Marco Arment's review of the 2018 Mac mini: https://marco.org/2018/11/06/mac-mini-2018-review John Gruber's review of the 2018 MacBook Air: https://daringfireball.net/2018/11/the_2018_retina_macbook_air Gruber's commentary on Dan Frakes's move to Apple: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/11/02/frakes-mac-app-store Our thanks to Legacybox (http://legacybox.com/rebound) the world's largest, most trusted, digitizer of home movies and photos. There’s never been a better time to digitally preserv...
Nov 08, 2018•48 min•Ep. 212
Apple announced new MacBook Airs and Mac minis: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/2018-macbook-air-mac-mini-hands-on/ And new iPads: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/2018-ipad-pro-hands-on/ Jason Snell's thoughts on the event: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/10/brooklyn-event-impressions-love-for-the-mac/ Our thanks to LightStream (http://lightstream.com/rebound). Consolidate your credit card debt with a LightStream loan featuring great interest rates and no fees. You could save thousands...
Nov 01, 2018•43 min•Ep. 211
John Gruber's iPhone XR review: https://daringfireball.net/2018/10/the_iphone_xr Mike Hurley's iPhone XS vs Pixel 3 photo comparison: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17861051287295881/ Apple's October 30th event invitations were unique: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/18/apple-event-new-york-city/ Tim Cook asks Bloomberg to retract its China chip spying story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-bloomberg/apple-ceo-urges-bloomberg-to-retract-spy-chip-story-idUSKCN1MT2Z8 Jason...
Oct 25, 2018•41 min•Ep. 210
Dan is curious about the new AirPlay 2 speakers from Libratone: https://www.libratone.com/us/products/#speakers Steve Troughton-Smith is making some cool Watch faces: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1051918185941913601 Yves Luther explains how you can do it: https://yves.io/blog/2018/10/what-watch-is-it Jason Snell has some thoughts about the stock Watch faces: https://www.macworld.com/article/3309450/apple-watch/why-are-apple-watch-faces-such-a-mess.html No, Moltz isn't getting the n...
Oct 18, 2018•39 min•Ep. 209
Google's Pixel 3 event announcements: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/09/google-announces-pixel-3-smartphone-home-hub-smart-speaker-and-pixel-slate-tablet/ Facebook Portal? No, thanks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/technology/2018/10/08/facebook-unveils-portal-video-chat-camera-people-who-still-trust-facebook/ Google shuts down Google+: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/08/google-plus-security-breach-wall-street-journal Microsoft discontinues Minecraft for the Apple TV: ...
Oct 11, 2018•46 min•Ep. 208
Behold the woozy face emoji: https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1047186613028225024 Anyway, we're getting some new emoji in iOS 12.1: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/02/ios-12-1-new-emoji-characters-coming/ Dan's photo with his iPhone XS: https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXMRxrlMcY/?taken-by=dmoren Remember Microsoft HoloLens? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HoloLens Microsoft did announce some stuff, even if we weren't excited about their event: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/1792...
Oct 04, 2018•35 min•Ep. 207
The one thing we're enjoying about Mojave is dynamic desktop: https://itnext.io/macos-mojave-dynamic-wallpapers-ii-f8b1e55c82f Slate looks at Apple News: https://slate.com/technology/2018/09/apple-news-media-slate-ad-sales-no-money.html Google announced then backtracked on Chrome auto sign-in: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17904762/google-chrome-sign-in-changes-feedback Amazon announced a bunch of new Echo products: https://www.pcmag.com/news/363879/amazon-announces-a-gaggle-of-new-next-gen...
Sep 28, 2018•46 min•Ep. 206
Apple updated all the wares that are soft and shipped Shortcuts for iOS. Here's the user guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios John Gruber's thoughts on the iPhone XS and the camera: https://daringfireball.net/2018/09/the_iphones_xs What went wrong with AirPower: http://sonnydickson.com/2018/09/16/what-really-happened-to-apples-airpower/ Some interesting stories in this oral history of Apple: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-infinite-loop-oral-history/ Dan and Moltz don't...
Sep 20, 2018•46 min•Ep. 205
Apple had an event where it announced some things: https://www.macstories.net/news/september-12-event-roundup-all-the-little-things/ Jason Perlow on how the Apple Watch saved his life: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-apple-watch-saved-my-life/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=24609083512952939096533141361944 The Apple Watch Series 4 has an ECG: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/12/apple-watch-ecg/ Apple has scrubbed mention of the AirPower from its site: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/12/airpower-mentioned-air...
Sep 13, 2018•44 min•Ep. 204
9to5Mac obtained pictures of the upcoming iPhones: https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/30/2018-iphone-xs-design-larger-version-gold-exclusive/ And the new Apple Watch: https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/30/2018-iphone-xs-design-larger-version-gold-exclusive/ Brent Simmons on bringing NetNewsWire home: http://inessential.com/2018/08/31/netnewswire_comes_home Our thanks to Indochino (https://www.Indochino.com) where you'll find the best made to measure shirts and suits at a great price. Use the promo code "REBOU...
Sep 06, 2018•39 min•Ep. 203
Apple will be shipping something like 86 phones this fall so analysts expect them to sell a lot of phones: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/28/2018-iphone-shipments-highest/ A shout out to Panic's Prompt: https://panic.com/prompt/ This year's iPhones may lack 3D Touch: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/27/barclays-no-3d-touch-2019-iphones/ Apple may be discontinuing the iPad mini: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/27/apple-watch-series-4-band-compatibility/ It's definitely discontinuing Back To...
Aug 30, 2018•41 min•Ep. 202
Are a "low-cost" MacBook Air and a pro Mac mini coming? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/apple-is-said-to-plan-revamped-low-cost-macs-to-reignite-sales Nvidia is releasing new cards: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/nvidia-announces-new-raytracing-focused-rtx-2080-2080-ti-graphics-cards/ Look at this crazy big eGPU: https://twitter.com/LeifJohnson/status/1029799070091493376 Guess we're on Mastodon now! James is here: http://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson Dan is: http://zep...
Aug 23, 2018•44 min•Ep. 201
Moltz will be participating in DeactiDay: https://mashable.com/2018/08/15/deactiday-twitter-protest-alex-jones/#PxWC8ypmI5qs Did you know Moltz and Lex do another podcast? It's true: https://turningthiscararound.com Apple removes Group Facetime from iOS beta: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/13/group-facetime-removed-ios-12-and-macos-mojave/ Security researchers find a way to hack the Amazon Echo: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/13/security-researchers-found-a-way-to-hack-into-the-amazon-echo/ G...
Aug 16, 2018•44 min•Ep. 200
Apple is the first company to hit a valuation of $1 trillion: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/apple-stock-1-trillion-market-cap.html Lex recalls the Encyclopedia Britannica kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpgcz6s-eI Pick o' the week is Holedown: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holedown/id1297270249?mt=8 Lex also uses Bankaroo for tracking his kids' allowances: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bankaroo-virtual-bank-for-kids/id504924470?mt=8 Ars Technica editorial on banning Alex...
Aug 09, 2018•43 min•Ep. 199
Lex likes his Eero setup (former advertiser): https://eero.com Apple fixed the issue with the 2018 MacBook Pros: http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/07/24/apple-identifies-and-fixes-thermal-bug-in-new-macbook-pro/ As we predict on this episode, Apple made a bunch of money: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/07/the-good-great-and-mac-of-apples-record-quarter/ Our thanks to Jamf Now (http://jamf.com/rebound). Jamf Now makes it easy to set up, manage and protect your Apple devices. Our listeners can start...
Aug 02, 2018•44 min•Ep. 198
We discuss the i9 and predict that news will break about it 20 minutes after the podcast is over and THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED ARE WE THE LATHE OF HEAVEN: http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/07/24/apple-identifies-and-fixes-thermal-bug-in-new-macbook-pro/ Changes are coming to Twitter and they suck: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2018/07/push-nope-ifications/ Maybe you should switch to Orkut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut Or eWorld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld No Man's Sky is now out...
Jul 26, 2018•45 min•Ep. 197
PRIME DAY!!! had some troubles: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/prime-down-amazons-sale-day-turns-into-fail-day/ Apple updated the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/07/apple-updates-the-macbook-pro-in-big-and-small-ways/ Check out deeez bezels: https://twitter.com/VenyaGeskin1/status/1019123637939556352 What is this? Glass for gorillas?! https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/18/corning-debuts-gorilla-glass-6/ Mojave removes sub-pixel anti-aliasing: https://daringfireball....
Jul 19, 2018•42 min•Ep. 196
AgileBits denies Apple is in talks to acquire the maker of 1Password: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-deployment-acquisition-talks/ Apple is rumored to be shipping new iPhone colors in the fall: https://gizmodo.com/apple-rumored-to-make-iphones-colorful-again-1827359956 Security researchers claim to have found a way around USB Restricted Mode: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/10/usb-restricted-mode-vulnerability-discovered/ Your smart TV may be figuring out what you're watc...
Jul 12, 2018•45 min•Ep. 195
Apple is switching to its own base maps for Apple Maps: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/ FaceID may be coming to the iPad: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/03/ios-12-hints-at-upcoming-ipad-with-face-id/ Some third party email apps are reading your Gmail: https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-dirty-secret-the-app-developers-sifting-through-your-gmail-1530544442 Rumored USB-C iPhone charger: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/02/apple-18w-usb-c-charger-ph...
Jul 05, 2018•37 min•Ep. 194
Public betas are out! iOS 12: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/06/ios-12-public-beta-is-out-for-all/ macOS Mojave: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/06/mojave-beta/ Apple announced MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboard service program: https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-macbook-and-macbook-pro/ We are reminded of the cracking white MacBook case: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-fixing-cracks-in-white-plastic-macbooks/ Dan is selling "The Caledonian Gambit" shirts! http://dmoren.co...
