MacBreak Weekly 699

This Week's Stories:

• Election tech nightmare in Iowa
• Apple's record quarter - almost 8 billion dollars a month
• 5G is still not going to work in 2020
• Apple grows in Europe and India
• 1.5 Billion Apple devices
• Don't try to trick Tim Cook
• Coronavirus hits Apple production until February 9th
• Blackberry phones are finally dead
• Russia's law against Apple
• Hamilton is coming to Disney+
• EU votes to kill Lightning plug
• Cal Tech gets 1.1 Billion from Apple and Broadcom for patent infringement
• Apple figures out how to make two-factor authentication better
• Apple TV's 'Foundation' is the largest ever production in Ireland
• LG TVs get Apple TV

Picks of the Week:

• Lory's Pick: SpellTower+
• Rene & Leo's Pick: Fantastical
• Andy's Pick: Amphetamine for MacOS
• Alex's Pick: Calvary

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Links

• Here’s the Shadow Inc. App That Failed in Iowa Last Night
• Nevada Democratic Party abandons problematic app used in Iowa caucuses
• XKCD: Voting Software
• Jason Snell’s Apple results charts
• Apple’s record quarter: Don’t try to trick Tim Cook
• Apple earnings call transcript
• Apple is closing all offices and stores in China through February 9th
• Apple hits 1.5 billion active devices with ~80% of recent iPhones and iPads running iOS 13 - 9to5Mac
• The 'law against Apple': Apple has a Vladimir Putin problem
• EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, overwhelmingly vote to push for charging cable standard
• CalTech scores massive $1.1B verdict against Apple and Broadcom in patent case
• Apple engineers propose a way to make using two-factor texts easier
• Apple’s TV App and Apple TV+ arrive on 2019 LG TVs
• Apple TV+ series 'Foundation' will be Ireland's largest-ever production
• Disney+ snags Hamilton: The Movie
• SpellTower+
• Fantastical
• Amphetamine for MacOS
• Calvary