong, and whether we'll be getting watches, which watches, and trusting mobile payments. Also, what fashion and commerce mean for Apple as a company, the fallout from free U2 albums, and stunned reactions to what happened at Macworld and IDG. With Dave Wiskus, Georgia Dow, Rene Ritchie, and guest Ryan Nielsen, formerly of OS X at Apple, now of Tumult and Hype.

Follow up on iCloud and security, hacking accounts, increasing your personal security, stolen nudity vs. gender-based censorship, mobile payments and trust issues. With Georgia Dow, Dave Wiksus, Rene Ritchie, and guest Nick Arnott. (Recorded before the Apple Event.)

Nude celebrity photos stolen and illegally distributed, the blame game, privacy awareness and the interface design challenge, private camera mode, the lack of facial and body language cues in Internet communications, Twitter fights, and Apple, Motorola, and making smart watches usable. With Georgia Dow, Guy English, Dave Wiskus, and Rene Ritchie.

Apple university and the state of management training, Microsoft's stack ranking and how it affected the company, Samsung and Xiaomi and the idea of legal vs. ethical vs. smart copying, the success and failures of innovation vs. imitation for companies and the economy, app design copying and what it means for designers, John Gruber's iPhone 6 math and the importance of touch target size, and native advertising in the context of podcast and RSS sponsorships. With Georgia Dow, Guy English, Dave Wiskus, Rene Ritchie, and special guest Ben Thompson.

Ferguson, social media and streaming video, diversity and opportunity in tech, expansion vs. corporate culture, and native advertising with Guy, Georgia, Rene, and special guest Serenity Caldwell.

Rene is joined by Georgia Dow, Guy English, and Dave Wiskus, to announce the end of the current season of Vector and the launch of the next. Also: Google scanning email for child porn, tinkering to learn, Apple University, fear and reinvention, yelling on Twitter.

Don Melton, former director of internet technology at Apple, talks to Rene about team building, what characteristics are most and least important, and how to get monumental tasks accomplished.

Serenity Caldwell of Macworld joins Rene to talk about ebooks, how the creation and publication process has evolved, current features and limitations, tools, workflows, and formats, iBooks vs. Amazon, and where ebooks can go from here.

Rene and Georgia Dow of ZEN&TECH talk about the CEOs of the major tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, BlackBerry, and more. Their differences in styles, approaches, and the companies they run.

Jim Dalrymple of The Loop join Rene to briefly discuss Apple + IBM and then dive into making music in the digital age, including amp modelers like Line 6 and Guitar Rig, editing software like Logic Pro X and Pro Tools, and apps like djay and Capo.