Panel:
- Bart Busschots (host) – @bbusschots
- Guy Serle from the My Mac Podcast – @Macparrot
- Simon Parnell from the Essential Apple Podcast – @serenak
The show starts with a few quick followups to last month’s news before moving on to a few notable numbers and one important acquisition. The three main stories are WWDC 2019, Apple’s hiring of ARM’s Lead CPU Architect, and Jony Ive’s departure from Apple. The show ends with a rundown of a few quick stories that also 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
- 🇺🇸 Following on from the recent App-Store-Related Supreme Court ruling, two developers have files an anti-trust law suit against Apple in CA over App Store practices — in.reuters.com/…
- 🇪🇺 Apple continues to be scrutinised in the EU:
- Apple have filed their formal response to Spotify’s complaint against them with the European Commission — www.imore.com/…
- 🇮🇪 Irish regulator opens third privacy probe into Apple — www.reuters.com/…
- Foldable phone woes:
Notable Numbers
- Samsung & Apple now in joint-first-place for smart phone satisfaction in the US, both at 81% — www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple become world’s fourth-largest gaming company — www.cultofmac.com/…
- Apple Music Now Has 60 Million Paid Subscribers — www.macrumors.com/…
Apple Acquisition News
Main Stories
- WWDC 2019
- All of Apple’s big announcements from WWDC 2019! — www.imore.com/…
- Cross-OS features
- Apple Flexes Its Privacy Muscles — securosis.com/…
- Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company — techcrunch.com/…
- Sign On with Apple:
- Answers to your burning questions about how ‘Sign In with Apple’ works — techcrunch.com/…
- Apple battles Facebook and Google with rival sign in service – Naked Security — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- Apple Asks Developers to Put ‘Sign In With Apple’ Above Other Sign-in Options — www.macrumors.com/…
- Google’s login chief doesn’t mind Apple’s new sign-in button — www.theverge.com/…
- Tim Cook Talks New iOS 13 Privacy Features in CBS Interview — www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive to user privacy — techcrunch.com/…
- Voice control:
- Find My:
- Apple Maps:
- Every security camera that will feature HomeKit Secure Video support — www.imore.com/…
- Public betas of macOS Catalina, iPad OS, iOS 13, tvOS 13 now available — appleinsider.com/…
- iOS 13
- Which devices are compatible with iOS 13 — www.imore.com/…
- 10 most important features coming in iOS 13 — www.imore.com/…
- 10 features coming to iOS 13 you may have missed — www.imore.com/…
- iOS 13: Major new features explained! — www.imore.com/…
- Our favorite hidden features in iOS 13 — www.macworld.com/…
- iOS 13: Apple brings Dark Mode to iPhones and multitasking overhaul to iPads — arstechnica.com
- iOS 13: How to use the new gestures for cut, copy, paste, and undo on iPhone and iPad — 9to5mac.com/…
- How to use external hard drives with your iPhone or iPad in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 — www.imore.com/…
- WWDC19: 5 iOS 13 Photo Features Apple Announced — www.macobserver.com/…
- Multi-cam support in iOS 13 allows simultaneous video, photo, and audio capture — 9to5mac.com/…
- iOS 13 will automatically silence spam and unknown callers using Siri intelligence — 9to5mac.com/…
- With iOS 13, Apple locks out apps from accessing users’ private notes in Contacts — techcrunch.com/…
- iOS 13 will map the apps that are tracking you – Naked Security — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- How to add attachments and tags to reminders on iPhone and iPad — www.imore.com/…
- You can scan German ID cards in iOS 13; expect many other countries to follow — 9to5mac.com/…
- iOS 13 will remind you to cancel your subscription when you delete an app — arstechnica.com
- Everything that’s new in Siri Shortcuts (in the public beta) — www.imore.com/…
- iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem — www.theverge.com/…
- Spotify Siri Support Enabled by iOS 13 — www.macobserver.com/…
- With ARKit 3, Apple is giving creators everything they need to make magic — www.imore.com/…
- 🎦 13 subtle iOS 13 features worth knowing about — www.loopinsight.com/…
- 🎦 Jeff Benjamin, hands on with 200+ iOS 13 features — www.loopinsight.com/…
- iPadOS: iPadOS: Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
- A nice summary of the main features: WWDC19: Apple Introduces iPadOS — www.macobserver.com/…
- iPadOS 13 public beta: The ultimate guide — www.imore.com/…
- 10 most important features coming in iPadOS — www.imore.com/…
- Six features coming to iPadOS you may have missed — www.imore.com/…
- Here are all the devices compatible with iPadOS 13 — www.imore.com/…
- How to use App Exposé and split-screen apps in multiple spaces in iPadOS 13 — www.imore.com/…
- How to manage downloads in Safari on iPad — www.imore.com/…
- New keyboard shortcuts in iPadOS — www.imore.com/…
- How to use a mouse or trackpad with your iPhone or iPad — www.imore.com/…
- Third-Party Devs Will Be Able to Access iPadOS Apple Pencil Latency Improvements for Art Apps — www.macrumors.com/…
- macOS 10.15 Catalina: macOS 10.15 Catalina FAQ: Everything you need to know — www.imore.com/…
- Will my Mac run macOS Catalina? — www.imore.com/…
- macOS Catalina: The Preview — www.imore.com/…
- 6 macOS Catalina Features Not Announced on Stage — www.macobserver.com/…
- 7 most important features coming to macOS Catalina — www.imore.com/…
- 5 features coming to macOS Catalina you may have missed — www.imore.com/…
- Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs — arstechnica.com
- Apple’s new Project Catalyst team explains how easy it’ll be to port iPad apps to the Mac — www.imore.com/…
- iOS apps will run on macOS with Project Catalyst — techcrunch.com/…
- Apple’s iPad apps for Mac are getting huge upgrades in macOS Catalina — www.imore.com/…
- Twitter for Mac is coming back! — blog.twitter.com/…
- iTunes isn’t dead! It’s faster, streamlined and renamed Apple Music in macOS Catalina — appleinsider.com/…
- How to use the Music app for Mac — www.imore.com/…
- Answers to some of your iTunes questions: Old libraries, Windows, and more — arstechnica.com
- Apple is not deleting your iTunes or movie purchases, and it isn’t getting out of media sales — appleinsider.com/…
- How to sync your iPhone and iPad with your Mac in macOS Catalina — www.imore.com/…
- How Sidecar works in macOS Catalina and iPadOS 13 — www.imore.com/…
- How to use Screen Time on your Mac — www.imore.com/…
- A Reference: All About macOS Catalina System Files — www.macobserver.com/…
- Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina — www.theverge.com/…
- Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS — tidbits.com/…
- RIP: After 14 Years, Apple is Removing Dashboard in macOS Catalina — www.macobserver.com/…
- 🎦 Hands-on: macOS Catalina top features [Video] — 9to5mac.com/…
- watchOS 6: watchOS 6: Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
- Will my Apple Watch work with watchOS 6? — www.imore.com/…
- watchOS 6 Adds an App Store, Expands Health Tracking — tidbits.com/…
- Apple Watch App Store: Everything you need to know — www.imore.com/…
- How to use the App Store on your Apple Watch — www.imore.com/…
- 5 features coming to watchOS 6 you may have missed — www.imore.com/…
- How to use Voice Memos on your Apple Watch — www.imore.com/…
- Apple Watch Can Display Apple ID Verification Codes Starting in watchOS 6 — www.macrumors.com/…
- How to use Approve on Apple Watch in macOS Catalina and watchOS 6 — www.imore.com/…
- How to use the Calculator on Apple Watch — www.imore.com/…
- Apple Watch’s own built-in apps can be deleted in watchOS 6 — techcrunch.com/…
- tvOS 13: tvOS 13: Everything you need to know! — www.imore.com/…
