Panel:
- Bart Busschots (host) – @bbusschots
- Kelly Guimont from App Camp for Girls – @verso
- Nick Riley – @spligosh
The show starts with a few followup items before moving on to look at some Apple-related legal stories that broke in June, including the end of the epic Apple -v- Samsung case. Next up is a quick look at some new hires at Apple, and then the show moves on to the three main stories. By far the biggest story is WWDC 2018, the second main story is Apple’s deals with Opera and Sesame Street, and the final main story is the US Supreme Court’s ruling on cellphone location data. The show finishes with a quick rundown of a few smaller Apple-related stories that made the news in June.
You’ll find detailed show notes below the fold, and if you enjoy this free show, please consider clicking on the donate button at the top of the left side bar – the show is free for you to listen to, but not for Bart to Produce!
Followup
- Steam Link
- Shortly after LTA 57 was recorded Apple updated their developer guidelines to make it more clear what the problem was with Steam Link — it was indeed about the 30% cut — www.macobserver.com/…
- Steam removed the purchasing feature from the betas of Steam Link for iOS — toucharcade.com/…
- No further developments, but the expectation is that Steam will be able to develop a version of that app that makes it into the store
- Apple have launched a replacement service for their controversial butterfly keyboards — www.imore.com/…
- Sonos announced and AirPlay2 software update coming in July, and a new compact sound bar named Beam — www.cnet.com/…
- Apple have released the Schoolwork app for teachers announced at March’s education event — tidbits.com/…
Legal Latest
- Apple -v- Samsung:
- Earlier in the month the fight was still live with Samsung demanding yet another retrial — www.macobserver.com/…
- On June 27, Apple & Samsung settled the case. No details have been released — www.imore.com/… & arstechnica.com/…
- Apple -v- Qualcomm: Apple have opened a new front in this battle by challenging the validity of four Qualcomm patents with the US Patent & Trademark Office (US PTO) — www.bloomberg.com/…
Apple Staff Comings & Goings
- Apple Hires Development Exec Layne Eskridge from Netflix — www.macobserver.com/…
- George Ergatoudis out at Spotify after two years – to join Apple Music — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/…
- YouTuber Mark Rober Secretly Develops VR for Self-Driving Cars for Apple (EXCLUSIVE) — variety.com/…
Main Stories
- WWDC 2018: watch the keynote — www.apple.com/… & All of Apple’s big announcements from WWDC 2018 — www.imore.com/…
- Cross-Platform Updates
- FaceTime Group Chats brings video conferencing for up to 32 people on Mac & iOS, with voice-only support on Apple Watch — www.imore.com/… & www.theverge.com/…
- Continued focus on security & privacy across all OS updates — arstechnica.com/…, www.imore.com/…, www.intego.com/… & www.intego.com/…
- Mac & iOS versions of Safari getting more clever privacy protections — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- MacOS gets more user-permission prompts for things like microphone access — www.macobserver.com/…
- The keychain on iOS gets a big revamp, and an API has been added to allow 3rd-party password managers integrate with the OS — www.imore.com/… & www.macobserver.com/…
- iOS 12 brings USB Restricted Mode, a feature designed to make it harder to crack locked iOS devices — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… & www.loopinsight.com/… & www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple updated the their developer rules to ban the creation and selling of user contact databases from users address books — arstechnica.com/…
- Continuity Camera lets you take a photo via your iPhone on your Mac — www.imore.com/…
- Free trials are sorta-kinda coming to the App Stores — www.macobserver.com/… & bitsplitting.org/…
- Apple is continuing to develop it’s health-related services:
- The Health Records API is now open to developers — www.loopinsight.com/…
- Apple announced Research Kit 2.0 with some new features to improve the user experience and to improve the data that can be gathered — www.macobserver.com/…
- The small details of iOS 12, macOS Mojave, and more — sixcolors.com/…
- Platforms State of the Union: Important highlights from the event — www.imore.com/…
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave — www.apple.com/…