Jun 28, 2018•43 min•Ep. 193
Rogue Amoeba's Quentin Carnicelli on the state of Mac hardware: https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/ John Gruber on adding a trackpad to the iPad: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/13/ipad-trackpad-idea Lawsuit against Apple over developers' cut of App Store revenue goes to Supreme Court to see if it can proceed: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-18/apple-gets-u-s-supreme-court-review-on-iphone-app-fee-suit Dan and Lex like Pocke...
Jun 21, 2018•38 min•Ep. 192
Stephen Hackett on macOS Mojave's Dark Mode: https://512pixels.net/2018/06/on-macos-mojaves-dark-mode/ Goodbye iBooks, hello Books: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/06/apple-books-all-new-for-iphone-and-ipad-celebrates-reading/ Lex and Dan talk about Gboard: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gboard/id1091700242?mt=8 Malicious Mac apps could look like they're signed by Apple: https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/12/macos-whitelist-security-problem/ The next Apple Watch could have solid state buttons: htt...
Jun 14, 2018•45 min•Ep. 191
The Six Color's liveblog from the WWDC Keynote: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/06/live-from-wwdc-2018/ Apple announced Siri Shortcuts at WWDC: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/06/siri-shortcuts-third-party-integration-by-another-name/ Daniel Jalkut on the changes to the Mac App Store: https://bitsplitting.org/2018/06/06/ersatz-free-trials/ Our thanks to the Huawei MateBook X Pro, winner of 27 global awards that now comes with Windows Hello, unlock with a touch of your fingerprint. For a limited ...
Jun 07, 2018•53 min•Ep. 190
iOS 11.4 brings AirPlay 2.0 to the HomePod. FINALLY. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/05/ios-11-4-brings-stereo-pairs-and-multi-room-audio-with-airplay-2/ ZOMG THE ECHO SENT A BUNCH OF RECORDINGS but it kinda did what it was supposed to do: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/amazon-alexa-conversation-shared-echo.html Pegatron is rumored to be producing an ARM-based Mac: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/29/pegatron-to-make-arm-based-apple-macbook/ Apple's also rumored to be working o...
May 31, 2018•47 min•Ep. 189
The FBI over-counted the number of smartphones in criminal investigations it was unable to unlock by... a lot: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613763355/fbi-over-counted-encrypted-phones-connected-to-crimes-by-a-lot Apple is taking on those iPhone hacking boxes by disabling the Lightning connector in iOS 11.4 if it's connected for seven days: https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/205388/apples-ios-11-4-update-with-usb-restricted-mode-may-defeat-tools-like-graykey 1Passwor...
May 24, 2018•28 min•Ep. 188
Just like the rumors, Dan and Moltz are conflicted over the iPhone SE2: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/14/iphone-se-2-not-finalized-macotakara/ Apple is being hit with a class action suit over the MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/14/macbook-pro-keyboard-class-action-lawsuit/ Fans of The Expanse paid to have a flyover of Amazon to try to get the company to pick up the series: https://twitter.com/forlath/status/996394099266785280 Moltz picked up this clicky k...
May 17, 2018•40 min•Ep. 187
Apple wins a patent for a round Watch face: https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/08/round-apple-watch-patent/ iOS 13 is rumored to have an iPad focus: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/04/ios-13-revamped-files-app/ The iMac turned 20: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/05/the-original-imac-20-years-since-apple-changed-its-fate/ Apple discontinues AirPort: https://sixcolors.com/link/2018/04/its-official-apple-discontinues-airport/ M.G. Siegler's thoughts on that: https://500ish.com/errorport-a5c0e8783d04 Our...
May 10, 2018•44 min•Ep. 186
Apple Insider's look at MacBook Pro keyboard reliability: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-butterfly-keyboards-failing-twice-as-frequently-as-older-models John Gruber on Marzipan, Apple's supposed cross-platform development scheme: https://daringfireball.net/2018/04/scuttlebutt_regarding_ui_project Many years ago (well, five) Moltz wrote about the possibility of a touch-screen Mac: https://www.macworld.com/article/2028231/dont-fear-the-touchscreen-macbook.html Apple's ...
May 03, 2018•39 min•Ep. 185
Amazon will now deliver to the trunk of your car because, sure, why not: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/24/17261744/amazon-package-delivery-car-trunk-gm-volvo SmugMug buys Flickr: https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/20/flickr-smugmug-acquisition/ Sorry, monkeys, you can't sue for copyright: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-monkey-selfie-9th-circuit-20180423-story.html Rumors of an iPhone SE 2 in May or June: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/20/iphone-se-2-no-headphone-jack-rumor/ The N...
Apr 26, 2018•43 min•Ep. 184
Apple takes leakers pretty seriously: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/apple-warns-employees-to-stop-leaking-information-to-media Spotify and Hulu bundle their services together: http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/11/technology/business/spotify-hulu-bundle-subscription/index.html Apple expands its presence in Seattle: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/17/apple-expands-downtown-seattle-lease/ Apple is expected to launch a subscription news service following its acquisition of Texture:...
Apr 19, 2018•40 min•Ep. 183
