Let’s Talk Apple — Ep. 67 (March 2019)


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The show starts with a few quick followup stories before moving on to look at some notable Apple-related numbers, some Apple-related legal stories, some Apple HR news, and a few Apple Acquisitions that made the news in March. The five main stories are Apple’s Annual Shareholders Meeting, the new legal battle that’s kicked-off between Spotify and Apple, the new hardware Apple unexpectedly announced in the run-up to the March event, the services announced at the March event, and the resurrection of ‘keyboard gate’ as Apple’s 3rd generation butterfly keyboards continue to fail for some users. The show finishes with a quick rundown of some other smaller Apple-related stories that made the news in March.

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Followup
  • Having recently arrived on Amazon Echo, Apple Music has now arrived on Amazon Fire TV too — www.macobserver.com/…
  • Apple Watch irregular heartbeat notifications and Apple Watch 4 ECG support now available in 19 European countries (including Ireland 🙂) and Hong Kong — www.imore.com/…
Notable Numbers
Legal Latest
Apple HR News
Apple Acquisitions
Main Stories
  1. Apple’s Annual Shareholder Meeting was held on the 1st of March
    • Shareholders voted against a proposal (Prop 5) by extreme conservatives to re-define diversity within Apple to include conservatives by a whopping 98.3% — www.macobserver.com/…
    • When speaking against Prop 5 Tim Cook spoke very eloquently about how Apple sees politics:

      … We live in a very polarized world today. And, unfortunately, too often, people are identified in those respective camps, and the dialog that should take place to find that 99% or the 95% commonality or areas of interest doesn’t happen.

      I don’t believe in that polarized world. I think it’s bad. I think it’s something I would love to help blow up …

      What we do is we engage with people in all political parties. I’m a big believer in engagement. You can imagine if you’re a gay man from the South, you don’t exactly ask everybody whether you agree with that lifestyle, or you don’t have a lot of friends.

      So I don’t check people at the doors as to who they are and what they believe. I care about skills and capabilities and contributions. I think that for us, we focus on policy things …

      We are pro-environment. We are pro-immigration. We do believe in diversity in a strong way, in a broad way. We’re capitalists. We believe in privacy …

      These things to us are not political things. They’re policies. We don’t look at the politics of it, we think about the policy of it.

    • During the meeting Apple unexpectedly revealed some product news – video out over USB-C is coming to the iPad Pro — www.macobserver.com/…
  2. Spotify vs Apple: The future of music streaming set to play out in EU competition court — www.imore.com/…
  3. New Apple Hardware
  4. Apple’s ‘Showtime’ Event — www.apple.com/…
  5. Joanna Stern Resurrects Keyboard Gate
    • Joanna’s WSJ Column on her on-going butterfly keybaord problems — www.wsj.com/…
    • Apple apologises but insists the problem is only affecting a small number of users — www.macobserver.com/…
Quick Stories

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