- Dark Mode — www.imore.com/…
- Finder improved with desktop stacks, gallery view & Quick Actions in Quickview — www.imore.com/…
- Major App Store revamp, both in terms of UI and in terms of sandbox improvements to facilitate more power apps . Big-name apps announced as coming or returning including Microsoft Office365, Transmit & BBEdit — www.idownloadblog.com/…, www.imore.com/… & www.imore.com/…
- Significant improvements to screenshots and desktop recording — www.imore.com/…
- Home app comes to Mojave — www.imore.com/…
- Apple previewed technology they are working on to make it easier to port iOS apps to the Mac. Are using it to bring some of their own iOS apps to Mojave — www.wired.com/… & www.macobserver.com/…
- Mojave supports many old Macs, but not every Mac that runs High Sierra will run Mojave — www.macobserver.com/…
- iOS 12: Five Secret Features Apple NEVER announced! – YouTube — www.youtube.com/…
- macOS Mojave: A Roundup of All the Little Things — www.macstories.net/…
- macOS Mojave: A visual tour of Dark Mode and other major features — arstechnica.com
- Hands-on with macOS 10.14 Mojave — www.loopinsight.com/…
- macOS Mojave FAQ: Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
- iOS 12 — www.apple.com/…
- Big focus on efficiency, particularly on older devices. All devices that run iOS 11 will run iOS 12 — arstechnica.com/…
- Screen Time lets users monitor their phone & tablet usage and set limits and controls. Integrated with parental controls for families — www.imore.com/… & www.macobserver.com/…
- Tim Cook reveals that he was surprised by how much time he spent on his Phone — tidbits.com/…
- Siri Shortcuts brings the power of Workflow into the core OS and allows users to define and name custom actions — www.macstories.net/… & www.imore.com/…
- Notifications & Do Not Disturb get important improvements (grouping of notifications, in-notification control of notification settings, and Do Not Disturb for X time and more) — www.imore.com/…
- ARKit 2 bring significant improvements — arstechnica.com/…
- New built-in Measure app illustrates some of the power — www.imore.com/…
- Niantic shows off a stunning AR demo that lets Pikachu hide behind real-world objects — www.loopinsight.com/…
- Memoji lets users create their own Animoji — www.imore.com/…
- Unlike Samsung’s AR Emoji, Memoji are gender neutral — www.refinery29.com/…
- iBooks becomes Apple Books — www.imore.com/…
- Live Listening lets you use your iPhone as a remote mic for AirPods (not announce at keynote, but included in iOS 12 betas)
- 100 new iOS 12 features/changes — www.loopinsight.com/…
- iOS 12 FAQ: Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
- WatchOS 5
- Support for original Apple Watch dropped — www.imore.com/…
- Auto-detection of workout start and finish — www.macobserver.com/…
- Walkie Talkie feature added — www.imore.com/… & www.loopinsight.com/…
- watchOS 5: Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
- tvOS: very little announced other than support for Dolby Atmos on on 4K AppleTVs — arstechnica.com/… & www.imore.com/…
- CarPlay: very little announced other than support for 3rd-party navigation apps — techcrunch.com/…
- These are the WWDC 2018 Apple Design Award Winners! — www.imore.com/…
- In post WWDC press interviews Craig Federighi poo-pooed the idea of touch-screen Macs — www.macobserver.com/…
- Cross-Platform Updates
- While Apple haven’t announced a product yet, work on their original content is clearly proceeding apace:
- US Supreme Court rules cellphone location data is covered by the 4th amendment (hence warrants and probable cause are needed) — krebsonsecurity.com/…
Quick Stories
- The Apple Music web widget that allows users to embed playlists in their websites now allows Apple Music members to listen to full songs right on the widget in their browsers (non-members get a preview) — www.imore.com/…
- Apple Maps:
- Apple are working on re-building Maps from the ground up with their own data — techcrunch.com/…
- Apple released a beta of a new JavaScript API for embedding Apple maps into web pages — www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple Pay continues its slow but steady rollout:
- ApplePay launched in Poland — www.macobserver.com/…
- ApplePay comes to Norway — www.macobserver.com/…
- The Milan Metro System Added Apple Pay Support — www.macobserver.com/…
- The latest update to GarageBand made the artist lessons feature free — www.imore.com/…