Essential Apple Podcast 86: Doom and Gloom Cancelled

Recorded 6th May 2018

Mark is feeling under the weather again – although the weather here is decidedly pleasant for a change!
I am joined by Donny Yankellow to talk over this week’s news. Apple’s iPhone X is far from a flop, Apple had a record quarter raking in the cash hand over fist. Analysts were all way off… What Apple records about you; and whatever else we think of during the show.
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On this week’s show:

DONNY YANKELLOW

• Donny’s Books
• Donny’s Website
• Donny on iBooks (US only at the moment)
• Donny’s Sticker Packs
• Donny’s Junior Typer (Also US only)

APPLE

• 5 big revelations from Apple’s surprising Q2 earnings call – Take this you snivelling curs of analysts, market predictors and general doomsayers – suck it up crybabies! – Cult of Mac
  • iPhone X the world’s best-selling smartphone in Q1 – Strategy Analytics
• There’s an iPhone 7 Microphone Bug for Device on iOS 11.3 or Later – Mac Observer
• Here’s What Apple Knows About You (Spoiler: Not Much) – LifeHacker
  • Apple: My request for all the data it had on me was eye-opening – USA Today
• How to keep using Time Machine without AirPort or Time Capsule – Cult of Mac
• Nice piece on the iMac Anniversary – 9to5 Mac

TECHNOLOGY

• Oh wow – we really are living in the future where SF is real… – You Tube
  • Ten Star Trek technologies that actually came true – How Stuff Works
• RISC OS 5.24 released for Raspberry Pi – RISC Open
  • Raspberry Pi Download

SECURITY

• Phone scam targets Apple customers – KMBC

IN THE NEWS

• Petition calls on Apple to recall & replace failing butterfly MacBook Pro keyboards – 9to5 Mac

WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

• Vectornator Pro, the powerful vector graphic design software for iPad & iPhone is now free – 9to5Mac
• Autodesk Sketchbook – App Store
• VectorPaper+ – currently unavailable in the UK App Store (and quite likely no longer free in the US)

Nemo’s Hardware Store (41:50)

• Wiplabs Tac Pen – $29.99 Direct

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