Panel:
- Bart Busschots (host) – @bbusschots
- Guy Serle from the My Mac Podcast – @Macparrot
- Dr. Robert Carter from the Tech Doctor Podcast – @robert_carter
- Ewen Rankin from The British Tech Network – @EwenRankin
- Nick Riley – @spligosh
The show starts with a few followups to some stories from May, before having a quick look at two Apple-related legal stories which broke in June. The five main stories are changes to the App store announced before WWDC, WWDC itself, the probable removal of the headphone jack from the next iPhone, Apple’s withdrawal from the Republican National Convention in protest at Donald Trump, and Senator Warren’s criticism of Apple and other tech companies for practices that make it hard for competition to thrive. The show finishes with a quick rundown of some other shorter 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!
Followups
- India change the rules on local sourcing, ask Apple to re-submit their application – www.imore.com/…
- China:
- A local patent court in Beijing has found that Apple is violating a design patent owned by a local company. Apple are appealing, and all iPhone models remain on sale while the appeal is in process – arstechnica.com/…
- The company who claims to own the patent proves very difficult to track down – www.cnbc.com/…
- New regulations could co-opt Apple into the Chinese surveillance machine – the rules require that App Store operators keep records for 60 days, and that they inform the government about any 'postings' that contain illegal material – www.macobserver.com/…
- A local patent court in Beijing has found that Apple is violating a design patent owned by a local company. Apple are appealing, and all iPhone models remain on sale while the appeal is in process – arstechnica.com/…
- CurrentC ends beta, and 'postpones' future releases indefinitely – consumerist.com/…
- Walmart launches Walmart Pay in Alabama – www.imore.com/…
Legal Latest
- Judge dismisses Error 53 iPhone 'bricking' lawsuit – www.macobserver.com/…
- Man who claims to have invented the iPhone in 1992 sues Apple for $10bn – www.telegraph.co.uk/…
Main Stories
- Apple announces App Store changes – faster reviews, pad search ads, subscription pricing opened up, and reduction to 15% revenue share on subscriptions after first 12 months – www.imore.com/…
- Interview with Phil Schiller on the changes – arstechnica.com/…
- Another interview with Phil Schiller on the changes – daringfireball.net/…
- Details of how search ads will work – www.imore.com/…
- Google offer the same subscription revenue share, but without the first 12 months remaining at 70/30 – www.recode.net/…
- WWDC 2016
- Keynote recap – tidbits.com/…
- watchOS 3 – www.imore.com/…
- Why watchOS 3 will be fast – tidbits.com/…
- how watchOS 3 will make things better for wheel chair users – www.imore.com/…
- TV OS 10 – www.imore.com/…
- macOS Sierra – www.imore.com/…
- Supported hardware – arstechnica.com/…
- How to use Tabs in macOS Sierra – www.macworld.com/…
- Gatekeeper updated to include Path Randomisation to properly close a security hole that has been just crudely bandaged until now – weblog.rogueamoeba.com/…
- iOS 10
- Details on SiriKit – arstechnica.com/…
- How built-in App 'deletion' will work – www.imore.com/…
- iOS 10 to support taking RAW photos – social.techcrunch.com/…
- Apple Pay comes to the web
- Stripe and Shopify to support Apple Pay on the web – www.imore.com/…
- Differential Privacy – blog.cryptographyengineering.com/…
- Even data collection with differential privacy will be opt-in – www.recode.net/…
- Swift Playgrounds – tidbits.com/…
- Apple give developers a preview of a new File System planned for release next year, which they are calling APFS – arstechnica.com/…
- A detailed overview from Adam Leventhal (filesystem expert) – dtrace.org/…
- A review from ZFS developer – arstechnica.com/…
- Safari 10 on both iOS and OS X will get new more powerful extensions using Apple's newer App Extensions framework. This will allow App Store apps add functionality to Safari – appleinsider.com/…
- The Apple Design Award winners for 2016 – www.imore.com/…
- Support grows for the rumour that the next iPhone will not have a headphone jack – now coming from the WSJ – arstechnica.com/…
- Gruber compares the headphone jack to the floppy disk – daringfireball.net/…
- The Verge have graphed the life-time of I/O standards on Apple devices – www.theverge.com/…
- why the iPhone will not switch to USB-C – daringfireball.net/…
- Sirius Logic has released a new hardware dev kit for creating lightning headphones – arstechnica.com/…
- Bluetooth 5 announced – twice the speed and quadruple the range – will be out in late 2016 or early 2017 – www.imore.com/…
- Apple declines to offer support to GOP National Convention in protest of Donald Trump – www.politico.com/…
- Historically, Apple (and many other corporations) have supported both party conventions – daringfireball.net/…
- Tim Cook holds fundraiser for US House Speaker Paul Ryan (R) – www.imore.com/…
- Senator Elisabeth Warren accuses Apple, Amazon, and Google of trying to 'lock out' the competition (she accused Apple of making it hard for streaming music rivals) – www.recode.net/…
- Spotify accuse Apple of not approving an update to their app that would cut out Apple's 30% fee for anticompetitive reasons (of using the App Store as an offensive weapon) – www.recode.net/…
Quick Stories
- Apple is retiring their Thunderbolt display without announcing a replacement – arstechnica.com/…
- Payouts from the Apple eBook case start arriving into people's amazon accounts – arstechnica.com/…
- The iPhone was 9 years old this month, having first gone on sale on June 29th 2007 – www.imore.com/…
- Apple will hold their Q3 2016 earnings call on July 26 at 2pm Pacific Time – www.imore.com/…