Rings around the HomePod. Crashing all the messaging apps. Another week, another set of problems. Are things worse now than ever before or has the volume simply grown with the product line? The greatest challenge Apple has ever faced is scale — and here’s how the company needs to solve for it.

Links:

• Understanding Apple at scale
• How to stop HomePod and Sonos One from leaving white rings on wood furniture

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Many of you may know Clayton Morris from his time as a technology reporter and anchor for Fox News. He retired from television at age 40 to focus on helping people build passive income through real estate investing. Rene speaks with Clayton about the iPad as his first choice computing device, and how he is transitioning from high-end broadcast production to creating his own YouTube channel.

Links:

• Clayton’s Real Estate business
• @ClaytonMorris on Twitter

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Apple is under pressure from activist groups to improve Parental Controls and combat screen addiction. But what's real, what's sensationalism, and what's an abdication of personal responsibility? Therapist, educator, and mother Georgia Dow joins me to explain!

Links:

• Apple: New parental control features are coming
• @Georgia_Dow on Twitter

VECTOR on YouTube is here — Subscribe now!

• Vector on YouTube

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Rene is joined by analyst and former Apple employee, Michael Gartenberg, to talk about Apple, AI, and HomePod in the early months of 2018.

Links:

• HomePod in the age of Artificial Intelligence
• @Gartenberg on Twitter

VECTOR on YouTube is here — Subscribe now!

• Vector on YouTube

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Turns out, our listeners have a lot of questions about HomePod. Rene is here to answer them!

Links:

• HomePod: Retina for your ears

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Apple's new smart speaker, HomePod, was designed to be the simplest and best way to listen to Apple Music and AirPlay, and control HomeKit in your house.

Links:

• HomePod: Retina for your ears

Sponsors:

• Blackblaze: Get a fully featured 15-day free trial at Backblaze.com/vector. Go there, play with it, start protecting yourself from potential bad times! Start Today!

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Rene speculates on the likelihood of Apple bringing iMessage to Android. He also answers some recent listener questions.

Links:

• Could Apple take iMessage to iCloud... and Android?

Sponsors:

• Blackblaze: Get a fully featured 15-day free trial at Backblaze.com/vector. Go there, play with it, start protecting yourself from potential bad times! Start Today!

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

They say perception is reality. It’s also highly subjective.

Links:

• I had an Apple Store experience from hell — and it's clear there are larger problems with Apple's retail presence

• Your iPhone Slowed Down. Here’s What to Do When the Solution Is Just as Slow.

Sponsors:

• Blackblaze: Get a fully featured 15-day free trial at Backblaze.com/vector. Go there, play with it, start protecting yourself from potential bad times! Start Today!

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Rene talks about rumors and outright lies that are spread to manipulate stock valuation of Apple and other companies. He also discusses Apple’s plans to prioritize performance and reliability improvements over new features in 2018.

Links:

• YouTube Video: Jim Cramer on Stock Market Manipulation

• Scoop: Apple delays iOS features to focus on reliability, performance Article by Ina Fried

Sponsors:

• Blackblaze: Get a fully featured 15-day free trial at Backblaze.com/vector. Go there, play with it, start protecting yourself from potential bad times! Start Today!

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

HomePod. It isn’t an Amazon Echo or Google Home competitor. It was never intended to be. Where AirPods were designed to be the best way to take music and audio with you, HomePod was designed to be the best way to enjoy it where you live. One yin. One yang. All that, and your questions answered.

Sponsors:

• BackBlaze: Get a fully featured 15-day free trial at Backblaze.com/vector. Go there, play with it, start protecting yourself from potential bad times! Start Today!

Links:

• Five things I want to see in HomePod 2

YouTube coming soon. Subscribe now!

• Vector on YouTube

Subscribe via:

• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Pocket Casts
• Castro
• RSS

Follow on:

• Web
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook