Mar 17th 2015
MacBreak Weekly 446
Jump Around
Is Apple Pay dangerous?
Records live every Tuesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie
Apple's Role in the Creation of USB-C, Sources confirm Apple will finally allow MacBook battery packs and third-party chargers with USB-C, WWDC details, Apple will offer Android switchers gift cards to trade-in rival smartphones for iPhones, Apple Plans Web TV Service in Fall, NBC plans cable-dependent Apple TV app for second half of 2015, and more.
Guest: Mark Gurman.
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Running time: 1:51:20
Links
- Apple's Role in the Creation of USB-C (DaringFireball)
- Sources confirm Apple will finally allow MacBook battery packs and third-party chargers with USB-C (9to5Mac)
- Apple will offer Android switchers gift cards to trade-in rival smartphones for iPhones (9to5Mac)
- Apple Plans Web TV Service in Fall (WSJ)
- NBC plans cable-dependent Apple TV app for second half of 2015 (9to5Mac)
- Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud (krebsonsecurity)
- The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags (TechCrunch)
- How Apple Makes the Watch (atomicdelights)
- From ‘Becoming Steve Jobs': Cook says Isaacson book was a tremendous disservice, succession planning began in 2004, more (9to5Mac)
- APPLE CEO TIM COOK TRIED TO GIVE STEVE JOBS HIS LIVER—BUT JOBS REFUSED (FastCompany)
- The new Steve Jobs documentary is an unforgiving look at tech's most complicated man (TheVerge)
- Gibney's Steve Jobs documentary coming to theaters as Apple's Eddy Cue calls it mean spirited and inaccurate (9to5Mac)
- Pick: iPad Mini 3 and Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard
- Pick: Hype 3