- CarPlay: Previewing CarPlay in iOS 13: Light mode, new and improved apps, more — 9to5mac.com/…
- MacPro & Pro Display XDR:
- It’s really real: Apple unveils the all-new Mac Pro — arstechnica.com
- Apple unveils the Pro Display XDR, a display unlike anything else on the market — arstechnica.com
- Apple moves Mac Pro production from Texas to China — arstechnica.com
- New Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Offer Power for a (High) Price — tidbits.com/…
- Our first-look photos of Apple’s new Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR — arstechnica.com
- High-end users on ‘Why I’m buying the new Mac Pro’ — appleinsider.com/…
- HomePod gets multi-user support, along with music handoff — 9to5mac.com/…
- Apple has announced the WWDC 2019 Apple Design Award Winners — www.imore.com/…
- Apple has hired Mike Filippo, formerly ARM’s CPU system architect:
- A Major Re-organisation of Apple’s Design and executive teams is under way:
- Jony Ive will be leaving Apple later this year to form an independent design company named LoveFrom with friend and fellow designer Marc Newson. Apple will be one of LoveFrom’s customers
- Sabih Khan has been promoted to Senior VP of Operations — www.macobserver.com/…
- With his Operations duties partially (or mostly perhaps) delegated to Khan, COO Jeff Williams will lead design at Apple with Evans Hankey (VP of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye (VP of Human Interface Design) now reporting to him.
- Apple’s longtime design chief Jony Ive is leaving the company — www.businessinsider.com/…
- Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure — www.ft.com/…
- Jony Ive leaving Apple, starting LoveFrom, working… for Apple — www.imore.com/…
- Jony Ive will depart Apple to start his own company — arstechnica.com
- Read Tim Cook’s Internal Email To Apple Employees On The Departure Of Designer Jony Ive — www.buzzfeednews.com/…
- Why Jony Ive is leaving Apple — www.imore.com/…
- After Jony Ive: What’s the future of design at Apple? — www.imore.com/…
- Report describing Jony Ive’s Apple exit gains a sharp response from Tim Cook — arstechnica.com
- On the Post-Ive Future of Design at Apple — daringfireball.net/…
- May-Li Khoe: How design and operations really work at Apple — www.imore.com/…
Quick Stories
- Apple launches recall for certain 15-inch MacBook Pros due to battery issues — www.imore.com/…
- Apple begins adding support for over 100,000 radio stations for iOS devices and HomePod — www.imore.com/…
- Apple have updated iCloud for Windows and moved it into the Windows App Sore — arstechnica.com/… & www.imore.com/…
- After 7 Years, Adobe Lightroom Returns to Mac App Store — www.macobserver.com/…
- Shopify is bringing Apple Business Chat to more than 800,000 merchants — www.imore.com/…
- Apple Pay News:
- 🇺🇸 JCPenney Has Reinstated Apple Pay in All Retail Locations — www.macrumors.com/…
- 🇪🇺 Apple Pay Launches in 13 More European Countries, Sparkassen and Volksbanken in Germany Later This Year — www.macrumors.com/…
- 🇩🇪 Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken to Support Apple Pay — www.macobserver.com/…
- 🇧🇬 Revolut and Monese have Released Apple Pay in Bulgaria – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency — www.novinite.com/…
- Google Cancel iPad-Challenger Tablets — www.macobserver.com/…
- 🇺🇸 Apple Expands Its Repair Partnership with Best Buy — tidbits.com/… (every Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Service Provider)
- 🇺🇸 Various branches of the US Government are turning up the heat on tech companies including Apple:
- Judiciary Committee Launches Investigation into Competition in Digital Markets — cicilline.house.gov/…
- Reuters reported as-yet-unconfirmed preparations for two related government anti-trust investigations of major tech companies with the FTC investigating Amazon & Facebook, and the DOJ Apple & Google – www.reuters.com/… & www.bloomberg.com/…