Jul 16th 2019
MacBreak Weekly 670
Is That a Camera in Your Pocket?
Apple vs Capitol Hill
Records live every Tuesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests:
Dave Hamilton
This Week's Stories
• Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dragged to Capitol Hill
• Apple fixes Zoom vulnerability (again)
• Is Apple giving up on AR glasses?
• 2019 MacBook Air SSD slowdown
• Apple disables Watch Walkie Talkie function for fix
• Apple TV ramping up
• Apple Card coming any minute
• Hong Kong protesters use Apple AirDrop
• OurPact is back
Picks of the Week
• Andy's Pick: Default Folder X
• Dave's Pick: AppTamer
• Lory's Pick: Midsommar
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Links
- Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to testify to Congress on antitrust
- Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook face off with Congress this week
- Apple’s D.C. grilling scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET today
- Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
- Apple Pushes Another Automatic Mac Software Update to Address Further Zoom-Related Vulnerabilities
- Apple is silently updating Macs again to remove insecure software from Zoom’s partners
- Apple killing AR glasses points to much bigger product design problem
- The new 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model | iMore
- Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping | TechCrunch
- Apple TV Plus’ See reportedly costs almost $15 million per episode
- Tim Cook and Eddy Cue spotted at Sun Valley media conference ahead of Apple TV+ launch
- Hong Kong protesters use AirDrop to breach China's Firewall — Quartz
- Apple restores banned parental control app OurPact to the App Store
- Default Folder X
- AppTamer
- Midsommar